Ennis Cosby's convicted killer has abandoned his appeal and confessed to the murder, prosecutors said Friday.
Mikail Markhasev, a Ukrainian immigrant, was convicted in July, 1998, of murdering comedian Bill Cosby's 27-year-old son during a botched 1997 robbery. He was sentenced to life in prison a month later.
He sent a letter to authorities Friday confessing that he murdered Cosby in which he called his crime of four years ago an act of "great wickedness."
Los Angeles County authorities announced the development after Markhasev's lawyer notified the courts the appeal was being abandoned.
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