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Speaker 1: H a wall Street line, shackle change, Oh weesome, gird.

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Speaker 2: It's calling by the name there is no mercy and

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it's been a tentery juice as the huge stream game

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Wrangle three.

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Speaker 3: Come in by me to die.

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Speaker 1: Inside these walls, inside the wild.

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Speaker 3: Hadn't went no girl as I.

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Speaker 4: Hey everyone, and welcome back to Bloody Angola. I'm your host,

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Jim Chapman, and we are back with another Fifty Shades

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of Evil episode. This time we're going to New Mexico

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and I'm going to tell you the story of Clifton Bloomfield. Now,

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before we get into it quickly, I want to apologize

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for not releasing an episode last week. I was actually

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in court for about eight days and I'm talking eighteen

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hour days in court. Now. There was a very high

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profile case here in my community, and I was there

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for every second of that trial. Unfortunately, what was estimated

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to likely be a four day trial turned into an

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a day trial, so I was unable to record an episode.

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But I'm back and we're going to get into this

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story now. In two thousand and eight, Bloomfield pleaded guilty

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to ten charges, including five counts of first degree murder.

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He is likely the most infamous serial killer in New

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Mexico history, and due to his role on the very

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popular series Breaking Bad, he has become known as the

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Breaking Bag Killer. So let's get into it, and we're

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going to start in March of nineteen sixty nine when

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Clifton Bloomfield was born in Kingman, Arizona. Now, Kingman, Arizona

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is a pretty historic city. It's actually known as the

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heart of Route sixty six. There's a lot of tourist attractions.

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There's a lot of historic buildings, museums, et cetera. Now,

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his household was a working class household. Both of his

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parents hard workers. Not much documented as to what they did,

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but they had more of a blue collar background. Now,

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when Clifton was two years old, his parents did have

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another child, and Clifton would welcome a younger sister who

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would play a role later on in this story. So,

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believe it or not, it didn't take Clifton long to

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have his first scrape with law enforcement. As a matter

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of fact, in nineteen seventy nine, at the age of

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just ten years old, he had his first scrape with

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the law. There's actually a documented case in Mohave County Arizona,

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where apparently Clifton was threatening other kids with a bb gun.

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Not sure how serious the case was, but it appeared

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very serious because the judge in Arizona, he took it

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seriously enough that he plays Clifton Bloomfield on probation until

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his eighteenth birthday, and he ordered him to enroll in

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children's homes in Tucson, Arizona, where he stayed for three years.

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So at the age of thirteen, he gets released from

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his children's home and he returns to live with his

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parents in Kingman, Arizona, and his parents were struggling with

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a lot of behavior issues out of Clifton, so much

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so that they started bringing him to mental health clinics

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pretty much on a daily basis, and he gets formally

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charged with schizophrenia, which leads to him being prescribed an

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antipsychotic medication called sarentil, which y'all know. I do my

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research and I looked up what this medication was, and

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according to my research, serentil is historically used to treat

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schizophrenia in patients who have failed to respond to other treatments. Now,

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it was also used for behavior problems, anxiety, and alcoholism,

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but in two thousand and four was actually withdrawn from

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the United States market after significant risk of serious cardiac

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events and also serious severe side effects of other types.

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So you learn it all on this show, folks. Now

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back to Clifton. He returned at thirteen home and shortly

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after that he gets committed yet again for another juvenile offense.

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As a matter of fact, it was numerous offenses, including

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stealing a motorcycle and breaking into a church. So he's

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in and out of the juvenile facilities a lot between

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the ages of thirteen and eighteen. He was very, very aggressive.

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He was a problem child. He would fight staff members

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often and it was completely obvious that this guy had

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some major problems. So moving on to nineteen eighty seven,

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he becomes an adult. He's eighteen years old and it's

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not much better for clefting. He didn't exactly mature as

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we would say. He teams up with his sixteen year

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old sister, her name was Eva, and they'd go on

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a weak, long armed robbery crime spree across Phoenix, Arizona. Now,

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during this crime spree, they targeted convenience stores and pizza

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delivery drivers primarily, and the cusp of this crime is

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Bloomfield would either enter a store, a convenience store, or

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he would approach pizza delivery drivers as just an ordinary customer.

