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N Forbidden Truth. I'm forbidden on
forbidden Welcome to unforbidden Truth. I'm Andrew.
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Today I'll be speaking with convicted murderer
Larry Fulford. Larry is convicted of
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aggravated murder and is serving twenty years
to life in the Toledo Correctional Institution in
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Toledo, Ohio. On December second, nineteen ninety one, Larry and his
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brother in law attacked Stephen Vanderpool.
He would be hit with the pool stick,
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stabbed, and then had a refrigerator
pulled down on top of him.
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Larry was present during the famous Lucasville
Riot, which occurred on Easter Sunday nineteen
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ninety three, which resulted in the
deaths of at least nine inmates and one
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officer. Here's my interview with convicted
murderer Larry Fulford. Hello, this is
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a prepaid debit call from and and
make it actually a correctional institution. All
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right. So my name is Larry
Douglas Fulford, and I was born in
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uh Stalley County, Ohio. You
know, like the most southern ship of
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Ohio and the injured world. Oh
yeah, and uh the little shitty town,
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little drug town, you know,
what I mean. I don't know
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if you've ever heard of it.
Fortunately. Can you recall any positive memories
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from your childhood? Well, you
know, I think I had a lot
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of good memories, but you know, I grew up in the family broken
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family. Dad was going to joint
in and out, alcoholic family and so
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the bad at where they was gonna
go out and have parties. You know,
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they would always have the bad kids
along. So we would always give
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to see our cousins and stuff,
and like those were the best times for
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me, was even when they was
bad, you know what I mean.
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What about any negative memories that stick
out to you from your childhood? Negative
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memory just growing up watching my dad
beat my mom. So I got old
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enough to you know, stop and
stuff. And you know, I got
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a sister, but she was born. I was seventeen but she was born,
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so my life was almost already over
because I was coming to prison at
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eighteen, right, So, uh
once when I was a kid, you
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know, my dad and mom drank
so much every day that you know,
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they fought and he beat her kids. So yeah, lots of bad memories
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growing up, you know, but
to me, it was just normal life,
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you know, now looking back,
I think, oh, my god,
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and she was crazy. But yeah, were your parents together throughout your
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childhood? So yeah, so that's
a That's a really weird thing about my
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mom and dad is as much as
they fought and drank and fought and stuff,
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they never separated. They always would
leave for a little while and then
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come back. But my mom was
terrified to leave my dad, Like I
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don't I don't think she ever really
knew what she would do with herself if
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she wasn't with him. So she
would leave for a couple of days and
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drag me along, and uh,
like we'd go to Cleveland and live for
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a couple of days, or if
we was in Cleveland, because you know,
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we had family in Cleveland and up
north, and so if we was
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up there, she would be like, come here, eldie, we're leaving.
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You want to go with your dad
or you want to go with me?
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And then no matter what I said, she would always drag me with
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her and she'd take us down to
porch before her mom was still But yeah,
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I mean, oh, that was
really a weird existence, I think,
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yeah, but it was a super
violence in my family. You know,
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my dad had nine brothers, well, he had eight brothers that are
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all my uncles. He had four
sisters that were varied to other men.
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That was violent. And then my
mom had eight brothers and fucking two sisters,
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you know what I'm saying. So
it was super violent on my dad's
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side of the family. Everybody drank
and everybody fought like that. It's kind
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of existed. I grew up in
but I thought it was great as a
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kid. I don't know why,
you know, probably because the freedom I
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had to just do what I wanted
to run around and shit. You know.
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So you mentioned that your dad would
beat on your mother. Did you
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suffer any type of childhood abuse?
Well, I got two whoopings from my
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dad, and they was like beating
my whole life. My dad whoop me
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twice. I mean, you know, he smacked and ship a
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couple of
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times. He stopped doing shit when
I was doing some stupid ship. But
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the ones I remember, I had
two whoopers from my dad and they was
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like really severe beating, you know
what I mean. And and that's the
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only comedy ever touched me. But
he was like he could just look at
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me, and I knew he was
about to kill me. You know what.
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I mean, so my dad got
a lot of respect for me,
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but he also you know, when
he beat my mom, I fucking hated
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him, But then when he wasn't
doing it, I loved him. So
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it's like, right now, I
could tell you, like, my dad
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was one of the best people after
he stopped beating my mom, you know
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what I mean. And even when
he was, he was the nicest person
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to other people. Like like,
cause my dad would get a big check
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or whatever and have lots of money, and I could be right by him,
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and then he could fucking go to
a bar drinking like this is my
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boy, pat me on the back
of all proud of shit. But then
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instead of buying me a new pair
of shoes or something, he'd buy your
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kid a new pair of shues,
just try to show off, right,
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Like he was that kind of dude, Like he used to cook big pots
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of soup and hit and just give
it to people and shit like that,
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and then at night beating him.
He was crazy. So it was like
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one hand, he was a really
good guy. On the other hand,
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he trust So you have like a
love hate relationship with your father, then
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yeah, yeah, you know I
love my dad. I do because you
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know, the one time that I
did step in the top of him from
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beating my mother. This is fall
from her and she fucking hit me in
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the head of the fieldmog so yeah, but yeah, it was really weird
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though, because I stopped him twice
and then after that he never touched it
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again. It's really weird once I
got old enough, you know. But
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that was a pretty guitar dude,
you know. You time to joint came
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out big as fuck, you know. Oh yeah, so, Larry,
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have you been diagnosed with any mental
illnesses? Waiting? Well, yeah,
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I mean in here, I thought, well, you know, I was
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in the Lucas who are riot?
