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Caddo Lake Was passiert ist, wird immer ein Teil von dir sein. Als die achtjährige Anna Bennett (Caroline Falk) auf mysteriöse Weise in der Nähe des Caddo Lake verschwindet, machen sich ihre Eltern Celeste (Lauren Ambrose) und Daniel (Eric Lange) sowie ihre Stiefschwester Ellie (Eliza Scanlen) auf die verzweifelte Suche, um sie zurück nach Hause zu holen. Doch als sie die Umgebung durchkämmen, stoßen sie auf dem See auf seltsame Vorkommnisse. Währenddessen kämpft der aus Caddo stammende Paris (Dylan O'Brien) damit, den Tod seiner Mutter zu verarbeiten, die Jahre zuvor im See ums Leben kam, und wird auf seiner Suche nach Antworten in das Verschwinden des jungen Mädchens verwickelt. Konklave (Originaltitel Conclave) ist ein Thriller von Edward Berger und basiert auf dem gleichnamigen Roman von Robert Harris. In dem Film spielen unter anderem Ralph Fiennes, Stanley Tucci und John Lithgow Kardinäle aus verschiedenen Ländern, die bei einem Konklave zusammenkommen, um einen neuen Papst zu wählen. Der Film wurde Ende August 2024 beim Telluride Film Festival uraufgeführt. Der Kinostart von Konklave in den USA war Ende Oktober 2024. In Deutschland und Österreich kam der Film am 21. November 2024 in die Kinos. Der Kinostart in der Deutschschweiz war in der darauffolgenden Woche. Am 29. November 2024 startete der Film im Vereinigten Königreich. Außerdem besprechen wir die Serien THE PENGUIN und FROM. Kommentare, Fragen, Anregungen bitte auf www.Kinocast.net CADDO LAKE Kinostart in Deutschland: 28.11.2024 Laufzeit: 1h 43m FSK: 12 Produktion: Blinding Edge Pictures, K Period Media Verleih: Warner Bros. Pictures Germany Regie: Logan George, Celine Held Drehbuch: Celine Held, Logan George Besetzung: Dylan O'Brien, Eliza Scanlen, Caroline Falk, Lauren Ambrose, Sam Hennings, Diana Hopper, Eric Lange, David Maldonado, Jules Hilillo Fernandez, Gina Limbrick Offizielle Webseite: Warner IMDb: LINK Inhalt Was passiert ist, wird immer ein Teil von dir sein. Als die achtjährige Anna Bennett (Caroline Falk) auf mysteriöse Weise in der Nähe des Caddo Lake verschwindet, machen sich ihre Eltern Celeste (Lauren Ambrose) und Daniel (Eric Lange) sowie ihre Stiefschwester Ellie (Eliza Scanlen) auf die verzweifelte Suche, um sie zurück nach Hause zu holen. Doch als sie die Umgebung durchkämmen, stoßen sie auf dem See auf seltsame Vorkommnisse. Währenddessen kämpft der aus Caddo stammende Paris (Dylan O'Brien) damit, den Tod seiner Mutter zu verarbeiten, die Jahre zuvor im See ums Leben kam, und wird auf seiner Suche nach Antworten in das Verschwinden des jungen Mädchens verwickelt. Produktion Regie führten Logan George und Celine Held, die gemeinsam auch das Drehbuch schrieben. Zu den früheren gemeinsamen Projekten des Ehepaares gehören der Film Topside von 2021 und eine Folge der Fernsehserie Modern Love. George übernahm bei Caddo Lake auch den Filmschnitt. Neben M. Night Shyamalan fungierten bei Caddo Lake Kara Durrett, Josh Godfrey und Ashwin Rajan als Produzenten. Shyamalan lernte George und Held bei der Arbeit für seine Fernsehserie Servant kennen, die bei drei Folgen die Regie übernommen hatten. Die Dreharbeiten fanden 2021 am titelgebenden Caddo Lake und in Shreveport im US-Bundesstaat Louisiana statt. Die Stadt ist Verwaltungssitz des Caddo Parish. Der Arbeitstitel war The Vanishings at Caddo Lake. Kameramann Lowell A. Meyer war zuletzt für Filme wie Der Chaos-Cop von Jim Cummings, Greener Grass von Jocelyn DeBoer und Dawn Luebbe, die Horrorkomödie I Don't Understand You von David Joseph Craig und Brian Crano und gemeinsam mit Jarin Blaschke für Shyamalans Thriller Knock at the Cabin tätig. Neben der von Paul Baloche komponierten Musik verwendet der Film die Songs What a Good God und Found in You des Liedschreibers von Contempo Timecodes: 00:00:00 Einleitung 00:01:39 Caddo Lake 00:16:50 Tipps für die nächste Sneak 00:20:20 Konklave 00:34:40 Kinocharts und Neustarts 00:38:12 Idiocracy 00:43:00 The Penguin 00:51:02 FROM 00:56:34 Musiktipps

Tomorrow is Election Day! And if you haven't voted yet, Tuesday is the last day to cast your ballot. WRKF's Capitol Access reporter Brooke Thorington spoke with Joel Watson, director of communications at the Louisiana Secretary of State Office, about what voters should and shouldn't bring to the polls. Every election cycle, we hear the same old saying, “every vote counts.” While it may not always feel that way, in the case of last year's sheriff election in Caddo Parish, that sentiment rang true. Democratic candidate Henry Whitehorn won by a single vote in a race where over 43,000 people cast ballots. Sheriff Whitehorn joins us for more on his historic election, the importance of voting and what he's accomplished in the year since. Black voters have historically leaned Democratic. But recent polls suggest their support for Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has grown, especially among younger Black men. To understand what's driving that growth, we're joined by Garrison Hayes, video correspondent for Mother Jones who's been talking to Black voters ahead of the November election. ___Today's episode of Louisiana Considered was hosted by Karen Henderson. Our managing producer is Alana Schrieber. Matt Bloom and Aubry Procell are assistant producers. Our engineer is Garrett Pittman.You can listen to Louisiana Considered Monday through Friday at noon and 7 p.m. It's available on Spotify, Google Play and wherever you get your podcasts. Louisiana Considered wants to hear from you! Please fill out our pitch line to let us know what kinds of story ideas you have for our show. And while you're at it, fill out our listener survey! We want to keep bringing you the kinds of conversations you'd like to listen to.Louisiana Considered is made possible with support from our listeners. Thank you!

In this podcast episode we want to introduce you to our BCEN Friends, Sean Elwell and Adam Oliver. Sean Elwell is the Senior Director of Emergency Services, Critical Care Transport, and the Pediatric Trauma Center at Nemours Children's Hospital in Wilmington, Delaware, where he has dedicated over 21 years of service. Starting his career as an EMT, Sean transitioned to become a registered nurse and earned his Doctor of Nursing Practice from Wilmington University. He holds a master's degree in nursing leadership and health systems management from Drexel University, graduating Summa Cum Laude. A recognized leader in his field, Sean has published numerous articles and presented at regional and national conferences. He is a Past-President of the Society of Trauma Nurses and currently serves as Secretary/Treasurer on the Board of Certification for Emergency Nursing. In addition to his professional roles, Sean actively contributes to his community as the Mayor of Elsinboro Township, where he has served for 18 years, including 14 years as Mayor. He has held various leadership positions within local government and is currently on the Executive Board for the New Jersey League of Municipalities, set to become First Vice-President this November. Sean also dedicates time to volunteer with the Elsinboro Fire Company, where he serves as Chief. His extensive experience and commitment to both healthcare and public service make him a respected leader in his community. Adam Oliver is a dedicated healthcare professional with over two decades of experience in the emergency medical field. He resides in Gilliam, Louisiana, located in northern Caddo Parish, approximately 30 miles north of Shreveport. Currently Adam serves as the Director of Integrated Health for LifeNet, Inc. and manages three rotor-wing assets and one fixed-wing asset within the Air Division, while also overseeing the development of community paramedic and telehealth programs. As a passionate advocate for community service, Adam is the Mayor of Gilliam and has previously served as a town council member. His commitment to public safety is further exemplified by his ten-year service as a Board Commissioner for Caddo Fire District Seven, which operates in a large rural area. Recently appointed to the Hospital Service District board, he plays a vital role in supporting the North Caddo Medical Center, a critical access hospital that includes five rural health clinics, two pharmacies, and a dental clinic. Since a young age, Adam has been committed to serving others in their most vulnerable moments. His diverse experiences as a paramedic, emergency nurse, ICU nurse, and flight nurse have shaped his approach to healthcare and community engagement, reinforcing his belief in the importance of compassion and support in times of need. Come along as Michael Dexter and Hollye Briggs talk with these dual guests and discuss how their experiences in healthcare have shaped their political roles and community service. This episode is called, Mayor may not be outside the Scope of Nursing. Sean Elwell can be reached via email at sean@seanelwell.com and Adam Oliver can be reached on Instagram @flyin_fishin. BCEN & Friends Podcast is presented by the Board of Certification for Emergency Nursing. We invite you to visit us online at https://bcen.org for additional information about emergency nursing certification, education, and much more.

581. Part 2 of our conversation with Matthew Teutsch about his article, "Blood in the Pool: The 1868 Bossier Massacre." "Violent, racist attacks didn't just occur in Bossier. They occurred across the Red River in Caddo Parish and all throughout the Red River Valley. Gilles Vandal notes that during Reconstruction 45% of the murders in Louisiana were concentrated in the northwestern part of the state. Caddo accounted for 16% of the homicides even though it only accounted for 3% of the state's population. People may have tried to cleanse the soil of the blood, but the blood remains deep within the earth." "Matthew Teutsch is the Director of the Lillian E. Smith Center at Piedmont College. He maintains Interminable Rambling, a blog on literature, culture, and pedagogy,  and has published articles and book reviews in various venues including Lear, Melus, Mississippi Quarterly, African American Review and Callaloo. His research focus is African American, Southern, and Nineteenth Century American literature. He is the editor of Rediscovering Frank Yerby: Critical Essays (UPM 2020), and his current project examines Christopher Priest's run on Black Panther. Follow him on Twitter at @SilasLapham." Now available: Liberty in Louisiana: A Comedy. The oldest play about Louisiana, author James Workman wrote it as a celebration of the Louisiana Purchase. Now it is back in print for the first time in 220 years. Order your copy today! This week in Louisiana history. July 7, 1912. Grabow 'Lumber War' shootout takes place near DeRidder, 3 killed, 37 wounded. This week in New Orleans history. Summer Showers. July 7, 1939. Beginning in the mid-1930s, and for several years after, the Recreation Project of the WPA sponsored the "Summer Showers" program in conjunction with the New Orleans Fire Department. Several days a week throughout the summer, firemen closed off a street, opened the hydrants and attached special nozzles to their hoses so the children of New Orleans could frolick and beat the heat  This week in Louisiana. 18th Annual Celebration San Fermin in Nueva Orleans Gallier Hall 545 St Charles Ave. New Orleans, LA 70130 Website July 12 · 5:30 pm - July 14 · 2:00 pm Cost $15 – $95. Get Tickets Here New Orleans Running of the Bulls San Fermin in Nueva Orleans 2024- XVIII The 18th Edition of the Running of the Bulls in New Orleans promises to be very different and very exciting! Book your trip and hotel and register today! This years event will be the weekend of July 12-14 and we will have a full slate of events. Txupinazo, Running of the Roller Derby Bulls, and El Pobre de Mi all at an iconic location! Gallier Hall, once the home of New Orleans City Hall!  Stay tuned to all social media channels and we'll keep you updated as the stars align. ¡YA FALTA MENOS! Postcards from Louisiana. The Tremé Brass Band plays at the dba bar on Frenchment St. in New Orleans. Listen on Apple Podcasts. Listen on audible. Listen on Spotify. Listen on TuneIn. Listen on iHeartRadio. The Louisiana Anthology Home Page. Like us on Facebook. 

580. Part 1 of our interview with Matthew Teutsch about his article, "Blood in the Pool: The 1868 Bossier Massacre."  "Violent, racist attacks didn't just occur in Bossier. They occurred across the Red River in Caddo Parish and all throughout the Red River Valley. Gilles Vandal notes that during Reconstruction 45% of the murders in Louisiana were concentrated in the northwestern part of the state. Caddo accounted for 16% of the homicides even though it only accounted for 3% of the state's population. People may have tried to cleanse the soil of the blood, but the blood remains deep within the earth." "Matthew Teutsch is the Director of the Lillian E. Smith Center at Piedmont College. He maintains Interminable Rambling, a blog on literature, culture, and pedagogy,  and has published articles and book reviews in various venues including Lear, Melus, Mississippi Quarterly, African American Review and Callaloo. His research focus is African American, Southern, and Nineteenth Century American literature. He is the editor of Rediscovering Frank Yerby: Critical Essays (UPM 2020), and his current project examines Christopher Priest's run on Black Panther. Follow him on Twitter at @SilasLapham." Now available: Liberty in Louisiana: A Comedy. The oldest play about Louisiana, author James Workman wrote it as a celebration of the Louisiana Purchase. Now it is back in print for the first time in 220 years. Order your copy today! This week in Louisiana history. June 30, 1870. Robert E. Lee and the Natchez began their famous riverboat race. This week in New Orleans history. On June 27, 1957, Hurricane Audrey reached peak sustained winds of 145 mph, making it a major hurricane.   Without decreasing windspeed, it made landfall between the mouth of the Sabine River and Cameron, Louisiana the following day. Damage in Louisiana resulted in 60-80 percent of the homes and businesses from Cameron to Grand Cheniere being severely damaged or destroyed. Audrey killed at least 416 people, the majority of which were in Cameron Parish.  40,000 people were left homeless, over 300 homeless in Louisiana. This week in Louisiana. Tunes on the Teche 4th of July Breaux Bridge St. Bernard Catholic Church 204 North Main Street Breaux Bridge, LA 70517 Website Live Music with Steve Riley and the Mamou Playboys on the Bayou Teche at Parc des Point in Breaux Bridge for the 4th of July Celebration!  Thursday July 4th at 6:00 PM!  A family-friendly and free night of music, food, drinks, and fireworks on the banks of the Bayou Teche. Postcards from Louisiana. Long Haul Paul. "Mercy Now." Listen on Apple Podcasts. Listen on audible. Listen on Spotify. Listen on TuneIn. Listen on iHeartRadio. The Louisiana Anthology Home Page. Like us on Facebook. 

Louisiana voters made their choice for Republican and Democratic presidential nominees over the weekend. Former President Donald Trump and President Joe Biden easily won their respective races during Saturday's primaries.  Voters also weighed in on local and regional issues, including the closely-watched Caddo Parish sheriff's race. Brian Brox, associate professor of political science at Tulane University, joins us to discuss the results.  A community farm that's been in New Orleans' City Park for more than a decade would be displaced under a  redevelopment proposal from park leadership.  But supporters of Grow Dat Youth Farm are fighting back. Verite News' Drew Costley brings us the latest.  And for March's Utility Bill of the Month, The Gulf States Newsroom's Stephan Bisaha takes us back to Jackson, Mississippi.  Residents have dealt with more than a decade of inaccurate — and in some cases missing — water bills. The city is trying to fix the troubled system and make sure everyone pays what they actually owe. But some residents say their new bills still have problems. ____ Today's episode of Louisiana Considered was hosted by Karen Henderson. Our managing producer is Alana Schrieber. Matt Bloom and Aubry Procell are assistant producers. Our engineer is Garrett Pittman. You can listen to Louisiana Considered Monday through Friday at 12 and 7 p.m. It's available on Spotify, Google Play and wherever you get your podcasts.  Louisiana Considered wants to hear from you! Please fill out our pitch line to let us know what kinds of story ideas you have for our show. And while you're at it, fill out our listener survey! We want to keep bringing you the kinds of conversations you'd like to listen to. Louisiana Considered is made possible with support from our listeners. Thank you!  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Three days ago, in Louisiana, enough evidence of illegal voting was uncovered—such that a state Supreme Court judge completely nullified the results of an election. His rationale was that enough ballots were cast illegally to change the outcome of the race, and therefore, the entire thing just has to be redone.

12.5.2023 #RolandMartinUnfiltered: Black Ala. Man Tased While Handcuffed, La. Judge Orders New Sheriff's Elex, Calif. Cop Sues Depart. A West Alabama police officer is on administrative leave after tasing a handcuffed black man in the back. We'll talk to some officers of the Pickens County NAACP about his disturbing case.  A black California police officer says she was punished for stepping in to de-escalate a situation between a fellow officer and suspect. We'll tell you about her lawsuit against the Pasadena police department.  A Louisiana judge ordered a new election for the Caddo Parish sheriff's race, which was decided by one vote. A Louisiana political strategist will join us to discuss the 11 illegal votes the judge discovered.  The Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the National Legal and Policy Center,  Peter Flaherty, called for Visa to revoke its Black Lives Matter endorsement after the group showed support for Palestine. He's here to explain his demand.  And in our Marketplace segment, it's a game that could get your black card revoked! We'll talk to the creators of the Trivia For Us Card Game.  Download the Black Star Network app at http://www.blackstarnetwork.com! We're on iOS, AppleTV, Android, AndroidTV, Roku, FireTV, XBox and SamsungTV. The #BlackStarNetwork is a news reporting platform covered under Copyright Disclaimer Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for "fair use" for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

A police department in Alabama is asking residents and business owners to lend a hand in fighting crime. In November, the city of Birmingham launched a program that encourages people to share footage from their private surveillance cameras. As the Gulf States Newsroom's Kat Stromquist reports, this type of cooperation doesn't come without risks.  Every election cycle, we hear the same phrase: Every vote counts. One election where that certainly rings true is the race for Caddo Parish sheriff, where Democrat Henry Whitehorn beat Republican John Nickelson by a single vote.But Nickelsoon isn't going down without a fight. And after a recount failed to change the outcome, the losing candidate took the election to the courtroom. Today, a judge in Caddo Parish ruled the previous election void and ordered that a new runoff election be conducted. Brendan Heffernan has been covering this story for The Shreveport-Bossier Advocate and joins us for the latest.  Artist Robert X Fogarty, best known as the founder of the storytelling organization Dear World, is celebrating the legacy of his late mother, artist Mary Beth Fogarty, who died by suicide in 2002.  His latest project, Son of a Ghost, adds a new layer to his mother's original paintings as he explores grief, reconciliation and artistic boundaries.  The art project coincides with the opening of the namesake Mary Beth Hotel and Gallery in New Orleans. Robert X Fogarty joins us to talk about how he is honoring his late mother with this hotel and gallery.  Today's episode of Louisiana Considered was hosted by Diane Mack. Our managing producer is Alana Schreiber and our assistant producer is Aubry Procell. Our engineer is Garrett Pittman. You can listen to Louisiana Considered Monday through Friday at 12 and 7 p.m. It's available on Spotify, Google Play and wherever you get your podcasts.  Louisiana Considered wants to hear from you! Please fill out our pitch line to let us know what kinds of story ideas you have for our show. And while you're at it, fill out our listener survey! We want to keep bringing you the kinds of conversations you'd like to listen to. Louisiana Considered is made possible with support from our listeners. Thank you!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Three days ago, in Louisiana, enough evidence of illegal voting was uncovered—such that a state Supreme Court judge completely nullified the results of an election. His rationale was that enough ballots were cast illegally to change the outcome of the race, and therefore, the entire thing just has to be redone.

