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Aug 2021
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ICELAND: The Reykjavik Confessions

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In 1974, a missing persons case in Reykjavik, Iceland, turned into a murder investigation when six people confessed to two killings. The only problem: There were no bodies. No evidence. And the six suspects had no memory of committing any crimes.

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