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Speaker 4: Hey everyone, and welcome back to Bloody Angola. I'm your host,
Jim Chapman, and we are back with another Fifty Shades
of Evil episode. This time we're going to New Mexico
and I'm going to tell you the story of Clifton Bloomfield. Now,
before we get into it quickly, I want to apologize
for not releasing an episode last week. I was actually
in court for about eight days and I'm talking eighteen
hour days in court. Now. There was a very high
profile case here in my community, and I was there
for every second of that trial. Unfortunately, what was estimated
to likely be a four day trial turned into an
a day trial, so I was unable to record an episode.
But I'm back and we're going to get into this
story now. In two thousand and eight, Bloomfield pleaded guilty
to ten charges, including five counts of first degree murder.
He is likely the most infamous serial killer in New
Mexico history, and due to his role on the very
popular series Breaking Bad, he has become known as the
Breaking Bag Killer. So let's get into it, and we're
going to start in March of nineteen sixty nine when
Clifton Bloomfield was born in Kingman, Arizona. Now, Kingman, Arizona
is a pretty historic city. It's actually known as the
heart of Route sixty six. There's a lot of tourist attractions.
There's a lot of historic buildings, museums, et cetera. Now,
his household was a working class household. Both of his
parents hard workers. Not much documented as to what they did,
but they had more of a blue collar background. Now,
when Clifton was two years old, his parents did have
another child, and Clifton would welcome a younger sister who
would play a role later on in this story. So,
believe it or not, it didn't take Clifton long to
have his first scrape with law enforcement. As a matter
of fact, in nineteen seventy nine, at the age of
just ten years old, he had his first scrape with
the law. There's actually a documented case in Mohave County Arizona,
where apparently Clifton was threatening other kids with a bb gun.
Not sure how serious the case was, but it appeared
very serious because the judge in Arizona, he took it
seriously enough that he plays Clifton Bloomfield on probation until
his eighteenth birthday, and he ordered him to enroll in
children's homes in Tucson, Arizona, where he stayed for three years.
So at the age of thirteen, he gets released from
his children's home and he returns to live with his
parents in Kingman, Arizona, and his parents were struggling with
a lot of behavior issues out of Clifton, so much
so that they started bringing him to mental health clinics
pretty much on a daily basis, and he gets formally
charged with schizophrenia, which leads to him being prescribed an
antipsychotic medication called sarentil, which y'all know. I do my
research and I looked up what this medication was, and
according to my research, serentil is historically used to treat
schizophrenia in patients who have failed to respond to other treatments. Now,
it was also used for behavior problems, anxiety, and alcoholism,
but in two thousand and four was actually withdrawn from
the United States market after significant risk of serious cardiac
events and also serious severe side effects of other types.
So you learn it all on this show, folks. Now
back to Clifton. He returned at thirteen home and shortly
after that he gets committed yet again for another juvenile offense.
As a matter of fact, it was numerous offenses, including
stealing a motorcycle and breaking into a church. So he's
in and out of the juvenile facilities a lot between
the ages of thirteen and eighteen. He was very, very aggressive.
He was a problem child. He would fight staff members
often and it was completely obvious that this guy had
some major problems. So moving on to nineteen eighty seven,
he becomes an adult. He's eighteen years old and it's
not much better for clefting. He didn't exactly mature as
we would say. He teams up with his sixteen year
old sister, her name was Eva, and they'd go on
a weak, long armed robbery crime spree across Phoenix, Arizona. Now,
during this crime spree, they targeted convenience stores and pizza
delivery drivers primarily, and the cusp of this crime is
Bloomfield would either enter a store, a convenience store, or
he would approach pizza delivery drivers as just an ordinary customer.
He'd yank a gun and he would demand cash at gunpoint. Now,
he and his sister of eventually got caught just shortly
after starting these crime sprees and they are both arrested
on four counts of armed robbery. A year later, in
nineteen eighty eight, Clifton is admitted to the Arizona Department
of Corrections, but he's classified in the minimum security level, which,
considering this guy's previous record, that kind of surprised me.
He gets a fourteen year sentence and his sister received
a much lighter sentence, which I'm sure it's primarily due
to her age. She was sixteen at the time, and
I'm sure they probably assumed that he was influencing her
in a lot of what she was doing in the
way she was acting. So Clifton does serve that full
fourteen year term in prison. He wasn't released early, served
all fourteen years. Now, while he was incarcerated, there was
no record of any major dist urbances that he was
causing in prison, and it appeared that he was doing
his time without much trouble. And that told me a lot,
because he had these schizophrenia episodes growing up in life.