Tune in to this interview to hear more about the Hereos Career Fair, a joint recruitment effort between the Shreveport Police Department , Caddo Parish Sheriff's Office, Shreveport Marshal's Office and the Shreveport Fire Department.This event was initiated, organized, and sponsored by the North Shreveport Business Association to help fill the critical the need to hire public servants in Caddo Parish. The career fair will be held on September 16th, 2023, from 9:00 a.m until 2:00 p.m. at the Northwest Louisiana Technical Community College - NLTCC located at 2010 N Market St, Shreveport, LA.This is a unique opportunity for those seeking careers in public service to have the opportunity to meet with recruiters from different agencies to see what suits them best and to see what the areas top agencies have to offer.

Elizabeth Holmes Is Pregnant … Again During an unusual court appearance on Monday, a key witness in the trial that resulted in the conviction of disgraced Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes staunchly defended his testimony. Former Theranos lab director Adam Rosendorff testified for the prosecution and made an apology visit to Holmes' Silicon Valley home after the trial ended, sparking speculation of misconduct on Holmes' part. Holmes, 38, was convicted of four felonies related to investor fraud earlier this year, and her sentencing was set to begin the same day as the 75-minute hearing. She could spend the next two decades behind bars for promising Thrernos investors that a blood-testing technology would transform medical practice but failing to deliver on that promise. On Monday, Holmes had what could be her last chance to avoid jail time by convincing U.S. District Judge Edward Davila that Rosendorff's actions merit a new trial. Rosendorff testified for the prosecution for a total of six days last year during Holmes' trial. After Holmes' attorneys asked for a new trial last month, Davila decided Rosendorff's testimony should be re-examined because he paid an unannounced visit to Holmes' and William "Billy" Bundy's mansion on August 8 "Evans, the man she's currently dating and the father of her son, who is a year old. While Rosendorff did not speak with Holmes directly, Evans recalled that he told the court that Holmes "tried to answer the questions honestly but that the prosecutors tried to make everyone look bad" and that Holmes felt "he had done something wrong." U.S. District Judge Edward Davila questioned Rosendorff, and the witness repeatedly affirmed that he had testified truthfully during the trial and that he believed Holmes deserved to be convicted. But he also expressed regret to Davila about the prospect that Holmes' son "would spend the formative years of his life without his mother." "Holmes receives a prison term, If. The judge finished his question, and Rosendorff spent the next half an hour in a heated exchange with Lance Wade, one of Holmes' lawyers. Wade had already had several heated exchanges with Rosendorff during his cross-examination. During his August visit, Wade hoped to pry some information out of Rosendorff about the mental anguish he'd been experiencing since the trial, as well as whether or not he was taking any medication to cope. After Rosendorff's refusal to respond, the judge did not push the matter further. Most of Rosendorff's replies to Wade emphasized his testimony's veracity and dispelled the idea that he viewed Holmes as a friend for whom he felt sorry. At one point, Rosendorff stated, “I don't want to help Ms. Holmes.” It's up to her to help herself; no one else can. Eventually, she will have to make amends to the public. At the same time, Rosendorff made an effort to convey his approval of her conviction. The government wanted to know the facts about what Elizabeth Holmes had done, and they were trying to "In his words. Government attorneys also spent some time emphasizing Rosendorff's belief that no trial misconduct occurred. During the next week, Davila will consider additional written arguments from both Holmes' attorneys and government prosecutors before making a decision on whether or not to grant a new trial, which is widely considered to be highly unlikely. A new sentencing date for Holmes has been set for November 18 by Judge Davila. Three days later, her ex-boyfriend and business partner Ramesh "Sunny" "Balwani's sentencing is up next. In a different trial that ended in July, Balwani, 57, was found guilty on 12 counts of investor and patient fraud. Rosendorff then said, "it is my understanding that she is pregnant again," without providing any context. Neither Holmes nor Evans gave an answer to that question when The Associated Press asked them after the hearing. Even as they entered the elevator together, Holmes spontaneously smiled and Evans complemented an Associated Press journalist on his shoes. Mom allegedly sliced daughter's neck, suffocated her, and drove to ER. Melissa Towne allegedly begged hospital staff for a wheelchair on Oct. 16 because her daughter's body hurt. A nurse reportedly found Towne's daughter in a mesh bag with a neck laceration. A doctor pronounced the infant dead at 12:10 p.m., Harris County Sgt. Ben Beall said. Towne allegedly told Tomball police she killed her kid in Spring Creek Park. Detectives questioned Towne while deputies searched the park for a homicide scene. The blanket-covered body was reportedly on the car's floor. Beall stated the child's neck wound "matched what the mother said." Towne told detectives at her bond hearing that she "needed to end the child's life" Towne allegedly parked at Spring Creek Park and took her daughter to an isolated place. She reportedly forced the girl kneel, then slashed her throat. The girl "screamed and fought." Towne allegedly strangled the girl for 30 to 45 minutes, sat on her body, and used her hand to cover her mouth. The prosecutor's office said Towne told officers she wanted to kill the child because she was evil and she couldn't handle her. Towne's bond is $15 million at Harris County Jail. Louisiana deputy allegedly duped an elderly woman into handing him $15,000 After allegedly victimizing an elderly woman, a 33-year-old Caddo Parish deputy was fired and charged. Joey Lee went to the victim's home in the 1800 block of E. Kings Highway while in uniform and "manipulated her into providing him $15,000 in cash over three months," the sheriff's office said. Lee allegedly cashed forgeries while in uniform. Detectives learned about the incident on Wednesday, Oct. 12, and placed Lee on administrative leave without pay before terminating him. He was a deputy for 10 years. Lee was arrested for forgery, exploitation of infirm persons, extortion, conspiracy to conduct extortion, and malfeasance in office. There's one victim. Steve Prator, sheriff, said, "This person's unlawful behavior disappoints me. He's an embarrassment to the brave men and women who earn the public's trust."

Elizabeth Holmes Is Pregnant … Again During an unusual court appearance on Monday, a key witness in the trial that resulted in the conviction of disgraced Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes staunchly defended his testimony. Former Theranos lab director Adam Rosendorff testified for the prosecution and made an apology visit to Holmes' Silicon Valley home after the trial ended, sparking speculation of misconduct on Holmes' part. Holmes, 38, was convicted of four felonies related to investor fraud earlier this year, and her sentencing was set to begin the same day as the 75-minute hearing. She could spend the next two decades behind bars for promising Thrernos investors that a blood-testing technology would transform medical practice but failing to deliver on that promise. On Monday, Holmes had what could be her last chance to avoid jail time by convincing U.S. District Judge Edward Davila that Rosendorff's actions merit a new trial. Rosendorff testified for the prosecution for a total of six days last year during Holmes' trial. After Holmes' attorneys asked for a new trial last month, Davila decided Rosendorff's testimony should be re-examined because he paid an unannounced visit to Holmes' and William "Billy" Bundy's mansion on August 8 "Evans, the man she's currently dating and the father of her son, who is a year old. While Rosendorff did not speak with Holmes directly, Evans recalled that he told the court that Holmes "tried to answer the questions honestly but that the prosecutors tried to make everyone look bad" and that Holmes felt "he had done something wrong." U.S. District Judge Edward Davila questioned Rosendorff, and the witness repeatedly affirmed that he had testified truthfully during the trial and that he believed Holmes deserved to be convicted. But he also expressed regret to Davila about the prospect that Holmes' son "would spend the formative years of his life without his mother." "Holmes receives a prison term, If. The judge finished his question, and Rosendorff spent the next half an hour in a heated exchange with Lance Wade, one of Holmes' lawyers. Wade had already had several heated exchanges with Rosendorff during his cross-examination. During his August visit, Wade hoped to pry some information out of Rosendorff about the mental anguish he'd been experiencing since the trial, as well as whether or not he was taking any medication to cope. After Rosendorff's refusal to respond, the judge did not push the matter further. Most of Rosendorff's replies to Wade emphasized his testimony's veracity and dispelled the idea that he viewed Holmes as a friend for whom he felt sorry. At one point, Rosendorff stated, “I don't want to help Ms. Holmes.” It's up to her to help herself; no one else can. Eventually, she will have to make amends to the public. At the same time, Rosendorff made an effort to convey his approval of her conviction. The government wanted to know the facts about what Elizabeth Holmes had done, and they were trying to "In his words. Government attorneys also spent some time emphasizing Rosendorff's belief that no trial misconduct occurred. During the next week, Davila will consider additional written arguments from both Holmes' attorneys and government prosecutors before making a decision on whether or not to grant a new trial, which is widely considered to be highly unlikely. A new sentencing date for Holmes has been set for November 18 by Judge Davila. Three days later, her ex-boyfriend and business partner Ramesh "Sunny" "Balwani's sentencing is up next. In a different trial that ended in July, Balwani, 57, was found guilty on 12 counts of investor and patient fraud. Rosendorff then said, "it is my understanding that she is pregnant again," without providing any context. Neither Holmes nor Evans gave an answer to that question when The Associated Press asked them after the hearing. Even as they entered the elevator together, Holmes spontaneously smiled and Evans complemented an Associated Press journalist on his shoes. Mom allegedly sliced daughter's neck, suffocated her, and drove to ER. Melissa Towne allegedly begged hospital staff for a wheelchair on Oct. 16 because her daughter's body hurt. A nurse reportedly found Towne's daughter in a mesh bag with a neck laceration. A doctor pronounced the infant dead at 12:10 p.m., Harris County Sgt. Ben Beall said. Towne allegedly told Tomball police she killed her kid in Spring Creek Park. Detectives questioned Towne while deputies searched the park for a homicide scene. The blanket-covered body was reportedly on the car's floor. Beall stated the child's neck wound "matched what the mother said." Towne told detectives at her bond hearing that she "needed to end the child's life" Towne allegedly parked at Spring Creek Park and took her daughter to an isolated place. She reportedly forced the girl kneel, then slashed her throat. The girl "screamed and fought." Towne allegedly strangled the girl for 30 to 45 minutes, sat on her body, and used her hand to cover her mouth. The prosecutor's office said Towne told officers she wanted to kill the child because she was evil and she couldn't handle her. Towne's bond is $15 million at Harris County Jail. Louisiana deputy allegedly duped an elderly woman into handing him $15,000 After allegedly victimizing an elderly woman, a 33-year-old Caddo Parish deputy was fired and charged. Joey Lee went to the victim's home in the 1800 block of E. Kings Highway while in uniform and "manipulated her into providing him $15,000 in cash over three months," the sheriff's office said. Lee allegedly cashed forgeries while in uniform. Detectives learned about the incident on Wednesday, Oct. 12, and placed Lee on administrative leave without pay before terminating him. He was a deputy for 10 years. Lee was arrested for forgery, exploitation of infirm persons, extortion, conspiracy to conduct extortion, and malfeasance in office. There's one victim. Steve Prator, sheriff, said, "This person's unlawful behavior disappoints me. He's an embarrassment to the brave men and women who earn the public's trust."

Elizabeth Holmes Is Pregnant … Again During an unusual court appearance on Monday, a key witness in the trial that resulted in the conviction of disgraced Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes staunchly defended his testimony. Former Theranos lab director Adam Rosendorff testified for the prosecution and made an apology visit to Holmes' Silicon Valley home after the trial ended, sparking speculation of misconduct on Holmes' part. Holmes, 38, was convicted of four felonies related to investor fraud earlier this year, and her sentencing was set to begin the same day as the 75-minute hearing. She could spend the next two decades behind bars for promising Thrernos investors that a blood-testing technology would transform medical practice but failing to deliver on that promise. On Monday, Holmes had what could be her last chance to avoid jail time by convincing U.S. District Judge Edward Davila that Rosendorff's actions merit a new trial. Rosendorff testified for the prosecution for a total of six days last year during Holmes' trial. After Holmes' attorneys asked for a new trial last month, Davila decided Rosendorff's testimony should be re-examined because he paid an unannounced visit to Holmes' and William "Billy" Bundy's mansion on August 8 "Evans, the man she's currently dating and the father of her son, who is a year old. While Rosendorff did not speak with Holmes directly, Evans recalled that he told the court that Holmes "tried to answer the questions honestly but that the prosecutors tried to make everyone look bad" and that Holmes felt "he had done something wrong." U.S. District Judge Edward Davila questioned Rosendorff, and the witness repeatedly affirmed that he had testified truthfully during the trial and that he believed Holmes deserved to be convicted. But he also expressed regret to Davila about the prospect that Holmes' son "would spend the formative years of his life without his mother." "Holmes receives a prison term, If. The judge finished his question, and Rosendorff spent the next half an hour in a heated exchange with Lance Wade, one of Holmes' lawyers. Wade had already had several heated exchanges with Rosendorff during his cross-examination. During his August visit, Wade hoped to pry some information out of Rosendorff about the mental anguish he'd been experiencing since the trial, as well as whether or not he was taking any medication to cope. After Rosendorff's refusal to respond, the judge did not push the matter further. Most of Rosendorff's replies to Wade emphasized his testimony's veracity and dispelled the idea that he viewed Holmes as a friend for whom he felt sorry. At one point, Rosendorff stated, “I don't want to help Ms. Holmes.” It's up to her to help herself; no one else can. Eventually, she will have to make amends to the public. At the same time, Rosendorff made an effort to convey his approval of her conviction. The government wanted to know the facts about what Elizabeth Holmes had done, and they were trying to "In his words. Government attorneys also spent some time emphasizing Rosendorff's belief that no trial misconduct occurred. During the next week, Davila will consider additional written arguments from both Holmes' attorneys and government prosecutors before making a decision on whether or not to grant a new trial, which is widely considered to be highly unlikely. A new sentencing date for Holmes has been set for November 18 by Judge Davila. Three days later, her ex-boyfriend and business partner Ramesh "Sunny" "Balwani's sentencing is up next. In a different trial that ended in July, Balwani, 57, was found guilty on 12 counts of investor and patient fraud. Rosendorff then said, "it is my understanding that she is pregnant again," without providing any context. Neither Holmes nor Evans gave an answer to that question when The Associated Press asked them after the hearing. Even as they entered the elevator together, Holmes spontaneously smiled and Evans complemented an Associated Press journalist on his shoes. Mom allegedly sliced daughter's neck, suffocated her, and drove to ER. Melissa Towne allegedly begged hospital staff for a wheelchair on Oct. 16 because her daughter's body hurt. A nurse reportedly found Towne's daughter in a mesh bag with a neck laceration. A doctor pronounced the infant dead at 12:10 p.m., Harris County Sgt. Ben Beall said. Towne allegedly told Tomball police she killed her kid in Spring Creek Park. Detectives questioned Towne while deputies searched the park for a homicide scene. The blanket-covered body was reportedly on the car's floor. Beall stated the child's neck wound "matched what the mother said." Towne told detectives at her bond hearing that she "needed to end the child's life" Towne allegedly parked at Spring Creek Park and took her daughter to an isolated place. She reportedly forced the girl kneel, then slashed her throat. The girl "screamed and fought." Towne allegedly strangled the girl for 30 to 45 minutes, sat on her body, and used her hand to cover her mouth. The prosecutor's office said Towne told officers she wanted to kill the child because she was evil and she couldn't handle her. Towne's bond is $15 million at Harris County Jail. Louisiana deputy allegedly duped an elderly woman into handing him $15,000 After allegedly victimizing an elderly woman, a 33-year-old Caddo Parish deputy was fired and charged. Joey Lee went to the victim's home in the 1800 block of E. Kings Highway while in uniform and "manipulated her into providing him $15,000 in cash over three months," the sheriff's office said. Lee allegedly cashed forgeries while in uniform. Detectives learned about the incident on Wednesday, Oct. 12, and placed Lee on administrative leave without pay before terminating him. He was a deputy for 10 years. Lee was arrested for forgery, exploitation of infirm persons, extortion, conspiracy to conduct extortion, and malfeasance in office. There's one victim. Steve Prator, sheriff, said, "This person's unlawful behavior disappoints me. He's an embarrassment to the brave men and women who earn the public's trust."

Whether you've traveled through or heard it in the media, chances are you've heard of Shreveport, Louisiana. And Since our STR8UP crew is mostly from Shreveport, we have plenty that we can say about our hometown. We talk to Shreveport Author and host of the "A Lil Tea Time Podcast" Jrayis Deyond about the current climate in Shreveport and what to expect in the city's future. Jrayis then tells us on how he's able find success in Shreveport no matter what outside critics have to say. Follow Jrayis Deyond: Facebook @Jerrick Akingamongmen Thomas Instagram @Stronggiftedruler29 and @thejrayisdeyond Tiktok @thejrayisdeyond Twitter @ThomasJerrick Email @Jerrickthomas27@yahoo.com Youtube @ Jerrick AKingAmongMen Podcast on Spotify at A Lil Tea Time Order Book "Coming Full Circle" https://amzn.to/3FMkWE6

Marco French shares how he transformed his school in Caddo Parish from failing to award-winning, the moment he was selected as state principal of the year, and advice for principals. East Baton Rouge Parish School System is featured on the What's Making Me Smile segment with their data happy hour.

Superintendent of Caddo Parish Schools in Louisiana, Dr. Lamar Goree, shares how he prioritized vision and values as he started his role, his priorities around teaching and learning, and how Caddo is investing pandemic relief dollars in their students.Em Cooper shares how Redesign Schools Louisiana is implementing Accelerate.

