List of self-inculpators

This is a list of prominent individuals who have inadvertently inculpated themselves by producing, and failing to adequately conceal or to destroy, written or otherwise-recorded evidence that has subsequently implicated them in faults or crimes.
In some cases, as with Mary, Queen of Scots, imprisoned by her relative, Queen Elizabeth I, the individual may have had little choice but to commit her thoughts to paper. Marie Curie, too, scarcely imagined that Mrs. Langevin's private investigator would purloin Marie's love letters from Paul Langevin's apartment.
It was presumably the prospect of authoring another book that impelled Richard Nixon to "bug" his own White House, then keep rather than destroy his tape recordings in the course of the Watergate scandal.
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*Mary, Queen of Scots—"Casket Letters" implicated her in assassination plots against Queen Elizabeth I and led to Mary's execution.
*—love letters to Paul Langevin whose 1911 publication created a scandal.
*Franklin D. Roosevelt kept love letters that he had received from his wife's secretary, Lucy Mercer. When Mrs. Roosevelt discovered them, the result was divorce in all but name.
*Richard Nixon—White House conversations, recorded on the president's instructions, whose publication in the midst of the Watergate scandal led to Nixon's 1974 resignation from the presidency.
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