So I don't know if you know that
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or not? Right, Yeah,
well, and we'll we'll talk about that
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near the end of the interview for
sure. Yeah. Well, so I
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think it's part of if I diagnosed
who spells into that? But before that,
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no, I had never really uh
you know, I was like,
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I got in trouble with shit as
kids, and they tried to send me
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to some people, but I was
so fucking stubborn and and shit about it,
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Like I was like, I ain't
nothing wrong with any fuck, you
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you know. I mean that normal
teenager attitude, right and h so,
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no, I've never really had a
real diagnosis. I've had a prison diagnosis,
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and they think I'm fucking super violent
sometimes and uh gets the frantic and
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fucking paranoid and shit. And I
think a lot of that has to do
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with the riot though. Do you
hear voices? So yeah? No,
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good. So did you engage in
any type of criminal activity as a juvenile?
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As a juvenile, I was stealing
cars and uh stereos, and yeah,
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I stole clothes like I used to
steal my school clothes. Like I
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was Mom's dad would you know,
get their checks or whatever, and then
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they get drunk and so I wouldn't
really have money for school clothes. So
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you know, Dad or Mom one
of them would end up giving me fifty
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or forty dollars, you know,
and I'm supposed to buy all my clothes
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this well I would go use that
fifth he has, like this front money
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and then steal all my school clothes
and stuff. And uh, yeah,
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I was always into something. You
know, I wasn't really violent, U
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until you know, I got older, and then I started getting violent,
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you know, fighting a lot of
stuff. But as a young man.
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In school, I really was just
to myself. I played music and I
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used to take up for all the
kids that got bullied. And it was
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weird because I was a little dude. But people just they tended to have
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like give me fifty feet, you
know, they had a respect for me.
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So if I've seen a bully picking
on a guy, which I had
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a couple
of friends that became my
friends that I saved from bullies, and
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I would run up to help him, and the bullys can usually just run
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off. I pretty much. I
had like frocky ten uncles that was fucking
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super violent and everybody knew it.
Right, So I'm kind of like the
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little chiawa I could balk at you
because he knows you got ten bodies behind
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in the other man, right,
So did you ever did you ever do
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any like Julie time or were you
ever arrested for any of those crimes as
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a juvenile? I I was arrested. I got arrested one time on the
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on the granddad that was a Julie
and granddad or a car. I went
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to JDC and maryan Ohio. But
I was only there waiting to go to
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court, right, So only he
did like fifteen twenty days there and went
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back to court and got out.
So I never actually did any sentence to
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any juvenile time. So nope,
I kind of skipped that went straight to
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prison, you know what I mean? So at eighteen, did you engage
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in any criminal activity after turning eighteen
prior to the case that you're serving time
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for now or nos? Soon as
I turned eighteen, Like that year is
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the year I got this murder case. Right during twenty life I started.
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I got arrested like right after I
just turned nineteen. So you gotta remember
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in December, so I'm my birthdays
in January, right, so you know
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what I mean, like right next
to each other. But at eighteen,
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I was living like a full blown
adult. You know. I had a
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job. I was working at Ford, a place four Ford, you know,
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not four and Foard, But I
was working at a company a Ford
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Fixed and Transmissions because I learned I
learned how to do major engine repair and
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votes ag in school, right like
I went. I quit school at sixteen
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and went and took a trade so
that I could, you know, make
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money because my girlfriend had a son
and I kind of adopted him, right,
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But I was living as a full
grown adult, I had a car.
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We lived in our own apartment.
Every time I got paid, I
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would go get my mom some money
because she had my sister, and my
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sister was
a baby. And I
at eighteen and even at seventeen and sixteen,
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was the only person in our family
that I had a car, like
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full time. So everyone in my
family, and you gotta imagine, man,
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I had a really dad, had
nine brothers, four sisters. Mom
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eight brothers, sisters, they all
had kids, some of their kids had
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kids, and so you can imagine
everyone always needed a rod or everyone when
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it comes from me all the time. Like I was like a sinner of
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my family at one point in time. Yeah, so I wasn't really being
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a criminal at that kind of eighteen. I was kind of chilling out.
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I was an alcohol I drank.
I drank a lot on even when people
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weren't around or I was by myself, I would drink. But during the
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day I would go to work,
I would come home. I didn't you
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know, I didn't fuck up my
job stuff like that, and uh,
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yeah, it was just weird.
That year. I was really good.
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I was I was working, I
was trying to help everyone in the family
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and everything that I wasn't doing anything
wrong before that. I was running around,
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you know, fighting, getting in
trouble. I had got a for
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only this assault charge in the same
building I ended up killing this guy in
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there was a guy named Frank riggsby
there, and uh, you know,
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I beat him up pretty bad and
got a charge for it. Flo,
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I saw, It's one of the
charges they used to push me into a
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plea bargain on this murder case.
So yeah, I had a fucking pending
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colonious assault on that. Let's talk
about the crime that you're currently in prison
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for. Now. You're serving twenty
to life for the murder of Stephen Vanderpool.
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Can you walk me through everything that
led up to the homicide of Stephen.
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Yeah. So, you know,
like I was telling you, this
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is the year. I'm eighteen.
I'm trying to do the right thing and
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work and you know, stuff like
this. And so this apartment building that
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Steve lives in, he lives in
the basement apartment in the top floor,
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My aunt Debbie lives and she has
a son, Roy Holsinger, who ends
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up being one of my core fenders, and his sister Rachel. They lived
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upstairs, right, So anyways,
I've worked that day, so my lady
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her son was too young to be
by myself, so I had I had
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Debbie watching him, and so it
was like eight thirty at night, and
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and his mom, my girlfriend,
she was at work at the Hamburger joint.