Louis Avallone and Stephen Parr explain how all of the requirements to wear masks, including Louisiana, Caddo Parish, and Shreveport directives, create an unconstitutional violation of The Right to Privacy, specifically HIPAA. Mayor Perkins understands medical privacy as it pertains to him because he has refused to disclose what his medical condition is for his military medical disability….but yet he apparently is disregarding that same Right for residents of Shreveport.Louis and Stephen continue talking about the Constitutionality of the Right to Privacy. The elected officials who are imposing these requirements probably know what they are doing is not constitutional, and they probably do not care. It probably will take years for all the possible law suits to make their way up the chain of Federal Courts to the US Supreme Court. If the Government cannot do something legally, the question really is “should they be doing it at all”?Our American Mamas, Teri Netterville and Denise Arthur, talks about how so many Americans are suddenly buying out Goya brand products. This very successful Hispanic company has a history of supporting food banks.Stephen and Louis look at data regarding the trend in jobs which are disappearing in the United States. Company consolidation and technology are partly the reasons. They include Office Administration Support, telephone operators, transcription services, musical directors and composers, telemarketers (if you can believe that!), and in Louisiana, operations research analyst.Friedrich August von Hayek won the Nobel Prize in 1974 for Economics. His work in economics was so substantial that President Reagan said this man inspired him. Von Hayek was warning that the Social Sciences cannot be treated in the same way as the Physical Sciences. That is because there are always going to be critical, unknown variables in the Social Sciences. That is what has been going on today with COVID-19, and look what has happened.

Louis Avallone and Stephen Parr explain how all of the requirements to wear masks, including Louisiana, Caddo Parish, and Shreveport directives, create an unconstitutional violation of The Right to Privacy, specifically HIPAA. Mayor Perkins understands medical privacy as it pertains to him because he has refused to disclose what his medical condition is for his military medical disability….but yet he apparently is disregarding that same Right for residents of Shreveport.Louis and Stephen continue talking about the Constitutionality of the Right to Privacy. The elected officials who are imposing these requirements probably know what they are doing is not constitutional, and they probably do not care. It probably will take years for all the possible law suits to make their way up the chain of Federal Courts to the US Supreme Court. If the Government cannot do something legally, the question really is “should they be doing it at all”?Our American Mamas, Teri Netterville and Denise Arthur, talks about how so many Americans are suddenly buying out Goya brand products. This very successful Hispanic company has a history of supporting food banks.Stephen and Louis look at data regarding the trend in jobs which are disappearing in the United States. Company consolidation and technology are partly the reasons. They include Office Administration Support, telephone operators, transcription services, musical directors and composers, telemarketers (if you can believe that!), and in Louisiana, operations research analyst.Friedrich August von Hayek won the Nobel Prize in 1974 for Economics. His work in economics was so substantial that President Reagan said this man inspired him. Von Hayek was warning that the Social Sciences cannot be treated in the same way as the Physical Sciences. That is because there are always going to be critical, unknown variables in the Social Sciences. That is what has been going on today with COVID-19, and look what has happened.

Even thought the Caddo Parrish Commission voted to require everyone to wear masks inside all businesses, the ordinance does not site any legal authority that they might have to do this. Even worse, an anonymous complaint can shut down businesses, which also violates the US Constitution. Furthermore, the fines are in violation of the charter, as well, because they exceed the Charter limits.Louis Avallone and Stephen Parr continue to discuss the Caddo Parish Mask Ordinance just passed. Somewhat reminiscent of the old German Nazi “brown shirts”, the Caddo Parish now can bypass the Sheriff’s office and legally required due process because they now can hire and use roving “rent-a-cop” militias to enforce the mask ordinance.Our American Mamas, Teri Netterville and Denise Arthur, talk about the posts they have been making on their Facebook page and whether or not they are helping their readers. These are on subjects, such as violent crimes, which the press has no interest in reporting. Many of the readers are appreciative of having a news source.Louis and Stephen visit with Celeste Tatum, owners of Strawn’s Eat Shop Too, about why she had to go backwards to “take out only” as a result of Mayor Perkin’s new mask proclamation. This is severely hurting her business. She is keeping her restaurant closed to sit-down customers because she cannot risk her business license over some random person anonymous reporting something she has no control over. Stephen shares a not-well-known history about Teddy Roosevelt and how he repeatedly chose those he supported and gave jobs to based upon the content of their character, regardless of their skin color, a long time before it was considered socially acceptable to do so. But ignorant radicals are wanting to tear down his statue.

Even thought the Caddo Parrish Commission voted to require everyone to wear masks inside all businesses, the ordinance does not site any legal authority that they might have to do this. Even worse, an anonymous complaint can shut down businesses, which also violates the US Constitution. Furthermore, the fines are in violation of the charter, as well, because they exceed the Charter limits.Louis Avallone and Stephen Parr continue to discuss the Caddo Parish Mask Ordinance just passed. Somewhat reminiscent of the old German Nazi “brown shirts”, the Caddo Parish now can bypass the Sheriff’s office and legally required due process because they now can hire and use roving “rent-a-cop” militias to enforce the mask ordinance.Our American Mamas, Teri Netterville and Denise Arthur, talk about the posts they have been making on their Facebook page and whether or not they are helping their readers. These are on subjects, such as violent crimes, which the press has no interest in reporting. Many of the readers are appreciative of having a news source.Louis and Stephen visit with Celeste Tatum, owners of Strawn’s Eat Shop Too, about why she had to go backwards to “take out only” as a result of Mayor Perkin’s new mask proclamation. This is severely hurting her business. She is keeping her restaurant closed to sit-down customers because she cannot risk her business license over some random person anonymous reporting something she has no control over. Stephen shares a not-well-known history about Teddy Roosevelt and how he repeatedly chose those he supported and gave jobs to based upon the content of their character, regardless of their skin color, a long time before it was considered socially acceptable to do so. But ignorant radicals are wanting to tear down his statue.

In 1998, pizza delivery man Jarvis Griffin was robbed and murdered. Witnesses pointed the finger at 3 young men but they pointed the finger at 16 year old Corey Williams. With a DA and a prosecutor out for blood, Williams didn't stand a chance. Hear Amber tell all about the two victims of this Caddo Parish murder.  2006 was a dark year for New Orleans. But for Addie Hall and Zack Bowen the hurricane would be a chance to find love. Riding out the storm together these two seemed to be living in paradise. When the waters receded, however, it was a different story. Fueled by trauma, drugs, and alcohol these two love birds would turn deadly. *trigger warning* What happens during the course of this story gets very graphic, Celina gives a warning during the episode but feel free to skip ahead if you need too.  *Details of the crime in Celina's case are from 56:50 to 1:05:01.   Don't forget to check out www.stateofmurder.com for any links or bonus content we mention in this and every episode! --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Louis Avallone and Stephen Parr talk about the sadness, manipulation, and dangers of the Democrats running Joe Biden for President of the United States. The Caddo Parish Commission keeps proposing and voting on resolutions which are actually more what political pundits do, rather than providing for the daily needs of the residents living and working in Caddo Parish. Is that really the Commission’s job?Our American Mamas, Teri Netterville and Denise Arthur, are quite worked up over the double standard of the fake news media where they are “reporting” that protesting and rioting will not cause a spread of coronavirus, but attending a Trump Rally definitely will. Stephen Parr and Louis Avallone visit in the studio with a Shreveport resident couple about the threats they have received for flying a Trump flag under the American flag on their own flagpole in their own yard.
Ben Carson said we need to stop being offended by history. Facts matter. Context matters. Understanding both is fundamental to understanding history. We need to not be taken in by this “history grievance” movement.

Louis Avallone and Stephen Parr talk about the sadness, manipulation, and dangers of the Democrats running Joe Biden for President of the United States. The Caddo Parish Commission keeps proposing and voting on resolutions which are actually more what political pundits do, rather than providing for the daily needs of the residents living and working in Caddo Parish. Is that really the Commission’s job?Our American Mamas, Teri Netterville and Denise Arthur, are quite worked up over the double standard of the fake news media where they are “reporting” that protesting and rioting will not cause a spread of coronavirus, but attending a Trump Rally definitely will. Stephen Parr and Louis Avallone visit in the studio with a Shreveport resident couple about the threats they have received for flying a Trump flag under the American flag on their own flagpole in their own yard.
Ben Carson said we need to stop being offended by history. Facts matter. Context matters. Understanding both is fundamental to understanding history. We need to not be taken in by this “history grievance” movement.

348. Part 1 of our interview with Nathan Rabalais. Finding Cajun. Louisiana French, folk tales. Nathan earned his Ph.D. in French Studies from Tulane University and a Doctorat en Langues et littératures from Université de Poitiers. His research focuses primarily on literatures, cultures, and oral tradition of Francophone North America (primarily Louisiana, Acadia, and Quebec). Professor Rabalais's courses include The Craft of Writing, Heroes, French and Creole Louisiana, and Pop Culture of Francophone North America. His most recent publications and feature-length documentary Finding Cajun (2019) focus on the intersection of language and identity in Louisiana and Acadian communities of Canada. His original poetry has been featured in several literary journals and in his book Le Hantage: un ouvrage de souvenance (2018). He is currently completing a monograph, Folklore Figures of French and Creole Louisiana, forthcoming with LSU Press.This week in Louisiana history. January 18, 1838. Caddo Parish created from Natchitoches District, named for Caddo Indians. This week in New Orleans history. The New Orleans Public Library first opened its doors to the public on January 18, 1897.  The system began in 1896 as the Fisk Free and Public Library in a building on Lafayette Square. Abijah Fisk was a merchant who, over fifty years earlier, had left his house—at the corner of Iberville and Bourbon Streets—to the city for use as a library. Subsequent donations had resulted in libraries and collections not completely free and open to the citizenry. An 1896 city ordinance proposed by Mayor John Fitzpatrick combined the Fisk collection with a newer municipal library. It eventually became known as the New Orleans Public Library. This week in Louisiana.  Centenary CollegeShreveport, LA January 20, 2020. 5:00 am - 3:00 pm. Room 108. Dream Week 2020 —MLK service day. MLK Service Day is a large scale event open to Centenary students, faculty, staff, alumni, and other local community members to participate in a "day on instead of a day off" in honor of Dr. King's birthday. Postcards from Louisiana. Bourbon Bandstand Bar.Listen on iTunesListen on StitcherListen on Google Play.Listen on Spotify.Listen on TuneIn.The Louisiana Anthology Home Page.Like us on Facebook.

Stephen Parr and Louis Avallone discuss the reality that in the past two years along, 660 companies have left California and relocated in Texas. More than 75 companies have relocated their corporate headquarters to the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex in the past 7 years. What does Louisiana need to do to encourage companies to relocate to Louisiana and Caddo Parish?

Stephen Parr and Louis Avallone discuss the reality that in the past two years along, 660 companies have left California and relocated in Texas. More than 75 companies have relocated their corporate headquarters to the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex in the past 7 years. What does Louisiana need to do to encourage companies to relocate to Louisiana and Caddo Parish?

Stephen Parr and Louis Avallone explain some of Mayor Perkins’ double-talk about why he suddenly refused to let Shreveport Police and Fire participate in providing security for President Trump’s Bossier City Rally. He did, in fact, help provide security at the Monroe Rally just a week ago. If Mayor Perkins’ “justification” is correct, then that means Bossier City, Monroe, Lake Charles, Caddo Parish, Ouachita Parish, and Calcasieu Parish, as well as the State of Louisiana, are all in violation of the same law. That just is not true. So why did Mayor Perkins do this?

Stephen Parr and Louis Avallone explain some of Mayor Perkins’ double-talk about why he suddenly refused to let Shreveport Police and Fire participate in providing security for President Trump’s Bossier City Rally. He did, in fact, help provide security at the Monroe Rally just a week ago. If Mayor Perkins’ “justification” is correct, then that means Bossier City, Monroe, Lake Charles, Caddo Parish, Ouachita Parish, and Calcasieu Parish, as well as the State of Louisiana, are all in violation of the same law. That just is not true. So why did Mayor Perkins do this?

Louis Avallone and Stephen Parr analyze the agendas of the past and upcoming meetings of the Caddo Parish Economic Development Council. The only topic which appears on the agendas is giving away taxpayer money. What are they doing to grow the economic environment to encourage new businesses to want to move to Shreveport? Nothing?

Louis Avallone and Stephen Parr analyze the agendas of the past and upcoming meetings of the Caddo Parish Economic Development Council. The only topic which appears on the agendas is giving away taxpayer money. What are they doing to grow the economic environment to encourage new businesses to want to move to Shreveport? Nothing?

The latest national and Louisiana ag news, market information, and a visit with Caddo Parish Farmer Ryan Kirby. Ryan gives us an update on crop conditions and harvest progress in Northwest Louisiana.

The latest national and Louisiana ag news, market information, and a visit with Caddo Parish Farmer Ryan Kirby. Ryan gives us an update on crop conditions and harvest progress in Northwest Louisiana.

It's no April Fools' joke… The Voice of Louisiana Agriculture Podcast is back with Episode #29 for April 1, 2019. We're packed full of information, as usual, with the latest news headlines in Louisiana agriculture. We'll talk about the lightning fast planting pace that Louisiana farmers are on right now getting corn, rice, sorghum and soybeans in the ground. On Grassroots Government, we have our first visit with Dr. Carrie Castille, Louisiana Director of USDA Rural Development. She will fill us in on all that her agency is doing for Louisiana agriculture and talk about a rural broadband roundtable discussion coming up in Monroe. We'll go In the Field to visit with Caddo Parish cattleman Marty Wooldridge, who chairs the Louisiana Farm Bureau Livestock Committee. Marty joined a group of Louisiana cattlemen on a bus trip to Southwest Missouri last week to learn more about that state's cattle industry. Greg Fox will stop by to talk about last week's USDA Prospective Plantings and Quarterly Stocks Report, and Dave Foster will lend his insight on the cattle market. We'll wrap things up with a look at the Louisiana Ag Calendar, where we'll hear from Taylor Frey with the Louisiana Grazing Lands Conservation Initiative. They have a bus tour coming up later this month, and Taylor will have all of the details about it.

It's no April Fools' joke… The Voice of Louisiana Agriculture Podcast is back with Episode #29 for April 1, 2019. We're packed full of information, as usual, with the latest news headlines in Louisiana agriculture. We'll talk about the lightning fast planting pace that Louisiana farmers are on right now getting corn, rice, sorghum and soybeans in the ground. On Grassroots Government, we have our first visit with Dr. Carrie Castille, Louisiana Director of USDA Rural Development. She will fill us in on all that her agency is doing for Louisiana agriculture and talk about a rural broadband roundtable discussion coming up in Monroe. We'll go In the Field to visit with Caddo Parish cattleman Marty Wooldridge, who chairs the Louisiana Farm Bureau Livestock Committee. Marty joined a group of Louisiana cattlemen on a bus trip to Southwest Missouri last week to learn more about that state's cattle industry. Greg Fox will stop by to talk about last week's USDA Prospective Plantings and Quarterly Stocks Report, and Dave Foster will lend his insight on the cattle market. We'll wrap things up with a look at the Louisiana Ag Calendar, where we'll hear from Taylor Frey with the Louisiana Grazing Lands Conservation Initiative. They have a bus tour coming up later this month, and Taylor will have all of the details about it.

Episode #21 of The Voice of Louisiana Agriculture Podcast originates from Kansas City, Missouri, where we're attending the National Association of Farm Broadcasting's annual convention. There are a lot of newsmakers here, so we'll bring you a lot of stories in our opening news segment from Kansas City, as well as several stories from back home in Louisiana. Avery Davidson, host of the weekly television show “This Week in Louisiana Agriculture” chips in to help us out while we're on the road this week. Avery interviews Louisiana Farm Bureau's Kyle McCann about the outcome of the midterm elections and the effect it will have on agriculture. Avery also hosts our “In the Field” segment this week where he talks to Jacob Rumbaugh of Caddo Parish. Grayson Close and Mark Tall of the Louisiana Farm Bureau Marketing Association check in with us to discuss the grain and rice markets, and Dave Foster give us an update on the cattle markets. Then we wrap it up with a look at the Louisiana Ag Calendar. One final note from our trip to Kansas City… Congratulations to our own Don Molino. Don was named the 2018 National Farm Broadcaster of the year. It's the highest award given by the National Association of Farm Broadcasting, and Don is well deserving of the honor.

Episode #21 of The Voice of Louisiana Agriculture Podcast originates from Kansas City, Missouri, where we're attending the National Association of Farm Broadcasting's annual convention. There are a lot of newsmakers here, so we'll bring you a lot of stories in our opening news segment from Kansas City, as well as several stories from back home in Louisiana. Avery Davidson, host of the weekly television show “This Week in Louisiana Agriculture” chips in to help us out while we're on the road this week. Avery interviews Louisiana Farm Bureau's Kyle McCann about the outcome of the midterm elections and the effect it will have on agriculture. Avery also hosts our “In the Field” segment this week where he talks to Jacob Rumbaugh of Caddo Parish. Grayson Close and Mark Tall of the Louisiana Farm Bureau Marketing Association check in with us to discuss the grain and rice markets, and Dave Foster give us an update on the cattle markets. Then we wrap it up with a look at the Louisiana Ag Calendar. One final note from our trip to Kansas City… Congratulations to our own Don Molino. Don was named the 2018 National Farm Broadcaster of the year. It's the highest award given by the National Association of Farm Broadcasting, and Don is well deserving of the honor.

On Episode #5 of The Voice of Louisiana Agriculture Podcast, we'll talk to Charlie Shudmak, president of the American Sugar Cane League about the attacks on the U.S. sugar program during the Farm Bill debate. LSU AgCenter corn and cotton specialist Dan Fromme will give his input on the condition of the Louisiana corn and cotton crops. Louisiana Farm Bureau lobbyist Joe Mapes will give us a first-hand update on the chaos at the State Capitol in our Grassroots Government segment, then we'll go In the Field with hay producer Adam Caughern of Caddo Parish. Our regular market commentators, Greg Fox and Dave Foster, will discuss the grain and cattle markets, and we'll wrap it all up with a look at the Louisiana Ag Calendar.

On Episode #5 of The Voice of Louisiana Agriculture Podcast, we'll talk to Charlie Shudmak, president of the American Sugar Cane League about the attacks on the U.S. sugar program during the Farm Bill debate. LSU AgCenter corn and cotton specialist Dan Fromme will give his input on the condition of the Louisiana corn and cotton crops. Louisiana Farm Bureau lobbyist Joe Mapes will give us a first-hand update on the chaos at the State Capitol in our Grassroots Government segment, then we'll go In the Field with hay producer Adam Caughern of Caddo Parish. Our regular market commentators, Greg Fox and Dave Foster, will discuss the grain and cattle markets, and we'll wrap it all up with a look at the Louisiana Ag Calendar.