But yet he goes to prison and he doesn't really
get in any trouble for those fourteen years. So even
with all these alleged mental issues, he is able to
keep his nose completely clean in that jail stem. So
we're going to move on to December twenty third of
two thousand and two, and at this point, Clifton Bloomfield
is thirty three years old and he's finally released from
Arizona State Prison and he settles into a small home,
and this is likely some sort of group home that's
designed to help incarcerated inmates that are released kind of
get back to society and adjust to that society.
Speaker 1: Now.
Speaker 4: During this time, he does take on manual labor jobs,
though they're between his employment and non employment, and he
would work at a local hotel, he would work at
a roofing company, and from the outside looking in, it
actually appeared that his life was pretty stable. Maybe this
guy was getting his life together right, making decent money.
He even develops a romantic relationship with a girlfriend during
this time, and she starts taking Clifton Bloomfield to Church.
Everything seems to be turning around for him. He does
also relocate during this time to New Mexico, and between
two thousand and three and two thousand and five, unfortunately,
he starts developing a New Mexico criminal record involving primarily
property crimes and home invasions burglary type things. Now, these
were primarily armed robberies and aggravated burglaries, which you would think,
after he's got all this history, this big record behind him,
you would think he would get incarcerated at that point. However,
for whatever reason, he ends up with purbation in these cases.
And it's also around this time that he does some
film work. Now it's extras for the popular show Breaking Bad. Now,
extra rolls are no big deal, really, but it's a
pretty good show to put on your resume, right, And
he had kind of a look that you would think
when you're thinking of casting an extra for Breaking Bad.
He really fit some sort of role there in mys
Now we're going to move on to October twenty fourth
of two thousand and five, and I'm going to tell
you about the murder of Carlos Esquabel. Now to tell
you a little bit about Carlos. He worked as an
interei designer and his family and friends to them, he
was known as a wonderful artist. He was known to
have exceptional personal senses of style and fashion, and often
noted for his sharp outfits. And he was just well
known and well liked in Albuquerque's arts community, very outgoing,
had a large circle of friends. So I'm going to
take you to the evening of October twenty fourth of
two thousand and five, and he was dining alone at
Thud Rutgers Restaurants. Now, according to reports, Clifton just so
happened to already be eating there. They didn't know each
other at the time, but they strike up a conversation together. Now,
Carlos was a gay man, and Bloomfield and Carlos, they
eventually end up going back to Carlos's apartment. They end
up in the bedroom, and once inside that bedroom, Bloomfield
strangles Carlos to death with Carlos's own shirt. Bloomfield then
searches the apartment for valuables. A burglar, right, well, now
he's a murderer. He steals a few things and he leaves.
The next day. The landlord discovers Carlos's lifeless body. Now, police,
of course are called, and they do all the things
that you think they would do. They checked for fingerprints,
they get DNA, they categorize the scene, they look for weapons,
all those sort of things, take pictures, they process all
that stuff, and they start an investigation. So apparently Clifton
he has gotten his first taste of death, if you will,
And it was not long before he would strike again.
Just three days later, on October twenty seventh of two
thousand and five. I'm going to tell you about an
eighty one year old by the name of Josephine Salvage
who would cross his path. Now a little about Josephine.
She was a retired school teacher and at this point
in her life she was living alone. She was struggling
with Alzheimer's. Now, on the very late evening of October
twenty seventh, two thousand and five, Bloomfield was walking neighborhoods
looking for trouble. He's a burglar, now a murderer. He's
looking to steal shit. He happens to walk past Miss
Josephine's house and he notices that the back door of
her home was ajar. It was cracked open. And when
you're someone like Clifton Bloomfield and you see a back
door cracked open in the middle of the night, and
you have a history of breaking and entering, I mean
you're known for burglarizing homes, there is no way he
was going to walk right past that door. To him,
that was a sign that he needed to go in
there and rob shit. So he walks up to the
door and he just walks in. He makes his way
into that home and the first thing he sees is
a purse on the kitchen table, which he picks up
and he steals. He then moves to the other rooms
of the home. He steals a bunch of jewelry. And
during this process Miss Josephine she must have heard something
because she gets up out of bed to investigate. Now
she goes to where she heard the noise, which was
in another bedroom, and that is where she is confronted
by Clifton Bloomfield. He sees her standing in the doorway
and he overpowers her look very easily. This woman is
eighty one years old, obviously due to her age in
her mental condition, and this six son of a bitch
strangles her by suffocating her with a piece of clothing,
which by now you can see this is becoming his
calling card, if you will. He kills her, and he
steals a bunch of shit and he leaves home. Now
police discover her body that same night, and there are
no reports on how they knew something was wrong and
went to that residence to discover her body. I don't
know if somebody saw him walking down the road with
a freaking purse and other items that he had stole
from her and they called police. It's never been reported,
but certainly police were made aware of it. They go
to the scene, they process that scene much the same
way they processed the first murder that I told you about,
and again this looks like an armed robbery gone wrong
in the eyes of the police. Now it gets quiet
for about a month. Police they're working both of these murders.