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So I had to go pick him
up, and then I had to
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go pick her up, right,
And so so I pulled up at the
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place and uh, I go in. They're having a party. They're all
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partying and stuff, like a thirty
And I told you I'm an alcoholic.
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So I started to drink and uh, you know, I didn't even go
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upstairs and get my son yet.
I just started to drink at this spasement,
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a parsiment party and stuff. This
is Steve's party. Everybody's there.
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I don't know this guy though.
He just moved in, all right.
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And so you know, a long
story short at night, moves on and
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stuff. I end up leaving and
going and getting my brother in law,
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which would become my brother in law
later, my wife's brother, Cameron,
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and I end up going getting in
it. So because I have n't drive
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my son back to his mom because
you know, he was so when I
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wasn't so anyway. At the end
of the night, it's like fucking one
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across, two o'clock in the morning, I'm dropping, I ain't home.
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I go out and get in the
car and I'm leave. I'm hearing the
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league and getting ready drugs up the
long and uh got the car running and
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here comes my little cousin. I
called my cousin. The little Roy comes
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out. He knocks on my window
and he's like, hey, you gotta
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come back in here, because dude
won't let Rachel leave. He's in there
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fucking with us. So I'm like, what do you mean. Now,
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Rachel's fourteen years old. Steve was
dirty at the time, and so I
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was like, all right, fucking
hold on, I'm like to get out
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of the car. And I go
back in and Steve has Rachel like he
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lives in a shotgun apartment. It's
like here, you go through the door,
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the living room, kitchen, bed
room, bathroom, right and you
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can see it the whole way through. And
so I see him. He's
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on the bed. He kind of
got her pins up against the wall and
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he won't let her leave. You
know, she didn't. She's fourteen,
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so she'd been already, you know, doing her thing, and she's shaking
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her but at the party and sucking
all around him, teasing that night.
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It's not her fault, so you
know what I mean. So anyway,
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I go over there. I snatched
her by her on. I say,
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rightel, get your eyes upstairs.
You know your mom wants you. And
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as soon as I pulled her away
from him, he punched me in the
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face. And so if you go, if you ever can find those newspaper
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clippings, the first mug shot you
see of me, you'll see my eyes
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swelled. It's almost it's got a
big ass swelled up mark on the bottom
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of it. So anyways, I've
seen this half a pool queue when because
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he knocked me down, so I
looked over and her against the wall.
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It was like a half a pool
queue, and I just jumped up and
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whacked him twice with the pool queue. He fell forward. They said he
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was already dead. But when he
hit the floor, I pulled the refrigerator
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over any so that he couldn't move, grabbed her turtlet get her ass upstairs.
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There was a ton of people in
the part, but I don't even
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remember, and I went out.
I got in my car and I drove
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home, and you know as about
it, we did. We did.
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On the way to my house,
I stopped the car and let Roy Dean
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out to run over to a payphone. The car inlets and he gets over
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to this payphone. It's in front
of this apartment building. Someone ripped the
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receiver off of the payphon. So
to this day, I think if he
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could have made that call, it
might have safety these lives. But yeah,
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that's how it went. So what
was the aftermath that followed that night?
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So my brother in law, the
guy that became my brother in law,
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went back to the house and took
duth wallet and got twenty three dollars
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out of it, and that caused
it to be an agg murder add robbery
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case, see what I'm saying.
So he ends up being a cody a
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month and he comes back.
He
wakes me up at five thirty in the
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morning and am you know, I'm
and I've been drinking shit. So you
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know how that is. So well, maybe he wakes me up and he's
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like, man, ld you gotta
get up. I'm like, well,
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I just put the fuck when I
went wrong. He's like, look,
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dude's dead. Don't what are you
talking about? Man? He's like that
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too. Man, he got into
it with that night. He dead.
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And so I got up and then
I'm sucking freaking out and know what to
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do. I drove up to my
mom's house and told my mama, said,
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listen, I'm probably gonna be going
to jail. I fucking killed somebody
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last night. And she's like,
shut up if you're fucking retarded quick playing,
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like my mom, I'm serious,
And I told her the situation and
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stuff, and I went back to
the house. I said, at the
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house, my girlfriend comes home from
work. She went to work that point.
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She comes over and work. She
in the bathroom and he's bathtub taking
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a bath, and we hear the
police coming up with debt. There's nowhere
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to run. I'm in the top
two apartment and so I fucking brand in
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the bathroom, closed the door.
Well days in the bathroom, what the
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fuck are you doing? I'm like, man, the police are out there,
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and she's like, well, where
you gonna go? We didn't have
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no bathroom in the window, the
window in the back, so my bucket
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I just walked out there. He's
like, then we want to talk to
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you and I went downtown and that
was it. Yeah, and so you're
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arrested the same day that he passed
away. No, I was rerested the
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next well, yeah, probably because
yeah it was am so yeah, probably,
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yeah, probably the same day.
I'm not really sure one hundred percent
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the day, but I'm pretty sure
it was December, the second, December
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second of ninety one. I'm almost
a part of it. Yeah, yeah,
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so you know that's how that happens. And before I get in,
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dieted on that Steve. I'm in
and I'm in jail, right, it's
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the second My uncle Randy's in the
range of our county jail is four rangers
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in our county JAD
of ABC and
D. D and D are a little
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small ranges on the side. A
and D are like the long ranges over
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a lift stop. My uncle's over
on d Ramming. It was like,
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hey, broke gave me one of
the mattresses out there. So there's a
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big palomaitresses. When you go in, you gotta grab one take it in
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with you. But I grab one
and I slide it through the food slot
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to it, and I realized that
this is a big ass food slot.