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He'd yank a gun and he would demand cash at gunpoint. Now,

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he and his sister of eventually got caught just shortly

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after starting these crime sprees and they are both arrested

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on four counts of armed robbery. A year later, in

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nineteen eighty eight, Clifton is admitted to the Arizona Department

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of Corrections, but he's classified in the minimum security level, which,

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considering this guy's previous record, that kind of surprised me.

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He gets a fourteen year sentence and his sister received

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a much lighter sentence, which I'm sure it's primarily due

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to her age. She was sixteen at the time, and

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I'm sure they probably assumed that he was influencing her

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in a lot of what she was doing in the

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way she was acting. So Clifton does serve that full

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fourteen year term in prison. He wasn't released early, served

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all fourteen years. Now, while he was incarcerated, there was

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no record of any major dist urbances that he was

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causing in prison, and it appeared that he was doing

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his time without much trouble. And that told me a lot,

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because he had these schizophrenia episodes growing up in life.

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get in any trouble for those fourteen years. So even

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with all these alleged mental issues, he is able to

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keep his nose completely clean in that jail stem. So

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we're going to move on to December twenty third of

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two thousand and two, and at this point, Clifton Bloomfield

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is thirty three years old and he's finally released from

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Arizona State Prison and he settles into a small home,

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designed to help incarcerated inmates that are released kind of

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get back to society and adjust to that society.

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Speaker 1: Now.

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Speaker 4: During this time, he does take on manual labor jobs,

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though they're between his employment and non employment, and he

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would work at a local hotel, he would work at

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a roofing company, and from the outside looking in, it

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actually appeared that his life was pretty stable. Maybe this

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guy was getting his life together right, making decent money.

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He even develops a romantic relationship with a girlfriend during

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this time, and she starts taking Clifton Bloomfield to Church.

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Everything seems to be turning around for him. He does

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also relocate during this time to New Mexico, and between

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two thousand and three and two thousand and five, unfortunately,

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he starts developing a New Mexico criminal record involving primarily

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property crimes and home invasions burglary type things. Now, these

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were primarily armed robberies and aggravated burglaries, which you would think,

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after he's got all this history, this big record behind him,

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you would think he would get incarcerated at that point. However,

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for whatever reason, he ends up with purbation in these cases.

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And it's also around this time that he does some

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film work. Now it's extras for the popular show Breaking Bad. Now,

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extra rolls are no big deal, really, but it's a

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pretty good show to put on your resume, right, And

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he had kind of a look that you would think

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when you're thinking of casting an extra for Breaking Bad.

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He really fit some sort of role there in mys

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Now we're going to move on to October twenty fourth

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of two thousand and five, and I'm going to tell

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you about the murder of Carlos Esquabel. Now to tell

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you a little bit about Carlos. He worked as an

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interei designer and his family and friends to them, he

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was known as a wonderful artist. He was known to

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have exceptional personal senses of style and fashion, and often

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noted for his sharp outfits. And he was just well

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known and well liked in Albuquerque's arts community, very outgoing,

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had a large circle of friends. So I'm going to

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take you to the evening of October twenty fourth of

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two thousand and five, and he was dining alone at

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Thud Rutgers Restaurants. Now, according to reports, Clifton just so

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happened to already be eating there. They didn't know each

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other at the time, but they strike up a conversation together. Now,

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Carlos was a gay man, and Bloomfield and Carlos, they

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eventually end up going back to Carlos's apartment. They end

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up in the bedroom, and once inside that bedroom, Bloomfield

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strangles Carlos to death with Carlos's own shirt. Bloomfield then

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searches the apartment for valuables. A burglar, right, well, now

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he's a murderer. He steals a few things and he leaves.

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The next day. The landlord discovers Carlos's lifeless body. Now, police,

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of course are called, and they do all the things

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that you think they would do. They checked for fingerprints,

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they get DNA, they categorize the scene, they look for weapons,

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all those sort of things, take pictures, they process all

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that stuff, and they start an investigation. So apparently Clifton

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he has gotten his first taste of death, if you will,

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And it was not long before he would strike again.

