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Confession Tape

Alameda County Superior Court
Transcript # 547-32-7761
Case # 99210-000-428

Test, test. Did that work? Okay, yeah? So, I just start talking, like this? [coughs] My name is [laughing] Sorry, sorry. We all know who I am. What? Oh, right, for the tape.

My name is Juacinto Lipschitz. [laughing] And I kill people for money. It’s what I do, did. It’s what I did. I’m done. [laughing] After this, yep, I’m done. [laughing. coughs] No way The Carp will let me live for long after this.

I’ll start at the beginning. I figured out real early that [coughs] most people don’t like killing. The girls, the pretty girls, you see, at school, didn’t like to kill the little bugs. I didn’t mind. I never minded, just a thing to do, you know? [laughing. coughs]

I killed my first man at the age of 8, with a baseball bat. My first job for The Association was at age 14, but that was just leaving the package where they told me. It kind of went from there. [coughs] Charlene always said I’d wind up [coughs]

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