The note beside Ashley Castor's bed was only about 750 words long. It claimed that she had killed two men: her father and her stepfather. It described poisoning, private details of the deaths, and a motive that seemed designed to make the confession believable.
There was one problem.
Ashley was unconscious in a hospital after a suspected overdose. And when her father, Michael Wallace, had died years earlier, she had been only 11.
The investigation that followed would turn the note from an apparent confession into one of the most disturbing pieces of evidence in a New York murder case.
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