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Just three days later, on October twenty seventh of two

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thousand and five. I'm going to tell you about an

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eighty one year old by the name of Josephine Salvage

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who would cross his path. Now a little about Josephine.

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She was a retired school teacher and at this point

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in her life she was living alone. She was struggling

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with Alzheimer's. Now, on the very late evening of October

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twenty seventh, two thousand and five, Bloomfield was walking neighborhoods

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looking for trouble. He's a burglar, now a murderer. He's

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looking to steal shit. He happens to walk past Miss

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Josephine's house and he notices that the back door of

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her home was ajar. It was cracked open. And when

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you're someone like Clifton Bloomfield and you see a back

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you have a history of breaking and entering, I mean

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you're known for burglarizing homes, there is no way he

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was going to walk right past that door. To him,

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that was a sign that he needed to go in

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there and rob shit. So he walks up to the

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door and he just walks in. He makes his way

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into that home and the first thing he sees is

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a purse on the kitchen table, which he picks up

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and he steals. He then moves to the other rooms

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of the home. He steals a bunch of jewelry. And

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during this process Miss Josephine she must have heard something

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because she gets up out of bed to investigate. Now

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she goes to where she heard the noise, which was

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in another bedroom, and that is where she is confronted

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by Clifton Bloomfield. He sees her standing in the doorway

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and he overpowers her look very easily. This woman is

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eighty one years old, obviously due to her age in

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her mental condition, and this six son of a bitch

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strangles her by suffocating her with a piece of clothing,

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which by now you can see this is becoming his

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calling card, if you will. He kills her, and he

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steals a bunch of shit and he leaves home. Now

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police discover her body that same night, and there are

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no reports on how they knew something was wrong and

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went to that residence to discover her body. I don't

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know if somebody saw him walking down the road with

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a freaking purse and other items that he had stole

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from her and they called police. It's never been reported,

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but certainly police were made aware of it. They go

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to the scene, they process that scene much the same

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way they processed the first murder that I told you about,

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and again this looks like an armed robbery gone wrong

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in the eyes of the police. Now it gets quiet

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for about a month. Police they're working both of these murders.

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They are not sure if they're connected just yet. And

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on November twenty ninth of two thousand and five, they

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would be busy yet again when Clifton Bloomfield would come

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across a couple by the name of Edwin and rupe Garcia.

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This time the mo would be completely different Bloomfield would

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pose as a potential home buyer after seeing a sign

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that said the house was for sale in the front yard,

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and he goes up to the Garcia's doors. He knocks

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on that door and he engages them in small talk.

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He's putting on the charm, right, He's acting like he

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wants to buy this home. He then asks them if

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they can give him a tour of the home. He's

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interested in it, wants to buy it. They agree to

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do that, and upon entering the home, he's walking around

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for a minute looking at all these rooms. Oh this

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is so pretty, look at the chandelier. He suddenly pulls

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a gun and presses it to Edwin Garcia's neck and

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he threatens. He says, quote, if you do something I

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don't like or whatever, I'll blow your brains out. He

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then forces the couple at gunpoint into their garage and

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he holds them hostage for nearly an hour as he

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went around that house, and he steals about a thousand

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dollars in cash and jewelry. Now, after that robbery, he

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flees the scene. He did leave them alive, thankfully. He

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goes back to his hid out if you will, and

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he leaves a note for that girlfriend I told you

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about now Buquerque, and all the notes said was he

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had to leave town now. The victims later told reporters

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they could still clearly picture his face. They said, quote

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when we close our eyes or something like that, we

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can see him. Sheriff deputies quickly identify Bloomfield as the suspect.

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They put a bolo a bee on the lookout for

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his vehicle, and on March twenty second of two thousand

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and six, nearly four months after that incident, US marshalls

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spot his vehicle in Lubbock, Texas, and they take Clifton

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Bloomfield into custody. Now, shockingly, he is sentenced for this

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US obvious on robbery, no jail time, none, just four

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months probation. In October twenty nineteen, high ranking Livingston Parish

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Sheriff's Office deputy Dennis Perkins and his wife Cynthia were

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arrested and subsequently convicted of over one hundred and fifty

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sex crimes involving minors. During the investigation into these crimes,

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an eighteen minute video surfaced. This video would show Dennis

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Perkins and another woman initially thought to be Cynthia, performing

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sex acts on a seemingly unconscious, unidentified female. Further investigation

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would reveal that the female performing those sex acts was

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a popular Livingstone Parish realtor by the name of Melanie Carton.