It was hot. VERY hot. Dave, Ted and I finally remembered this fact about the day that we rescued Annie Ledbetter off the side of a country highway, because we recalled that the little pads of her paws were burned off by the heat of the asphalt.  Little Orphan Annie Ledbetter, the Laughing Dog, was a medium sized solid black mutt who had been abandoned on the Blanchard Latex Road in rural Caddo Parish in northwest Louisiana.  We know she was abandoned because she was running back and forth along the road cut through the rolling piney woods, sticking close to shoulder, waiting and barking, and terrified. We passed her in our truck on our way to visit Lead belly's grave, and agreed that were she still there on our way back, we would try to rescue her. We spent an hour in the grave yard at Shiloh Baptist Church, looking at the old headstones, including Lead Belly's grave (a place we all visit several times a year) and noticing all the Ledbetter descendants in that yard. Ted was captivated by a head stone that had the name 'Annie Ledbetter' etched upon it. He loved that name.  We piled back into Dave's white pickup truck and headed back to Ted's house in Mooringsport. There was nothing save pine forest, or the occasional dilapidated shack or mobile home every half mile or so.  We all kept our eye out for the little black dog. As we rounded a gentle bend, we saw her. She was there. Sitting on the side of the road. Waiting. For what? For who? Dave pulled his truck over and he and Ted and I scrambled out of the car to approach the little black dog.  She was panicked and terrified, and bared her teeth at us. Yet she wouldn't run away. You could see she was desperately in need of comfort. She would chase after us a few feet when we would retreat.  We didn't give up. We had nowhere to be, nothing more pressing on this sunny day than to save this life. We didn't chase her. We gave her time and space and hung out in the back of the pickup truck and waited for her to get comfortable. The wind blew gently through the tree tops. Cars were few and far between. Dave finally got the bright idea to coax her with water. He went to his truck, pulled out a big frisbee and poured in cool liquid from his water bottle. He put it on the ground outside the truck and sat just inside with the door open.  Ted and I watched from behind the truck as she warily approached the water. She sniffed, and then desperately started drinking. We gingerly approached, and soothingly talked to her. She didn't run..... She cowered, and then she gave in. She gave herself over to what fate would bring. Ted put his hands gently on her, and next thing you know, he had scooped her up and put her into the back of the truck. We climbed in to sit with her while Dave drove the truck back to Ted's house.  She was a lapdog for the rest of the night. Hugs and snuggles and food and water and campfire light and music. A frisky, wiggly, joyful dog emerged from the fearful creature, just like that. Little Orphan Annie Ledbetter was full of joy, happy to be alive, happy to be loved.  She lived out the rest of her happy life with Ted there in those woods.     

George Soros is paying the ACLU to fund campaigns for local District Attorneys races. He first did it here in Caddo Parish, and now he’s getting involved in DA races all over the country. Why? What does he gain? We dug deep into this on last night's show.

George Soros is paying the ACLU to fund campaigns for local District Attorneys races. He first did it here in Caddo Parish, and now he’s getting involved in DA races all over the country. Why? What does he gain? We dug deep into this on last night's show.

Radio show host, Gary Calligas will have Janice McGraw with the Caddo Parish Sheriffs Office on his Saturday, June 3rd The Best of Times Radio Hour at 9:05 AM on News Radio 710 KEEL to discuss the many programs provided to senior citizens by the Caddo Parish Sherriffs Office. You can also listen to this radio talk show streaming LIVE on the internet at www.710KEEL.com. and streaming LIVE on the RadioPUP app on apple and android devices. For more information, please visit these websites at www.thebestoftimesnews.com and www.hebertstandc.com. This radio show is proudly presented by Heberts Town and Country of Shreveport featuring Dodge, Chrysler, Ram, and Jeep vehicles and service.

Enjoy this music memory from Charlotte Hunter, who lives in Caddo Parish near Caddo Lake. Charlotte recalls how much she wanted a Gibson guitar when she was a teenager. “The first job I ever had was on a little radio station in Minden. I was fifteen. The guy told me if I would do a spot for him, every afternoon, that he buy that guitar for me….I had that radio show until I got my Gibson guitar….. we did mostly USO tours and airbases and things like that when we did gigs.” Charlotte recalls that as a child, her home was filled with music. He dad played the fiddle, and her mom played the guitar and bass.

During the second half of our July 2016 storytelling event, “I Fought The Law,” we featured stories from three attorneys who shared an insider’s perspective of our complex legal system. Our last storyteller of the evening, Meghan Shapiro, moved to Louisiana in 2013 to practice death penalty defense law in a place with greater need than most. From 2010 to 2014, more people were sentenced to death per capita in Caddo Parish than in any other parish or county in the United States. Meghan has almost exclusively represented poor individuals charged with capital crimes or sentenced to death, a cause to which she has been heavily devoted since her teens. This story is about her first death row client.

You think you ve heard some s t. Then suddenly it s happy hour and a couple of beers later you re going, "Stop. What That really happened " So, wait till you hear this one. An Asian Jewish person enters a beauty pageant. Not so surprising, maybe. And wins. Okay, somebody s got to win. Where would you think this happened California How about Caddo Parish, Louisiana. That s around Shreveport. Sure, this hype is over used thanks to Facebook, but it s what happens next that is truly astounding. You ve got to hear this... Not only is Ruth Navarre Miss Caddo Parish 2013, Jewish, Asian and a violist, violinist, harpist, and singer, she also weighs 110 or 111 pounds you see if you can figure which one is right and knows a lot about professional competition eating. And Ruth can stomp her feet and wail. Also, she s single. That s another story. Anyway, so you re driving around Caddo Parish, you ve been up for 3 days tweaking, and you ve got a load of meth in the car. Next thing you know, flashing lights in your rear view mirror, you get pulled over. The cops says, "Can I take a look in your car " What do you do Call Miles Swanson. He might be down at Tattooagogo on Magazine Street discussing faux nipples, or cajoling his 110 not 111 pound dog into behaving himself but he might also be in his law office. And if you want to be calling Miles from your car on your way home rather from jail, he s got some sage, free advice. Miles came to New Orleans on a 2 week visit 8 years ago and is still here. Honestly, you think you ve heard some s t. Listen to this happy hour... All the photos on this page were take at Wayfare by Douglas Engel. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Hour One - Guest Sheriff Steve Prator, Caddo Parish, LA

