'The Passion' Sparks Murder Confession

A Texan moved to repentance after watching Mel Gibson's "The Passion of the Christ" has confessed to murdering a woman police had written off as a suicide.

"Fort Bend County Sheriff's Detective Mike Kubricht said today that investigators thought Ashley Nicole Wilson had hanged herself in January. Earlier this month, however, 21-year-old Dan R. Leach of Rosenberg turned himself in after watching Mel Gibson's controversial movie about the last days of Christ and decided to seek redemption, Kubricht said," the Houston Chronicle reported today.

Leach admitted strangling Wilson because she was carrying his child.

A grand jury Monday issued a sealed indictment for murder, and Leach was arrested the next day.

Last week Gibson's moving $300 million blockbuster prompted a Florida bank robber to surrender after more than two years on the lam.

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