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In twenty twenty, Curtin was arrested, and in December of

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twenty twenty one, Curtin was convicted and sentenced to life

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in prison for aggravated rape plus five years for video voyeurism. However,

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in twenty twenty three, that case was thrown out after

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an appeals court ruled that not only did the evidence

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admitted unfairly prejudice Melanie Curtain, but also ruled that evidence

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not allowed in during that trial prevented Curtin from mounting

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a proper defense. Despite this ruling, the Louisiana Attorney General's

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Office continued to pursue the case under reduced charges of

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third degree rape in video voyeurism. On March seventeenth, twenty

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twenty six, after a retrial on those reduced charges, Curtin

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was found not guilty unanimously by a twelve person jury.

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What happened in this case? How can a person go

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from being unanimously convicted to life in prison to being

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found not guilty just three years later, unanimously by a

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jury in the same community. In this series, I will

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bring you inside the courtroom and cover the case exactly

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how it was present in court. I'll give you the

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backstory of what led up to the initial investigation into

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Melanie Curtain and let you decide guilt or innocence. This

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is eighteen minutes the Trials of Melanie Curtin Unexposed Investigates

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podcast Docuseriies. So we're gonna move on to December fourth

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of two thousand and seven, and you're gonna see why

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that pisces me off so much, because lives could have

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been saved here. But we're gonna move on December fourth

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of two thousand and seven, and I'm going to tell

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you about Korean's Tack and punk Ye. They were an

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elderly Korean immigrant couple. Tack was seventy six years old,

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Yee was sixty nine years old. He likes to pick

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on these elderly people, right, He's not a man that

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could pick on someone his own age. He's got to

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pick on elderly people. But they lived in Albuquerque, New Mexico,

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and they would indeed become the next victims of Clifton Bloomfield.

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So in the late night hours of December fourth of

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two thousand and seven, Bloomfield would enter their home through

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an unlocked sliding glass door. Tac would actually see him

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coming in the house, and regardless of the fact that

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Tech was seventy six years old, he was about that

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life and he fought to save his wife. He actually

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gets in a fistfight with Clifton Bloomfield, but sadly, Bloomfield

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would beat Tack to death. However, Tach didn't know DNA

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was an important thing, and police know that because he intended.

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You can tell he intentionally scratched Bloomfield several times to

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get the DNA under his fingernails, and this would become

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key evidence later. Now sadly Pung his wife sixty nine

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years old, She was also beaten to death in the

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same incident. And even as tragic as that, the ye's

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adult son would be the one to discover the bodies

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the next morning and call police. An investigation would ensue.

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But initially this particular incident would lead to two completely

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different suspects. And I'm going to tell you about Travis

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Raleigh and Mike Smith. And they were magazine salesmen, and

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they had been canvassing that neighborhood where Tech and Ye lived,

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about six miles from that home. They were canvassing, and

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this was the same day that this all went down,

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on the same night and the night before. A neighbor

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that police talked to when they canvass the neighborhood trying

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to find out if anybody might have known what happened

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or who did this. That neighbor said, well, there was

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some magazine salesmen around here yesterday and the day before.

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So police find out who these two magazine salesmen are

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and they arrest these men on December eighth of two

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thousand and seven. Now, during an intense interrogation, Rawleigh actually

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gives a confession, a detailed confession, and later he would

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have alleged that he was coerced into this, but it

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included some non public crime scene details. So when police

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worked these crime scenes, a lot of times they will

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leave some things out intentionally. The reason they do that

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is these are things only the killer would know, right,

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they never released them publicly, and he knew some of

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these things. His confession was believable, and he also implicated

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his fellow magazine salesman Mike Lee as the one who

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actually committed the murders. So both of these guys they

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get charged with double murder and they're held in jail

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and they're facing the death penalty, and they're in jail

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quite a while. And that brings me to Scott Pierce

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and Catherine Bailey Scott, and they were a forty year

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old couple. And Scott Pierce was a registered nurse, and

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he and Catherine had actually just got married six days

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prior to the incident I'm going to tell you about.