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It's kind of big. I thought
I could fit my head through this fuck
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it, and so I tried it, and I fit my head and it
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fit right. So I'll fast forward
you to the twelfth of December. I've
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been there for ten days now,
and it's quiet as fun. I see
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that third shift CEO leaves the cat
walk open on the County's hill. There's
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a day room on our roof,
and I slipped through that fucking food slot.
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I took my cody camera with me, and he slipped out of his
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food slot and we went around,
went out into the day room around the
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top of the building, and slid
down the wires to the fucking communication lines
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on the back of the building and
escaped out of the county on it.
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So, yeah, that happened.
How long How long were you and how
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long had you been out until you
were re arrested? Well, we ended
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up turning ourselves in because I was
only out for like probably hours, you
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know what I mean. It probably
wasn't a full day, so but it
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felt like forever, you know,
because he was on the run. And
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I went and to my grandpa's and
then my grandpa never gave me a ride
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and mcdermay dropped me off. But
then my grandpa later mcgot I was in
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the woods hide and then he come
and got me and said, look,
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man, he said, the arrest
of your grandma. My grandma was like
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seven years old or whatever, sick. He's telling me everything happened. I
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said, you know what, I'm
not gonna let her sit in jail.
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Said let's go, and I taught
him. He called, and he called
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him. He called the sheriff,
which was hall at the time, I
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think, and he said, look, man, you know my grandson wants
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to
turn herself in. And then
he said, we'll put him on the
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phone. So I'm talking to him. I'm talking to the sheriff phone the
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phone. I said, listen,
I'll turn my self here. I said,
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but you gotta do me fair.
And said, listen, man,
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don't bring all them cameras. I
knew it was gonna be tons of cameras
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because you already was on the murder
right. I said, listen, don't
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bring all that news shit. And
don't you know, come like swarming in.
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I said, I'm unarmed. I'm
gonna fucking I'll turn myself in.
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He's like, look like, I
said, I know your family, my
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whole life he does, because they
weren't out of jail. But he said,
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uh, I'll come and get you. He shall, I'll bring one
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person with me, will come in
an unmarked cars and should just tell me
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where and win. And he kept
his word and come and got me.
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But when we got back to the
county, there was news cameras everywhere town
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thirteen news Chuck strictly. I don't
know if you're word of him, but
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he was an anchor. He'd come
to court and tries to interview me and
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stuff, and I never would talk
to him. But yeah, pretty well,
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So you had an eventful life.
So you said you were offered a
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plea deal what you took, which
was the twenty to life correct. Yeah,
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So on that you gotta realize that
down I'm in there, I have
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agg murder, AG robbery, flows
assault pending on unrelated charges and now I
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have an escape because I escape,
right, And so they bring me downstairs
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and the prosecutor griffs. I was
like, tell him, my attorneys to
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tell me, he gonna give me
this deal, give me a deal twin
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of life. They'll drop the robbery
or drop everything else. And that's just
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be what it is. Me.
I'm like, hell, no, I
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ain't about to do all that.
So my attorneys are like, well,
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look, even if you don't do
it on escape the flowings, assaulting all
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that, you end up doing like
this amount of years. It was like
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fifty some years. It was crazy, right, And so they said,
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you want to talk to somebody before
you decide, and I'm like, yea,
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I'm gonna want to talk to my
dad. So in the new scaper
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clip thing, you could read this
if they say this, they actually go
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into the hallway, pat my dad
down, you know, pat him down,
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and bring him into the courtroom to
the fucking defense table and set him
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down and show him all the pictures
of the dead body of Steve of my
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hands and just all everything that they
had. They showed it to my father
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and my dad said, I'm like, well, what do you think,
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man? And he's like, man, I don't know, he said.
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I'm not no lawyer. He said, but twenty to the life with the
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possibility of parole after fifteen sounds better
than eighty flat right. I'm like,
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he said, at least you'll have
a chance to get out here. He
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said, dare You're gonna die in
prison if you do eighty fifty to eighty
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years, you know you'll never get
out. So that's what I did.
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I end up taking the deal.
My attorney paid for my married license right
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there on the spot, went downstairs
and got married to my girlfriend, and
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uh, all to Lucasville. So
how did you feel after you were convicted
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and sentenced knowing that you wouldn't have
to serve fifteen years in prison before being
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eligible for parole? But you know, it never really stuck into me.
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It's just like it's weird because you
know, like I told you, growing
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up, my dad had all those
brothers, even even my dad's mother,
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my grandmother, all did time in
prison. So you have to understand.
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I've been in our prisons my whole
life, visiting people. So it was
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kind of like I felt like this
shit didn't even bother me. I'm in
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jail, it didn't even really bother
me. The only part to bother me
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was missing people, missing family,
missing things, right, and so it
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never really hit me like at one
time, like and still to this day,
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I still feel like, man,
I'm gonna get out. I'm not
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worried about I got hope. Sometimes
I feel like that, you know what
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I mean, and I don't know
that she's a really weird thing unless I
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sat here and look back and all
the people that's dead and all the people
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that you've grown up and stuff.
