I was re-watching this case today, and I have been thinking about this for a while now. With the phone call, where the person states his name is "Don" and the prime suspect (if you look around the internet) is actually named Don. However, what I am wondering, is if maybe that call-in confession was not actually the killer, but was someone who was familiar w/ the killer and the killer had confessed to a friend or someone of that sort. The reason I am wondering this, is maybe this friend really was "obsessed" with this case, because he wanted to push the police to look into it more so that his "friend/the killer" would be caught by this extra attention. The main reason I think this is due to the recording, it almost sounds not like a "real" voice, especially not that of a 20 something year old. It sounds as if someone plugged their nose and started talking...just very odd. I apologize if this has been brought up previously, which I'm sure it has, but I just wanted to get some thoughts on this.

PS...I hope this isn't too confusing, I rambled on a bit, but I don't want to edit :)

I dunno. The psychic was sure the caller was the killer, and we all know from watching enough UM that psychics are so accurate...

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I think it's possible that you are on to something. I went back and listened and there are a couple of things that throw me. The voice didn't throw me before but I can see what you mean about it sounding off. Also, one phrase that he uses indicates to me that it may have been someone who knew he was responsible and not Don himself. The line, "then I took out a knife which I have with me at all times..." Speaking as someone who carries a pocket knife more often than not and who knows several people who do the same, I would never use those words to describe carrying a knife on my person. It definitely sounds more to me like the words of someone who is looking to warn others that Don is possibly armed.

What about the possibility that it was Shawn/Don making a first attempt at attention-whoring?

I don't believe that confession, one bit. Everything in this comes from information that was available and could have been gleaned in the media at the time.