In this episode of Bloody Angola: A Podcast by Woody Overton and Jim Chapman you are brought back to the 50's as Woody and Jim cover some of the more infamous stories regarding Louisiana State Penitentiary as told through the pages of the Angolite Prison Newspaper.#TheAngolite #1954throughtheinmateseyes #bloodyangolapodcast #convictGET 50% OFF PLUS FREE SHIPPING AT HELLOFRESH!HelloFresh delivers step-by-step recipes and fresh, pre-portioned ingredients right to your door. First, you set your meal plan preferences with options for carnivores, vegetarians, calorie-counters, and more. You'll choose from 30+ delicious weekly recipes carefully put together by the amazing chefs!Click Here to Take advantage of 16 FREE MEALS and FREE SHIPPING!www.Hellofresh.com/BloodyAngola501954 THROUGH AN INMATES EYES: Bloody Angola Podcast TranscriptJim: Hey everyone and welcome back to Bloody-Woody: -Angola.Jim: A podcast 142 years in the making.Woody: The Complete Story of America's Bloodiest Prison.Jim: And I'm Jim Chapman. Woody: And I'm Woody Overton.Jim: And we got some Angolites.Woody: Right? I love these stories, man. True, true history from the past. Before we get started, we want to say our thoughts and prayers are with all our people in Florida and Georgia that are getting slammed right now, or got slammed yesterday and came ashore as a Category 3.Jim: And continue to get slammed. Woody: And it's just bad. And they said they haven't seen a storm like that in 125 years. So, just prayers for them. I guess you call it Idalia, I-D-A-L-I-A. It's just bad, prayer for them. We know what they're going through.Jim: Yeah, we've been through a few of those ourselves. So, our hearts and prayers and thoughts are with those folks and the road to recovery. You will recover. It'll seem like you won't, but you'll come back. Look, we've done a lot of historical podcasts with relation to the Angolite, the prison weekly paper that Angola has put out for so many years. This is an award-winning paper all over the world.Woody: And actually turned into a magazine because I had a subscription to it back in the 90s. Jim: Absolutely. Some of the stories from back in the day, y'all, you just won't believe until we read them. We've had a lot of people ask for us to do another one. Got a lot of messages. So, we're bringing you another one today because we got our hands on a lot of them from the 50s and 60s. So, we kind of cherry pick what we feel like are the best stories out of those magazines, and we go over those with y'all. And I'll start it off. And this is an Angolite from April 21st, 1956. Woody: Wow.Jim: Yeah. That was a heck of a time in America, and even in Angola, as you're about to hear. Woody: Definitely Bloody Angola, man. Jim: Yes, for sure. And as a matter of fact, we're going to start off with a bloody story at Bloody Angola, and it was a headline. It said, "Two Dead, One Hurt. Tragedy trip hammered a triple blow at Angola last weekend, leaving two inmates dead and another maimed for life." It says one of the two dead suffered fatal injuries in an accident. The second died of a heart attack. Maimed with his right hand amputated at the wrist was a third.Woody: Wow. Jim: The dead Charles D. Clarkson, 24, of Caddo Parish. He had fallen under the wheels of a tractor last Friday. A broken rib punctured his lung. He died enroute to Charity Hospital, New Orleans. Lawrence Virgil Turley, 55, a carpenter, died Sunday afternoon at the General Hospital of a heart attack. Injured only a half hour after he had been assigned to work on the Mammoth Press at the Tag plant, Venice Landry, 20, had his right hand mangled under the giant bolster ram. Woody: Wow. Jim: Which is the thing, y'all, that stamps it. Woody: Slams.Jim: Yeah, slams that steel and stamps those plates. His hand was amputated at General Hospital Saturday. Pretty, pretty wild stuff going on at Angola. And look, these days, they don't give you those reports. Typically, you really got to dig for them.Woody: The General Hospital really wasn't a hospital. That's when the nurse, the angel-- they call her angel, was there, there was no doctor and all that. It's crazy, right? Jim: That's right. Woody: And the language they use in these, y'all, is really comical. Jim: And you've got to remember, this was a different time. So, you'll hear things like colored and whites. Woody: It's their words, not ours. Jim: That's right. Woody: All right, so the next one says, "Two Fail in Brief Freedom. Wallace McDonald and Norman Stroupe are in a tight, locked cells today following a brief bid for liberty Tuesday night. Security officials said the two took off from the transportation department in Downtown Angola-" That's funny. "In Downtown Angola Tuesday about noon. They were recaptured within a six-hour period by local authorities, both formerly bedded down at Camp H2," the report said. Jim: [laughs] Woody: Kind of brief on that. Jim: Yeah. Basically, they turned a jet-- and that's what I really like about these, is they do tell you about the escapes and stuff. I mean, they don't hold back.Woody: Downtown Angola.Jim: Yeah. [chuckles] Well, how about this one? "Cleaver in an attack tried," says, "John Newton, a new prison kitchen worker, was jailed Monday on a charge of felonious assault with a meat cleaver." Yes, sir. "Newton is said to have sliced Albert Johnson upside his head following an argument. Johnson was hospitalized with lacerations." Woody: Jeez Louise.Jim: Yeah. So, Mr. Johnson got a--Woody: Meat cleaver to the head. Jim: You don't attack people with meat cleavers.Woody: Bloody Angola for sure. Jim: That's right. Woody: So crazy. And then this next one, y'all says, "Heavy equipment acts to rush free houses. Using earth from the miles long embankment of the old Louisiana and Arkansas right of way, the LSP Heavy Equipment department-" That's funny. "Under Superintendent Dennis Johnson was last week engaged in an all-out operation to fill a five-acre plot of ground for the construction of 21 new free personnel houses. The plot is located on the B-Line at the foot of the old receiving station hill. It is to be filled to a depth of 36 inches. Johnson says he expects his department will wind up with the earth fill operation within two weeks. Construction houses will then start, he said." It's funny. They're talking about building part of the B-Line, another 21 houses added.Jim: Yeah. So, this is back, y'all, for those that may just be joining us, the B-Line is where all the free people live. Woody: Inside the wire. Jim: Inside the wire. And this was during the construction of that way back in 1956.Woody: And my mama lived there during that time.Jim: And we'll go on to another page of this one. And there's an article, it says, "More crippled birds. A second group of crippled pelicans, each with the wings broke by hail in the recent storm, were sighted last Sunday by deck passengers on the Angola ferry. The birds have roosted on the log a few feet from the shore and near the middle of the ferry landing. Observers said the wings will heal in time and that it is no rescue operation."Woody: That's crazy. Jim: And the reason we included that one is, it's interesting that they try to keep you up to date with what's going on the outside. And the only way they know that is to look out those bars in that wire and actually see it. A little story on pelicans. Who knew hail could injure their wings? Woody: The news of the day, right? Jim: Yeah. Woody: All right. This one says, "O, let us spray. An old-fashioned mattress spraying bee was held at Camp E last Monday, under the eagle eye of the unit captain, A. Couvillon. The action was aimed at eliminating any wandering insects who had hoped to make the unit their dwelling place this summer." [laughter] Woody: It's spraying for bedbugs, basically.Jim: Yeah.Woody: That's funny.Jim: And something that you had to do up in Angola for sure. Woody: It had to be really bad for them to do it for the convicts. Jim: That's right. And then, we'll continue on. And there's one that says, "Falls upstairs, breaks his jaw." Woody: Uh-oh.Jim: That's right. "Joseph Tornabene, Camp H-1 juvenile, fell upstairs one day last week and broke his jaw in three places."Woody: I bet that didn't happen. Jim: [laughs] "The adolescent was returning to his bunk after a shower, according to the story told to the hospital. He was taken to Charity Hospital in New Orleans for treatment." So, they're basically trying to say-- Woody: They beat his ass.Jim: [laughs] Broke his jaw--[crosstalk]  Woody: "You better tell them you fell up the stairs, boy."Jim: Yeah, that's it. Woody: That's funny. Jim: Broke his jaw in three places from a slip. That was one that I really thought painted a picture of the times in prison. Woody: Funny. I think that's when they had the convict guards too. All right, so here we go. The title of this is "Pocketed Razor Draws Jail Time." Says, "He told arresting officers he was just going to shave, but they didn't believe him. He is James B. Shivers of the STU, and he was caught with a straight razor. The board assessed a term on bread and duck because they said only blades for a razor are lawful."Jim: [laughs] [crosstalk] Jesus Christ. And when they caught him, he said, "Well, I was just using it to shave." Woody: "Yeah, I was just using it to shave." Jim: "What's wrong with that?" All right, how about this one? "Fresh fish leave sheltered cloister as labor beckons. 34 fish, until recently swimming unfettered in the administration unit tank-" And, y'all, when they refer to fish, they're talking about new prisoners. "-At the General Hospital have been screened, tested, probed, and activated by members of the classifications board at a recent session. Purpose of the session was to ascertain whether the fish can earn his bed and board. A few whose records indicated they were unlikely to run were made trustys on the spot. Others who must wait and further test went on jobs under the gun. [crosstalk] 18 of the fish are today assigned to the Angola Cane Corn and Cotton Company as field laborers."[laughter] Jim: "In the number were those who will live at Camp A, H and H-2. Culinary work attracted three men, a clerkship and garage work for a third and a welding for a fourth." So, they were classifying them into jobs. And of all those people, 34 fish, only three were made trustys. So, that tells you most of them, they were like, "Eh, you're going to run--[crosstalk]"  Woody: Those three had probably been there before, and then the ones under the gun, that's the shittiest job in the world. Can you imagine, like this summer, when it's 105 and then 116 with a heat index out there all day long, swinging a hoe? That's crazy.Jim: Yeah, that's insane.Woody: But they did something to get there.Jim: That's right. Woody: This one says, "Brown bags chops. John Hunt told the man he was hungry, and he had purloined the poke chops-", and they spell it P-O-K-E, y'all, "-for a midnight snack. The man sighed and put his pencil in notebook and told John, 'Put them back.' But on going through the gate again, the same suspicious bulge was evident." Jim: [laughs] Woody: Right. "Searched for chops, were confiscated, as was also Hunt's trusty pass from Pine Ford dormitory, his mail is now being sent to the local jail."Jim: Which means lockdown, basically. Woody: That's funny. Jim: They locked his ass down. Woody: Extra poke chops out the kitchen.Jim: Poke chops. Woody: Poke chops. Jim: Yeah. So that was from that one, and we're going to do another one here from August 11, 1956. And there's a headline on there. It says, "Angola's Informal Hot Seat. Someone at Angola that I'm not going to name, that I neither know nor care was almost burned to a cinder one day last week."Woody: Uh-oh.Jim: Oh, this guy must have been mad at him. "It seems that this 'worker' presumably was doing a little digging under the steel plate that separates the medium from the trusty compounds, which is located beneath the walkway directly below the snitch box at the medium security gate." So, this dude was digging a hole--[crosstalk] Woody: He wanted to get out. Jim: "He quit in a hurry-" it gets better, "-when a bolt of sizzling lightning momentarily blinded him and luckily did not fry his hide. His shovel had cut through one of nine cables, each of which was live with 2300 volts of crackling death."Woody: What? Jim: Yes, sir. "The soil around the cable was burned to charcoal, and if the lucky bum had come into contact with that current in that cable, they'd have been buried right there where they found him."Woody: Wow. Jim: "Take this information for what it's worth and continue grave digging. The Angolite or dig your own grave, literally, with the assurance that the Angolite will make your name famous throughout the state. It's up to you."Woody: That's funny. Jim: [laughs] That guy was [unintelligible [00:15:55] trying to escape. Woody: [crosstalk] -dig out and dug into the cable lines. [crosstalk] -signs you see, "Don't dig here." They didn't have those back then. Crazy. All right, here we go, Bloody Angola. So, this one's called "Dumbbell Opens Passoit's Scalp." Jim: Uh-oh. [laughs] Woody: "Veral Passoit, was removed from the cell block to the hospital, August 8th, with a head wound. Veral, who was removed from the cell block area, August 8th, with a head wound, which he claimed to have suffered when a weight he was lifting fell on his noggin. Hospital records show that he is getting along very nicely despite the 15 or 18 sutures required to close the clean tight wound."Jim: Somebody hit him with a dumbbell. [laughs] Woody: Hit him with a knife. Dumbbell wouldn't leave a clean, open wound, it'd be smashed. Jim: Yeah. Woody: But they weren't going to rat on each other.Jim: Mm-hmm. Woody: [crosstalk] -take your lick.Jim: And y'all imagine this, now this is the 50s. These guys, there is no TV and all that. I mean, this is the only entertainment you get, and the only way you can keep up with what's going on in prison as an inmate. Woody: It was a huge prison, right? Jim: Yes. So, we'll move on. This is February 21st, 1959 edition. And the headline says, "New Prices at the Camp Store." And I really enjoyed this one because I'm going to give you actual prices, but it says, "Mr. James Thornton, Chief Administrative Officer, announced new price levels for many items at the camp store this week. And we have printed the price list on page 6." So, when you go to page six, I just highlighted some of these, and I'm going to read off to you that I found interesting. So, back in 1959, if you needed some Alka Seltzer, it was going to cost you 28 cents. Woody: Really? Jim: 28 cents. Cheez-It's, 10 cents. Woody: I can't believe they still had Cheez-It back then. Jim: Yeah. No, it surprised me. Cigarettes. You want some king size cigarettes? It's going to cost you 30 cents. Woody: What? Jim: So, if you want some kings and then some regulars, 29 cents. Woody: Yeah, but that was their currency back then. That's what they paid each other with. Jim: That's right. Community coffee, 40 cents. Woody: Community coffee, way back then. Jim: Way back then, and it was instant. Noxzema, 19 cents. Woody: I was using Noxzema in prison. Jim: [laughs] That's a great-- Look, they got nail clippers for 20 cents. Woody: Keep yourself properly clean. Jim: That's it. Potato chips, 5 cents. Woody: Really? Jim: Yeah. Shampoo, White Rain brand. Who knew that was around then? 41 cents. Rolling tobacco, 12 cents. Woody: Wow. That's a big deal in prison too, when I used to be there and they still had cigarettes, you could tell who was a really poor convict because they had the Bugler in the can or that blue can. The Bugler was a yellow, red, white, blue, and the other one was just a light blue can. But they were the ones that couldn't afford the Camels or the Marlboros or whatever and had to roll their own cigarettes. And the ones who couldn't afford any of those, when the other ones would throw their butts out, they'd go pick up the butts and smoke the butts. Jim: Oh, come on. Ugh. Toothpaste, everybody's got to have toothpaste. Well, it cost you 12 cents for Colgate. Woody: Wow. It's cheap.Jim: Yeah. Vicks salve, 35 cents. And they had Vaseline hair oil back then. That was 14 cents. So, I'm going to take this and I'm going to post it on the Patreon.Woody: Yeah, because there's a lot of stuff. Jim: Yeah, it's a lot of stuff, but pretty cool to go through. They got pork skins on here. They got all kinds of stuff. Liver pills. Woody: Liver pills. [chuckles] Jim: What they call hives, which are like crackers back then. So, we'll post that on there so you patron members can look through it and really have some fun.Woody: Yeah, that's funny. Jim: Checking that out. And we'll go to September 10th, 1955. Woody is going to start us off on that one. Woody: All right. So, September 1955. "Airport here averages plane per day. Attendance at the Angola airport were a shade busy last week. Logged in and out were three planes." They were real busy, huh? "Monday, the Paul A. Lambert Cessna arrived and departed. Tuesday the Jas F. O'Neill craft. And Wednesday, a Red two plane bearing number N970246." Jim: Oh, my God, they even knew the tag number.Woody: [chuckles] I know my mom when she was on the parole board, they used to fly them around the state because more cost efficient and quicker to get them there and stuff. But I can't believe they had it back in the 50s.Jim: Yeah, planes have been around a while. They were flying them in World War II and all.Woody: Yeah, but not passenger planes. Jim: Yeah.Woody: I mean some, but I guess it was probably military surplus. Jim: Yeah. "One on the lam still running," it says. "Police in four states--" and I'm going to look up this case, y'all, because I was like, wow, this would be a good one to cover. "Police in four states are today looking for Ray Coughron, 28, a 15-year termer, formerly domiciled at Camp H-2. Donning a correctional officer's uniform, Coughron quietly slipped out of the yard gate last Sunday. Bloodhounds failed to pick up his trail." Woody: He must have somebody waiting on him. Jim: Well, they have to have checked out [crosstalk] never heard of that.Woody: I mean, he had a CO uniform and then he got out. And if the Angola Chase team couldn't get on him? He's gone. Jim: Yeah. And he did. Woody: If I was going to run, you--[crosstalk] Jim: He got correctional officer's uniform. Must have worked in a laundry or something. Woody: If I was going to run or you were going to run, you'd have somebody waiting on you, right? Jim: Yeah. Woody: I wouldn't be running those hills or trying to swim the river. Jim: And I guarantee, y'all, one difference because I've read a lot of these Angolites between then and now is they don't post escapes in the Angolite anymore. They don't want any other prisoners reading that.Woody: It's kind of like the mass shootings nowadays. We don't say the shooter's name. Like the one that just did it in Dollar Store, he copied the one in the same city five years before and mentioned it in his manifesto. Jim: That's right. Woody: But anyway. All right, so let's go to September 10th, 1955. That's 73 years ago, y'all, next week or the week after, says, "New laundry washes for all. For the first time in the history of the Louisiana State Penitentiary, a centrally located laundry is now handling washing and ironing for the entire institution."Jim: Oh.Woody: Right. "Today, wheels are rolling at the new prison and a crew of 15 men is daily turning out clean sheets, towels, pants, shirts, and personal linen of male inmates at all camps. The work formally had been done in part at the women's unit. The other part at individual camps. Set up in preparation for the time when all male inmates are housed at the new prison. The laundry, under the managership of Captain Bill Kerr, is currently turning out 1100 pounds of dry wash hourly. With the mangle of four ironing sheets, the plant will later on press pants and shirts. 'Ten pressing units have been ordered and are to be installed,' Captain Kerr said. A schedule has been worked out to handle washing five days per week. Saturday is general cleanup day for the plant. The plant at the woman's camp now handles only free personnel laundry." [laughter] Woody: They want to mix them up. That's your job. Another one building, they didn't have AC and they turned out 1100 pounds. Jim: Oh, yeah. Woody: It's crazy. Jim: And it's interesting that back then, 1955 is when they started just finally having this main laundry facility for the--[crosstalk] Woody: One thing they don't mention in there is underwear. So, when you get in, they give you prison-issued underwear. But when you do send your stuff into the laundry, most inmates keep their underwear and have their bitch wash them. That's why I say you'll be tossing salads and washing dirty drawers. They'll actually rent out their bitch to wash people's dirty underwear in their sinks. And they hand scrub them with soap and wash them and they hang them and make them fresh for whomever for like a couple of cigarettes. Jim: Wow. There you go, straight from the wolf, right there. "Prison guard post reaching skyward," this one says. "Those new two-story steel skeletons you see poking skyward with the yellow-painted girders are indications it won't be long. They're the structural steel columns for the new guard towers at the new prison. Each will be complete with glassed-in cupola and searchlight." Woody: And they're still there today. Jim: And they're still there today. Yeah. They made them to last back in those days, but built those new guard towers way back then. Woody: Yeah. The funny thing about those is when you go up in them, the outside doors lock, but they're manned 24/7, never take off. I've worked them before. You go in, they actually sit on the outside of the fence. So, inmates can't get to that door. So, you have to go to the door and holler up at the guard, the CO, and they lower you a key down and you unlock it and it's on a string. They pull it back up and you go in and you lock it from the inside. And it's got a spiral staircase. You come through, like a trap door, and it's a round room. That's where your rifle and your shotgun is and your lights and stuff like that. Jim: Yeah.Woody: It's pretty cool. Jim: Awesome. Woody: And then a telephone. That's the only other thing you have. You might have a radio, but pretty interesting. All right, so let's go to, again, on September 10th, 1955, says, "Free Ferry soon to open at St. Francisville. According to the Plainsman of Zachary-" That's the plainsman. It is the Zachary newspaper. "According to the Plainsman of Zachary, named The Feliciana, the vessel costs $200,000 and it may take a load off the Angola ferry. Visitors may enter via the front gate." Jim: Interesting. Woody: I have to ask my mom about that one because it didn't run for long.Jim: Yeah. Woody: Now, they have the ferry that still to this day that runs across into-- I think it might be [unintelligible 00:28:20]. It runs across the river and a lot of free people live over there. Or they'll drive into that ferry and the ferry drives them across and they come in. But this one would-- imagine how many COs lived in St. Francisville, which is back then, you had to take that long ass, hour-long road out, then get to St. Francisville another 10 or 15 minutes, I guess, they just ran them right up the river about a 15-minute ride. Jim: Yeah. Back then you had to have a ferry to go across that. Woody: Yeah. There's no bridges. You're right. Jim: Continuing on. This one is hilarious, y'all. It says, "Voodoo-Hoodoo. You've seen those copper wire amulets and necklaces of beans and so on. Voodoo stuff, maybe. Anyway, Edward Harris of Camp A walked up to the man last week and said people were after him. He didn't elaborate whether he had been hexed or just plain conjured. They locked him up lightly in the sneezer until the bug doctor examines his head." [laughter] Woody: We'll call it [unintelligible 00:29:33] of a mental case. The man said, "They're after him, so lock him up." Jim: The funny thing is with that particular deal is this guy's exposing him to the whole prison. Woody: Yeah. Jim: So, these guys, look, they gossip worse than anybody you've ever seen, and they're all nosy. Woody: They've got nothing else to do. Jim: That's right. Woody: Basically, he went to the man and ratted himself out. Crazy. Put him in the sneezer.Jim: Sneezer. Woody: "Ex-guard hurt in camp fracas. Frank Peoples, who until last Saturday was a guard was busted back to trusty-ship that day." So, that means he was an inmate guard. Jim: Yeah. Woody: "The following morning, he was rushed to the General Hospital suffering with a knotted head."