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This incident occurred on June twenty eighth of two thousand

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and eight, So six days prior to this incident they

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get married. Newly was and Scott, y'all was a really

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big man, really big as in a giant. He stood

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six foot eight inches tall and he weighed three hundred

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and fifty pounds. Now, he was a gentle giant. He

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wasn't a guy you would call a fighter or a

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shit starter, although he was a protector. Everybody who knew

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Scott described him as a really good guy. Now. Catherine

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also pretty awesome in her own right, and she and

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her husband, Scott would bring out the best in each other.

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Let's go to June twenty eighth, two thousand and eight,

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and it's around three o'clock in the morning. Scott and

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Catherine's dogs they start barking. They were sensing something and

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it was not good. So Catherine she's awoken during these

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dogs barking. She's half asleep. She gets up, She's like,

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what are they barking at. She gets to the living

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room and she notices that the back door is a jar.

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So at this point, she's still not thinking anyone's in

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the house. She's thinking Scott left the back door open.

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And it's about this time, as she's making her way

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to close that back door, that she sees a figure

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in the dark, like an apparition, and it appears this

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figure is pointing something at her. Now, initially she thinks

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it's Scott trying to scare her, play a trick on her.

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But what she doesn't realize in her grogginess is that

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Scott was still asleep in the bed, and this was

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confirmed when she hears a voice not belonging to her

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husband Scott say, quote, get down on the ground, So

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she complies. She gets down on the ground, and then

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that figure says to her quote, where is manny? And

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this didn't make any sense to her, It didn't register. Now,

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during all of this, Scott wakes up and he heads

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toward the front of that house and he stumbles across

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this scene and he sees this shadow pointing a gun

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directly at his wife. And I can only imagine what

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the person behind that gun must have been thinking. I mean,

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this is a six foot eight, three hundred and fifty

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pounds guy that just walked in on you while you're

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apparently trying to rob somebody or something. But as I

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told you, Scott had a very protective instinct, and that

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instinct kicked in almost immediately, and he lunged toward that

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intruder and tried to grab that gun. Boom, one quick,

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loud gunshot, and Scott falls on to the floor. The

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intruder then just turns tail and runs out of the house,

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leaving Catherine laying over her husband, and she is in

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sheer panic. So police arrive at the home and they

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find Scott dead from a shotgun wound to the neck.

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Catherine was unharmed, but she was very obviously traumatized, and

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she tells police everything I just told you. But there

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were questions. Initially, police found it strange that Catherine was unharmed,

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and they looked at her as a suspect pretty hard initially.

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Now that's normal, you're going to work that circle from

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inside out. And she was the person who last saw

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him alive. She was unharmed. I can see police wanting

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to look into her further. So police worked that lead

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and they discover that she is a beneficiary of Scott's

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life insurance policy, which, using hindsight, that makes all the

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sense in the world. He just married her. Of course

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she's going to be the beneficiary of his life insurance policy.

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It's not abnormal, but to police it could be a motive.

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And there was a lot of lack of evidence, if

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you will. There weren't any fingerprints, nothing really to go on,

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no DNA, So police were concerned with her, but eventually

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they would clear her. And as they were talking to her,

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they started focusing in on the name Manny that she

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told him. This intruder had asked where is Manny? And

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they asked, Catherine, do you know a Manny? And get

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this she said, in fact, she did know a Manny,

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not a very common name, right. She said that was

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the former owner of the house that they just moved into. Remember,

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they got married just six days prior. They had just

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bought that house a couple of weeks prior to that.

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So police asked for his information. She gives it to

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him and they go talk to Manny and Manny is

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very cooperative. Police asked him the obvious question, which was

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would anyone want to hurt you? And with no hesitation,

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Manny brings up the name of a coworker by the

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name of Jason Skags, and Manny explains to police that

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they were in the roofing business together. They were working

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for the same roofing company, and that Jason Skags had

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found out that Manny was actually having an affair with Skaggs.

