Ohio 'killer' confesses to New York City priest
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An Ohio man who had eluded authorities after fatally bludgeoning his girlfriend confessed to the crime to a New York City priest.
The New York Post reports Jonathan Smith, 48, told the clergyman at the Church of St. Francis of Assisi on West 31st Street in Manhattan, a law enforcement source told the newspaper.
“Someone is dead, and I feel really bad about it,” Smith said.
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The priest whom Smith approached contacted the NYPD’s Midtown South precinct house and detectives later took Smith’s formal confession.
“He says, ‘I killed my girlfriend in Columbus, Ohio,’” a law-enforcement source told The Post.
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Smith had been on the run since July 14 when cops found Darlene Hart, 48, dead in their three-bedroom house in Columbus.
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