On this day, Jan. 6, 1983, a man on trial for the slaying of an off-duty Prince George’s County policeman shocked the jury by admitting to the killing on the witness stand.
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“I want to let you know that I am guilty. I killed him,” Harlow Brian Sails confessed.
A year earlier, Officer Raymond Hubbard was shopping at the Iverson Mall when he saw a jewelry store robbery. Hubbard attempted to stop the heist, but was shot five times.
By the time of Sails’ trial, three accomplices had been sentenced to life in prison. But conflicting eye witness testimony appeared to create doubt of Sails’ guilt before his startling turn on the witness stand.
“I was lying to you before,” Sails, 20, admitted after an intense cross examination.
Sails was sentenced to 70 years. He was released in 1997.
-Scott McCabe
