What happened to Keith Hall?

The further into the trap that Keith sank into, the more he was willing to talk. His growing love for Liz led him to confess to the murder of Patricia. Unknown to him, this was being documented. Liz was wearing a tape recorder, which captured Keith’s haunting words as he described the murder to her. In it, he confesses to having strangled his wife and burning her body to hide the evidence.

Despite this seeming damning evidence, later in court Keith vehemently denied the allegations and claimed innocence.

In a shocking twist, the judge ruled that the confession as inadmissible and the tape could not be admitted as evidence in court, given that it breached rules that regulated the questioning of individuals.

In short, it was argued that the sting under which the confession had been coaxed out of Keith was a trick to get him to incriminate himself.

Keith also claimed that Patricia had wanted a divorce at the time, and left of her own accord. However, family members attested that Patricia, a loving mother of two, would never walk out on her family.

In 1994, Keith was declared not guilty, and was acquitted for the murder of Patricia. In a statement read by a solicitor, Keith declared the following:

“I am only too painfully aware that over the last two years, by Chinese whispers, the case has been tried many times over. I hope everyone will now accept I did not murder my wife. It remains a mystery to me as to where she is and why she has never returned.”

The shocking true story behind Amazon Prime’s latest gripping crime documentary, The Confession