The man confesses 1997 murder story revolves around a Watauga County native named Matthew Gibson who after almost 17 years finally admitted to killing a woman because of Walmart, MyFox8 has learned.
Gibson, who is residing in a small settlement near Boone divulged his dark secret recently after receiving "creepy" or possibly wrong sent messages from the multinational retail corporation that runs a large chain of discount department stores and warehouse stores.
The Charlotte Observer reports that the 55-year-old man in the man confesses 1887 murder story drove to Arizona right away after he got fed up of his guilty conscience.
He spoke to Detective Alicia Marquez of Winslow Police Department, detailing the crime he did more than a decade ago. He has also pleaded guilty to manslaughter and has declared that he wants to serve the 10-year sentence immediately.
In his narration, Gibson said he met a woman way back in 1997 in Bullhead City, Arizona and brought her back to his trailer. He continued that when the woman started to get loud and obnoxious and hesitant to leave his trailer, he bludgeoned her to death using a Maglite flashlight.
Gibson continued his confession saying out of fear he decided to dump the woman's body by the Colorado River.
The man confesses 1997 murder story then started to take a turn for the bizarre when Gibson began receiving "mysterious" texts, voice mails and a letter from Walmart, noted Us Weekly.
All of the texts, calls and the letter were reportedly saying that a prescription for an Anita Townshed was already available.
Gibson's paranoia reached to its maximum when he received an envelope of a Walmart advertisement which has no return name or address. Thus, he was convinced that the woman he killed in 1997 was Anita Townshed.
It isn't clear however how the man in the man confesses 1997 murder story received all of the "creepy" and "bizarre" messages. But later on it was found out that he had been using cocaine and methamphetamine in the past.
In his recount, Gibson claimed that he didn't know the name of the 38-year-old woman he slayed 17 years ago.
Through an investigation, authorities found out that the woman killed in the man confesses 1997 murder story was not an Anita Townshed but someone named Barbara Brown Agnew.
Police said that they would have never filed a case against Gibson if he didn't confess the crime.
Meanwhile, it still remains a mystery how Gibson got all the text messages, voice mails and the letter from Walmart.
The large department store chain is yet to comment on the issue.
This article is copyrighted by Travelers Today, the travel news leader