It's hard to really fathom the time I've
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been in prison now, and you
know, I was just going with the
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flow. Back then, I was
young to come into prison. I started
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boxing, trying to get my stuff
together, fighting all the time because I
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was a young kid. And you
know, back then there was a lot
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of fucking people fucking trying to rape
young kids and ship. You know,
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because I came to prison, they
still had to wait, they still had
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like everything. It's crazy, and
yeah, I don't know. I was
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just trying to survive. Andrew I
was like, I was just trying to,
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you know, make it. And
it's hard. I think to this
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day. I owe a lot to
my family through the name Treddie Stone.
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It's one of my dad's first cousins, because he was in Lucasville when I
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got there and he kind of fucking
guided me along. And so without him,
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I think it's hard to tell what
would have happened to me. I
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could have probably been killed because they
was killing people in Lucasville. When I
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got there, it was like the
most employous prison in the hall in the
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United States back then. So yeah, it's terrifying. Hey, my lawyer
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even in my plead rangement, it
even says it in the newspaper when you
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have one minute remaining. We had
an interview after I got since, and
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my lawyer said, yeah, I
just hope they don't send me in to
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Lucasville. They actually created that into
paper. If you can never see those
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papers, you see all that.
Speaking of Lucasville, you were there serving
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time when the riots broke out,
correct, Yeah, yeah, so oh
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so tell me what you know about
the riots and what everything looked like to
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you from your perspective at that point
in time. Man, Well, I
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got told you. When I first
got to Lucasville, it was August.
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It was August the nineteen ninety two, and the day that I walked in
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the door, man, it was
like you see in the movies, you
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know, dudes was whistling and this
and that, and so it was terrifying.
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I was the nineteen year kid,
you know what I mean, And
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I never did no junior time,
so the only thing I had was my
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county and experienced that my mom,
you know, my dad and all that
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had told me from their prisons.
But anyway, I'm walking down the hallway
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and I give in my sale and
I was just in shockman. I didn't
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know what to do. And this
place was super violent. So you had
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to be on your toes all the
time, right, And it was just
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terrifying and it was hard to blend
in. And like I told you,
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had I not had my cousin here, it's hard to tell what would happened
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to. You know. My second
day in the sale, I got in
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a fight with the guy and stuff
like that. But yeah, my feelings
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about this, that Lucasville was that
it was just a murder place. It
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was terrible. It was fucking awful. Him. Yeah, it was violent
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00:28:51.000 --> 00:28:52.759
leading up to the riot. You
know, I had only been there for
411
00:28:52.839 --> 00:28:56.839
like a year because the riot was
April or ninety three, and uh,
412
00:28:59.200 --> 00:29:03.519
you know, them had been told
that they was going to be forced to
413
00:29:03.519 --> 00:29:07.960
take TV shots and so they wasn't
feeling that. So that's what really kind
414
00:29:07.960 --> 00:29:11.079
of got the ball rolling. Plus
it was a lots of other shit,
415
00:29:11.200 --> 00:29:14.880
you know, it was forcing us
to sell black and white, and back
416
00:29:14.880 --> 00:29:18.400
then you just didn't do that,
and they was forcing people to do so.
417
00:29:18.559 --> 00:29:22.519
There was no phones, we couldn't
call. We got one phone call
418
00:29:22.680 --> 00:29:26.200
a year for five minutes and stuff
like that. You know, a little
419
00:29:26.240 --> 00:29:29.759
shit like that. It just all
added up to guys just going crazy.
420
00:29:30.559 --> 00:29:36.160
But on the day of the riot, man, there was like this this
421
00:29:36.400 --> 00:29:40.440
fucking fog in the air. It
was just like a heavy air that day,
422
00:29:40.480 --> 00:29:41.799
you know what I'm saying, Like
you ever just felt that, like
423
00:29:41.920 --> 00:29:48.119
something just ain't right feeling, And
that's how it was all that morning.
424
00:29:48.160 --> 00:29:52.119
I got up, I fucking put
some cigarettes in my pocket, and I
425
00:29:52.279 --> 00:29:56.039
grabbed a big gass cup of coffee
and went out to the day room.
426
00:29:56.720 --> 00:29:59.400
The day room is a room in
between the blocks and you can kind of
427
00:29:59.440 --> 00:30:04.559
see the hall way. I'm out
there watching the fucking poison ivy and uh
428
00:30:04.599 --> 00:30:18.599
and uh I'm watching poison ivy huh
huh uh
yeah, so yeah, I'm
429
00:30:18.640 --> 00:30:22.960
fucking just rip it off there,
uh something too. So yeah, So
430
00:30:22.759 --> 00:30:30.720
when it started, I could see
it, and uh, I can hear
431
00:30:30.759 --> 00:30:34.400
this big gash rumbling coming down the
motherfucking hallway. And so I'm looking out
432
00:30:36.039 --> 00:30:41.200
and it was terrifying. The CEOs
saw my doors was but here they come
433
00:30:41.279 --> 00:30:45.480
man then back in and Lucas Shilda
was the key man. He's in the
434
00:30:45.480 --> 00:30:48.000
hallway with sky Can in the hallway
that when you want to get out of
435
00:30:48.039 --> 00:30:52.079
Bronchie, flick a light switch.
They see the light, they come down,
436
00:30:52.119 --> 00:30:56.319
they open the door. When they
open the door, there's two consoles.
437
00:30:56.240 --> 00:30:59.759
And that's where the CEO said,
And they're in the wide open.
438
00:31:00.319 --> 00:31:03.440
Just run right in. Boom.