They are not sure if they're connected just yet. And
on November twenty ninth of two thousand and five, they
would be busy yet again when Clifton Bloomfield would come
across a couple by the name of Edwin and rupe Garcia.
This time the mo would be completely different Bloomfield would
pose as a potential home buyer after seeing a sign
that said the house was for sale in the front yard,
and he goes up to the Garcia's doors. He knocks
on that door and he engages them in small talk.
He's putting on the charm, right, He's acting like he
wants to buy this home. He then asks them if
they can give him a tour of the home. He's
interested in it, wants to buy it. They agree to
do that, and upon entering the home, he's walking around
for a minute looking at all these rooms. Oh this
is so pretty, look at the chandelier. He suddenly pulls
a gun and presses it to Edwin Garcia's neck and
he threatens. He says, quote, if you do something I
don't like or whatever, I'll blow your brains out. He
then forces the couple at gunpoint into their garage and
he holds them hostage for nearly an hour as he
went around that house, and he steals about a thousand
dollars in cash and jewelry. Now, after that robbery, he
flees the scene. He did leave them alive, thankfully. He
goes back to his hid out if you will, and
he leaves a note for that girlfriend I told you
about now Buquerque, and all the notes said was he
had to leave town now. The victims later told reporters
they could still clearly picture his face. They said, quote
when we close our eyes or something like that, we
can see him. Sheriff deputies quickly identify Bloomfield as the suspect.
They put a bolo a bee on the lookout for
his vehicle, and on March twenty second of two thousand
and six, nearly four months after that incident, US marshalls
spot his vehicle in Lubbock, Texas, and they take Clifton
Bloomfield into custody. Now, shockingly, he is sentenced for this
US obvious on robbery, no jail time, none, just four
months probation. In October twenty nineteen, high ranking Livingston Parish
Sheriff's Office deputy Dennis Perkins and his wife Cynthia were
arrested and subsequently convicted of over one hundred and fifty
sex crimes involving minors. During the investigation into these crimes,
an eighteen minute video surfaced. This video would show Dennis
Perkins and another woman initially thought to be Cynthia, performing
sex acts on a seemingly unconscious, unidentified female. Further investigation
would reveal that the female performing those sex acts was
a popular Livingstone Parish realtor by the name of Melanie Carton.
In twenty twenty, Curtin was arrested, and in December of
twenty twenty one, Curtin was convicted and sentenced to life
in prison for aggravated rape plus five years for video voyeurism. However,
in twenty twenty three, that case was thrown out after
an appeals court ruled that not only did the evidence
admitted unfairly prejudice Melanie Curtain, but also ruled that evidence
not allowed in during that trial prevented Curtin from mounting
a proper defense. Despite this ruling, the Louisiana Attorney General's
Office continued to pursue the case under reduced charges of
third degree rape in video voyeurism. On March seventeenth, twenty
twenty six, after a retrial on those reduced charges, Curtin
was found not guilty unanimously by a twelve person jury.
What happened in this case? How can a person go
from being unanimously convicted to life in prison to being
found not guilty just three years later, unanimously by a
jury in the same community. In this series, I will
bring you inside the courtroom and cover the case exactly
how it was present in court. I'll give you the
backstory of what led up to the initial investigation into
Melanie Curtain and let you decide guilt or innocence. This
is eighteen minutes the Trials of Melanie Curtin Unexposed Investigates
podcast Docuseriies. So we're gonna move on to December fourth
of two thousand and seven, and you're gonna see why
that pisces me off so much, because lives could have
been saved here. But we're gonna move on December fourth
of two thousand and seven, and I'm going to tell
you about Korean's Tack and punk Ye. They were an
elderly Korean immigrant couple. Tack was seventy six years old,
Yee was sixty nine years old. He likes to pick
on these elderly people, right, He's not a man that
could pick on someone his own age. He's got to
pick on elderly people. But they lived in Albuquerque, New Mexico,
and they would indeed become the next victims of Clifton Bloomfield.
