"confess to doing" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe an admission of guilt or responsibility for some action. For example, "He confessed to doing the vandalism on school grounds".
Sections include "Childhood's End," in which authors chronicle their lives' first morbid turns, "Curious Behavior," which details raccoon penises are mailed to friends, and "Gainful Employment," in which people confess to doing morbid things for money, like writing about them.
(I imagine someone must buy encyclopedias and telephone service from these people, or they would not keep calling, but I've never actually met anyone who will confess to doing this).
Ste is arrested for murdering DS-Sykes and burning out a car he was in after Frasers copper friend forces him to confess to doing it in order to protect Fraser.
But almost no one has ever confessed to doing it deliberately.
Erickson recruited more than 100 adults who confessed to doing little if any exercise in their daily lives.
Mr. Skakel has denied that he killed Miss Moxley and has said he never confessed to doing so.
Mark, his son and a congressman from Colorado running in one of the most exciting Senate races this year, confesses to doing the same thing.
The show's producer described successful candidates as "the sort of people who take atlases to bed with them", and one team member confessed to doing just that.
"A man confesses to doing this murder with Rodriguez, yet those two men remain unprosecuted," said Mr. Cohen, who investigated Mr. Rodriguez's gang.
Indeed, some cracking its spine for the first time — as more than one commentator on the 50th anniversary has sheepishly confessed to doing — may be surprised at just how scholarly the book is.
ASG: Part of me thinks that Quincy [released from jail after another inmate confessed to doing the crime] is truly guilty.