It's what they did. They ran in,
439
00:31:03.680 --> 00:31:06.359
tack on the cell and beat the
bunk out of them and stabbed them
440
00:31:06.400 --> 00:31:10.240
up, and then hit the keys
and open all the doors to the blocks
441
00:31:11.119 --> 00:31:14.160
and and it was terrifying. You. I mean, I've only been there
442
00:31:14.200 --> 00:31:17.160
like a year. I was just
a kid. Anyone who says they wasn't
443
00:31:17.200 --> 00:31:22.519
scared is lying. I don't care
who he was, because one full move,
444
00:31:22.960 --> 00:31:27.200
youtually got killed. You know,
I've seen bodies laying everywhere, you
445
00:31:27.200 --> 00:31:33.000
know, to this day, I'm
still I'm still really skeptical that only eleven
446
00:31:33.039 --> 00:31:37.119
people died, right, because I've
seen people laying everywhere, and you know,
447
00:31:37.279 --> 00:31:40.200
I just feel like in my heart
that there was some kind of cover
448
00:31:40.400 --> 00:31:45.920
up to that ship, because I've
seen piles of bodies man, and it
449
00:31:45.039 --> 00:31:49.559
was way more than the eleven,
you know what I mean, I don't
450
00:31:49.559 --> 00:31:52.880
know. And it was pretty wild. I went around breaking pipes and started
451
00:31:52.920 --> 00:31:56.960
to get water because they shut the
water off, so I would climb up
452
00:31:56.960 --> 00:32:00.079
into the ceiling of the break pipes
so the water would run out into the
453
00:32:00.240 --> 00:32:05.279
big trash cans so we'd have water
and stuff, and yeah, it's pretty
454
00:32:05.319 --> 00:32:07.960
wild. I don't know. Did
you ever get into any fights during the
455
00:32:08.039 --> 00:32:10.319
riots, Like, did you ever
get stobbed up? Or did you ever
456
00:32:10.359 --> 00:32:15.880
have to defend yourself myself? I
never, I never got Oh. I
457
00:32:15.960 --> 00:32:19.599
got in fights all through by time
at Lucasville, but I never got in
458
00:32:19.720 --> 00:32:22.680
any in the riot. And the
riot, I kind of stayed by put
459
00:32:22.759 --> 00:32:27.799
a bandanna. You know, they
were wearing blue. We was wearing black
460
00:32:27.799 --> 00:32:30.079
sweat shirts, and we put our
blue shirt over the top of it.
461
00:32:30.160 --> 00:32:35.240
Like everybody was just trying to have
the same outfit, right, And then
462
00:32:35.279 --> 00:32:38.319
I put a blue bandanna around my
face and then my ball cap on,
463
00:32:39.000 --> 00:32:44.319
and I had a big ass piece
of metal, you know, like sword
464
00:32:44.400 --> 00:32:49.599
thing, and fucking uh. I
was just running around breaking pipes and shit.
465
00:32:49.640 --> 00:32:52.079
I wasn't trying to hurt anybody.
I wasn't trying to get hurt,
466
00:32:52.119 --> 00:32:53.839
you know what I mean. Was
there ever any time where you felt that
467
00:32:53.880 --> 00:32:58.160
your life was in danger, that
you were going to possibly get stobbed up
468
00:32:58.279 --> 00:33:01.200
or killed? Yeah, the whole
time, the whole time. I mean
469
00:33:01.240 --> 00:33:06.079
it was terrifying, because I mean
it was like I told you, like,
470
00:33:06.640 --> 00:33:08.359
save me, and you pass each
other in the hallway and me and
471
00:33:08.400 --> 00:33:13.039
you didn't get along, right,
but we was in different blocks and so
472
00:33:13.119 --> 00:33:15.440
we've been living there. But just
say that we didn't get along. And
473
00:33:15.480 --> 00:33:17.799
you've seen me in the riot.
He was like, all here is that
474
00:33:17.880 --> 00:33:22.240
dude, everything you know, you're
gonna have fifty dudes just stabbed you because
475
00:33:22.359 --> 00:33:25.400
everybody was first to just have a
reason, you know what I mean.
476
00:33:27.359 --> 00:33:30.680
And so yeah, it was fucking
terrifying. Man. I was I didn't
477
00:33:30.680 --> 00:33:35.039
know what to do. I was
scared of that the whole time. So
478
00:33:35.160 --> 00:33:39.160
did you witness did you witness the
stabbings and the murders of the officers and
479
00:33:39.200 --> 00:33:44.839
the elements and stuff like that.
Well, there was only one officer that
480
00:33:44.880 --> 00:33:47.599
they say died, and I never
witnessed that because it came later in the
481
00:33:47.680 --> 00:33:55.440
day. The initial takeover, the
initial siege I've seen CEO's getting VS time
482
00:33:57.000 --> 00:34:00.519
and that which is why I tell
you to this day, I personally don't
483
00:34:00.519 --> 00:34:05.680
believe the only one seal died because
when they beat these seals that I can
484
00:34:05.920 --> 00:34:07.239
take over, and it was no
way these guys live. I mean,
485
00:34:07.239 --> 00:34:13.079
they beat these guys. This it
makes you feel sorry, It makes you
486
00:34:13.159 --> 00:34:15.159
I feel it's hard for him.
I mean I was just like wanted to
487
00:34:15.159 --> 00:34:17.480
stop it, but you couldn't because
you know it was it was awful.
488
00:34:20.440 --> 00:34:22.480
You know, the guy's begging for
their lives and getting beat and you
just
489
00:34:22.480 --> 00:34:25.400
standing there and you can't do shit
about it. It's it's really harsh.