So in the late night hours of December fourth of
two thousand and seven, Bloomfield would enter their home through
an unlocked sliding glass door. Tac would actually see him
coming in the house, and regardless of the fact that
Tech was seventy six years old, he was about that
life and he fought to save his wife. He actually
gets in a fistfight with Clifton Bloomfield, but sadly, Bloomfield
would beat Tack to death. However, Tach didn't know DNA
was an important thing, and police know that because he intended.
You can tell he intentionally scratched Bloomfield several times to
get the DNA under his fingernails, and this would become
key evidence later. Now sadly Pung his wife sixty nine
years old, She was also beaten to death in the
same incident. And even as tragic as that, the ye's
adult son would be the one to discover the bodies
the next morning and call police. An investigation would ensue.
But initially this particular incident would lead to two completely
different suspects. And I'm going to tell you about Travis
Raleigh and Mike Smith. And they were magazine salesmen, and
they had been canvassing that neighborhood where Tech and Ye lived,
about six miles from that home. They were canvassing, and
this was the same day that this all went down,
on the same night and the night before. A neighbor
that police talked to when they canvass the neighborhood trying
to find out if anybody might have known what happened
or who did this. That neighbor said, well, there was
some magazine salesmen around here yesterday and the day before.
So police find out who these two magazine salesmen are
and they arrest these men on December eighth of two
thousand and seven. Now, during an intense interrogation, Rawleigh actually
gives a confession, a detailed confession, and later he would
have alleged that he was coerced into this, but it
included some non public crime scene details. So when police
worked these crime scenes, a lot of times they will
leave some things out intentionally. The reason they do that
is these are things only the killer would know, right,
they never released them publicly, and he knew some of
these things. His confession was believable, and he also implicated
his fellow magazine salesman Mike Lee as the one who
actually committed the murders. So both of these guys they
get charged with double murder and they're held in jail
and they're facing the death penalty, and they're in jail
quite a while. And that brings me to Scott Pierce
and Catherine Bailey Scott, and they were a forty year
old couple. And Scott Pierce was a registered nurse, and
he and Catherine had actually just got married six days
prior to the incident I'm going to tell you about.
This incident occurred on June twenty eighth of two thousand
and eight, So six days prior to this incident they
get married. Newly was and Scott, y'all was a really
big man, really big as in a giant. He stood
six foot eight inches tall and he weighed three hundred
and fifty pounds. Now, he was a gentle giant. He
wasn't a guy you would call a fighter or a
shit starter, although he was a protector. Everybody who knew
Scott described him as a really good guy. Now. Catherine
also pretty awesome in her own right, and she and
her husband, Scott would bring out the best in each other.
Let's go to June twenty eighth, two thousand and eight,
and it's around three o'clock in the morning. Scott and
Catherine's dogs they start barking. They were sensing something and
it was not good. So Catherine she's awoken during these
dogs barking. She's half asleep. She gets up, She's like,
what are they barking at. She gets to the living
room and she notices that the back door is a jar.
So at this point, she's still not thinking anyone's in
the house. She's thinking Scott left the back door open.
And it's about this time, as she's making her way
to close that back door, that she sees a figure
in the dark, like an apparition, and it appears this
figure is pointing something at her. Now, initially she thinks
it's Scott trying to scare her, play a trick on her.
But what she doesn't realize in her grogginess is that
Scott was still asleep in the bed, and this was
confirmed when she hears a voice not belonging to her
husband Scott say, quote, get down on the ground, So
she complies. She gets down on the ground, and then
that figure says to her quote, where is manny? And
this didn't make any sense to her, It didn't register. Now,
during all of this, Scott wakes up and he heads
toward the front of that house and he stumbles across
this scene and he sees this shadow pointing a gun
directly at his wife. And I can only imagine what
the person behind that gun must have been thinking. I mean,
this is a six foot eight, three hundred and fifty
pounds guy that just walked in on you while you're
apparently trying to rob somebody or something. But as I
told you, Scott had a very protective instinct, and that
instinct kicked in almost immediately, and he lunged toward that
intruder and tried to grab that gun. Boom, one quick,
loud gunshot, and Scott falls on to the floor. The
intruder then just turns tail and runs out of the house,
leaving Catherine laying over her husband, and she is in
sheer panic. So police arrive at the home and they
find Scott dead from a shotgun wound to the neck.
