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Killer Realizes He's Been Caught 23 Years Later

You know that feeling when you see something that makes your guilty conscience explode? When the thing you've been hiding for years suddenly seems to be staring you in the face? For Richard Shaw, a 66-year-old antiques dealer living in Cheshire, England, that moment came in October 2006 when police knocked on his door holding a photograph of a human skull. Richard had been living with a secret for twenty-three years. A terrible secret about his wife, Elena, who'd disappeared in 1983 and was never seen again. Everyone assumed she'd run off, started a new life somewhere. But Richard knew better. Richard knew exactly what had happened to Elena. And when he saw that skull, he was convinced his secret was finally exposed. This is the story of a murder that went unsolved for two decades. Of a bog that preserved ancient history and sparked a modern confession. And of how the wrong evidence can sometimes lead to the right conviction. It's a story about secrets, lies, and how guilt can make you see things that aren't really there. And it's a reminder that sometimes, the truth has the strangest way of revealing itself.