490
00:34:25.440 --> 00:34:34.079
It's a hard situation. So that
was in nineteen ninety three and it's twenty
491
00:34:34.119 --> 00:34:37.519
twenty three. Now it's thirty years
later. How do you spend your time
492
00:34:37.519 --> 00:34:44.360
in prison these days? Man?
I fucking basically try to myself busy.
493
00:34:44.679 --> 00:34:46.480
I worked, and you got to
realize all my family's dead now. So
494
00:34:47.280 --> 00:34:52.440
my mom was my backbone. She's
gone. And I have a sister.
495
00:34:52.039 --> 00:34:55.760
But my sister hasn't talked to me
since I came up here to Toledo.
496
00:34:57.800 --> 00:34:59.880
I don't know why, you know, I love her. I miss you.
497
00:35:00.480 --> 00:35:04.280
She did it to me, Like
my sister grew up in my while
498
00:35:04.280 --> 00:35:07.719
I was at Lucasville. My mom
and had lived fifteen minutes down the street.
499
00:35:07.840 --> 00:35:13.119
So if you, if you could
probably raid my sister's house right now,
500
00:35:13.480 --> 00:35:16.159
you'd probably see pictures of her from
the time she was a baby and
501
00:35:16.199 --> 00:35:21.840
then in the interviews all the way
up until she's grown, right, because
502
00:35:21.880 --> 00:35:24.960
that's how our relationship was. But
yeah, she hasn't talked to me in
503
00:35:25.000 --> 00:35:30.239
four years, so I don't know. So now I make my days go
504
00:35:30.280 --> 00:35:34.519
by. I work in the kitchen. I talked to role you know,
505
00:35:34.960 --> 00:35:37.559
and I draw, and she kind
of helps me, helps me along.
506
00:35:37.639 --> 00:35:40.599
Man. You know, without her, you know, life, you know,
507
00:35:40.679 --> 00:35:44.679
life savers to me. Because at
the time she came into my life
508
00:35:44.679 --> 00:35:47.639
and I was ready to give up. I was done, and she just
509
00:35:47.639 --> 00:35:52.400
popped up out of nowhere. Yeah. I was tired, I was done,
510
00:35:52.440 --> 00:35:54.840
I was ready to give it up. And I was actually on suicide
511
00:35:54.880 --> 00:36:01.440
watch on this day that I got
a letter from her. I don't even
512
00:36:01.480 --> 00:36:05.760
know if I told her that,
But yeah, have you ever have you
513
00:36:05.800 --> 00:36:09.480
ever attempted suicide in prison? Oh? Yeah, I had a couple of
514
00:36:09.559 --> 00:36:15.519
times cut myself a few times.
Yeah, yeah, y'all. I was
515
00:36:15.559 --> 00:36:21.920
ready to get it over with.
Man, I hung myself and woke up
516
00:36:22.000 --> 00:36:24.360
on the floor, you know,
so like I went all the way tile
517
00:36:24.400 --> 00:36:30.719
I was out. So what happens? What happens when when you try to
518
00:36:30.719 --> 00:36:34.559
commit suicide. What's the procedure that
the staff need to take to make sure
519
00:36:34.599 --> 00:36:39.320
you're safe and the other inmates are
safe. Well, there's there's really no
520
00:36:39.360 --> 00:36:42.079
way. If I want to die, I can die, you know what
521
00:36:42.079 --> 00:36:45.199
I'm saying. You know, people
have killed herself here, friends of mine,
522
00:36:45.320 --> 00:36:49.800
buddy of mine just killed herself here, guy named Red, and uh
523
00:36:49.840 --> 00:36:53.840
you know in here. I don't
know about other prisons of this prison is.
524
00:36:54.679 --> 00:36:59.519
So say we got Dave room right, the doors are open, seals
525
00:36:59.519 --> 00:37:02.039
are not in the block, so
we can go. I could, me
526
00:37:02.239 --> 00:37:07.800
and my buddy could run in your
cell and kill you. By the time
527
00:37:07.880 --> 00:37:09.239
they come in here to save you, it's over it. You would be
528
00:37:09.280 --> 00:37:14.719
dead. That's the shit I'm living
in right now. So you know,
529
00:37:14.800 --> 00:37:17.840
every day you have to be you
know, vigilant, you have to be
530
00:37:17.880 --> 00:37:22.239
aware. It's dangerous. So now
I say I wanted to kill myself,
531
00:37:22.239 --> 00:37:24.719
all I would have to do right
now, seals are out in the hallway.
532
00:37:24.800 --> 00:37:29.920
I could fucking board my cell up
and do it, and they by
533
00:37:29.960 --> 00:37:34.719
the time they figured out I was
dead, it'd be too late. That's
534
00:37:34.840 --> 00:37:37.599
simple fact. But I kind of
have a will to live now. I'm
535
00:37:37.639 --> 00:37:40.880
trying to. I'm trying to push
towards something. Like I told you,
536
00:37:42.239 --> 00:37:45.159
I met Row and she kind of
gave me a little new hope on life.
537
00:37:45.800 --> 00:37:50.760
Know, I'm trying to make it
all the right things, and you
538
00:37:50.760 --> 00:37:53.039
know, I'm working and uh,
you know, try and stay out of
539
00:37:53.039 --> 00:37:57.960
trouble because I used to be a
really violent dude, and I thought a
540
00:37:58.000 --> 00:38:01.159
lot and stuff, and I have
been trying to avoid all that. When
541
00:38:01.159 --> 00:38:05.639
I say I'm finally, dude,
I'm not talking about George people in general.