Catherine was unharmed, but she was very obviously traumatized, and
she tells police everything I just told you. But there
were questions. Initially, police found it strange that Catherine was unharmed,
and they looked at her as a suspect pretty hard initially.
Now that's normal, you're going to work that circle from
inside out. And she was the person who last saw
him alive. She was unharmed. I can see police wanting
to look into her further. So police worked that lead
and they discover that she is a beneficiary of Scott's
life insurance policy, which, using hindsight, that makes all the
sense in the world. He just married her. Of course
she's going to be the beneficiary of his life insurance policy.
It's not abnormal, but to police it could be a motive.
And there was a lot of lack of evidence, if
you will. There weren't any fingerprints, nothing really to go on,
no DNA, So police were concerned with her, but eventually
they would clear her. And as they were talking to her,
they started focusing in on the name Manny that she
told him. This intruder had asked where is Manny? And
they asked, Catherine, do you know a Manny? And get
this she said, in fact, she did know a Manny,
not a very common name, right. She said that was
the former owner of the house that they just moved into. Remember,
they got married just six days prior. They had just
bought that house a couple of weeks prior to that.
So police asked for his information. She gives it to
him and they go talk to Manny and Manny is
very cooperative. Police asked him the obvious question, which was
would anyone want to hurt you? And with no hesitation,
Manny brings up the name of a coworker by the
name of Jason Skags, and Manny explains to police that
they were in the roofing business together. They were working
for the same roofing company, and that Jason Skags had
found out that Manny was actually having an affair with Skaggs.
White Saver's motive right there, right. Police start looking into
Jason Skaggs and they find out he was a former marine.
He was a well built guy in his own right,
and police take Skags into the station and in his
police interrogation, Skaggs admitted the entire plan was driven by
jealousy and revenge. He told detectives, quote, I wanted Manny
to get hurt, arms, legs, things like that. You know
he would be hurt and it would take him a
while to recover. He later said the home invasion was
all about the jealousy, but insisted that he never wanted
to kill anyone. So police learn through this interrogation that
he actually recruited, meaning Jason Skaggs recruited Clifton Bloomfield to
rough up Manny, and he insisted he just wanted Clifton
to beat Manny down, not to kill him. And I
haven't mentioned this before, but there are a lot of
reports that say Clifton was a member of the Arian Brotherhood,
so it would make sense that this guy would be
recruiting him to do this. Regardless of that, the next
day police do go pick up Clifton Bloomfield, and I'm
sure when they looked into him, they're like, damn, this
is definitely the guy that did this. With a record
like the one that Clifton Bloomfield had, they interrogate him. Now.
Bloomfield's version of the events was much more extreme. He
said Skaggs wanted many dead, he didn't want to just
hurt him, and that Skaggs gave Bloomfield a direct message
to deliver something to the effect of quote, nobody is
going to be fucking someone's wife and survive, along with
instructions to tie Mannie up and put a round in him.
Police also discovered during this investigation that actually both men
were there that night, Bloomfield and Skags, and according to
the confessions, the two men broke in wearing ski masks,
bulletpro vest and they were carrying shotguns. When Scott Piers
confronted them, Bloomfield shot him in the neck, killing him instantly,
and they actually fled without even realized they had killed
the wrong man. They thought they killed Manny. So it
is on July first of two thousand and eight that Bloomfield,
who at this time is thirty nine years old, as
well as Skags, they get arrested for the murder of
Scott Peers, and within days of being arrested, DNA evidence
from the Ye double murder is linked to Bloomfield, as
well as the four additional homicides that I told you
about earlier in this episode, all of it linked by DNA.
So he's held without bond for first degree murder in
five separate murders. Of course, he gets a public defender
pleading negotiations start in on October tenth of two thousand
and eight, in open court in order to avoid the
death penalty, Bloomfield pleaded guilty to five counts of first
degree murder in addition to a slew of other chargers,
arm robberies, etc. Now incidentally, his accomplice in the Pierce
murder Jason Skaggs, he gets sentenced to thirty years in
prison for his role in that murder. So in March
of two thousand and nine, Bloomfield is sentenced to five
consecutive life sentences plus forty five years for all that
other shit, and it's off to prison for him. However,
this was not similar to his first experience in prison.
He becomes a shit starter in prison, which of eventually
would lead to his transfer to what's none as the
Northeast New Mexico Correctional Facility, and that will become a problem.