[laughter] Woody: "He's resting well on the colored ward today." Think about this, the prison guards and we talked about that was a way for them to save money and everything back then, but at nighttime, they might have had one CO per camp, in nighttime, they just locked them in. And the prison guards in there were like gods. And you can get one taken out, he got demoted, and he got his ass beat that night. Jim: [laughs] Love that. And we got a couple on this page, and they're short, so I'm going to read a couple. I'll let Woody read a couple. The first says, "Bathing to be enforced." Yes. "Beware your long-eared scouts and men of wrath who nothing fear except a bath. White dormitory at the new prison were all set to give one of their number a dunking last week on account that he hadn't put the showers to use since he entered the joint, which is a violations of the rules, besides." [chuckles] So that was a little short one. Woody: Even most of the convicts don't like a stinky ass. Jim: That's right. Woody: You get some people in there, not only have they not ever followed the rules in civilization, but they don't have any personal hygiene. So, I think what they're probably saying is the inmates drug them in there [crosstalk] ass down. Jim: That's exactly what they did. Gave him a GI shower. [laughs] Woody: [crosstalk] -stinky motherfucker.Jim: They basically forced his ass take a bath. He must have been stinking. Imagine you're working out in those fields all day. Oh, my God.Woody: Nasty. No deodorant and everything else. Jim: You would think you'd want to take one. But anyhoo, "Localite knifed in camp affray. Henry Davis at Camp F underwent a ham stitching at the emergency ward of the General Hospital one day last week. Henny ran afoul of a knife in the hands of an unidentified assailant." Woody: [crosstalk] -he's unidentified. Jim: [laughs] Woody: He ran afoul of him. Jim: Yeah. Woody: That's crazy. Jim: Yeah. I love the way they wrote back then. Woody: I love it. Jim: It's a totally different dialect. Woody: Nobody was ratting anybody out. They just did. Jim: Yeah. Unidentified, I'm sure. Woody: And again, this is still September 10th, 1955, and says, "Cuts out early, ends in jail. He was trying to get to camp early for dinner, Calvin Mitchell, a camp aid trusty, told officials last week. Cutting grass with a crew, Mitchell was missed at a field count. A chase ensued and the lad was found wondering. They put him in the hole, pending DB action." The disciplinary board, y'all. Crazy.Jim: Yeah. Basically, he tried to say, "I was just hungry, going early to eat." Woody: [crosstalk] -get that meal. Jim: [laughs] Wandering.Woody: The next one. "Pipe used in knotting spree. When Warren Guidry of Camp of F uses a pipe, he uses a big one. One and a half inches. One day last week, he wielded it with painful and telling effect upon the noggin of Manson Powell, authorities said. Guidry is awaiting the outcome of a trial. Powell is awaiting the taking off of bandages." [laughter] Woody: That's funniest shit.Jim: That's crazy.Woody: It's like every day, this one's getting knifed, this one's getting hit.Jim: I'm telling you--  Woody: In the noggin. Jim: Yes, the noggin. And look, we're going to go way back to 1954, November 27th. And the headline on this one really struck my interest. It says, "34 shot in rabies try-out." Woody: What? Jim: Yeah. Now, y'all got to remember there was a time there was no rabies shot. You got rabies, you just went nuts or whatever. And a lot of times when they would get these shots, they would try them out on like inmates.Woody: New medical procedures. Jim: Yeah. They would be the guinea pig. Woody: Drug companies come in and basically pay the prison to get their test subjects. Jim: Yeah. So, it says, "34 Angola inmates, six of them women, are today nursing slightly sore arms in what is said to have been the first guinea pig effort ever made here in the interest of medical science. The 34 last Saturday and Sunday were given the first of a series of inoculations aimed at testing a new type of vaccine for the treatment of rabies. All were volunteers," the prison management said.Woody: Yeah, bet.Jim: [laughs] They might have paid them something, I don't know. Woody: [crosstalk] -cigarette. Jim: Yeah. "Under the auspice of the School of Medicine at Tulane University at New Orleans, the inoculations were given by Dr. DP. Conwell, a Tulane medical staffer." There you are, at the start of the rabies vaccine in history. And who knew Angola played such a big part in that?Woody: Well, I had actually heard something before about them trying new procedures on convicts, because who were going to complain? And they gave them a couple of smokes. They were like, "Whatever." Jim: That's it. Woody: [crosstalk] "-anyway. Give me the shot." That's crazy. That shit wouldn't fly nowadays. Jim: No. Woody: All right, so let's take you to the next one we're going to do. And it says, "Count soars, official--" And that's spelled count soars, S-O-A-R-S, "Official sore," S-O-R-E, "Fresh fish may find no room." And then, y'all, we're talking about fresh inmates. "Today's inmate population swelled to a total of 2810, brought consternation to camp officials and worried frowns to the management last week. For the headcount is the highest here since the end of World War II, an authoritative source said. Already overcrowded at most units, Angola camp chiefs have been hard put to find sleeping room for their new borders. The count is suspected to hit 3000 by mid-year of 1955."Jim: Dang.Woody: That's crazy. Jim: Yeah.Woody: It's double that now. Jim: And they've added on--Woody: They've got a bunch of other prisons now too. They didn't have DCI and Winn and all those other prisons back then.Jim: Yeah. And so, we're still in 1954. And it says, "Here's that stuff again. Like the old saying about the character who, every time he opened his mouth, put his foot in it, last week, The Angolite carried a story about a patch of that nauseous stuff, okra, [laughs] situated just outside the fence of the woman's camp. And proving that the dames don't look into other people's backyards, as soon as she had read the account, buxom Alice said-," buxom Alice, they called her buxom Alice. "Buxom Alice said, 'Where's the okra? Why, I just love okra.' Yesterday at all units the food service department ordered for supper, you guessed it, boiled okra." Yuck. [laughter] Woody: That's funny. Jim: They didn't like that boiled okra.Woody: They're feeding them-- [crosstalk] Jim: I kind of like okra myself. Woody: [crosstalk] -especially my [unintelligible 00:38:15]-- Didn't cost them a whole lot to feed them. Jim: Buxom Alice, she liked her some okra. Woody: Right. Buxom Alice. That's funny. Well, y'all, I'm going to read you these next two. "Four men fail to rise, shine. Captain says your neck is mine. Four localites who bed down at Camp A were collared by police at that unit one day last week and charged with failing to rise and shine in the morning, as is customary in places like this. The four, Claudius Wall, Victor Stewart, Howard D. Keyes, and Robert Lewis, were escorted to the camp lockup to weigh the action of the disciplinary board. Because the quartet was asleep when they should have been awake, the camp count was snafued. Nothing will irritate a prison management as much as a fouled-up count of heads, it was said." [laughter]Woody: You messed up the count, you were going in a hole. That still happens today. And these dudes just didn't want to get up. That's funny. All right. Jim: Love it. Woody: Let me read this one. "Loader whops, hurts worker. Sammy Robinson of Camp F was hospitalized Monday for injuries when he met up with a cane sling while working on a loader near the unit. Robinson is said to have been whopped about the head by the loader slings, which broke loose." Jim: Oh, my God. Woody: "He's on the colored ward." Wow. So, I guess one of the things flew off the machine or somebody probably hit him in the head with one of those [unintelligible 00:40:02]. That's crazy. Jim: Yeah. They're not going to rat each other up. Woody: Yeah. Jim: All right, we'll go to 1955, June 18th, and this headline says "STU-", and I'm not sure what STU stands for. Woody: It's going to be a Special Lockdown Unit. Jim: There you go. "STU men stage short-lived buck. Residents of the STU, disgruntled over the quality and distribution of the food and a few other items, refused to enter their mess hall Wednesday evening, declaring a camp wide buck."Woody: Uh-oh. That's right. "When the people came, however, the usual conversation settled everything." [laughs]Woody: They're like, "I'm about to shoot your ass." Jim: The usual conversation. I love it. Woody: That's funny. So, bucking up, y'all, and I've been a part of a couple of them, but they were like, "Fuck it, we're not doing it, and we're going to protest." And Warden Burl Cain, we talked about this on an episode, came in. He said, "Give the first one--" They weren't going to work in a crawfish plant. "Give the first one a direct verbal order, and as soon as they say no, arrest them." You still get arrested. So, bucking up. And the usual conversation was had, probably the same thing, like back then, "We're going to shoot you if you don't go to work." June 18th, 1955. "A little girl wants her dog. Tuffy, where are you? A farm-wide search has failed to produce any sign of Tuffy, the six-year-old Boston terrier who was owned by plumber foreman, Harry Dwyer, who'd made his home at Camp E and claimed the yard there as his personal domain. Dwyer says he is sure Tuffy is not dead. His body would have been found by this time, he reasoned. Meanwhile, Tuffy's little mistress, eight-year-old Nickie Dwyer, sent the following message to the Angolite. 'My dog's name was Tuffy. He was eight years old at the time he disappeared. He was a faithful dog and I loved him so. I was raised with Tuffy. He was smarter than most dogs. I do have three other dogs, but they will never mean as much to me as Tuffy. Please bring him back to me, Nickie Dwyer.'" [laughter] Woody: I wonder if my momma knew her.Jim: That's crazy. So, this was apparently a plumber foreman. He had a dog that hung out at the camps.Woody: And they were all inside--[crosstalk] Jim: Daughter sent a plea to the Angolite. Woody: Let me do another real quick, says, "Stray dog round-up now in operation. In accordance with an order from the management, all stray dogs on the farm are being rounded up for disposal each evening. The drive will be in effect through July 4th." So, they were looking for--[crosstalk] Jim: Oh, my God.Woody: Stray dogs, they were killing their ass. Jim: Yeah. For disposal. Woody: Right. Jim: That's crazy.Woody: What if they cooked them? Jim: 1955, y'all. All right, "What's in a name?" This was a good one. "James Williams, who boards at Camp I and has a Yankee accent, which he acquired in Madison County, Wisconsin, wishes the management would learn that he is not James A. Williams. It's a little confusing at first, but not so very difficult once you get the hang of it from Williams. 'Their James A. Williams lives at Camp A,' he explained earnestly, as our eyes began to get glassy. 'Like last October. I almost went to the Red Hats,' he continued. 'Or November, when they called me to the visiting room and walked me into a family of total strangers,' he continued. 'It's getting so I never know who I am, much less where I am.' Williams said it happened again last week. He came within a split second of appearing before the parole board with a lawyer and four relatives, but not his relatives. 'I keep wondering what's going to happen when this other boy's time is up,' he sighed, shaking his head dolefully. It is an interesting thought at that." Woody: What was his name? Jim: James A. Williams. But they had two James A. Williams. Woody: They probably had five of them. He's from Wisconsin. Boy, you know he was doing a hard time [crosstalk] Wisconsin the other day, it was 50 degrees in the morning. I got in Louisiana, it was 100 degrees. Jim: Come on. Jesus. Well, James A. Williams, hopefully they released the guy-- Woody: [crosstalk] -Madison County where the guy was from. Jim: Wow. Woody: All right. "Busy tag plant takes short order," from June 18th, 1955. "An order for 40 large game preserve signs, each with replicas of the bobwhite quail in the corners, was turned out on time by the tag plant last week. They are on 24-hour duty producing a million new auto licensed tags for 56." Jim: Unbelievable. Woody: "Plus hundreds of steel bunks for the new prison. Sheet metal gutters and what have you." [laughter] Woody: Most of these, y'all, are just like a little bitty short articles. All right, the next one says, "Knife victim has loss of memory." I can imagine. "Hyde Walker of Camp F was hospitalized Tuesday with superficial knife wounds on his left arm and shoulder. Stricken with a lapse of memory, says he was unable to recall how he got hurt. Security officials suggested that he might have got careless while shaving."[laughter] Jim: That is great.Woody: They weren't even worried about him. Jim: And they might have been the ones that hurt him. He might have got lax while shaving. Yeah, that's crazy. Here's one I found interesting. It says, "Dental clinic cracks own record. The biggest week in the history of the dental department went on record during the seven days from June 5th through the 11th of 1955, according to their bookkeeping department. The figures show a total of 115 patients were handled. Seven plates were complete and fitted, and 12 others were put into process. There were 51 extractions, 34 marked miscellaneous, and a variety of other entries." So basically, they're pulling teeth left and right. That one week, they pulled 51 teeth. I thought that was interesting. Woody: [crosstalk] -too many feelings when they could just rip them out. Jim: Yeah. And I'll give you this one. It says, "Two use razorblade, put cells in stitches. Two unidentified colored women from Camp D were treated for minor lacerations at the emergency ward last Tuesday. Weapons used is said to have been a razorblade. Following treatment for both, they were released and returned to camp." So, they tried to commit suicide. Two women.Woody: I wonder if they got in a fight with each other. Maybe they did. Two unidentified women from Camp D were treated for minor-- They might have gotten in a knife fight with each other. Jim: Maybe.Woody: Maybe it was suicide. I don't know. All right, September 18th, 1954, y'all. "Uniforms for free personnel soon. For the first time in the history of Louisiana State Penitentiary, correctional officers will be garbed in uniforms." Wow, this is interesting. "'Hats, coats, trousers, and shirts are on order and will be issued,' Secretary Chief W. H. Maynard said Wednesday. The uniforms will be of a forest green hue with beige-colored shirts, the official said. There will be no badges, however, nor any marks of rank worn. A shoulder patch will designate the wearer as an LSP officer."Jim: How about that?Woody: 1954 is when they had got the first uniforms. That's crazy.Jim: That's crazy. It had been around since 1901 as a state prison, and it took till 1954 to get-- so they just wore whatever they wanted, I guess. Button up shirts or something.Woody: Blue jeans and something. Real quick, at the top of this page, it says, "Dixie's only prison weekly, The Angolite." And it gives Volume 2, number 41. Angola, Louisiana. September 18th, 1954, 10 pages. But then, it had this box that says "Warning!!!! Laggards are warned. Monday, September 20th is the deadline for filing your petition for the October Pardon Board. Don't get stuck out."[laughter] Jim: Even in Angola, inside of Angola, you have thieves that steal from other inmates. "Dees, the barber shop got looted. The barber is offering a reward." In this article, it says, "Yes, sir. It never rains, but when it rains, it pours. Seems a fella has to get down in bed sick to find out who his friends are. Monday, Dees, the rotund Camp E ex-barber, woke up one day at the General Hospital where he is suffering from a diabetic onset, to find out that his shop at Camp E had been burglarized. Missing, he said, is $300 worth of barber tools and unfurnished leather goods. Dees has posted a $25 reward for the arrest and conviction of the miscreant. Or, he'll pay it for the return of the goods, no questions asked."Woody: $25 back then, shit, you can always buy a car for it. Jim: Yeah. And he was basically saying, "Look, if you took it, if you just give it back to me, I'll give you $25, or I'll pay someone $25 to find out who it was."Woody: That's pretty much their craft. And each camp would have one. That's an esteemed position, most of them-- Jim: And $300 worth back then? Inside prison, that's a million dollars.Woody: Yeah. September 18th, 1954. "Free inmate menus now the same. For what is believed to be the first time on Angola, menus for free personnel and inmates were identical last week, with the exception of breakfast. The innovation is by order of food services manager, J. H. Bonnette. A huge saving is expected to result from the consolidation, the food department said. Breakfast in the inmate dining rooms are planned, but for free personnel consists of short orders only." [laughter] Woody: I guess if you're free personnel, you can order your eggs over easy or whatever, and the rest of them are just getting shit on a shingle. That is funny.Jim: Yeah. So, you actually have a choice if you're free personnel. If you're not free personnel, you get what they throw on that plate. I'm going to read a couple of these, and I'll let Woody read the last one we're going to do for you today. And this was a correction from Old Wooden Ear. And he says-- Old Wooden Ear. He says, "Irate Camp Fers have asked for a correction. Seems one Freddie Armstrong, whom The Angolite said last week had been stabbed in a humbug, was not from Camp F, but from Camp A. The Angolite is happy to make this correction and with the hope that if any others get stabbed at Camp F, they won't bleed." Woody: That's funny. Jim: Even The Angolite had to issue retractions. And then, this one says, "Escapee, guards play hide and seek. Guard lines were still out yesterday for Ulice Baker, 28, a colored Camp C trusty who was found to be missing last Saturday. Baker, serving a seven-year sentence, is thought to still be hiding somewhere on the farm." How about that? Look, they were escaping left and right back in them days.Woody: The way it was they're still trying to, but they got a whole lot more security stuff in place, razor wire and all that and the wolfdogs. All right, this one says, big headlines, "Frazier is oldest! A glance at the records settled the question once and for all who's the convict with the longest time in point of service on Angola. Records showed Charlie Frazier--" We need to talk about him. Jim: Yeah. Woody: "Records show Charlie Frazier Camp H-2 hospital steward was received in September of 1933 with one sentence of 18 years, one of 28 years, and a life term, all stacked on top of the other. Charlie is registered number 23409, is the oldest on the books. His discharge date, however, is still 20 years away. The book says December 3rd, 1974." Now, look in the DOC, you're known by your inmate numbers. Now, they're alone. Fucking that means he was the 23409th inmate when he came in, ever to go to the gates of Angola. After the Civil War when they started.Jim: And probably one of the most notorious-- really, in American history, there's a whole big, long story for Charlie Frazier, and we will tell his story one day. He's a tough one to research because this was so long ago, but I'm going to come up with some stuff for him. Just two quick short ones, and then we got to wrap it up for today. This one says, "Toe whacked off. Andrew Peters, a resident of the STU, lost the third toe on his right foot via surgery last week. The operation was performed at the Angola General Hospital." So, something happened, he had to whack his toe off. Woody: He had diabetes or something. Jim: And then, the one below it says, "Three and a hassle. Three juveniles at H-1 were sporting an assortment of moused eyes, puffed lips, and other sores today as the result of a free-for-all hassle last Tuesday. The trio, all of whom were unidentified, were given first aid, a piece of steak for their eyes and sent home--" Woody: And they run a piece of steak with a baloney. Jim: [laughs] Yeah, there was no steak, I can promise you.Woody: We need to look in that too, because they're housing the juveniles there now and they're so fucking pissed off about it. But [crosstalk] back then they had women and juveniles too. Woody: Yeah, they sure did. And so, we'll be bringing you stuff on that. Appreciate all you patrons out there that follow. Look, we dropped a bonus episode Monday just for patrons, where we covered the first 20 death row inmates that are requesting clemency and got those hearings. We went into an in-depth breakdown of each of those, dropped that on Monday. So, if you're not a patron, join Patreon, you can get that. Another quick announcement, Apple Podcast. For those that don't do Patreon for whatever reason, we're now on Apple Podcast as a subscription option as well. You just go to your Apple Podcast app, and you'll see it. I'm going to label all those. It'll say Apple Podcast Bonus Episode.Woody: Yeah. Also, what happens on Apple Podcast, anytime you go to the Apple Podcast player, and you type in "Bloody Angola," it'll pull it up and it'll give you, like, I think it's free trial for whatever, for seven days. It'll list episodes and everything else. Pretty cool deal, I think. Jim: If you're not and you want to try it, there's a free trial going on. Woody: Some people [crosstalk] either they don't know what Patreon is or they don't want to use it. I have that on the regular Real Life Real Crime. Jim: Well, some people want-- and they want to listen to their podcast through one particular app and not have to go different places. 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In this episode of Bloody Angola, Woody Overton and Jim Chapman tell you some stories you will have to hear to believe regarding inmate of Louisiana State Penitentiary who were sentenced to DEATH ROW getting exonerated after DNA evidence or other substantiating evidence cleared them of their crime and saved them from getting the needle.