Killer faces life in jail after confessing to girl's murder when he thought he was dying of a heart attack - then SURVIVING!

A man who made a deathbed confession that linked him to a cold case murder from 1995 now faces jail because of what he thought was a last-ditch effort for a clean conscience.

James Washington was having a heart attack when he called a police officer over to his hospital bed in 2009.

While he hoped for absolution, what he got instead was a medical miracle. And now, a murder charge.

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