Ohio: an honest man takes responsibility for DUI fatal — Matthew Cordle posts video confession

 

From Columbus Dispatch

Set to dramatic music, the YouTube video — “I killed a man” — opens with the young man’s face blurred and his voice deepened and disguised.

As he talks of mistakes made and regrets realized, the pixilation obscuring the man’s face eventually vanishes. His true voice emerges, his words seemingly sincere.

“My name is Matthew Cordle and on June 22, 2013, I hit and killed Vincent Canzani. This video will act as my confession.”

In a video recorded Tuesday at his Northwest Side home, Cordle promises to tell the truth about the “blackout” drinking that led him to drive the wrong way on I-670 and crash head-on into Canzani’s vehicle near 3rd Street.

The 22-year-old man, his arm streaked with scars inflicted in the crash, also asks viewers of the video to make a promise — to not drink and drive.

Cordle has not been charged in the early-morning crash that killed Canzani. “When I get charged, I will plead guilty and take full responsibility for everything I’ve done to Vincent and his family,” he says in the video. …..MORE