#DeathSentence #DNA #InnocenceProject #BloodyAngola #PodcastFULL TRANSCRIPTJim: Hey, everyone. And welcome back to another edition of Bloody-Woody: -Angola.Jim: A podcast 142 years in the making. Woody: The complete story of America's bloodiest prison. Jim: And I'm Jim Chapman. Woody: And I'm Woody Overton. Jim: And we're going back to our roots, Woody Overton.Woody: Right back inside the wire. Jim: Back inside the wire. Just when you thought we got out. Just coming back here. Woody: Yep. [crosstalk] They made me come back in. Jim: That's right. Look, we talk a lot on this show about the advancement, especially DNA, something you've worked with in the past many times. Woody: Yeah. This is a huge testament to DNA. When I started, it was really coming in its own. Now it's so much more advanced. I remember putting rushes on murder cases, and it taken six months to get the results back. Jim: That's crazy. Even back, we talked about Sean Vincent Gillis, and that was really probably one of the first times they were ever able to really rush something to the point where it really helped because you had to get that serial killer off the street. Woody: Derrick Todd Lee too. Still, even the rush back then took a long time. Not like it is now. Jim: Right. Woody: You know what? I'm totally for it. And let me do this real quick. I want to give a shout out to all our patrons. We love and appreciate each and every one of y'all. We love all you listeners, and bloody shooting to the top of the charts. It's because y'all are listening, liking and sharing. Please continue to do so. And we love y'all very much. Back to the DNA, it's just come leaps and bounds that continue to change every day. We always tell you Bloody Angola is going to be different, and this is different. You would think, oh, hard ass like me, lock everybody up, I don't believe in that. I believe if you're innocent you're innocent. Jim: If you're guilty, lock them up.Woody: If you're guilty, you- [crosstalk] Jim: Don't wait [crosstalk] Woody: [crosstalk] -you'll pay hella jail. Jim: [laughs] Hella jail, that's right. We did want to preface this episode with some of these guys were exonerated from DNA. Some of them, it was other reasons. And we're going to get into that. The intriguing thing about today's episode is many of these guys that we're going to tell you about were actually serving in death row. They've been sentenced to death. Woody: Today, we're going to be talking about people or convicts who were exonerated and released from Bloody Angola.Jim: Yes. We want to kind of start this off. I'm just going to tell you about the Innocence Project. The Innocence Project was founded in 1992 by Barry Scheck, y'all, familiar with him through OJ. It was basically formed to assist incarcerated individuals who could be proven innocent, primarily through DNA testing. Although sometimes they find so many holes in a case, they'll pick up a case where there's so many problems that they take that case on and look for exonerations in those cases. The average prison sentence before they'll take on a case is 14 years before their exoneration or release. And so, it's a process, even with those guys, but we're going to them to it. Woody: They don't just take anybody, right? Jim: Yeah. Woody: One of the ones I can tell you about if-- ready to get started?Jim: I'm ready. Woody: Is John Thompson. John Thompson was from Orleans Parish. I'll just read you some of the facts of the case, some of the highlights, and what ultimately ended up happening. Shortly after midnight on December 6th, 1984, Raymond Liuzza was shot several times in the course of an armed robbery just around the corner from his New Orleans, Louisiana apartment. When the cops arrived, they found Liuzza laying on the ground, but he was still conscious. He told them he was robbed and shot by an African American male and then took him to hospital and he died. On December 8th, responded to tip, the police arrested two men in connection with the crime. John Thompson and Kevin Freeman. Photos of the two men were published in the New Orleans Times-Picayune, and soon afterwards, police received a call from a family that had been carjacked several months earlier, claiming that Thompson looked like the person who had robbed them. Thompson was charged with the murder. Meanwhile, Freeman agreed to testify against Thompson in the murder trial, and in return, prosecutors charged him only with being an accessory to the murder. He was convicted and sentenced to five years in prison. We're talking about Freeman, y'all. The world-famous New Orleans district attorney, Harry Connick, Sr,, not Junior, that's his son, the singer and actor, decided to try Thompson for the carjacking case first, knowing that a conviction could be used against him in the murder trial. Based primarily on the eyewitness testimony of the three carjacking victims, all of whom were minors, Thompson was convicted on April 4, 1985, and sentenced to 49 years in prison. That is for the carjacking. Y'all, always told you that eyewitness testimony is the worst testimony there is, but doesn't mean it's not true. At his murder trial, held shortly thereafter, the prosecution demonstrated that Thompson had at one time been in possession of both the murder weapon and a ring taken from Liuzza's finger. Thompson decided not to testify in his own defense because if he did, his felony carjacking charge would have been admissible to the jury. As a result, he was unable to tell the jury that Freeman had sold him the murder weapon and the ring. Freeman, the main witness for the prosecution, claimed that he and Thompson had robbed Liuzza together and that Thompson had shot him. This testimony was contradicted by the statements of eyewitnesses who claimed to have seen only one man running from the scene of the crime. Richard Perkins, who had originally called in the tip implicating Thompson and Freeman, also testified for the prosecution, claiming that he had heard Thompson make incriminating remarks. Thompson was found guilty and sentenced to death on May 8th, 1985. Fast forward a whole bunch of years, y'all, and events took a dramatic turn in April 1999, 30 days before scheduled execution, an investigator discovered that there was a blood stain from the robber on the clothing of one of the carjacking victims and that this evidence had never been disclosed to the defense. It's Brady, y'all. If they had it, they got to give it up. The prosecutor had ordered testing to determine the blood type of the stain, and in fact, they had rushed the test. But when the blood type was determined-- I guess this was before DNA. Blood type was determined and was different from Thompson's. They concealed it. Defense attorneys then obtained an affidavit Michael Rielhmann, a former district attorney, who said that five years earlier, in 1994, Gerry Deegan, one of Thompson's prosecutors, admitted on his deathbed that the blood evidence was intentionally suppressed and that he left a report about it on the desk of James Williams, the lead prosecutor. Williams denied ever seeing the report. Defense attorneys also learned that Perkins, the witness who testified that Thompson had admitted the murder, had received $15,000 from the Liuzza family as a reward. When this evidence was presented to the trial judge, he granted a stay of execution and dismissed Thompson's carjacking conviction, but he denied Thompson's motion for a new trial on the Liuzza murder. In 2001, however, he reduced Thompson's death sentence to life in prison without parole. Jim: Wow. Woody: Pretty crazy, right? Jim: Very crazy. Woody: In July of 2002, the Louisiana Fourth Circuit Court of Appeal overturned Thompson's murder conviction and remanded the case for retrial, ruling that the false robbery conviction obtained by deliberate government misconduct had deprived Thompson of his constitutional right to testify on his own behalf at the murder trial. Y'all, I'm not against that. I mean, give him a new trial, if it was messed up. At the second trial, Thompson was able to explain that he purchased the murder weapon from Freeman, and the defense called several new witnesses who claimed to have seen only one man fleeing the scene of the murder. They said that the man did not look like Thompson, but did resemble Freeman who, in the meantime, had been killed in a shootout with a security guard. On May 8, 2003, a jury acquitted Thompson after deliberating for 35 minutes, and he was released from prison the same day. Y'all, 35 minutes is for conviction? That's outstanding. But for exoneration, I mean, that's unbelievable. It normally takes hours--[crosstalk]  Jim: They were pretty convinced. Woody: Yeah, they want to make sure. In 2008, Thompson won a $14 million civil suit against the District Attorney's Office. That judgment was reversed by the US Supreme Court in March 2011 on the grounds that the misconduct in the case was not the result of a deliberate policy or systematic indifference by the New Orleans DA's Office. He got $330,000 in state compensation. But you know what? That's a long time to be on death row, and you didn't do it. Jim: He's a good example of someone that it wasn't necessarily DNA evidence that exonerated him, but it was the facts of the case. Woody: I have heard this case before, and actually, I think it's pretty well documented-Jim: Thank you.Woody: -but what's right is right and what's wrong is wrong. But you know what the sad thing is? In 2017, Thompson died of a heart attack at age 55. Jim: Yeah, man. And you nailed it when you're talking about those bloodstains. Back when he was convicted, it was '85. There was no DNA. Woody: I think it was like '92 when the first time it was used successfully. Even then, most prosecutors thought it was junk science. So, it had to be used over and over again successfully and tested and tested and tested and it grew to what it is today. Jim: That's right. Let me tell you about another case out of death row in Angola that was actually-- Woody: That place you don't want to go.Jim: No, you don't want to go there. But was actually reversed over DNA, and that is the case of Ryan Matthews. So, Matthews was 16 years old, y'all, at the time he was sentenced-- or arrested rather, and was 17 when he was sentenced to death for shooting of Tommy Vanhoose, who was a convenience store owner in Bridge City, Louisiana. You familiar with Bridge City? Woody: Yeah. That's where the juvenile prison used to be. Jim: There you go. So, in April of 1997, a man wearing a ski mask entered the store and demanded money. When Vanhoose refused, the perpetrator shot him four times and fled, taking off his mask and diving into the passenger seat of a window of an awaiting car. Several eyewitnesses viewed the perpetrator's flight. One woman was in her car and watched the perpetrator run from the store, fire shots into her direction, and leap in the car. So, these guys were hightailing it. They done shot somebody four times. When she was later showed a photographic array, which is like a six pack, y'all, she tentatively identified Matthews as the assailant. By the time of the trial, she was sure that Matthews was the gunman. Two other witnesses in the same car watched as the perpetrator shed his mask, gloves, and shirt as he fled. The driver claimed to have seen the perpetrator's face in his rearview mirror while he was being shot at and trying to block the escape. The witness and his passenger were brought to a show-up hours later. The driver identified Matthews. His passenger was unable to make an identification.As per our previous case, identifications not very reliable now.Ryan Matthews and Travis Hayes, both 17 at the time, were stopped several hours after the crime because the car they were riding in resembled the description of the getaway car. They were arrested and Hayes was then questioned for over six hours. His initial statements to investigators, Hayes claimed that he and Matthews were not in the area where the crime occurred. Hayes eventually confessed that he was the driver of the getaway car. He stated that Matthews went into the store, shots went off and Matthews ran out and got into the car. Both boys were described as borderline intellectually disabled. In 1999, based mainly on identifications, Matthews was convicted of murder and sentenced to death.Woody: There you go. Jim: Hayes was convicted of second-degree murder and sentenced to life in prison. Matthews had maintained his innocence since the arrest. The defense presented evidence that forensic testing of the mask excluded both Matthews and Hayes. A defense expert also testified the car the two boys were driving, the reason they were stopped, could not have been a getaway car because the passenger side window that Matthews allegedly jumped through was inoperable and could not be rolled down. How do you get around that? I don't know, but they did. Other witnesses to the crime described the shooter as being much shorter than Matthews as well, which that's not necessarily that reliable. Height is hard to determine. Woody: You can put four people in the room and four people may get the different height and weight or whatever on. If it's a correct identification, basically you can bring them back two weeks later and they can still pick out the facial features.Jim: That's right. So, y'all ready to hear how this person got exonerated? Well, DNA testing in another murder case proved to be the keys to proving Matthews' innocence, another murder occurring shortly after Vanhoose's death in the same area. A local resident named Rondell Love was arrested. He pled guilty, and Love bragged to other inmates that he also killed Vanhoose. And that happens, y'all, you'd be surprised. Woody: Street cred. Jim: This got back to Matthews' attorneys, I'm sure, through Matthews, and they began to investigate Love. DNA test results from the second murder were compared to the results from the Matthews' conviction, indicating that Love had been wearing the mask that was left behind in the Vanhoose's murder. Testing on the mask, gloves and shirt had already excluded Matthews and Hayes, but they became conclusive after Love's profile was included. Woody: There you go. Jim: So somehow, even though they were excluded from all that DNA in the first trial, there was no one to necessarily pin it on. So, it got pinned on them. Well, you can't get around it when someone else's profile shows up. Over a year after this information was discovered, he was granted a new trial. He wasn't released. He was just granted a new trial. But he did eventually get released. The new trial, he was found not guilty and became the 14th death row inmate in the United States proven innocent by post-conviction DNA testing. Woody: That's crazy.Jim: After two more years of legal battles, you'd think he'd get out right away?Woody: They got to make sure. Jim: Yeah. Travis Hayes was released in December 2006 and exonerated in January of 2007. You may think that someone in this position, they must have got a ton of money. I mean, you sentenced to death, for Christ's sake. He received $252,000 in state compensation and another $133,000 from the federal courts. To tell you how resilient this cat is, in 2019, Matthews graduated from Texas University with his bachelor's degree. Woody: Cool. Jim: I get chills from that because, man, look--Woody: They were going to kill him.Jim: They were going to kill him. Woody: I get it, not to get into death penalty arguments, whatever, but I'm telling you this I'm glad John Thompson got off death row, and I'm glad he got off a death row, but I promise you, there's some monsters up there deserve to be there.Jim: Oh, there's no doubt about it.Woody: Don't deserve [crosstalk] to breathe. Jim: Well, it's like you always say, just make sure you get it right. That's the important thing.Woody: Yeah, that's it. If you're going to do it, do it right. Especially when you're talking about taking somebody's life. That's why they have the appeals process the last 20 plus years before they kill them. Let's talk about Glenn Ford. Glenn Ford from up in Caddo, that's where Hugo Holland-- Jim: That's right. Caddo--[crosstalk]  Woody: He was another one, y'all, sentenced to death. He was convicted in 1984. But let me tell you about it. On November 5th, 1983, a 56-year-old Isadore Rozeman, a jeweler and watchmaker, was found shot to death in his shop in Shreveport, Louisiana. His pockets were pulled, and items were missing from the store. One of the first people to be questioned was 34-year-old Glenn Ford, an affable man who did yard work for Rozeman. Ford denied being involved in the crime, though he admitted he had been near the store at some point earlier in the day and witnesses told police they saw him near the store. In February 1984, items from Rozeman's store turned up in a pawnshop and a handwriting analyst said that Ford had signed the pawn slips. Marvella Brown told police that her boyfriend, Jake Robinson, Jake's brother, Henry, and Ford were at her house on the day of the crime and left together after Ford asked "if they were going." Brown said Ford was carrying a brown paper bag. When the men returned later that day, Ford was carrying a different bag and had a gun in his waistband. Jake Robinson also was carrying a gun. Brown said Jake showed her a bag containing watches and rings. That is suspicious.Ford, along with Jake and Henry Robinson and a fourth man, George Starks, were charged with capital murder and conspiracy to commit armed robbery in February 1984. November 1984, Ford went to trial. And Ford was represented by two appointed defense attorneys, neither of whom had ever handled a criminal trial, and one of whom had never handled a criminal case of any sort. That's kind of bad. Jim: Yeah. That's not the attorneys I want to represent--Woody: Right. When you're on trial for your life. Jim: Oh, my God. Woody: If you're in Livingston Parish, you want Jasper Brock handling your business. [crosstalk]  Jim: Yeah. This is a death penalty trial. Woody: If you're anywhere else over on that side of Louisiana, you want Thomas Davenport out of Alexandria to handle it, because that's what they do. These guys had never even handled a case like this. Jim: It's crazy. Woody: Anyway, Brown fell apart on the witness stand and said on cross-examination that detectives had fabricated her responses and she had lied in her testimony. She said she had been shot in the head earlier in her life and the bullet was never removed causing difficulty with thinking and hearing. Jim: Makes sense.Woody: Several witnesses testified that they saw Ford near the victim's store on the day of the shooting, but no one testified that they saw the crime. A gunshot residue expert testified for the prosecution that after Ford had voluntarily come in for questioning, he recovered gunshot residue on Ford's hands. A fingerprint analyst said he lifted a single fingerprint from a paper bag found at the scene. He said that the print contained a “whorl” type pattern and that Ford had such a pattern, while the Robinson Brothers did not. Dr. George McCormick, Caddo Parish coroner, testified that he had analyzed the scene of the crime, including the position of Rozeman's body and a duffel bag found next to the body with a bullet hole in it. McCormick said he concluded that the victim was shot by someone who held the gun in his left hand. Ford is left-handed and the Robinsons are right-handed. Not looking good for Ford.Jim: No, not at all. Woody: McCormick also said that Rozeman had been dead for as long as two hours by the time the body was discovered, a time when witnesses said they saw Ford near the store. Ford testified on his own behalf, which most of them don't, but he testified and denied his involvement in the crime. He admitted selling items to the pawn shop, but said he'd got them from the Robinson brothers.On December 5th, 1984, the jury convicted Ford of capital murder and conspiracy to commit armed robbery. Following the jury's recommendation, Ford was sentenced to death on February 26th, 1985. After Ford was convicted and sentenced, the prosecution dismissed the charges against the Robinson Brothers and Starks. Jim: Let me just say this, okay, the inexperience of the lawyers that you mentioned is glaring when they allowed him to testify in his own defense in a death penalty case. Holy crap.Woody: I don't know when they changed the law, but I know Jasper Brock in Livingston Parish-- [crosstalk] Jim: Yeah. Jasper Brock would say, "He ain't talking." [chuckles] Woody: And I know Thomas Davenport, they're certified in death penalty cases. You have to actually get certified to defend somebody in death penalty cases now.Jim: Yeah. Probably, this case caused it.Woody: Probably one of them I mean, they should've known this shit was going to get done the way--[crosstalk] Jim: That's crazy. Woody: Still, I believe everybody has the right to a fair trial. Ford goes to death row. His appeals were unsuccessful until 2000 when the Louisiana Supreme Court ordered a hearing on post-conviction petition for a new trial filed by the Capital Post Conviction Project of Louisiana. At the hearing in 2004, a defense expert testified that McCormick's attempt to reconstruct the crime had no connection to known facts and were speculation at best, and I agree with that, they're talking about the coroner. You can't tell somebody's left-handed from a bullet hole and a duffel bag. Anyway, another defense expert said that the gunshot residue evidence was meaningless because it was gathered more than a day after the crime and that Ford could have easily picked up the residue merely by being in a police station where such residue is extremely common.Another defense expert said that the prosecution's fingerprint expert misidentified the fingerprint on the paper bag, and it could have been left by the Robinson Brothers. All very, very true. Ford's lawyers at the trial testified that they were very inexperienced in criminal cases. Jim: Even the lawyers. Woody: [crosstalk] -Jasper and Thomas Davenport. And had no training in capital defense. If I was Ford, I'd be raising hell. I'm like, "You got me two guys that are wet behind the ears. Give me a pro."Jim: Crazy, man. Woody: Jasper Brock or Thomas Davenport. They're even saying that he deserves--Jim: Yeah. They go on the stand and say, "Yeah, we pretty--" [crosstalk] Woody: One of the lawyers who specialized in oil and gas law had never tried a case to a jury, either civil or criminal. That's like my brothers. One's a tax lawyer and one's a maritime lawyer. They've never been inside a courtroom. The extent of his prior criminal work was handling two guilty pleas. That's easy enough. The other lawyer, who was out of law school less than two years and was working at an insurance firm handling personal injury cases. Both said they were unaware they could seek court funding for defense experts, shocker, and didn't hire any because they couldn't afford to pay out of their own pockets. Both were unaware of how to subpoena witnesses from out of state. So, Ford's family members, who lived in California, did not testify for Ford at the guilt or punishment phase of the trial. The defense presented numerous police reports that had never been disclosed to the defense.The report showed that Shreveport Police had received two tips from informants implicating only Jake and Henry Robinson in the robbery and murder. Other police reports showed that some detectives had falsely testified at Ford's trial about statements Ford made during his interrogation. Testimony that the prosecution should have realized was false, the defense claimed. Moreover, other police reports that were withheld from the defense contained conflicting statements by Marvella Brown and by the witnesses who said that they saw Ford near the store at the time of the crime. Reports could have been used to impeach the witness testimony at trial. Jim: Wow. Woody: But still, the post-conviction motion was denied. In 2012, the Caddo Parish District Attorney's Office began reinvesting the case, and in 2013, disclosed that an informant told authorities that Jake Robinson had admitted shooting Rozeman.Jim: Oh, wow.Woody: So, the honorable and right thing to do, in March 2014, the prosecution filed a motion to vacate Ford's conviction and death sentence in light of the newly discovered evidence from the informant. On March 11th, 2014, a judge vacated Ford's convictions, and the prosecution dismissed their charges, and Ford was then released. Jim: How about that? Woody: Even after all that, they'd fallen so hard in the second trial, etc. They came forward-- I think, you know what? I don't know if Hugo Holland was still the prosecutor up there at the end. I'll have to look it up. Maybe I'll ask him. He just messaged me last night. But that's an honorable thing to do. But in March 2015, a Caddo Parish district judge denied Ford's request for state compensation. Judge ruled that Ford knew the robbery was going to happen, did not try to stop it, that he attempted to destroy evidence by selling items taken robbery, and that he tried to find buyers for the murder weapon. Unfortunately, in June of 2015, Ford died of lung cancer. Jim: Yeah, that's a good kind of segue for a second, Woody, just to talk about, look, not all the guys we're going to tell you about today are Citizens of the Year. Some of them definitely committed some crimes or may have withheld some evidence, like in this case. But that's a long jump from being sentenced to death for a murder you didn't commit. Woody: Look, we have our legal process for a reason. A lot of my cases are bad cases where the witnesses are like really shady people or they're criminals themselves. Well, guess what? A lot of these crimes don't happen with a bunch of choir boys. You know what I mean? You're not running with choir boys when you're going to murder somebody and steal the jury. Jim: You're going to put them to death--Woody: But having two inexperienced attorneys and all the other stuff and the guy saying about-- whatever, that's not enough to kill somebody.Jim: That's right. We're going to give you a two for one right here. And you're not going to believe this. Woody: Let me tell you real quick, I know I keep talking about [unintelligible 00:31:23]. I don't know if this is-- we'll have to get him on. This part, he's a part of this Innocence Project, but I don't think it's the same one. Barry Scheck is another one. He got a guy off a death row. Jim: Wow. He'd be great to sit down and talk to.Woody: He got a guy off a death row. He told me about the case, and I was like, "Holy shit." But I think it was out of Missouri. He's in all federal courts and everywhere else, Thomas Davenport, but he believes everybody deserves a criminal defense. And I agree with that. If you're a cop and you got it right, you got them right. Don't sentence them to death, don't send them away for life on some bullshit. Jim: That's right. We're going to tell you about Michael Graham and Albert Burrell. Now, both of these gentlemen were sentenced to death back in 1986.Woody: I was 16 years old. Jim: That was a long time ago. Long time ago. On the night of August 31, 1986, 65-year-old William Delton Frost and his 60-year-old invalid wife, Callie, were fatally shot in their two-room home in Downsville, Louisiana, which is almost like a plantation area of