Yeah, that's about how I found it Karen. They may have any number of rationalizations as to why they did the crime, but most are up front about their guilt. The problem is in who is listening . Many convicts will spin a yard if they think they are talking to a square john. It could be just a simple case of they not wanting to level with the person they are talking to. I know in my own case if I felt the other person was antagonistic towards me I may have told them the biggest line of BS imaginable just as a way of showing my contempt towards them for asking such stupid questions. I guess I get it from my mother. She couldn't stand being asked dumb questions and would give a dumb answer if she was. One time, when she was in the hospital for a stroke at age 73 the nurse asked her if she were pregnant. That so offended my mother's sense of stupidness that she told them she was, and had several pre-school age kids at home that she needed to get back to as soon as possible. The hospital called me and asked me if I thought my mother was deranged. I told them, no, someone must have asked her a stupid question, and come to find out they sure had. Well, convicts are kind of the same way. Ask them a dumb, or a sob sister question, and you will get a dumb answer. Be upfront with them and they will be upfront with you. Convicts make their living victimizing people and they are quick to read a person, and have contempt for a stupid person. But then, don't we all. Jack Childers in OKC