"confessed to doing" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it when somebody confesses to something they did that was wrong or inappropriate. For example: "The suspect confessed to doing the robbery."
Lai Holbrook – as she is now called, using her married name – told the Guardian that the idea that Patterson grabbed the necklace had been fed to her by detectives who said that Patterson had confessed to doing so, a confession that she insists was forced out of her.
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.
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.
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.
No one is outwardly stating that what Lopez confessed to doing was justified, but several news outlets have reported the crime with the fact that she 'screamed' out her ex's name as central to the story, when in fact they should be reporting on the fact that yet another young woman has died as the result of domestic violence.
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.
"A man confesses to doing this murder with Rodriguez, yet those two men remain unprosecuted," said Mr. Cohen, who investigated Mr. Rodriguez's gang.
(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.
She would like work with Lars von Trier and Darren Aronofsky and, she confesses, to do "a mystical horror film!