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White Saver's motive right there, right. Police start looking into

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Jason Skaggs and they find out he was a former marine.

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He was a well built guy in his own right,

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and police take Skags into the station and in his

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police interrogation, Skaggs admitted the entire plan was driven by

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jealousy and revenge. He told detectives, quote, I wanted Manny

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to get hurt, arms, legs, things like that. You know

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he would be hurt and it would take him a

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while to recover. He later said the home invasion was

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all about the jealousy, but insisted that he never wanted

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to kill anyone. So police learn through this interrogation that

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he actually recruited, meaning Jason Skaggs recruited Clifton Bloomfield to

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rough up Manny, and he insisted he just wanted Clifton

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to beat Manny down, not to kill him. And I

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haven't mentioned this before, but there are a lot of

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reports that say Clifton was a member of the Arian Brotherhood,

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so it would make sense that this guy would be

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recruiting him to do this. Regardless of that, the next

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day police do go pick up Clifton Bloomfield, and I'm

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sure when they looked into him, they're like, damn, this

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is definitely the guy that did this. With a record

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like the one that Clifton Bloomfield had, they interrogate him. Now.

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Bloomfield's version of the events was much more extreme. He

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said Skaggs wanted many dead, he didn't want to just

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hurt him, and that Skaggs gave Bloomfield a direct message

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to deliver something to the effect of quote, nobody is

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going to be fucking someone's wife and survive, along with

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instructions to tie Mannie up and put a round in him.

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Police also discovered during this investigation that actually both men

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were there that night, Bloomfield and Skags, and according to

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the confessions, the two men broke in wearing ski masks,

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bulletpro vest and they were carrying shotguns. When Scott Piers

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confronted them, Bloomfield shot him in the neck, killing him instantly,

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and they actually fled without even realized they had killed

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the wrong man. They thought they killed Manny. So it

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is on July first of two thousand and eight that Bloomfield,

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who at this time is thirty nine years old, as

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well as Skags, they get arrested for the murder of

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Scott Peers, and within days of being arrested, DNA evidence

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from the Ye double murder is linked to Bloomfield, as

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well as the four additional homicides that I told you

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about earlier in this episode, all of it linked by DNA.

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So he's held without bond for first degree murder in

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five separate murders. Of course, he gets a public defender

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pleading negotiations start in on October tenth of two thousand

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and eight, in open court in order to avoid the

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death penalty, Bloomfield pleaded guilty to five counts of first

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degree murder in addition to a slew of other chargers,

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arm robberies, etc. Now incidentally, his accomplice in the Pierce

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murder Jason Skaggs, he gets sentenced to thirty years in

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prison for his role in that murder. So in March

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of two thousand and nine, Bloomfield is sentenced to five

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consecutive life sentences plus forty five years for all that

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other shit, and it's off to prison for him. However,

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this was not similar to his first experience in prison.

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He becomes a shit starter in prison, which of eventually

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would lead to his transfer to what's none as the

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Northeast New Mexico Correctional Facility, and that will become a problem.

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On August twenty third of twenty seventeen, Bloomfield actually attacks

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a fellow inmate by the name of Stephen Woods with

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a towel and he nearly strangles him to death with

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that towel. He is m right, that's how he likes

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to kill people. Woods would survive, however, Now, typically when

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an incident like this occurs, you're transferred to another facility. However,

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Bloomfield was not. Instead, he was ordered to receive more counseling.

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I mean, you cannot make that shit up. Then less

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than a month later, the warden of that prison, a

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guy by the name of Mark Bowden. He receives an

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anonymous kite and a kite y'all is an inmate note

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passed from inmate to m may. The warden gets this

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kite and it warned that Bloomfield planned to harm prison staff.

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So at this point the warden emails just a small

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group of staff and he says, we received denote this morning,

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stating inmate Bloomfield wants to harm our staff. All of

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us know how dangerous this inmate is. Please ensure all

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precautions are used when dealing with this inmate. Ensure a

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supervisor and a camera or present when his food slot

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or cell door is open. Then over a week later,

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one of the most infamous riots in New Mexico history occurs.