542
00:38:05.760 --> 00:38:07.239
I'm just talking about in here to
survive, you know what I mean.
543
00:38:07.880 --> 00:38:10.760
Because really I'm a nice guy.
You know. I'm a family man,
544
00:38:10.960 --> 00:38:15.679
love kids and dogs and all the
ships that regular people like. But
545
00:38:15.719 --> 00:38:17.079
then here you have to turn into
an animal, you know what I mean.
546
00:38:19.639 --> 00:38:24.480
And it's part of myself that I
don't like. You know. I
547
00:38:24.559 --> 00:38:28.800
just want to make it home,
man, before I die. I don't
548
00:38:28.840 --> 00:38:34.840
want to die in prison. So
Larry does the Does the prison that you're
549
00:38:34.920 --> 00:38:42.039
in offer any type of rehabilitation classes
or courses to further your education? Yeah,
550
00:38:42.119 --> 00:38:45.880
they have a few programs. I'm
not really sure about re entry stuff
551
00:38:45.119 -->
00:38:50.760
because I'm not close to that yet. But you know, now, work
552
00:38:50.800 --> 00:38:55.159
in the kitchen, and there's a
program that I'm signed up for that you
553
00:38:55.280 --> 00:39:00.280
learn like culinary skills and you get
state certified to work as a fucking food
554
00:39:00.320 --> 00:39:05.559
service. So that would mean I
would be state certified to get out of
555
00:39:05.559 --> 00:39:09.119
here and come back and work at
a state facility or anything you know related
556
00:39:09.159 --> 00:39:14.760
to like air Mark food service and
stuff like that. I would be certified
557
00:39:14.760 --> 00:39:17.280
for that, and I'm signed up
for that. That's the only thing I
558
00:39:17.400 --> 00:39:21.039
know so far. I don't know
any other programs here. I know they
559
00:39:21.079 --> 00:39:24.800
got college. I'm too old for
that. I got a GD so you
560
00:39:24.840 --> 00:39:30.719
know, I'm a pretty good artist. I'm really good at mechanics. You
561
00:39:30.760 --> 00:39:35.440
know, I was a mechanic corner
streets, So I would like to learn
562
00:39:36.199 --> 00:39:37.960
because of the thirty years ago,
cars were different, you know what I
563
00:39:38.000 --> 00:39:45.480
mean, I would have to learn
the new systems. I'm really sure what
564
00:39:45.480 --> 00:39:50.079
I would do if I got out
tomorrow, and I would probably go fishing.
565
00:39:51.239 --> 00:39:57.599
I don't know, I'll be lost
out there, you know. So
566
00:39:58.599 --> 00:40:00.599
before we conclude this interview, is
there anything that you would like to talk
567
00:40:00.639 --> 00:40:06.639
about that we haven't covered yet.
Well, there's probably a lot, you
568
00:40:06.679 --> 00:40:09.000
know, but you know, just
trying to think of it now, you
569
00:40:09.039 --> 00:40:12.800
know, it's hard, you know, just if you're if you're trying to
570
00:40:12.840 --> 00:40:16.679
give your viewers and listeners, you
know, a picture of a man that
571
00:40:16.880 --> 00:40:21.039
you know, come to prison,
and it's been set in prison for thirty
572
00:40:21.079 --> 00:40:23.159
two years. It's really hard to
give you that because I've been a solitary,
573
00:40:23.280 --> 00:40:28.400
confined you know, my whole prison
bit. I've been in the single
574
00:40:28.440 --> 00:40:31.159
cell. You know what I'm saying, like one person in a cell,
575
00:40:32.079 --> 00:40:37.960
and so at that time living you
know, it's harsh and it's it's rough,
576
00:40:37.039 --> 00:40:40.800
and yeah, you know I would
want no one would endure this compliant
577
00:40:40.880 --> 00:40:45.880
you know, this this this stuff
here. I don't know what I would
578
00:40:45.880 --> 00:40:49.280
say to anyone, you know,
Like I said, my social skills are
579
00:40:49.360 --> 00:40:52.119
probably not at the car. You
know, I've been locked up so long
580
00:40:52.960 --> 00:40:55.639
and you know, no, I
really don't know, man. You know,
581
00:40:57.599 --> 00:41:00.079
maybe we could have a different talk
some time out you know, I'd
582
00:41:00.119 --> 00:41:06.039
have to think about that. I
don't know, man, what do you
583
00:41:06.079 --> 00:41:08.760
think? Bro? You you you
help people? What does it you do?
584
00:41:10.000 --> 00:41:15.039
I give you one minute. I
give a platform the prisoners to have
585
00:41:15.079 --> 00:41:20.639
their voices heard and tell their story
and get anything out there that they want
586
00:41:20.639 --> 00:41:24.639
to get out there. I don't
know, man, this is Steve's family,
587
00:41:24.679 --> 00:41:29.559
if he has a family, you
know. I'm sorry, but that's
588
00:41:29.559 --> 00:41:31.639
a true story. I just told
and that's how it happened. Yeah,
589
00:41:31.760 --> 00:41:36.239
maybe they'll forgive me and I'll get
free one day, you know what I
590
00:41:36.239 --> 00:41:38.800
mean. I had to call you
some other times. That was my interview
591
00:41:38.800 --> 00:41:57.079
with Larry Fulford. Thank you for
listening, Odd forbidding Trudd forbidden, idd
592
00:41:57.239 --> 00:42:00.079
forbidden. I rest my