Article: Court documents reveal suspect's admission of attack on girl

In a dramatic confession after his arrest, Todd David Burpee said the girl he is accused of attacking outside a Palo Alto apartment was just someone to take out his frustration on after a fight with his girlfriend, according to court documents

With the bloodied victim still covered up in the back of his car, court documents state, he called his girlfriend while driving to her home and told her he thought he had just killed someone.

The girl in the back seat of his 1993 Oldsmobile Cutlass lay silent and still.

But when Burpee finally arrived at his girlfriend's home in Sunnyvale and went inside, the 17-year-old girl in the back seat made her move. She jumped from the car, leaving one of ...

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