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It will become known as the Clayton Riot, and the

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ringleader of that riot is none other than Clifton Bloomfield. Now,

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according to reports on September twenty third of twenty seventeen

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at approximately nine oh five PM in Cell Block three,

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which is a restrictive housing unit inside of that Clayton Prison,

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a rookie correctional office or by the name of Matt Shriner,

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who was twenty two years old at the time, had

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very little training. He was working alone. He didn't have

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his radio on him. He is persuaded somehow by Bloomfield

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to open up his cell door and that cell was

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selled two to three. So later on in an interview,

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Matt Shriner was interviewed and he said he stopped at

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that cell and Bloomfield started talking to him through the door,

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and he said the conversation lasted just a few seconds,

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but he couldn't remember why. But he unlocks the door,

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and as soon as he unlocks it, and there's actually

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surveillance video of this occurring, Bloomfield explodes out of that

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door and he has a shank made from a sharpened

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toothbrush and he jams it against Shriner's throat and he

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takes him hostage. He rips the keys off of this

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correctional officer's belt and he opens every single cell door

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in that forty cell unit. Shriner manages to break free

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he runs down the stairs. He grabs his radio and

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he alerts the prison officials, but it's already too late.

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All hell has already broken. Loose inmates are pouring out

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of these cells. They barricade the main entry door, They

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disabled the security cameras. They start starting fires, They flood

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the unit, and they even setle old scores with each

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other and start fighting each other. One inmate, later identified

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as Samuel Sanchez, actually has his throat slashed wide open

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inside his cell. He's found unconscious in a pool of

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his own blood, and he had to be airlifted to

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a hospital. Another inmate later reported he was raped during

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the chaos. For a full hour, these men controlled that

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cell block in Bloomfield. As I told you, was the

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ringleader of all this. The prison's riot response team. They

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finally storm that cell block. They use tear gas, flash

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grenades or flash bangs, and they round up these inmates

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one by one. They get to Bloomfield, he's cuffed and

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he is immediately transferred to maximum security at what's known

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as the Penitentiary of New Mexico. This is in Santa Fay.

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But one hour, y'all, that's all it took. For a

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serial killer in a group of the state's most violent

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inmates to take over that prison. Now, the guard Matthew Shriner,

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when he was interviewed after this, because there was a

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lot of belief he had something to do with this

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and he was in cahoots with Clifton Bloomfield, he said

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he was sick and exhausted from the constant overtime and

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he just made kind of like a mental mistake. Well,

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he does get charged with unlawful rescue of a convicted

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capital offender and assisting escape. He resigns and basically that

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case was investigated and the charges were eventually dropped because

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prosecutors said there just wasn't enough evidence that he intentionally

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helped Bloomfield. He moved out of the state and people

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have never heard from him again. Now, Bloomfield, obviously he

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00:40:26,000 --> 00:40:31,039
picked up new charges kidnapping, conspiracy to commit murder, assault

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on a police officer, arson attempted murder. But I mean,

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he had five life sentences already. It didn't change much

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except for he's just going to stay locked down in

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MAC security probably for the rest of his life. Interestingly,

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the inmate whose throat was slit actually soothed the state

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and the GEO Group who this was a private prison.

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It wasn't a state prison. GEO Group was the private

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I guess the company that manned this private prison, and

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he actually got paid two hundred thousand dollars in a settlement.

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This is an inmate. Now. The riot was so bad

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that that GEO Group eventually lost their contract and in

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twenty nineteen, the state took over the prison completely. New

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rules were put in place, obviously to keep this from

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happening again. But for one hour, Clifton Bloomfield proved that

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even behind bars, some killers never really stop. Now, since

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that time in twenty eighteen, there have been no other

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reports come out regarding Clifton Bloomfield. He is still alive,

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he is still incarcerating and at this point in time

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he is fifty six years old. So there you have it.

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Thank you so much for listening. Check out the Patreon

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female and male teachers and the sentences they get for

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For Bloody and Gola, I'm Jim Chapman.

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game Rangler.

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