New Mexico man charged in cold case: 'I needed to confess'
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May 31, 2023
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Officers found Tony Peralta sitting on a curb not far from a convenience store where he borrowed a cell phone to call 911 and confess to the 2008 killing of his former landlord.
Sweating and taking puffs from his cigarette, he told them he's tired of covering it up, tired of living with the lie and tired of being overwhelmed by guilt. He agreed to take the officers to where he buried the body before standing up and volunteering to be cuffed.
Police in the southeastern New Mexico community of Roswell released the 911 recording and nearly an hour of officer body cam...
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