On August twenty third of twenty seventeen, Bloomfield actually attacks
a fellow inmate by the name of Stephen Woods with
a towel and he nearly strangles him to death with
that towel. He is m right, that's how he likes
to kill people. Woods would survive, however, Now, typically when
an incident like this occurs, you're transferred to another facility. However,
Bloomfield was not. Instead, he was ordered to receive more counseling.
I mean, you cannot make that shit up. Then less
than a month later, the warden of that prison, a
guy by the name of Mark Bowden. He receives an
anonymous kite and a kite y'all is an inmate note
passed from inmate to m may. The warden gets this
kite and it warned that Bloomfield planned to harm prison staff.
So at this point the warden emails just a small
group of staff and he says, we received denote this morning,
stating inmate Bloomfield wants to harm our staff. All of
us know how dangerous this inmate is. Please ensure all
precautions are used when dealing with this inmate. Ensure a
supervisor and a camera or present when his food slot
or cell door is open. Then over a week later,
one of the most infamous riots in New Mexico history occurs.
It will become known as the Clayton Riot, and the
ringleader of that riot is none other than Clifton Bloomfield. Now,
according to reports on September twenty third of twenty seventeen
at approximately nine oh five PM in Cell Block three,
which is a restrictive housing unit inside of that Clayton Prison,
a rookie correctional office or by the name of Matt Shriner,
who was twenty two years old at the time, had
very little training. He was working alone. He didn't have
his radio on him. He is persuaded somehow by Bloomfield
to open up his cell door and that cell was
selled two to three. So later on in an interview,
Matt Shriner was interviewed and he said he stopped at
that cell and Bloomfield started talking to him through the door,
and he said the conversation lasted just a few seconds,
but he couldn't remember why. But he unlocks the door,
and as soon as he unlocks it, and there's actually
surveillance video of this occurring, Bloomfield explodes out of that
door and he has a shank made from a sharpened
toothbrush and he jams it against Shriner's throat and he
takes him hostage. He rips the keys off of this
correctional officer's belt and he opens every single cell door
in that forty cell unit. Shriner manages to break free
he runs down the stairs. He grabs his radio and
he alerts the prison officials, but it's already too late.
All hell has already broken. Loose inmates are pouring out
of these cells. They barricade the main entry door, They
disabled the security cameras. They start starting fires, They flood
the unit, and they even setle old scores with each
other and start fighting each other. One inmate, later identified
as Samuel Sanchez, actually has his throat slashed wide open
inside his cell. He's found unconscious in a pool of
his own blood, and he had to be airlifted to
a hospital. Another inmate later reported he was raped during
the chaos. For a full hour, these men controlled that
cell block in Bloomfield. As I told you, was the
ringleader of all this. The prison's riot response team. They
finally storm that cell block. They use tear gas, flash
grenades or flash bangs, and they round up these inmates
one by one. They get to Bloomfield, he's cuffed and
he is immediately transferred to maximum security at what's known
as the Penitentiary of New Mexico. This is in Santa Fay.
But one hour, y'all, that's all it took. For a
serial killer in a group of the state's most violent
inmates to take over that prison. Now, the guard Matthew Shriner,
when he was interviewed after this, because there was a
lot of belief he had something to do with this
and he was in cahoots with Clifton Bloomfield, he said
he was sick and exhausted from the constant overtime and
he just made kind of like a mental mistake. Well,
he does get charged with unlawful rescue of a convicted
capital offender and assisting escape. He resigns and basically that
case was investigated and the charges were eventually dropped because
prosecutors said there just wasn't enough evidence that he intentionally
helped Bloomfield. He moved out of the state and people
have never heard from him again. Now, Bloomfield, obviously he
picked up new charges kidnapping, conspiracy to commit murder, assault
on a police officer, arson attempted murder. But I mean,
he had five life sentences already. It didn't change much
except for he's just going to stay locked down in
MAC security probably for the rest of his life. Interestingly,
the inmate whose throat was slit actually soothed the state
and the GEO Group who this was a private prison.
It wasn't a state prison. GEO Group was the private
I guess the company that manned this private prison, and
he actually got paid two hundred thousand dollars in a settlement.
This is an inmate. Now. The riot was so bad
that that GEO Group eventually lost their contract and in
twenty nineteen, the state took over the prison completely. New
rules were put in place, obviously to keep this from
happening again. But for one hour, Clifton Bloomfield proved that
even behind bars, some killers never really stop. Now, since
that time in twenty eighteen, there have been no other
reports come out regarding Clifton Bloomfield. He is still alive,
he is still incarcerating and at this point in time
he is fifty six years old. So there you have it.
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