Last week, a man barged into a Connecticut church and confessed to a four-year-old murder that had gone cold.
William Leverett walked into Open Gate Ministries Church pastored by Michael Trazinski last Wednesday and told the parishioners that he was responsible for the killing of 54-year-old Melissa Millan in 2014.
When the pastor heard Leverett’s confession he said he knew “Justice needed to be done.”
The pastor and two other church members took Leverett, 27, to the Simsbury Police Station and had him turn himself in.
According to the arrest warrant affidavit released Monday, Leverett walked into the precinct and said, “I’m here to turn myself in for the murder on Iron Horse Boulevard almost four years ago.”
Fox News reports that in his full confession the man told police that he went to the trail that night looking for “human contact” after going to a treatment meeting for sex offenders.
Leverett was a registered sex offender who had been charged with sexually assaulting a child in 2009 in Colorado and according to his confession, he was scared that a woman he had met would find out.
He told the police he was “embarrassed and scared and figured that if I just killed somebody, it would make all that go away and I wouldn’t have to explain myself.”
Then he ran into Millan, a mom of two, jogging on the trail and decided to take…
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