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A jailhouse photo of D.B. Napier, taken after his arrest for raping and murdering a teenage girl. After the police saved him from a lynch mob, a shaken Napier confessed that he'd once helped lynch someone nearly 20 years earlier. The confession made national headlines, Louisiana, 1934 .

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