Abouf the confession<br >Gary Cooper White was born in jersey City， New Jersey. He<br >moved to Georgia the year he began school， when his mother s<br >husband， number three of five， got a job in a mill there. Some of<br >the feeling you get from the resulting combination of accents is，<br >inevitably， lost in the transcription from the police tapes. But I ve<br >tried to note questions， interruptions and clear changes in emotion<br >that came through in his voice.<br > The police found him a particularly cooperative witness. He got<br >somewhat violent and incoherent while being taken to New York<br >on the plane， but he d offered no resistance to those in Ohio who<br >found him. At that point he was eager to unburden himself. Back<br >in New York， he never denied the murder; he wanted the eircum.<br >stances understood. He seemed to think that almost anyone in the<br >same situation would have committed the same murder.<br > For me， as a matter of fact， this was the most notable quality of<br >his confession--that Gary White， who had brutally assaulted<br >and murdered Theresa Dunn a few hours after meeting her in a<br >Manhattan singles spot called Mr. Goodbar， had a very dear sense<br >of himself as the victim of the woman he had murdered.<br > He had just come up from Florida， where he had a very young<br >(sixteen) and pregnant wife. There was a warrant out for his arrest<br ><br >