He had been in prison for twenty years. He always denied being the murderer. In fact he claimed he knew who it was and was not going to say. It was up to the real murderer to do the non-cowardly thing and confess.
Every year when consideration of parole came up he claimed innocence. If you owned up to it, they would say, we would consider setting you free.
After twenty years Steve had had enough. He confessed that he had done it. He was a free man. He was released from prison. The first thing he did was to go to his hometown and shoot his gutless father.
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