confessed

基本解释

The police grilled the prisoner until he confessed.
警察對犯人嚴厲磐問，直到他認罪爲止。
Faced with the evidence, he confessed himself quilty.
麪對証據，他承認有罪。
《新英漢大辤典》
He confessed his crime, and cast himself on the mercy of the court.
他坦白了他的罪行，聽候法院処理。

Many have never spoken of what happened to them during the war and most have never confessed to the crimes they committed.
The hatta't also does not rid a sinner of their moral impurity, because the offering is brought after the sinner has confessed, after the sinner has repented.
淨化祭是無法消除一個罪人的道德不潔的，因爲祭品是在罪人坦白後懺悔後，才供上來的。
耶魯公開課 - 舊約導論課程節選
And then,lo and behold it turns out that his widow, to whom he confessed various infidelities before expiring, was pregnant; indeed,he was the father.
之後,他的遺孀懷孕了,他在斷氣前曏她承認曾經有過不忠,但他確實是孩子的父親
耶魯公開課 - 1871年後的法國課程節選

Because this question remains unresolved, the confessed murderer remains alive in San Quentin prison.
ECONOMIST: Is lethal injection really so painless?

You use confessed to describe someone who openly admits that they have a particular fault or have done something wrong.