Louisiana, very rural. The front door had been smashed in and police believed the motive was robbery because Frost didn't trust banks and was believed to keep cash in a suitcase in his home. A lot of older people, especially in those times, they didn't put money in the bank. They put money everywhere but the bank. The shots appeared to have been fired through a window and their bodies were discovered a couple of days later.Now, six weeks after the murders, in October of 1986, Janet Burrell told police that she had met with her ex-husband on the night of the crime and that he had $2,700 in $100 bills and blood on his boots. That don't look good. She said he admitted firing the shots and she saw Frost's wallet on the front seat of his car. Wow. That's dead to rights. So, Burrell was arrested within the hour. Not long after, Kenneth St. Clair, another witness, told police that he had come to Louisiana with Michael Graham to find construction work. St. Clair told police that on the night of the crime, Graham and Burrell left the trailer where Graham was living near St. Clair about 8:30 PM returned, Graham had blood on him, St. Clair said. Now, you've got another person seeing that blood. At the time, Graham was in the Union Parish Jail on forgery charges for stealing a checkbook from a woman who hired him in St. Clair to do some work and then cashing about $300 worth of checks. Woody: Like you said, everybody in these stories aren't angels. Jim: Yeah. On October of 1986, Graham and Burrell were each indicted on two counts of murder. Two days later, Graham's cellmate, Olan Brantly, told authorities that Graham had admitted he and Burrell committed the crime [crosstalk] [chuckles] that's it. And that Burrell had fired the fatal shot. So, Graham goes on trial in 1987 in the Union Parish Courthouse. The state's key witnesses were Janet Burrell, who we told you about, and Brantly, we also told you about. So, they got him dead to rights although police reports said that Frost's wallet was recovered in his home. A deputy testified that he believed Burrell had returned to the Frost home and put the wallet back because he suspected his wife had seen it the night they met. Woody: That makes a lot of sense, right? Jim: Yeah. Woody: Why wouldn't you just throw it the fuck out-- [crosstalk] Jim: Yeah, that's a stretch and a half right there.Woody: If you go back to the murder scene to put the wallet back, you got to think, "My wife might have seen it." Jim: [chuckles] Yeah. You're dumping it in the ditch or something. You're not putting it back. Another witness, 14-year-old Amy Opiel, who had spent the night of the crime with the St. Clair Family testified that she saw Graham Burrell sitting on the couch of a trailer with a suitcase and stacks of money. So, Graham was convicted on March 22nd, 1987, and sentenced to death. Burrell went on trial in August of '87, and he was also convicted and sentenced to death on pretty much the same evidence as Graham. Five months after Burrell was convicted, Janet Burrell, who by then was remarried to Burrell's brother James, I told you this was a good one, recanted her testimony, Woody Overton. She said she lied because she wanted to get custody of their child, which had been awarded to Albert Burrell prior to the murders. That's called motive to lie. So, the Louisiana Supreme Court, they grant--Woody: That's cold hearted.Jim: Yeah, that's cold.Woody: [crosstalk] Jim: That's as cold as you can get.Woody: How shitty of a mom does she have to be for the dad to get custody in the state of Louisiana? That's a rare deal. Jim: Well, somewhere along the line, her conscience weighed on her and she admitted she lied. The Louisiana Supreme Court granted Albert Burrell a hearing. A hearing. But at the hearing, Janet Burrell changed her testimony back, she's figuring it out, "Uh-oh. I might get in trouble for this," to her original story. The motion for a new trial was denied. Eventually, the conviction and death sentence got upheld by the Louisiana State Supreme Court. Meanwhile, Graham, don't forget about him, his case was also sent back for a hearing in motion for a new trial because of all this going on. His lawyers, they continued to get extension after extension, and they began to cover new evidence. By 1995, Janet Burrell shows up again. She says, "I'm going to recant my testimony again."Woody: She's unreliable now. Jim: Yeah. The crazy thing was, the execution date was in August of '96, she recants it in 1995. The lawyers, closer it gets to that execution date, they're 24 hours a day trying to get you a stay. 17 days away from his death, Burrell's lawyer obtains a stay. In 1998, Amy Opiel shows up again and recants her testimony, claiming she was pressured to lie and that it was St. Clair she saw with blood on his clothes and counting money. It wasn't Burrell. Okay, so Graham, he finally gets a hearing in 2000 where lawyers present all these recanted statements, as well as evidence that prosecutors failed to turn over, exculpatory evidence and impeachment evidence, including that Brantly had cut a deal with prosecutors on a pending charge, and then he was taking medication to control his mood swings. So, Brantly had a little bit of an anger problem, probably. On March 4th of 2000, Graham was granted a new trial after the Third Judicial District judge, Cynthia Woodard, ruled that prosecutors have misled the jury and failed to turn over exculpatory evidence. Woody, what is exculpatory evidence? Woody: Anything that could possibly make the jury find them not guilty.Jim: Yeah. On December 28th of 2000, they dismissed charges against Graham, and he was released from prison. This is a man that was 17 days from getting the needle. Woody: From executing.Jim: Yes. On January 2nd, you may wonder, "What about Burrell?" January 2nd of 2001, charges against Burrell were dismissed and he was released. Now, in 2016, a state appeals court upheld a lower court ruling denying Graham and Burrell compensation from the state of Louisiana. Burrell and Graham filed a federal lawsuit, but a jury ruled against them.Woody: They never solved the crime now. That's a cold case.Jim: Cold case. And here's the interesting thing. You may wonder why they're denying this money. Woody: It's hard. It's almost impossible to get a nickel for being wrongfully convicted.Jim: Exactly. Especially when you don't have DNA evidence to back it up, because basically that was so many inaccurate statements, but it didn't necessarily mean you didn't do it. It just means the people that said you did it were lying.Woody: A lot of times, if they have find gross negligence, they have to prove that DA actually did what they said that you did or whatever. Jim: That's it. Woody: Really, people don't really care about people that are exonerated, basically in paying--Jim: Those are two for one right there for you. Woody: A lot of states have a set amount. If you get exonerated, it's just whatever, which is crazy. There's no amount of money worth being on death row. In Angola, much less on death row. Jim: Yeah, the guy that was the singer that we did the episode. Woody: Yeah, Archie. Jim: How can you give that guy enough money? Woody: You can't. Jim: And he was exonerated on DNA evidence. He did not do it. Woody: You cannot give him enough.Jim: You can't give him enough. So, why are you putting a ceiling on it? Because every situation is different. Someone like that, you can't give them enough, but Goddang, you need to give them millions. Woody: They should never have to work or do anything.Jim: Period. Woody: Y'all, we will tell you another one, and this one is a rape and a murder. It's the case of Damon Thibodeaux, which is a good, strong Cajun name. And another Louisiana man that was sentenced to death row at Bloody Angola. On July 19th, 1996, at around 05:15 PM, 14-year-old Crystal Champagne left her apartment in Marrero, Louisiana, to walk to a nearby supermarket. When she didn't return home as expected, her mother went looking for her. At around 6:45 PM, her father and 21-year-old stepcousin, Damon Thibodeaux, also went out to look for her, as did several neighbors. The search continued until the following afternoon, when friends of the family heard that a girl who looked like Crystal had been seen walking on the levee. Y'all, if you're not from South Louisiana, levees are manmade walls that hold back the rivers or the bayous or whatever. Said Crystal been seen walking on the levee in previous evening. Not long after, Champagne's body was found near the levee. She was partially naked and had been strangled with a wire.Before the girl's body was found, JPSO investigators began interviewing people who had been with Champagne before she disappeared. An officer was interviewing Thibodeaux, who had been at the Champagne's home when Crystal left for the store. When he was informed that her body had been found, a homicide detective then took over the questioning. Thibodeaux initially said he knew nothing about the murder. He agreed to a polygraph test, which police said indicated deception regarding the girl's death. Uh-oh. Jim: And you being a former polygrapher--Woody: I'm still a polygrapher, actually-- it's just so hard. Basically, at that point, the polygraph is an interrogation tool. It's hard to clear somebody who's accused of murder if you're not good as fuck like me.Jim: [laughs] Woody: No, seriously. You got to set the questions, the questions that they lied to, their response has to be stronger than, "Did you rape and murder this girl?" Well, fuck you, you're in the hot seat. You're looking at a death penalty. It's hard to do. So, they failed him, whoever it was, I don't know who it was. They failed him on the polygraph, which, let me tell you, the polygraph is a long process, but it's basically made to break people down if they're guilty. And it's five or six hours. But I always said a good homicide interrogation doesn't even begin until after five or six hours. That's when you really start to get in that ass. Eventually, after nine hours of questioning, Thibodeaux said that he had raped and murdered Crystal. He was arrested and charged with both crimes. After he was allowed to eat and rest, Thibodeaux quickly recanted his confession, but was ignored. At Thibodeaux's 1997 trial, the prosecution built its case around his confession to the rape and murder. Dr. Fraser MacKenzie of the JPSO Coroner's Office, who performed autopsy on Crystal, testified the girl had been strangled to death and had injuries to her right eye and forehead consistent with getting hit by a bat or a rock. He noted bruises on the girl's buttocks, which he said indicated a struggle. He estimated Crystal had been dead about 24 hours before she was found. Separately, Dr. Lamar Lee, a professor of entomology at Louisiana State University, testified about the insect samples taken from Crystal's body. He said flies will lay eggs on a carcass within a couple of hours after death but will not lay eggs after dark. He said that the eggs were laid before nightfall--Jim: That's true?Woody: Yes. Jim: [crosstalk] as hell.Woody: Came out of the body farm originally out of Tennessee, but I didn't if they used maggots and the generation of flies, and they could tell you how long a body's been down like almost within 15 minutes. Jim: Damn.Woody: On July 19th, 1996, and calculated the age of the fly larvae or the maggots at between 24 and 28 hours old. They eat until they turn and fly, die and have more babies in cycle. There was no physical evidence linking Thibodeaux to the crimes, and though Crystal was found undressed, they found no semen on her body and no other physical evidence that she had been raped. A police officer testified that the semen could have been eaten by maggots. I guess.A week after the crime, detectives questioned two women they found walking on the levee. Both said they saw a man pacing and acting nervously on the evening of the murder. Both women picked a photo of Thibodeaux from a photographic lineup, and both identified him at the trial. Thibodeaux's attorney argued that detectives coerced the confession and suggested facts of the crime to him during their interrogation. On October 3rd, 1997, a jury convicted Thibodeaux of first-degree murder and rape. He was sentenced to death.Jim: Oh, my God.Woody: It's another one of our boys going up to death row.Jim: Death row. Woody: So, fast forward ten more years, in 2007, the JPSO district attorney's office agreed to reinvestigate the case with the Innocence Project and other lawyers who volunteered to work on the case. Now, DNA testing as well as other forensic testing was performed, and investigators interviewed numerous witnesses. The investigation revealed that the women who identified Thibodeaux as the man they had seen pacing near the crime scene had seen Thibodeaux's photo in the news media before police showed them the photo line-up. Moreover, the date of the sighting turned out to be the date after the body was found, when Thibodeaux was already locked up.Jim: That could be a problem. Woody: Right. Well, you know what, you got to give props to JPSO DA's office for even trying to reopen and look at this, because most of them are like, "Fuck you. I [crosstalk] conviction."Jim: Yeah, you did it. Woody: And he's on the death row. But extensive DNA testing on items recovered from the scene of the crime failed to detect any trace of biological material connecting Thibodeaux to the murder. Tests also showed that despite Thibodeaux's confession to rape, Crystal had not been sexually assaulted. And DNA testing on the cord used to strangle Crystal identified a male DNA profile that did not belong to Thibodeaux.Jim: Uh-oh.Woody: Well, doesn't totally excuse him. It could have been anything. Somebody else could have held the cord, and Thibodeaux could have been wearing gloves, we don't know. But the reinvestigation established firmly that Thibodeaux's confession was false. He claimed to have raped Champagne when in fact, no rape occurred. He said he strangled her with a gray speaker wire he took from his car, when in fact she was strangled with a red cord that had been tied to a tree near the crime scene. The prosecution consults an expert in false confessions who concluded that the confession was the result of police pressure, exhaustion, psychological vulnerability, and fear of the death penalty.Jim: Wow. Woody: Yeah. I mean, it can happen, y'all. I hope every day that I didn't get the juice from somebody on the wrong level, and I don't think I did. Anyway, on September 29th, 2012, he was released from death row. Thibodeaux later filed a federal civil rights lawsuit that was put on hold in January 2017. Like most of our guys, he died in August of 2021.Jim: Wow. Woody: But you know what? I know false confessions do happen. It's a real deal.Jim: Yeah. You'll confess to anything if you're tired enough.Woody: You had your ass [unintelligible 00:49:06].Jim: Yeah. Woody: [laughs] -eight, nine hours not eating, I mean, you're going to get the needle, da, da, da. It might have been, "Help me help you. You tell us what happened, we're going to tell that you cooperated." But the fact that he confesses and then they give him some food and he's like, [crosstalk]Jim: Yeah. All right, we're going to give, y'all, one more today. We're going to tell you about a guy that definitely did not do it, was exonerated by DNA evidence, and that is Mr. Rickey Johnson. I saved this one for last today because he was in prison a long time for a rape he didn't commit. Matter of fact, he was in prison 25 years. Woody: That would suck. Jim: Yeah. One day in prison for something you didn't do, it sucks. All right, imagine 25 years. Let me tell you about the crime. In the early morning hours of July 12th, 1982, a 22-year-old woman awoke in her Northwest Louisiana home to find a man holding a gun to her head.Woody: Wow. Jim: The man raped the woman twice, stayed at her house for four hours. He told her his name was Marcus Johnson, and he mentioned several details. He claimed they were about his life. He claimed to be looking for an ex-girlfriend of his from Many, Louisiana. He said he was on probation. He was from Leesville, Louisiana. He even said he had relatives in the town of Natchitoches and Monroe. The weird thing is, he raped this chick twice and then he starts telling her his life story. It's almost like he felt like, "Now, we have a connection." Woody: Yeah, I got this special nut dumping connection.Jim: Yeah. What do you think the victim did? Woody: Pillow talk. Jim: She reports the rape the next morning, and at which point she told police her attacker was an African American man. He was between 5'6" and 5'8", and he weighed about 140 pounds. He had facial hair and a scarf tied around his head. A detective from the Sabine Parish Sheriff's Department contacted the Leesville Sheriff's Department to ask if they had a man named Marcus Johnson on file. There was no record of Marcus Johnson, but Leesville officers did tell detectives about Rickey Johnson. They said, "Well, we got another Johnson here. His name is Rickey. He's African American," and he was on probation for a traffic violation, a misdemeanor. Rickey matched some of the details that the lady provided of the perpetrator. He was from Leesville, he did have a child with a woman in Many, and he had relatives in Natchitoches and Monroe. So, he becomes a suspect. Nothing wrong with that. Police showed the victim a six pack, but it was actually only three pictures in this one. So, we're going to call it a three pack. Woody: Three pack. Jim: Yeah. It had Johnson's photo, which was at the center. Woody: I don't know how you get away with that.Jim: That picture was eight years old, and it was in the center. That's important. Mentally, you go to the center picture first. The victim told police that she had ample time to see the perpetrator's face and she identified Johnson as a perpetrator, even though he had a prominent gold tooth, which was never part of her description of the attacker. If a guy rapes you or a girl rapes you and they have a gold tooth, you're probably going to mention they had a gold tooth. Woody: You mentioned facial hair and everything else, and the gold tooth would stand out. Jim: Two days later, what do you think they do? They go arrest Rickey Johnson and they don't even investigate any other suspects at this time. They think they got their man. Johnson asserts his innocence. He says, "I didn't do any of this crap." Six days later, they conduct an in-person lineup with five individuals. Again, Johnson, they put in the center. And again, the victim identifies him as the assailant. The lineup was not presented at Johnson's trial because it was ruled inadmissible since Johnson did not have an attorney present at the lineup. I mean, it happens. Doesn't mean he didn't do it. Tests at the Shreveport Crime Lab determined that evidence collected from the victim at the hospital included sperm and serological testing that showed Johnson and 35% of the African American population could have been the contributor. So, that's basically no evidence. Too many people. Woody: Too many people are-- [crosstalk] African American. Jim: 35% of the entire population. Johnson was charged with aggravated sexual assault and tried before a jury in Sabine Parish, Louisiana. The victim identified him at trial saying she was positive. Woody: Game over.Jim: Positive that was him, and there was no question in her mind. She said the apartment was dark until about 15 minutes before he left. Prosecutors presented the victim's photo ID of Johnson and the serological evidence that his blood type matched the blood type of the perpetrator as determined--Woody: Back then, they didn't have DNA. They could give you blood types, basically. Jim: That's it. So, long story short, he gets convicted by the jury and he's sentenced to life without parole. Woody: Bloody Angola.Jim: Bloody Angola, baby, that's where you're going. So, Johnson contacts the Innocence Project at the suggestion of a guy named Calvin Willis, who was also a fellow inmate at Louisiana State Penitentiary. Willis was exonerated in 2003 after the Innocence Project secured DNA testing that proved his innocence. He basically called his boy and said, "If you really didn't do this, I got some people you need to talk to." Now, in late 2007, that DNA testing was performed on the sperm from the perpetrator of the crime. Remember, we said they had sperm. And the results proved beyond a shadow of a doubt that Johnson could not have been the attacker.Woody: Wow. Jim: This is the first DNA exoneration using the new technology with DNA at this time called Mini-STR, which allows labs to accurately test degraded or extremely small samples. First time. [crosstalk] In January 2008, they do what anybody would do, they took that DNA profile and now they have a database in 2008.Woody: CODIS.Jim: Uh-oh. Woody: They got somebody else.Jim: They got a hit, Woody Overton. And John McNeal, who was already in prison serving a life sentence for rape committed in 1983 in the same apartment complex incidentally as the crime for which Johnson was convicted.Woody: How the hell do you not investigate that?Jim: It's crazy, ain't it? He's already in prison for that rape committed in the same complex. And so basically, they offer their apologies. After 25 years in prison for a rape he didn't commit, Rickey Johnson was released and exonerated in 2008 after 25 years in prison. The state of Louisiana later awarded him $245,000 in compensation. That ain't even close to what he needed. Woody: Did Johnson go beat that other guy's ass? [crosstalk] Jim: [chuckles] That's a good question. I couldn't find the answer to that. I'm sure he wanted to. Woody: [crosstalk] -find, you could. Jim: He would've got some inmate justice. Woody: Yeah. "Bitch, you knew I've been here all this time for this," and you know they all know what they're down for. Jim: Oh, yeah.Woody: You get your David Constance been in there lying, saying, "My wife put me up, but not on rape charge."Jim: No. Woody: [crosstalk] Jim: In the same apartment complex.Woody: No doubt. That is crazy. Jim: It's freaking nuts. You would think that guy's already serving another life sentence. Why not just come clean and say, "I raped that girl"? Yeah, that's exactly right. Woody: Even convicts don't like rapists. Jim: That's right. Woody: Especially kid rapers and all that. Jim: That's right. So, long story short, he got $245,000 from the state of Louisiana. A federal wrongful conviction lawsuit was settled confidentially in 2011. So, he did get some money federally. Doesn't say how much. [crosstalk] Look, we hope y'all enjoyed these. Woody: We got to do more of these. Jim: Oh, yeah.Woody: These cases you find, criminal mind is always fascinating to me, but this shit is--Jim: Love it. Woody: Hey, we're all about the Gerald Bordelon getting executed for raping and killing Courtney LeBlanc. We're all about--[crosstalk] Almost every one of these, except for Rickey Johnson was on death row. Jim: Yeah, something. There's been actually, for those of you out there that are playing trivia games, there's been 11 people released from Angola alone from death row based off of either DNA evidence or strong evidence to force an exoneration. Woody: I get that why people are against it. They say, "Oh, you kill one wrong, it's too many, shut it down." You haven't sat across the table or looked at the dead bodies and shit that I've looked at and looked in the face of evil. But hey, I'm a champion, and would go on-- As you know Jim, after my law enforcement career, I went on and defended people that were innocent, that I believe they were innocent. So, it is what it is. We're not totally one sided, but hell or jail or freedom. Jim: That's it. Woody: It's another great episode. Jim: Yeah. We loved it. Thank you, patrons, couldn't do it without you. Woody: Yes. Jim: If you're not a patron member, go join Patreon. We may do some of these just for patron members. Woody: Patrons get commercial-free, early release episodes and locked up episodes, which we probably have more locked up for Bloody Angola than I have locked up for Real Life Real Crime, so a bunch of them. All different kinds of stories. So, y'all go check it out. You can go to patreon.com and type in "Bloody Angola."Jim: Yep. /bloodyangolapodcast will pull you right to it. We appreciate it. We love each and every one of you. And until next time-Woody: I'm Woody Overton.Jim: And I'm Jim Chapman, your host of Bloody-Woody: Angola.Jim: A podcast 142 years in the making. Woody: The Complete Story of America's Bloodiest Prison.Jim and Woody: Peace. [Bloody Angola theme]Our Sponsors:* Check out Factor and use my code bloodyangola50 for a great deal: https://www.factor75.com/ Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy