1 00:00:05,639 --> 00:00:23,719 Speaker 1: H a wall, straight line, shackle change, Oh someome gird, 2 00:00:25,879 --> 00:00:32,240 it's calling my name. There is no mercy and it's 3 00:00:32,359 --> 00:00:39,799 been a tentery juice as the huge stream game Rango 4 00:00:40,119 --> 00:00:42,119 the three. 5 00:00:42,679 --> 00:00:43,600 Speaker 2: I'm here, be. 6 00:00:46,039 --> 00:00:47,840 Speaker 3: By me to die. 7 00:00:49,479 --> 00:00:54,719 Speaker 1: Inside these walls, inside the wild. 8 00:00:56,240 --> 00:01:00,159 Speaker 3: Hadn't went the girl as I'm. 9 00:01:31,280 --> 00:01:34,719 Speaker 4: Hey everyone, and welcome back to Bloody Angola, a podcast 10 00:01:34,920 --> 00:01:37,239 one hundred and forty two years in the making, the 11 00:01:37,319 --> 00:01:41,799 complete story of America's Bloody is present. I'm Jim Chapman, 12 00:01:42,200 --> 00:01:45,040 and today I'm going to bring you the story of 13 00:01:45,719 --> 00:01:50,840 Warren Harris Junior, who was known as the French Quarter Stabber. 14 00:01:51,120 --> 00:01:56,480 So in nineteen seventy seven, headlines were being dominated in 15 00:01:56,560 --> 00:01:59,319 the city of New Orleans after a string of killings 16 00:01:59,359 --> 00:02:03,519 within a twenty mile radius of the popular French Quarter. 17 00:02:04,079 --> 00:02:07,519 All of these killings were brutal stabbing deaths, and all 18 00:02:07,560 --> 00:02:11,039 of them were near strip clubs or jazz parlors in 19 00:02:11,080 --> 00:02:14,240 the area. The victims were all single men, there were 20 00:02:14,280 --> 00:02:17,719 no signs of fourth entry into their homes, and three 21 00:02:17,759 --> 00:02:21,400 of the four known victims were gay. It began on 22 00:02:21,560 --> 00:02:25,879 Valentine's Day, February fourteenth of nineteen seventy seven, when a 23 00:02:26,000 --> 00:02:29,120 forty seven year old man by the name of Robert 24 00:02:29,520 --> 00:02:32,479 Gary was found stabbed to death in his apartment in 25 00:02:32,520 --> 00:02:36,039 the French Quarter in New Orleans. The Orleans Parish Corners 26 00:02:36,080 --> 00:02:40,560 Office performed an anal swab and results were positive for 27 00:02:40,719 --> 00:02:45,360 the presence of sperm, which indicated a sexual assault, so 28 00:02:45,479 --> 00:02:49,560 police they start investigating that. And while that investigation was 29 00:02:49,599 --> 00:02:53,000 going on, just a little over a month later, on 30 00:02:53,199 --> 00:02:57,280 March twenty first of nineteen seventy seven, thirty eight year 31 00:02:57,280 --> 00:03:01,520 old Jack Savelle was found stabbed to death at his apartment. 32 00:03:01,639 --> 00:03:05,639 This was on Esplanade Avenue in New Orleans, and Jack 33 00:03:05,759 --> 00:03:10,639 worked for the very popular Warlines for Music, which was 34 00:03:10,680 --> 00:03:14,520 a music store in New Orleans that supplied band instruments 35 00:03:14,599 --> 00:03:18,719 as well as they supplied instructors for music. And he 36 00:03:18,919 --> 00:03:22,080 was an advertising rep there. And this guy was really 37 00:03:22,120 --> 00:03:25,879 well known in the area. New Orleans known for its music, right, 38 00:03:26,120 --> 00:03:30,439 so everybody knew this guy as a really good, decent 39 00:03:30,639 --> 00:03:34,159 human being. Now, a neighbor noticed his apartment door open 40 00:03:34,360 --> 00:03:38,520 and found Savelle stabbed to death. He had also been 41 00:03:38,639 --> 00:03:44,240 sexually assaulted, but Jack was not robbed. Both an undisclosed 42 00:03:44,280 --> 00:03:48,520 amount of money and a valuable camera were left untouched 43 00:03:48,599 --> 00:03:52,360 in that home and he was only stabbed once, but 44 00:03:53,400 --> 00:03:57,599 that stab wound was with a twelve inch kitchen knife, 45 00:03:58,319 --> 00:04:01,280 and police were able to determine that this stabbing took 46 00:04:01,319 --> 00:04:04,759 place between midnight and two am, so they're on the 47 00:04:04,800 --> 00:04:08,879 case right And less than two weeks after that incident, 48 00:04:09,280 --> 00:04:13,039 on April first of nineteen seventy seven, fifty nine year 49 00:04:13,080 --> 00:04:17,959 old Alden Delano was found stabbed to death in his apartment. 50 00:04:18,040 --> 00:04:21,240 This was on Rural Street in New Orleans. He was 51 00:04:21,279 --> 00:04:24,759 found around seven thirty am and he was crouched in 52 00:04:24,839 --> 00:04:28,639 a kneeling position on his living room floor. He was 53 00:04:28,680 --> 00:04:32,879 not wearing a shirt nor underwear, and it appeared he 54 00:04:32,959 --> 00:04:37,959 had been sexually assaulted as well. Alden's pockets were turned 55 00:04:38,000 --> 00:04:42,439 inside out and his apartment was ransacked, and he was 56 00:04:42,519 --> 00:04:47,360 also stabbed with a kitchen knife. And when police looked 57 00:04:47,399 --> 00:04:51,000 into Alden's background, they discovered something that kind of shocked them. 58 00:04:51,600 --> 00:04:55,639 Alden also worked for Worleans Music as a piano teacher, 59 00:04:56,639 --> 00:05:00,680 which is the same place that Jack worked. Right stabbings 60 00:05:01,160 --> 00:05:05,240 less than two weeks apart, both killed in the same way. 61 00:05:06,680 --> 00:05:10,360 Police knew they had a problem and that these killings 62 00:05:10,399 --> 00:05:15,360 were likely related, and it was shortly thereafter that another 63 00:05:15,480 --> 00:05:20,040 friend and coworker of both Jack's and Aldens was interviewed 64 00:05:20,160 --> 00:05:23,399 by reporters and he stated that he had been threatened 65 00:05:23,439 --> 00:05:27,199 on the telephone by a man who said quote he 66 00:05:27,319 --> 00:05:31,560 too was marked for death. He quoted the caller saying 67 00:05:31,759 --> 00:05:36,720 Jack was number one, mister Delano was number two, and 68 00:05:36,839 --> 00:05:40,279 you are going to be number three. So now police 69 00:05:40,399 --> 00:05:44,959 they really step up their investigation. But the killer wasn't 70 00:05:45,000 --> 00:05:48,040 going to wait for that. Just a day later, on 71 00:05:48,120 --> 00:05:51,680 April seventh of nineteen seventy seven, a man by the 72 00:05:51,759 --> 00:05:56,600 name of Ernest Pomier was found stabbed to death with 73 00:05:57,680 --> 00:06:02,800 fifty stab wounds at his ground floor apartment on Governor 74 00:06:02,920 --> 00:06:06,279 Nickel Street in New Orleans. And Ernest was a very 75 00:06:06,519 --> 00:06:10,720 well hit elderly man. He was seventy seven years old. 76 00:06:11,000 --> 00:06:13,920 Neighbors would say he would sit on the sidewalk in 77 00:06:13,959 --> 00:06:16,199 front of his apartment in a folding chair and he 78 00:06:16,240 --> 00:06:18,279 would just play with his dog. He was just a 79 00:06:18,439 --> 00:06:23,160 very cheerful person, according to neighbors. His landlord is the 80 00:06:23,199 --> 00:06:25,720 one who found him, and he was also found in 81 00:06:25,759 --> 00:06:29,839 a crouched kneeling position. He had stab wounds in his back, 82 00:06:29,959 --> 00:06:34,759 his neck, his arms, and even his head. And Ernest 83 00:06:35,120 --> 00:06:41,560 as well wore no underwear and his pants were pulled down. Now, surprisingly, 84 00:06:41,600 --> 00:06:45,000 when the corner performed the autopsy, he determined that Ernest 85 00:06:45,240 --> 00:06:49,680 was not sexually assaulted. But outside of that, he fit 86 00:06:49,800 --> 00:06:52,439 the description of all the other killings except for one 87 00:06:52,560 --> 00:06:57,319 distinct thing. Unlike the other victims, Ernest was not gay. 88 00:06:58,199 --> 00:07:01,759 And it really threw police kind of curveball because up 89 00:07:01,800 --> 00:07:05,040 to this point, all of the victims they were finding 90 00:07:05,160 --> 00:07:08,480 that they could tie to one person were homosexuals, and 91 00:07:08,639 --> 00:07:12,560 police were thinking that these were hate crimes. But now 92 00:07:12,600 --> 00:07:15,879 you've got a guy that is straight. He's elderly, so 93 00:07:15,959 --> 00:07:19,000 he's nowhere near the same age as all the other victims, 94 00:07:19,480 --> 00:07:22,720 and yet he's killed as well. It's almost like police 95 00:07:22,800 --> 00:07:27,160 had to go completely back to the drawing board. Now, 96 00:07:27,199 --> 00:07:31,000 by this time, the media had picked this up in 97 00:07:31,160 --> 00:07:35,199 full force. It was on all the papers. This is 98 00:07:35,319 --> 00:07:39,199 before social media, y'all, so it was news reports, newspapers, 99 00:07:39,240 --> 00:07:43,920 that's where you got information. And these killings were everywhere 100 00:07:43,959 --> 00:07:49,040 in South Louisiana being placed on the news and in newspapers, 101 00:07:49,040 --> 00:07:52,439 and it was affecting tourism in New Orleans, which the 102 00:07:52,560 --> 00:07:56,639 mayor wasn't happy about, so he starts pressuring the police, Hey, 103 00:07:56,720 --> 00:07:58,839 we got to find out who's doing this. As a 104 00:07:58,839 --> 00:08:01,480 matter of fact, residents of New Orleans would say they 105 00:08:01,519 --> 00:08:07,959 had never seen the French Quarter so deserted. Now in 106 00:08:08,040 --> 00:08:12,759 the meantime, on April thirteenth of nineteen seventy seven, just 107 00:08:12,800 --> 00:08:16,560 a week after Ernest was killed, a sixteen year old 108 00:08:16,600 --> 00:08:19,959 by the name of Warren Harris Junior was arrested in 109 00:08:19,959 --> 00:08:24,160 front of let's call it, a low rent motel, which 110 00:08:24,279 --> 00:08:28,120 was located about five blocks from the French Quarter. And 111 00:08:28,240 --> 00:08:31,959 when police arrested him, he was attempting to rob and 112 00:08:32,120 --> 00:08:35,799 stab a tourist, and of course he's immediately placed in 113 00:08:35,840 --> 00:08:39,759 the Orleans Parish jail and he's charged with arm robbery 114 00:08:39,840 --> 00:08:43,639 and attempted murder of that tourist. So police interview him 115 00:08:44,240 --> 00:08:48,519 in Warren Harris. During these interviews, it comes out to 116 00:08:48,639 --> 00:08:54,159 believes that he is not a fan of homosexuals. As 117 00:08:54,200 --> 00:08:56,720 a matter of fact, he was described as having a 118 00:08:56,799 --> 00:09:01,320 revulsion to homosexuals, and police started pressing him on if 119 00:09:01,360 --> 00:09:05,399 he knew anything about the French Quarter stabbings, and he 120 00:09:05,480 --> 00:09:09,240 subsequently confesses to four of the murders that had occurred 121 00:09:09,480 --> 00:09:14,320 in the last two months in New Orleans. So before 122 00:09:14,360 --> 00:09:16,679 we go any further, let me tell you a little 123 00:09:16,720 --> 00:09:21,200 bit about the history of Warren Harris Junior. He was 124 00:09:21,320 --> 00:09:24,960 born in New Orleans in nineteen sixty one, and he 125 00:09:25,080 --> 00:09:28,200 was raised by his mother and maternal grandfather, and his 126 00:09:28,279 --> 00:09:32,879 grandfather was a very well respected Baptist minister in New Orleans. 127 00:09:32,960 --> 00:09:36,639 And he had five other siblings, but kind of a 128 00:09:36,679 --> 00:09:39,879 rough childhood. He got in trouble a lot in his 129 00:09:39,960 --> 00:09:43,080 younger days. He dropped out of school in the eighth grade, 130 00:09:43,120 --> 00:09:45,919 and even before the age of sixteen when he was 131 00:09:46,039 --> 00:09:52,200 arrested Minji, he had already been in trouble for per snatching, 132 00:09:52,480 --> 00:09:57,919 petty theft in other crimes. However, in nineteen seventy four, 133 00:09:58,679 --> 00:10:01,120 police caught up to him after he tried to steal 134 00:10:01,120 --> 00:10:04,240 a car, and at the time of this car theft, 135 00:10:04,240 --> 00:10:07,519 he was only thirteen years old and he was incarcerated 136 00:10:07,559 --> 00:10:11,519 in a youth institution in New Orleans for a while 137 00:10:11,679 --> 00:10:15,120 for that crime. So that's a little history on him 138 00:10:15,159 --> 00:10:18,080 prior to this arrus. There's not much more history than 139 00:10:18,120 --> 00:10:22,159 that because he's only sixteen at this point, but he 140 00:10:22,279 --> 00:10:25,960 does indeed confess to these four murders, and he gets 141 00:10:26,159 --> 00:10:31,480 charged in the killing of Robert Gary Jack savall Al 142 00:10:31,559 --> 00:10:36,399 Dea Delano in Ernest Pomier. Now, even at the age 143 00:10:36,440 --> 00:10:39,799 of sixteen, Warren Harris Junior was living on his own 144 00:10:39,960 --> 00:10:42,679 and he was living at the time with a transsexual 145 00:10:43,440 --> 00:10:47,080 and that transsexual came out in papers and she said, no, 146 00:10:47,120 --> 00:10:50,159 he don't hate homosexuals, because if he did, why didn't 147 00:10:50,159 --> 00:10:53,360 he kill me. Now, shortly after he was charged, Harris 148 00:10:53,399 --> 00:10:57,759 appeared for a hearing with a magistrate judge and it's 149 00:10:57,879 --> 00:11:01,159 at that point that the sixteen year old tells the judge, 150 00:11:01,559 --> 00:11:04,159 I can't afford a lawyer. So he gets a court 151 00:11:04,200 --> 00:11:08,039 appointed attorney by the name of John Lawrence to represent him, 152 00:11:08,360 --> 00:11:12,639 and he's ordered to be held without bond, And as 153 00:11:12,720 --> 00:11:15,960 is typical, at his hearing, he pleaded not guilty to 154 00:11:16,120 --> 00:11:20,000 the murder chargers. You're not gonna plead guilty to four murders. 155 00:11:20,519 --> 00:11:23,240 You have nothing to gain by doing that unless you 156 00:11:23,279 --> 00:11:25,320 can work out some sort of deal. At the time, 157 00:11:25,519 --> 00:11:28,320 and the defense attorneys they do what they do. The 158 00:11:28,440 --> 00:11:31,679 first thing, they tried to say he was mentally incompetent, 159 00:11:31,799 --> 00:11:35,799 to stay in trial, which is very typical when confessions 160 00:11:35,879 --> 00:11:39,639 are involved. The problem for Warren Harris Junior's defense team 161 00:11:39,840 --> 00:11:44,360 was he confessed. Of course, they then focused on those confessions, 162 00:11:44,559 --> 00:11:48,039 and incidentally, they were signed by Warren Harris Junior, and 163 00:11:48,120 --> 00:11:51,200 the attorneys tried to say the police interrogated him for 164 00:11:51,320 --> 00:11:56,039 ten to fifteen hours to get those confessions, that they 165 00:11:56,039 --> 00:11:59,639 wouldn't allow his mother to see him or be present 166 00:11:59,720 --> 00:12:04,480 for the confessions, etc. Anything they can do to get 167 00:12:04,480 --> 00:12:07,360 those confessions off the table, but none of that will work. 168 00:12:07,559 --> 00:12:11,279 Then Harris Junior creates a story that he was forced 169 00:12:11,320 --> 00:12:14,960 into signing these confessions under dores. He said that the 170 00:12:15,080 --> 00:12:18,600 police threatened to kill him if he did not sign them. 171 00:12:18,879 --> 00:12:21,960 It was later determined that that was bullshit and the 172 00:12:22,080 --> 00:12:26,559 judge denied the attorney's motion to throw that confession out. 173 00:12:26,720 --> 00:12:30,480 So on May thirty first of nineteen seventy seven, three 174 00:12:30,519 --> 00:12:35,000 psychiatrists who examined Warri's Harris Junior, they tell the judge 175 00:12:35,080 --> 00:12:38,519 that he indeed understands the charges against him, and so 176 00:12:38,720 --> 00:12:43,240 there goes that incompetency defense that they were trying to 177 00:12:44,080 --> 00:12:47,759 mount for Warren Harris Junior. So the trial starts in 178 00:12:47,840 --> 00:12:51,759 October of nineteen seventy seven. In some of the notable 179 00:12:52,120 --> 00:12:55,799 events that took place at the trial, officers said that 180 00:12:55,840 --> 00:13:00,360 Harris made oral statements about all four stabbings and that 181 00:13:00,360 --> 00:13:03,919 that's why they charged him. Harris initially claimed to be 182 00:13:04,039 --> 00:13:08,320 a witness at Delano's death. He said that a man 183 00:13:08,440 --> 00:13:14,320 nicknamed Cliff had done the killings, but the detective testified 184 00:13:14,480 --> 00:13:18,720 when he was pressed for details that Harris just spontaneously 185 00:13:19,240 --> 00:13:22,320 came forth and said Cliff didn't do it. I did it. 186 00:13:22,519 --> 00:13:25,360 That statement was signed by Harris, and in it he 187 00:13:25,440 --> 00:13:28,600 said Delano struck up a conversation with him on the 188 00:13:28,639 --> 00:13:31,399 bus and asked him if he would help in moving 189 00:13:31,440 --> 00:13:34,879 some furniture. Harris then went to his house, and Harris 190 00:13:34,879 --> 00:13:37,519 said he offered me a beer and I took that beer. 191 00:13:38,039 --> 00:13:41,000 I was involved in a sex act with mister Delano, 192 00:13:41,159 --> 00:13:43,679 and he gave me ten dollars and I left. The 193 00:13:43,720 --> 00:13:48,200 statement said Delano invited Harris to return whenever he wanted to, 194 00:13:48,399 --> 00:13:51,519 and Harris said that he returned three times and killed 195 00:13:51,559 --> 00:13:55,080 Delano on that final visit. When quote, he tried to 196 00:13:55,120 --> 00:13:57,440 force me to do something that I did not want 197 00:13:57,480 --> 00:14:02,440 to do. He tried to rape me. Pathologist doctor Paul McGary. 198 00:14:02,559 --> 00:14:05,679 He testified at the trial that he found seventy eight 199 00:14:05,840 --> 00:14:09,519 stab wounds seventy eight when he examined the body of 200 00:14:09,639 --> 00:14:13,360 Ernest Pormier. He testified that the stab wounds were made 201 00:14:13,399 --> 00:14:15,960 by at least two different weapons, one with a thin 202 00:14:16,039 --> 00:14:21,200 blade in the other with a broad blade. Other medical 203 00:14:21,480 --> 00:14:24,440 experts also testified, and they said that two of the 204 00:14:24,480 --> 00:14:27,200 other men were killed with a single stab wound, while 205 00:14:27,200 --> 00:14:31,559 a third was stabbed three times. A witness testified at 206 00:14:31,600 --> 00:14:34,399 the trial of seeing someone run past her the night 207 00:14:34,440 --> 00:14:37,799 of Pormier's death. She said, I saw the flash of 208 00:14:37,879 --> 00:14:40,799 the blade of a knife. It was a very long knife. 209 00:14:40,879 --> 00:14:43,159 It seemed to be a foot to a foot and 210 00:14:43,200 --> 00:14:46,399 a half long. When asked if she saw the person 211 00:14:46,559 --> 00:14:50,919 with the knife in court, she pointed out Warrenhirs Junior 212 00:14:51,000 --> 00:14:53,840 and said he appears to be the same person I 213 00:14:53,919 --> 00:14:59,279 saw run past me. Now, despite the defense objections, oral 214 00:14:59,399 --> 00:15:02,960 and written confessions were red in court. In the confession 215 00:15:03,039 --> 00:15:06,000 to the murder of Delano, Harris said he tried to 216 00:15:06,080 --> 00:15:08,360 rape me. I ran into the kitchen and I got 217 00:15:08,440 --> 00:15:11,480 a knife and I quote jugged him. I thought he 218 00:15:11,600 --> 00:15:14,639 was still alive. So I put a pillow over his head. 219 00:15:14,919 --> 00:15:18,080 Harris claimed in court that Pormier tried to rape him, 220 00:15:18,279 --> 00:15:21,080 and remember Pormier was the only victim, y'all that was 221 00:15:21,120 --> 00:15:24,240 not sexually assaulted. Harris said, he tried to rape me, 222 00:15:24,279 --> 00:15:27,120 and I jugged him. He did the same thing that 223 00:15:27,200 --> 00:15:31,279 Delano did, and I killed him. So the defense continued 224 00:15:31,320 --> 00:15:34,480 to claim that Harris was forced to sign confessions after 225 00:15:34,639 --> 00:15:37,879 hours of intense questioning. Then Harris took the stand in 226 00:15:37,960 --> 00:15:40,440 his own defense and he told the court that he 227 00:15:40,600 --> 00:15:44,200 was threatened by a detective to confess or he would 228 00:15:44,320 --> 00:15:46,519 quote take me off and shoot me in the head 229 00:15:46,679 --> 00:15:49,679 and throw me in the river. Ten policemen were brought 230 00:15:49,720 --> 00:15:52,639 into the court room and lined up, and Harris picked 231 00:15:52,639 --> 00:15:56,120 out the six that made threats to him at that point, 232 00:15:56,159 --> 00:15:59,759 and prosecutors claimed privately that Harris had picked out different 233 00:15:59,799 --> 00:16:03,440 off during an identical lineup during a hearing just a 234 00:16:03,480 --> 00:16:07,399 few months prior. Prosecutors alleged that Harris was a sex 235 00:16:07,480 --> 00:16:10,840 worker who committed the murders after having sex with his victim, 236 00:16:11,080 --> 00:16:15,080 and Harris was convicted of murdering three of the four men. 237 00:16:15,240 --> 00:16:19,879 The state court jury recommended life in prison without the 238 00:16:19,919 --> 00:16:24,639 possibility of parole or probation, and the jury of seven 239 00:16:24,720 --> 00:16:27,639 men and five women deliberated just two hours and twenty 240 00:16:27,679 --> 00:16:31,720 five minutes before convicting Harris of three of the murders. 241 00:16:31,879 --> 00:16:35,399 The assistant DA actually asked for the death penalty, but 242 00:16:35,519 --> 00:16:39,559 the defense attorney, of course recommended life, and he cited 243 00:16:39,679 --> 00:16:44,879 Harris's age and mental records as reasoning for that. Now, 244 00:16:44,919 --> 00:16:48,799 Harris was acquitted of murdering Robert Gary. The jury just 245 00:16:48,840 --> 00:16:52,399 felt there wasn't enough evidence to place Harris at the 246 00:16:52,440 --> 00:16:55,399 scene of that crime. But he was convicted of the 247 00:16:55,480 --> 00:17:00,639 murder of Jack saval Alden Delano and Ernest Pormi. So 248 00:17:01,159 --> 00:17:05,680 on November seventeenth of nineteen seventy seven, Harris was sentenced 249 00:17:05,759 --> 00:17:12,160 to three consecutive life sentences. And remember he's only sixteen 250 00:17:12,240 --> 00:17:15,000 years old. So right out the gate, he goes to 251 00:17:15,279 --> 00:17:19,680 Orleans Parish Prison, and he's not exactly what you'd call 252 00:17:19,759 --> 00:17:24,960 a model prisoner. As a matter of fact, on July 253 00:17:25,440 --> 00:17:29,759 of nineteen seventy nine, Harris gets indicted for some trouble 254 00:17:29,920 --> 00:17:32,480 while in prison. And I'm going to reference a quick 255 00:17:32,599 --> 00:17:37,400 article by the Daily Advertiser, and this was written on 256 00:17:37,519 --> 00:17:41,559 July twentieth of nineteen seventy nine, and it reads a 257 00:17:41,599 --> 00:17:45,359 convicted murderer who prayed on homosexuals has been indicted on 258 00:17:45,519 --> 00:17:49,839 charges of raping another inmate at the Orleans Parish Prison. 259 00:17:50,000 --> 00:17:53,720 Warren Harris Junior, dubbed the French quarter Stabber when he 260 00:17:53,799 --> 00:17:56,680 was sentenced two years ago to three life sentences, is 261 00:17:56,799 --> 00:18:00,279 charged with four counts of aggravated crimes against nation tature 262 00:18:00,359 --> 00:18:04,000 in three counts of aggravated rape. He was seventeen years 263 00:18:04,039 --> 00:18:07,000 old when he was convicted of the killings, including the 264 00:18:07,079 --> 00:18:09,920 murder of an elderly man who was stabbed seventy eight 265 00:18:09,960 --> 00:18:13,519 times with a kitchen knife. Harris and two other inmates 266 00:18:13,559 --> 00:18:17,480 are accused of sexually assaulting a fellow inmate serving a 267 00:18:17,640 --> 00:18:22,039 one year sentence for aggravated battery. Also indicted by Pears 268 00:18:22,079 --> 00:18:26,680 Grand jury were Lionel Hooks, thirty three, and Kevin Dimaningus, 269 00:18:26,880 --> 00:18:31,880 who was twenty so raping a man doing a short 270 00:18:31,960 --> 00:18:36,279 stint in prison after he sentenced to prison tells you 271 00:18:36,359 --> 00:18:40,480 a lot. And Harris eventually makes his way to Bloody 272 00:18:40,680 --> 00:18:45,240 in Gola, and he's a juvenile lifer, And as we've 273 00:18:45,279 --> 00:18:49,799 discussed in the past, the law pertaining to juvenile lifers 274 00:18:49,920 --> 00:18:53,319 changed where if juveniles were sentenced to life in prison 275 00:18:53,480 --> 00:18:56,839 when no parole, they at least got a chance at 276 00:18:56,920 --> 00:19:01,440 parole once that law changed. So in twenty twenty one, 277 00:19:02,359 --> 00:19:08,119 Warren Harris Junior, who's a convicted serial killer by any 278 00:19:08,200 --> 00:19:12,880 definition you can find, he gets resentenced and his resentence 279 00:19:13,039 --> 00:19:17,039 is life with the possibility of parole. Now, this new 280 00:19:17,160 --> 00:19:20,359 law stipulated if you were sentenced to life with no parole, 281 00:19:20,640 --> 00:19:23,519 you had to serve at least twenty five years and 282 00:19:23,640 --> 00:19:26,279 had to earn you ged, and if you had no 283 00:19:26,640 --> 00:19:30,200 major disciplinary actions for at least a year, you would 284 00:19:30,200 --> 00:19:33,079 get your parole. Shot. Doesn't mean you're going to get parole, 285 00:19:33,599 --> 00:19:36,880 but you get a shot at it. And in twenty 286 00:19:36,920 --> 00:19:41,039 twenty three, Harris does earn his ged on his six 287 00:19:41,119 --> 00:19:44,359 attem and at that point in time he had been 288 00:19:44,519 --> 00:19:47,759 disciplined free for seven years. So I'm going to reference 289 00:19:47,799 --> 00:19:51,880 an article for you from CNN. This is dated April 290 00:19:52,200 --> 00:19:56,599 twenty seventh of twenty twenty four, and you're not gonna 291 00:19:56,640 --> 00:19:59,960 believe what you're about to hear. He directed his remar 292 00:20:00,359 --> 00:20:02,960 to the families of the three men he robbed and 293 00:20:03,000 --> 00:20:06,119 fatally stabbed when he was sixteen and high on heroin 294 00:20:06,319 --> 00:20:09,480 in New Orleans. Sitting at a table in the Louisiana 295 00:20:09,480 --> 00:20:13,559 State Penitentiary, Harris, now sixty three, talked in a video 296 00:20:13,680 --> 00:20:16,960 conference about the guilt that has gripped him while serving 297 00:20:17,119 --> 00:20:21,039 life in prison at Angola. Family members of his victims 298 00:20:21,079 --> 00:20:25,079 were not at the April seventeenth hearing. Quote. I have 299 00:20:25,240 --> 00:20:27,920 a few nephews, Harris said during the hearing with the 300 00:20:27,960 --> 00:20:31,240 pearole Board. I have one I constantly pray for, and 301 00:20:31,279 --> 00:20:33,960 I wish to reach him before anything happens to him, 302 00:20:34,519 --> 00:20:37,680 or before he winds up in prison. Not just him, 303 00:20:37,799 --> 00:20:40,279 maybe a few of his friends. You know. It was 304 00:20:40,319 --> 00:20:43,319 an apology forty seven years in the making. The murders 305 00:20:43,359 --> 00:20:46,720 happened during an eight week span from February to April 306 00:20:46,759 --> 00:20:50,640 of nineteen seventy seven. Fear spread in New Orleans that 307 00:20:50,720 --> 00:20:54,119 a serial killer was targeting gay men in the French Quarter, 308 00:20:54,400 --> 00:20:58,519 where officers on horseback were put on patrol around strip 309 00:20:58,599 --> 00:21:02,319 joints and jazz club on Bourbon Street. Quote. It was 310 00:21:02,359 --> 00:21:05,039 a very horrific crime. But I do feel that you've 311 00:21:05,079 --> 00:21:08,200 done all you can do in Angola. That from parole 312 00:21:08,240 --> 00:21:12,960 Board member Curtis Pete Freeman Junior, a former state director 313 00:21:13,039 --> 00:21:16,920 on Probation in Parole, who provided the critical second vote 314 00:21:16,960 --> 00:21:21,839 needed for Harris's release. Harris White tears from behind his glasses. 315 00:21:21,880 --> 00:21:24,960 He's now among the roughly one hundred and twenty one 316 00:21:25,200 --> 00:21:28,960 juvenile lifers to be granted release via a parole hearing 317 00:21:29,079 --> 00:21:33,240 or negotiating resolution with prosecutors since a twenty seventeen law 318 00:21:33,400 --> 00:21:38,039 made them eligible after serving twenty five years. Under the law, 319 00:21:38,160 --> 00:21:42,319 a juvenile lifeer resentenced and offered parole eligibility must obtain 320 00:21:42,359 --> 00:21:45,960 a ged, spend a year without major disciplinary write ups, 321 00:21:46,000 --> 00:21:50,640 and meet other requirements. In twenty twelve, Miller versus Alabama, 322 00:21:50,759 --> 00:21:54,279 the High Court ruled life sentences for juvenile offenders without 323 00:21:54,279 --> 00:21:58,000 the possibility of parole violated the Eighth Amendments ban on 324 00:21:58,279 --> 00:22:02,559 cruel and unusual punishment. The court relied on research showing 325 00:22:02,559 --> 00:22:06,920 that young people are scientifically different from adults, their brains 326 00:22:07,000 --> 00:22:11,839 and self control not fully developed. In Montgomery versus Louisiana 327 00:22:11,880 --> 00:22:16,559 in twenty sixteen, the Supreme Court made the Miller decision retroactive. 328 00:22:16,839 --> 00:22:20,079 After the Montgomery decision. In twenty sixteen, some two hundred 329 00:22:20,079 --> 00:22:24,599 and ninety seven Louisiana prisoners were eligible for resentencing. According 330 00:22:24,640 --> 00:22:29,119 to Hannah van Decar, deputy Legal director of the Louisiana 331 00:22:29,160 --> 00:22:32,000 Center for Childer's Rights, about one hundred and fifty of 332 00:22:32,039 --> 00:22:35,519 them are still incarcerated. At least eighteen of the two 333 00:22:35,599 --> 00:22:38,960 hundred and ninety seven died behind bars before the hearings. 334 00:22:39,240 --> 00:22:42,240 Van Decor said. The United States is the only nation 335 00:22:42,400 --> 00:22:45,319 that sentence people to life without parole for crimes committed 336 00:22:45,359 --> 00:22:49,759 before eighteen, according to The Sentencing Project, a nonprofit that 337 00:22:49,799 --> 00:22:53,799 studies inequities in the criminal justice system. Harris was a 338 00:22:53,839 --> 00:22:56,960 teenager when police arrested him in a motel room after 339 00:22:57,039 --> 00:22:59,880 receiving a tip. He was indicted on four counts of 340 00:22:59,880 --> 00:23:03,279 first degree murder in nineteen seventy seven. According to a 341 00:23:03,319 --> 00:23:06,759 summary of the nineteen eighty appeal of his eventual conviction 342 00:23:07,000 --> 00:23:10,279 on three of the counts, the victims lived alone within 343 00:23:10,319 --> 00:23:12,799 a seven or eight block stretch of the French Quarter. 344 00:23:12,880 --> 00:23:16,480 Harris met them on bus or on the streets. The 345 00:23:16,519 --> 00:23:20,319 State Supreme Court upheld his conviction, ruling in part that 346 00:23:20,359 --> 00:23:23,960 Harris's confessions, which he said were made under duress after 347 00:23:24,079 --> 00:23:29,319 officers threatened him, were freely involuntarily made. At the April 348 00:23:29,519 --> 00:23:33,440 parole hearing, board member Steve Prater, a former Shreeport police 349 00:23:33,480 --> 00:23:37,519 officer and Caddo Pears sheriff, told Harris's crime seemed quote 350 00:23:37,599 --> 00:23:42,799 almost like a serial killer unquote very astute Cato Paars sheriff. 351 00:23:43,279 --> 00:23:46,039 With my background, that's what it sounds like. So what 352 00:23:46,279 --> 00:23:49,680 was the mo of this serial killer? Prater asked, before 353 00:23:49,759 --> 00:23:51,519 voting to keep Harris in prison. 354 00:23:51,680 --> 00:23:52,039 Speaker 5: Quote. 355 00:23:52,079 --> 00:23:54,599 Speaker 4: I was in need of money to support that drug 356 00:23:54,759 --> 00:23:57,319 the drugs I was using at the time, said Harris, 357 00:23:57,599 --> 00:24:00,079 a sheaf of papers on the table in front of 358 00:24:00,640 --> 00:24:03,480 I was becoming affiliated with some of the victims and 359 00:24:03,640 --> 00:24:06,400 was asked to accompany them to their home. And at 360 00:24:06,400 --> 00:24:08,720 the time when we entered the home, I robbed and 361 00:24:08,799 --> 00:24:11,680 killed those men and I regret it. I am so 362 00:24:11,839 --> 00:24:15,720 sorry every day. Parole board member Jerry Lddeaux, who voted 363 00:24:15,799 --> 00:24:18,960 in favor of parole, told Harris that before her decisions, 364 00:24:19,000 --> 00:24:21,920 she often asked herself, would I be afraid to live 365 00:24:21,960 --> 00:24:24,359 next door to this person? I believe you're ready for 366 00:24:24,400 --> 00:24:27,640 the streets, she said, and that blew my freaking mind. 367 00:24:27,839 --> 00:24:30,200 You wouldn't be afraid to live next to a serial killer? 368 00:24:30,400 --> 00:24:33,519 Miss Ludeaux. At one point, she asked, I want to 369 00:24:33,559 --> 00:24:35,759 hear in your own words, mister Harris, why should we 370 00:24:35,799 --> 00:24:38,680 consider letting you out? And he said, quote, I have 371 00:24:38,839 --> 00:24:42,720 rehabilitated myself. God has allowed me to reevaluate my wife 372 00:24:42,880 --> 00:24:45,720 and set out on a positive course. He said he 373 00:24:45,920 --> 00:24:50,799 stopped being around negative individuals in prison. At Angola, Harris 374 00:24:50,799 --> 00:24:54,759 has become a prison trustee inmates, entrusted with certain jobs 375 00:24:54,799 --> 00:24:58,359 and responsibilities, and has not been written up for discipline 376 00:24:58,400 --> 00:25:02,599 since twenty seventeen. He learned landscaping and other trades, earned 377 00:25:02,599 --> 00:25:06,799 his ged and completed substance abuse courses. He is a 378 00:25:06,839 --> 00:25:09,240 member of a gospel band as well as the Pure 379 00:25:09,279 --> 00:25:13,119 Heart Messengers singing group. According to testimony at the hearing, 380 00:25:13,359 --> 00:25:16,920 and it just goes on to discuss some other things 381 00:25:16,920 --> 00:25:20,519 that were said at the parole hearing that you absolutely 382 00:25:21,400 --> 00:25:24,839 got to hear. And I actually have that parole board 383 00:25:24,880 --> 00:25:28,440 hearing that I'm going to play for you. But there 384 00:25:28,480 --> 00:25:33,279 you have it. In April of last year, a legit 385 00:25:34,200 --> 00:25:39,359 serial killer was parolled from Louisiana State Penitentiary to Angola. 386 00:25:39,480 --> 00:25:44,440 Now my thoughts, honestly, I was shocked. This wasn't one 387 00:25:44,480 --> 00:25:46,839 of those situations where this guy lost his shit on 388 00:25:46,920 --> 00:25:50,799 PCP killed someone and it was totally out of character 389 00:25:50,880 --> 00:25:53,759 for this guy. It occurred when you know the persons 390 00:25:53,799 --> 00:25:56,799 fifteen or sixteen, and it was a one off. And 391 00:25:57,000 --> 00:25:59,519 not that any of that is good, and not that 392 00:25:59,559 --> 00:26:03,359 those be don't deserve to stay in prison, but you're 393 00:26:03,400 --> 00:26:07,000 talking about a guy that killed at least three people, 394 00:26:08,119 --> 00:26:15,039 likely four, possibly more via stabbing them to death, which 395 00:26:15,079 --> 00:26:20,440 is a brutal and emotion filled type of killing. So 396 00:26:20,480 --> 00:26:23,720 it goes to jail for it, and while in prison, 397 00:26:24,160 --> 00:26:28,640 rapes another inmate and catches yet another charge. I don't 398 00:26:28,680 --> 00:26:32,000 know what eventually happened with that charge, but he was 399 00:26:32,039 --> 00:26:35,200 sure charged with it. It's just insane for me to 400 00:26:35,240 --> 00:26:39,359 think he gets out of prison ever, just my opinion. 401 00:26:41,079 --> 00:26:44,599 Now peris parole conditions. He's going to remain under supervision 402 00:26:44,759 --> 00:26:47,079 for the rest of his life, meaning he'll have a 403 00:26:47,119 --> 00:26:50,599 parole officer he has to report to. But this one 404 00:26:50,720 --> 00:26:56,839 boggles my mind. So what were they thinking? Well, I 405 00:26:56,920 --> 00:26:59,720 want to be fair here, so in this clip you're 406 00:26:59,720 --> 00:27:02,559 gonna here from both Warren Hairs Junior as well as 407 00:27:02,559 --> 00:27:06,759 the parole board. And here it is in full that 408 00:27:06,880 --> 00:27:13,319 parole board where Warren Hairs Junior was released from present 409 00:27:14,160 --> 00:27:14,680 mit tires. 410 00:27:14,720 --> 00:27:18,880 Speaker 6: I'm gonna read some information for the record. Please stop 411 00:27:18,920 --> 00:27:23,000 and correct me if you think anything is wrong. Okay, sir, yes, okay. 412 00:27:23,559 --> 00:27:28,400 First off, you've said your name and your DOC number. 413 00:27:29,279 --> 00:27:33,319 You are serving a life sentence on three murders. You 414 00:27:33,359 --> 00:27:42,240 were sentenced in nineteen seventy seven to life sentence and 415 00:27:42,839 --> 00:27:47,480 at the time I think you were sixteen year oo. Yes, sir, 416 00:27:47,519 --> 00:27:53,640 I was okay, all right, Your case today has been 417 00:27:53,720 --> 00:27:56,599 signed to miss Le Duke. Please answer any records that 418 00:27:56,720 --> 00:28:02,279 she may have will questions, ma'am. 419 00:28:02,839 --> 00:28:05,319 Speaker 7: Mister Harris. I don't know that I've seen anyone as 420 00:28:05,400 --> 00:28:08,759 diligent to try to get their GED as you have been. 421 00:28:09,160 --> 00:28:13,799 How many times have you taken the GED class the. 422 00:28:13,799 --> 00:28:16,160 Speaker 6: Testing, ma'am? 423 00:28:16,640 --> 00:28:19,759 Speaker 5: It has been maybe three or four times. 424 00:28:20,119 --> 00:28:22,680 Speaker 7: Yeah, and you worked hard to get that. You just 425 00:28:22,759 --> 00:28:23,799 received that last. 426 00:28:23,640 --> 00:28:27,640 Speaker 5: Year, yes, ma'am. 427 00:28:28,880 --> 00:28:35,720 Speaker 7: So, mister Harris, you were a juvenile lifer and were 428 00:28:35,720 --> 00:28:40,359 you resentenced or were you just given parole? Do you 429 00:28:40,440 --> 00:28:42,480 have to go back to court to be resentenced? 430 00:28:42,759 --> 00:28:44,319 Speaker 5: I was recentenced, just ma'am. 431 00:28:44,559 --> 00:28:45,759 Speaker 7: And in what year was that? 432 00:28:51,200 --> 00:28:54,839 Speaker 8: I believe in twenty two ma'am, I'm not certain. You 433 00:28:54,880 --> 00:28:58,319 may have speak of my attorney concerning that. 434 00:28:59,000 --> 00:29:02,920 Speaker 7: I would like to, Yes, ma'am, would you affirm what 435 00:29:03,000 --> 00:29:04,839 they as were sentenced. 436 00:29:04,839 --> 00:29:08,200 Speaker 9: Twenty twenty one? I relieved it was in. 437 00:29:08,799 --> 00:29:13,119 Speaker 7: That's okay, just the year's fine, twenty one. That's the 438 00:29:13,240 --> 00:29:17,839 reason I'm asking that question is because although you've had 439 00:29:17,880 --> 00:29:19,799 one hundred and twenty eight write. 440 00:29:19,519 --> 00:29:21,480 Speaker 5: Ups, yes, ma'am, it's. 441 00:29:21,359 --> 00:29:26,039 Speaker 7: When occurred in seventeen. Yes, ma'am, it was four years 442 00:29:26,079 --> 00:29:29,920 before you knew you had an opportunity maybe to get out. 443 00:29:30,039 --> 00:29:32,680 Speaker 5: Is that correct, yes, ma'am. 444 00:29:33,480 --> 00:29:37,440 Speaker 7: So what happened? What flipped the switch in seventeen? Finally, 445 00:29:40,039 --> 00:29:43,160 why did you stop having problems in prison in twenty seventeen? 446 00:29:44,240 --> 00:29:44,759 Speaker 5: I stopped. 447 00:29:44,799 --> 00:29:50,400 Speaker 8: I stopped being around negative individuals now and allowed myself 448 00:29:50,440 --> 00:29:56,599 to only affiliate with positive individuals who were doing positive things. 449 00:29:57,839 --> 00:30:02,319 I engaged in my fellowship regularly. That took up most 450 00:30:02,359 --> 00:30:03,000 of my time. 451 00:30:06,160 --> 00:30:11,720 Speaker 7: Well, I note that you did get involved in faith 452 00:30:11,799 --> 00:30:15,559 based activities around. 453 00:30:15,160 --> 00:30:19,200 Speaker 5: That time, yes, ma'am. I have you. 454 00:30:19,640 --> 00:30:25,440 Speaker 7: Started engaging in a lot of the opportunities in that 455 00:30:25,759 --> 00:30:29,759 particular subculture of the prison, the faith community. 456 00:30:30,200 --> 00:30:35,799 Speaker 8: That's, ma'am. I come from Christian background. My family has 457 00:30:35,920 --> 00:30:46,640 always been spiritual believers, and I continue, well, are. 458 00:30:46,480 --> 00:30:49,799 Speaker 7: You restarted, because it looks like you weren't in the 459 00:30:49,880 --> 00:30:51,759 right track for many years there. 460 00:30:52,000 --> 00:30:55,480 Speaker 5: I was not. No, I was not, ma'am. 461 00:30:56,119 --> 00:31:03,759 Speaker 7: I read the background of the case itself be heinous crime. 462 00:31:04,880 --> 00:31:08,079 Speaker 5: Yes, ma'am. 463 00:31:08,400 --> 00:31:15,880 Speaker 8: I take full responsibility now, I really do, and I 464 00:31:16,000 --> 00:31:17,920 regret that that had ever happened. 465 00:31:22,039 --> 00:31:25,880 Speaker 7: So you have taken victim awareness, yes, ma'am, I have. 466 00:31:30,680 --> 00:31:33,640 I want to hear in your own words, mister Harris, 467 00:31:34,400 --> 00:31:37,519 why should we consider letting you out. 468 00:31:41,400 --> 00:31:41,759 Speaker 5: I have. 469 00:31:43,680 --> 00:31:49,759 Speaker 8: Rehabilitated myself. God has allowed me to re evaluate my 470 00:31:49,880 --> 00:31:53,440 life and set out on a positive course. That positive 471 00:31:53,480 --> 00:31:59,480 course had led me to obtain several certificates and healthcare 472 00:31:59,559 --> 00:32:09,400 provider uh. I'm skilled in landscaping as various other UH trades, janitorial, 473 00:32:10,279 --> 00:32:15,359 uh HU and uh at present. I am an academic 474 00:32:15,680 --> 00:32:21,920 genius the literacy too, and I feel that I will 475 00:32:21,960 --> 00:32:26,640 be able to contribute to society in which the community 476 00:32:26,759 --> 00:32:33,000 I will live given the opportunity. 477 00:32:33,799 --> 00:32:36,640 Speaker 7: Were you personally aware of any of your victims or 478 00:32:36,680 --> 00:32:38,319 where these chants happening? 479 00:32:38,839 --> 00:32:43,079 Speaker 8: Do you know I wasn't I wasn't familiar with any Oh, man, 480 00:32:44,319 --> 00:32:52,640 I was not, uh record. 481 00:32:53,279 --> 00:32:57,680 Speaker 7: It indicates that you haven't had family visits. But I 482 00:32:57,720 --> 00:33:04,720 do see that you have your sister and a niece, 483 00:33:05,400 --> 00:33:09,880 so you've been having pretty often at the ma'am. 484 00:33:11,440 --> 00:33:16,039 Speaker 8: Only only when only when they are able to Uh, 485 00:33:16,880 --> 00:33:22,519 my baby sister whenever she cad she's here. My niece 486 00:33:22,720 --> 00:33:26,480 whenever she's whenever she is available and has the time, 487 00:33:26,960 --> 00:33:27,559 she would come. 488 00:33:27,640 --> 00:33:42,839 Speaker 7: Also, Oh, what is what is your greatest challenge looking 489 00:33:42,880 --> 00:33:47,119 at possible parole? What is? Do you have any concerns 490 00:33:47,240 --> 00:33:49,400 or what is your greatest concern if you get out? 491 00:33:50,599 --> 00:33:50,920 Speaker 4: Ma'am. 492 00:33:50,960 --> 00:33:51,279 Speaker 10: I have. 493 00:33:53,119 --> 00:33:57,519 Speaker 8: A few nephews. I have one that I constantly pray for, 494 00:33:58,759 --> 00:34:03,920 and I wish theresia before it didn't happened to him, 495 00:34:04,160 --> 00:34:06,920 or before he winds up in prison. Not just him, 496 00:34:07,000 --> 00:34:10,760 maybe a few of his friends, you know, I would 497 00:34:10,800 --> 00:34:19,239 like to reach him. 498 00:34:19,440 --> 00:34:19,760 Speaker 11: I may. 499 00:34:20,039 --> 00:34:22,119 Speaker 7: I'm going to reserve the right to come back and 500 00:34:22,199 --> 00:34:25,679 ask more questions later, but at this time, mister Freeman, 501 00:34:25,760 --> 00:34:27,079 I'm gonna run it back up. 502 00:34:27,920 --> 00:34:29,559 Speaker 6: Mister do you have any questions? 503 00:34:29,760 --> 00:34:34,639 Speaker 10: Yes, sir, mister Harris, yes, you planned or you were 504 00:34:34,719 --> 00:34:39,480 found guilty of killing three were those at different times. 505 00:34:39,599 --> 00:34:42,159 Tell me about the time in between. 506 00:34:41,800 --> 00:34:44,400 Speaker 5: The it was different times? 507 00:34:45,000 --> 00:34:47,719 Speaker 10: How long was it between each one? I'm trying to 508 00:34:47,760 --> 00:34:52,039 understand the crime. I don't came back to glory details. 509 00:34:53,199 --> 00:34:57,599 Speaker 8: According to the records, it was from February thirteen, I 510 00:34:57,639 --> 00:35:01,159 believe until April six, I believe. 511 00:35:03,039 --> 00:35:06,480 Speaker 10: Okay, So the length of time of what And there 512 00:35:06,559 --> 00:35:09,599 was a fourth a fourth murder? 513 00:35:10,000 --> 00:35:11,000 Speaker 12: Did you commit that one? 514 00:35:11,039 --> 00:35:11,159 Speaker 13: To you? 515 00:35:11,320 --> 00:35:14,440 Speaker 5: I was proud, not guilty. I was froud, not guilty, 516 00:35:14,480 --> 00:35:20,000 sir okay? 517 00:35:20,039 --> 00:35:22,159 Speaker 12: Did these all take place at the same. 518 00:35:22,000 --> 00:35:30,679 Speaker 5: Place, the same area, within the same area, sir okay. 519 00:35:31,280 --> 00:35:40,199 Speaker 12: And I'm trying to distinguish and and find out. 520 00:35:40,719 --> 00:35:46,800 Speaker 10: It's it sounded almost like a serial killer, Okay. I 521 00:35:46,800 --> 00:35:50,039 mean that's with my background, that's what it sounds like. 522 00:35:50,639 --> 00:35:53,559 So what was the mo of this serial killer? 523 00:35:54,320 --> 00:36:00,360 Speaker 8: I understand, Uh, I was a young juvenile teenage sense 524 00:36:00,400 --> 00:36:05,320 of direction, that high school dropout, swalling, all kinds of 525 00:36:05,440 --> 00:36:10,639 pills and everything you could think of at that time. 526 00:36:11,519 --> 00:36:19,679 Speaker 5: Yeah, And I just sorry it happened. 527 00:36:20,679 --> 00:36:23,719 Speaker 4: Mhm. 528 00:36:24,119 --> 00:36:26,239 Speaker 5: I just wasn't in the right state of mind, sir. 529 00:36:27,119 --> 00:36:30,039 Speaker 12: Yes, I mean, did you did you set this up? 530 00:36:30,199 --> 00:36:33,440 Set these murders up? In order to rob the people. 531 00:36:34,320 --> 00:36:37,360 Speaker 5: It wasn't it was not a set up. It was 532 00:36:37,440 --> 00:36:39,400 not a set up at all. 533 00:36:39,440 --> 00:36:41,760 Speaker 12: Then why would you why didn't you? 534 00:36:44,639 --> 00:36:52,840 Speaker 8: I was in need of money to support that drug 535 00:36:53,000 --> 00:36:54,920 the drugs I was using at the time. 536 00:36:55,960 --> 00:36:56,159 Speaker 10: Uh h. 537 00:36:59,840 --> 00:37:03,800 Speaker 5: I I became affiliated. 538 00:37:04,800 --> 00:37:11,760 Speaker 14: With some of the victims you know, and was asked 539 00:37:11,800 --> 00:37:19,960 to accompany accompany them to their home, and at the time. 540 00:37:21,960 --> 00:37:29,239 Speaker 5: When we entered the home, I robbed and killed those 541 00:37:29,400 --> 00:37:35,000 men and I regret it. I'm so sorry every day. 542 00:37:35,480 --> 00:37:36,079 I regret. 543 00:37:40,559 --> 00:37:42,519 Speaker 12: That's all without here, Thank you, Miss Terris. 544 00:37:43,119 --> 00:37:47,599 Speaker 6: Okay, mister, I have one question. What what have you 545 00:37:47,679 --> 00:37:51,239 done to address your drug problem that you've been in ango. 546 00:37:52,920 --> 00:37:59,360 Speaker 8: I have taken a drug courses living in balance? Uh 547 00:37:59,719 --> 00:38:00,679 still one and two? 548 00:38:03,440 --> 00:38:03,760 Speaker 5: All right? 549 00:38:04,679 --> 00:38:08,719 Speaker 15: Uh you get out, sir? Do you plan on following 550 00:38:08,840 --> 00:38:12,480 up when you if you work, Yes, sir, I will 551 00:38:12,559 --> 00:38:18,880 certainly follow up, and I'm sure mister Myers or I 552 00:38:18,960 --> 00:38:23,360 have some stuff to say about that when he speaks. Okay, 553 00:38:23,920 --> 00:38:29,920 I have no further questions. Uh So now we will 554 00:38:30,079 --> 00:38:32,400 go to the family. 555 00:38:33,519 --> 00:38:34,639 Speaker 5: First. ROBERTA. 556 00:38:34,719 --> 00:38:38,440 Speaker 6: Harris, sister in law. Okay, you want to speak first. 557 00:38:39,320 --> 00:38:44,119 I just wanted you go up after the podium name. 558 00:38:47,679 --> 00:38:48,639 Speaker 7: He had Warren. 559 00:38:49,119 --> 00:38:52,920 Speaker 16: I am his sister in law. I met Warren through 560 00:38:53,079 --> 00:38:57,559 his brother, David. I'm married to David. Met Warren in 561 00:38:57,639 --> 00:38:58,599 seventy six. 562 00:38:58,440 --> 00:38:59,719 Speaker 7: When brother and I. 563 00:39:01,159 --> 00:39:06,000 Speaker 12: When I met Warren, he was this kind and gentle person. 564 00:39:06,079 --> 00:39:09,360 Speaker 16: He stayed right next door to the grandmother, Miss Julia, 565 00:39:09,800 --> 00:39:13,159 and Warren was always kicking care. He looked out for 566 00:39:13,239 --> 00:39:15,920 He made sure she had everything. He made sure his 567 00:39:16,039 --> 00:39:18,840 mother had everything. He made sure his siblings had everything. 568 00:39:19,679 --> 00:39:24,679 But like he's admitted, the drugs that he got over 569 00:39:24,760 --> 00:39:27,320 hold up to, it just did something to his mind 570 00:39:27,400 --> 00:39:30,719 to just make him do things out of the ordinary. 571 00:39:30,960 --> 00:39:34,079 But he was raised in a Christian family. His grandfather 572 00:39:34,239 --> 00:39:36,360 wasn't being a Sai mother saying the choir. 573 00:39:36,639 --> 00:39:39,039 Speaker 12: They were white church on Punde. 574 00:39:39,880 --> 00:39:41,599 Speaker 16: I like to say a month he got out into 575 00:39:41,639 --> 00:39:44,480 the into the streets and the drugs and got a 576 00:39:44,519 --> 00:39:47,480 hold of his minding. His brain dropped out, and then 577 00:39:48,559 --> 00:39:51,199 we just don't know what happened from there, but we 578 00:39:51,320 --> 00:39:51,880 still love it. 579 00:39:53,519 --> 00:39:59,320 Speaker 6: Okay, thank you, ma'am, thank you. Okay, uh mister carry mine. 580 00:40:01,960 --> 00:40:06,880 Speaker 3: Good morning, Kerry Myers with Louisiana Parole Project. This board 581 00:40:06,920 --> 00:40:12,400 already knows mister Harris was sixteen years old, addicted, had 582 00:40:12,400 --> 00:40:17,440 been addicted for some time before he committed these crimes. 583 00:40:19,519 --> 00:40:22,039 We also know that the sixteen year olds and an 584 00:40:22,079 --> 00:40:25,920 addiction can lead to some horrible consequences. We know why 585 00:40:25,960 --> 00:40:30,519 the brain science says that to juveniles are different. But 586 00:40:30,639 --> 00:40:34,760 mister Harris, I think miss Leeduce said it correctly. Seven 587 00:40:34,840 --> 00:40:39,719 years ago. The light completely clicked on before he knew 588 00:40:39,760 --> 00:40:44,239 he was going to be parole eligible, and he rededicated 589 00:40:44,280 --> 00:40:48,599 his life spiritually. He worked very hard on his ged 590 00:40:49,920 --> 00:40:54,480 his programs. Mister Harris is now not a sixteen year 591 00:40:54,519 --> 00:40:57,760 old addicted child. He is a sixty four year old 592 00:40:57,760 --> 00:41:00,800 man who has served forty six years for these crimes. 593 00:41:00,800 --> 00:41:04,199 He has a support system. One of the things that 594 00:41:04,480 --> 00:41:08,880 will happen immediately address any concerns that you may have 595 00:41:08,960 --> 00:41:13,239 about that, mister Freeman, is he will get an evaluation 596 00:41:13,559 --> 00:41:16,119 of substance abuse of and mental health evaluation from our 597 00:41:16,119 --> 00:41:20,679 social work staff and we'll make sure that any recommendations 598 00:41:20,719 --> 00:41:25,440 are followed through that. Not only that after forty six 599 00:41:25,519 --> 00:41:28,360 years at from a sixteen year old now to a 600 00:41:28,400 --> 00:41:33,079 sixty four year old man, he's going to need the 601 00:41:33,119 --> 00:41:37,719 type of services that we can provide that, in essence, 602 00:41:38,079 --> 00:41:42,920 detoxification from the institutionalization that he's been involved in for 603 00:41:42,960 --> 00:41:47,079 the last forty six years. And that's what our program 604 00:41:47,159 --> 00:41:52,400 is absolutely geared to do. Will He will learn technology, 605 00:41:52,519 --> 00:41:57,840 He will in steps, he will learn social norms which 606 00:41:57,840 --> 00:42:01,960 are certainly different from when he entered prison. He will 607 00:42:02,000 --> 00:42:06,679 have the ability to continue to access our social or department. 608 00:42:07,239 --> 00:42:07,320 Speaker 1: Uh. 609 00:42:07,440 --> 00:42:11,239 Speaker 3: He will learn financial management. He is employed, he is 610 00:42:11,280 --> 00:42:15,199 still healthy, he is still employable, he has employment waiting 611 00:42:16,000 --> 00:42:21,599 for him. His sister has offered him housing and has 612 00:42:21,639 --> 00:42:25,639 been supportive throughout this time. We're here to help him 613 00:42:25,639 --> 00:42:27,800 through that for as long as it needs to be 614 00:42:29,280 --> 00:42:33,559 and once he's completed our program, mister Harris has a 615 00:42:33,719 --> 00:42:37,559 has a strong support system. So we would just ask 616 00:42:37,639 --> 00:42:40,239 this board to consider the fact that you know, he 617 00:42:40,360 --> 00:42:44,039 is not the sixteen year old addicted child that committed 618 00:42:44,119 --> 00:42:50,400 these crimes regardless. Uh, it's it's you can't minimize any 619 00:42:50,440 --> 00:42:55,639 of the actions. They were horrific, but this is the 620 00:42:55,679 --> 00:42:58,920 whole capacity to grow and mature is the reason we're 621 00:42:58,920 --> 00:43:01,800 here today. And so we as this boy to consider 622 00:43:01,840 --> 00:43:04,480 all these factors today in making their decision. 623 00:43:09,559 --> 00:43:14,840 Speaker 6: Before I go to the subject and the lawyer wag Kalvu. 624 00:43:14,960 --> 00:43:19,119 Do you have any comments you would like to make, Yes, sir, 625 00:43:19,199 --> 00:43:19,639 good morning. 626 00:43:19,840 --> 00:43:23,960 Speaker 13: Uh, you know you were talking about the history of 627 00:43:24,039 --> 00:43:25,599 Warren Record. 628 00:43:25,719 --> 00:43:27,480 Speaker 12: And yeah, at one time. 629 00:43:27,320 --> 00:43:30,199 Speaker 2: He did have a class I say trustee's status. 630 00:43:30,199 --> 00:43:33,199 Speaker 13: He worked in beautification for us outside the Fences for 631 00:43:33,559 --> 00:43:37,239 eight years, then fifteen lost at on a write up 632 00:43:37,559 --> 00:43:40,639 at that other write up in seventeen he's worked his 633 00:43:40,719 --> 00:43:44,320 way back up to a class A again when he 634 00:43:44,440 --> 00:43:47,719 did back in twenty seventeen, works his way back up 635 00:43:47,760 --> 00:43:52,639 to a men be. His job was a union supply sockware. 636 00:43:52,760 --> 00:43:57,119 Of course in the warehouse he was responsible for a 637 00:43:57,239 --> 00:44:00,440 lot of inventory that was worth a lot of money. 638 00:44:00,440 --> 00:44:04,880 Speaker 17: And those jobs or jobs that we will put inmate 639 00:44:04,960 --> 00:44:08,519 skins that we can trust to the degree of even 640 00:44:08,559 --> 00:44:11,360 with oversight, that they're going to do a good job 641 00:44:11,400 --> 00:44:12,000 for us. 642 00:44:12,440 --> 00:44:13,360 Speaker 2: And he did that. 643 00:44:14,920 --> 00:44:19,639 Speaker 13: Until eighteen when he went into the full time GED 644 00:44:20,079 --> 00:44:23,480 and so I think he was six times in. 645 00:44:23,480 --> 00:44:27,239 Speaker 2: His ge attempts and finally there and now he's a tutor. 646 00:44:27,360 --> 00:44:32,119 So yeah, he definitely in seventeen, as you guys stated, 647 00:44:32,199 --> 00:44:35,480 has done a good job in turning that corner and 648 00:44:35,559 --> 00:44:41,760 maintained his process and give the projections where. 649 00:44:41,599 --> 00:44:44,079 Speaker 17: He is now, so his focus has changed. 650 00:44:47,039 --> 00:44:47,599 Speaker 5: Thank you boy. 651 00:44:48,639 --> 00:44:57,679 Speaker 6: Sure, okay, mister Harris, would you like to make us statement? Yes, sir, ma'am, 652 00:44:57,800 --> 00:45:03,079 this Palmer has spoken pos Catholic. Had his speaker seek, no, 653 00:45:03,199 --> 00:45:06,039 we hadn't. Ms Palmer, would you like to. 654 00:45:06,000 --> 00:45:10,039 Speaker 11: Speak, yes, sir, Thank you so much for this opportunity. 655 00:45:10,880 --> 00:45:14,079 Speaker 5: Yes, ma'am, good morning. 656 00:45:14,280 --> 00:45:21,920 Speaker 11: I'm Warren Harris baby's sister, and we all were disobedient, 657 00:45:23,000 --> 00:45:26,679 so our mother and our grandparents coming up. I was 658 00:45:26,719 --> 00:45:32,760 pregnant at fourteen, I was a grandmother at forty and 659 00:45:32,920 --> 00:45:40,320 throughout the years we all have turned our lives around 660 00:45:41,320 --> 00:45:44,360 and went back to the foundation on which we were 661 00:45:44,400 --> 00:45:48,440 brought up on, and that was the foundation of Jesus Christ. 662 00:45:50,320 --> 00:45:54,840 I have seen Warren grow throughout the years we all 663 00:45:54,920 --> 00:46:00,280 were in prison, those forty seven years with Warren. Like 664 00:46:00,360 --> 00:46:04,639 I said, we were all disobedient as children, and I 665 00:46:04,679 --> 00:46:09,159 got pregnant. I was smoking weed. I was inn abusive 666 00:46:09,239 --> 00:46:13,880 relationship with my children's father. But throughout the years we 667 00:46:13,960 --> 00:46:17,760 stayed connected. I had been going to the prison since 668 00:46:17,840 --> 00:46:21,320 I was four years old. Our father was in jail 669 00:46:21,400 --> 00:46:25,400 since twenty eight. Our mother was abandoned by her first 670 00:46:25,480 --> 00:46:28,880 husband and then abused by our father, which was in 671 00:46:28,960 --> 00:46:32,320 jail for twenty eight years. Then Warren he's been in 672 00:46:32,360 --> 00:46:35,199 there for forty six and out my other brother he's 673 00:46:35,239 --> 00:46:38,800 been back and forth for fifteen years. So we've all 674 00:46:38,880 --> 00:46:41,800 returned back to the foundation on which we were brought 675 00:46:41,880 --> 00:46:46,559 up on. Thank God for that. I've seen Warren mature. 676 00:46:46,639 --> 00:46:50,920 He's helped me throughout the years. I've sent photos when 677 00:46:50,960 --> 00:46:55,920 photos were accepted. I've sent money throughout the years, visits 678 00:46:56,000 --> 00:46:58,519 throughout the years when our mother was living. Now that 679 00:46:58,599 --> 00:47:03,920 she's gone. Now I'm a great grandmother at the age 680 00:47:03,960 --> 00:47:09,559 of sixty. So Warren has been like a father uncle 681 00:47:09,920 --> 00:47:15,440 to my children, my grandchildren, and we lean on each other. 682 00:47:15,960 --> 00:47:18,159 When I go and visit. I don't just go to 683 00:47:18,280 --> 00:47:22,159 visit him, go because I need him. He's been a 684 00:47:22,280 --> 00:47:25,559 support to me with the JEDP and the emails. He 685 00:47:25,760 --> 00:47:30,519 encourages me. He sends me letters and prayers throughout the 686 00:47:31,480 --> 00:47:34,440 and so I'm here to be here for him till 687 00:47:34,480 --> 00:47:38,199 the day God calls us all home. I've seen the 688 00:47:38,360 --> 00:47:44,599 change in all of us, how we've changed our lives 689 00:47:44,639 --> 00:47:50,119 and living the way our parents really intended us to live. 690 00:47:51,360 --> 00:47:56,280 But I think you offer this opportunity, and I think 691 00:47:57,239 --> 00:48:01,599 my parents for raising us up in this faith. 692 00:48:01,400 --> 00:48:08,159 Speaker 18: Based because thirty seven years ago this opportunity was not possible. 693 00:48:09,320 --> 00:48:12,840 But we prayed and asked God to forgive us of 694 00:48:12,920 --> 00:48:16,639 our sins and to have mercy upon us, to pity 695 00:48:16,800 --> 00:48:22,039 us and spare us. And so this day He has 696 00:48:22,199 --> 00:48:25,400 made this day possible. And I thank you for the 697 00:48:25,440 --> 00:48:28,400 hope of it, and I thank you for the joy 698 00:48:28,480 --> 00:48:29,960 and just the confirmation. 699 00:48:36,280 --> 00:48:39,199 Speaker 5: Thank you, bam, appreciate it. 700 00:48:40,239 --> 00:48:45,920 Speaker 6: H Okay, it's uh Florusca. 701 00:48:47,960 --> 00:48:50,559 Speaker 5: You're ready, Yes, ma'am. 702 00:48:51,039 --> 00:48:52,840 Speaker 9: Perhaps you wanted one to speak first. 703 00:48:53,000 --> 00:48:57,440 Speaker 6: Listen, however y'all want to do it. Usually the inmate 704 00:48:57,519 --> 00:49:00,000 speaks first, so it's up to you. 705 00:49:00,079 --> 00:49:01,119 Speaker 7: Is your hairs speak? Curse? 706 00:49:01,559 --> 00:49:10,440 Speaker 6: Okay, mister Harris, your attorning you speak. 707 00:49:11,599 --> 00:49:15,920 Speaker 8: Thank you for allowing me this opportunity this morning I 708 00:49:16,039 --> 00:49:18,760 have I now have the opportunity to address this of 709 00:49:18,880 --> 00:49:20,880 all family, Farmer family. 710 00:49:22,159 --> 00:49:23,360 Speaker 5: And a Dlago family. 711 00:49:24,159 --> 00:49:27,400 Speaker 8: This matter should have been addressed years ago, but because 712 00:49:27,440 --> 00:49:30,599 of matters, concern and contact, I was not able to 713 00:49:30,679 --> 00:49:36,400 do so. To each family members of the victims, I 714 00:49:36,480 --> 00:49:44,840 sincerely apologize for taking the lives of your loved one. 715 00:49:45,159 --> 00:49:48,840 I'm truly sorry and regret what had happened forty six 716 00:49:48,920 --> 00:49:54,039 years ago. Your family has suffered many years missing someone 717 00:49:54,199 --> 00:49:59,199 very special who has been taken away from you. I'm 718 00:49:59,199 --> 00:50:06,719 truly sorrow. During my years of incarceration, guilty finish has 719 00:50:06,719 --> 00:50:12,039 gripped me deeply. My guilt has motivated me to call 720 00:50:12,119 --> 00:50:17,840 out to God, asking for his help for change within myself. 721 00:50:19,079 --> 00:50:24,320 My prayer had been asked. God allowed me to reevaluate 722 00:50:24,400 --> 00:50:28,840 my life and set me out on a positive course. 723 00:50:31,079 --> 00:50:35,920 I become a servant the very given my time and 724 00:50:35,920 --> 00:50:43,840 the very little resources I have, helping those who cannot 725 00:50:43,840 --> 00:50:50,119 help themselves. I continue praying, asking God to give me 726 00:50:50,159 --> 00:50:54,360 the ability and to continue to allow me to be 727 00:50:54,440 --> 00:51:01,280 a positive influence to those around me. I'm truly sorry 728 00:51:01,559 --> 00:51:07,320 and regret the offense I had committed. I apologize to 729 00:51:07,360 --> 00:51:14,360 the community, but these crimes were committed. I'm very sorry 730 00:51:15,280 --> 00:51:19,960 and very remonst I appreciate this opportunity that has been 731 00:51:19,960 --> 00:51:20,440 given me. 732 00:51:21,239 --> 00:51:27,320 Speaker 19: Thank you God, bless you, Thank you well. Now I'm 733 00:51:27,320 --> 00:51:33,360 just lor sca good warnam. 734 00:51:34,119 --> 00:51:37,280 Speaker 9: My name is Abigail Floresca and I'm a student attorney 735 00:51:37,400 --> 00:51:42,440 at Little Low Lack It representing mister Warren Harriss. In 736 00:51:42,519 --> 00:51:48,880 nineteen seventy seven, mister Harris committed devastating for whole crimes, 737 00:51:49,159 --> 00:51:52,519 taking the lives of multiple men and striking fear and 738 00:51:52,599 --> 00:51:57,320 pain throughout the community. As you've heard today, mister Harris 739 00:51:57,360 --> 00:52:01,400 is deep remorseful and a shame to his crimes, and 740 00:52:01,440 --> 00:52:04,400 he's carried that remorse with him every day for forty 741 00:52:04,440 --> 00:52:08,880 six years. Aim these forty six years, he's channeled that 742 00:52:09,039 --> 00:52:12,719 morpse and you're processing the armed you caused and becoming 743 00:52:12,800 --> 00:52:16,599 with mature sixty three year old in the athletist now today, 744 00:52:18,079 --> 00:52:20,840 I know the board is well known of more versus bottomly, 745 00:52:22,000 --> 00:52:25,639 how even children who commit Haines crimes still have the 746 00:52:25,760 --> 00:52:32,079 capacity to change. Mister Harris is truly the mosonification of 747 00:52:32,239 --> 00:52:38,119 that ability to change his life. Shows that our children 748 00:52:38,199 --> 00:52:43,719 are removed from abuse, drugs, violence and dysfunction, they can 749 00:52:43,920 --> 00:52:49,440 become totally different. Sixteen year old one Brianna streets and 750 00:52:49,559 --> 00:52:53,920 didn't follow the molds secret. Sixty three year old mister 751 00:52:53,960 --> 00:52:57,679 Herricks is a trustee and hasn't kind of right up insidens. 752 00:53:00,119 --> 00:53:02,800 Year old Warren did all he could to numb himself 753 00:53:02,840 --> 00:53:07,239 with drugs. Sixty three year old mister Harris finds peace 754 00:53:07,599 --> 00:53:11,159 and joy from singing and gospel vans at the Transformation 755 00:53:11,360 --> 00:53:15,639 Gospel Bands, Pure Heart Messengers. His favorite song to sing 756 00:53:15,639 --> 00:53:20,760 its Winking Inperiens. Sixteen year old Warren sat in his 757 00:53:20,880 --> 00:53:26,400 grandfather's church nodding off eye on Harold. Sixty three year 758 00:53:26,440 --> 00:53:29,519 old mister Harris's earned forty long certificates for by her 759 00:53:29,599 --> 00:53:33,480 studies and its contributions to the industries such as the 760 00:53:33,559 --> 00:53:39,719 leadership fields. Sixteen year old Warren took the lives of 761 00:53:39,800 --> 00:53:44,440 multiple men. Sixty three year old mister Harris takes spherically 762 00:53:44,519 --> 00:53:49,960 eltily and the sick in musts. Sixteen year old Warren 763 00:53:50,079 --> 00:53:52,400 dropped out of the grade and didn't. 764 00:53:52,079 --> 00:53:53,760 Speaker 7: See a future for himself. 765 00:53:55,079 --> 00:53:59,239 Speaker 9: Sixty three year old Winster Harris spent two decades trying 766 00:53:59,239 --> 00:54:02,440 to get its high, and he'd finally earned his plum. 767 00:54:02,639 --> 00:54:06,760 He immediately turned around and became a literacy trigger helped 768 00:54:06,800 --> 00:54:08,199 me others achieve. 769 00:54:07,880 --> 00:54:09,639 Speaker 7: The same thing that he did. 770 00:54:11,159 --> 00:54:15,039 Speaker 9: Mister Harris has earned a trouble of fifty six certificates 771 00:54:15,039 --> 00:54:19,000 for programming and accomplishments. Throughout his stand in prison, he 772 00:54:19,159 --> 00:54:22,199 was dedicated to learning many years before you were past 773 00:54:22,840 --> 00:54:28,920 and what was even impossibility. The Ward has asked about 774 00:54:29,079 --> 00:54:33,880 mister Harris's land for recovery from addition of drugs, given 775 00:54:33,960 --> 00:54:38,920 his history, and mister Harris has recognized that recovery is 776 00:54:38,960 --> 00:54:42,039 a life process and he will always be combat and 777 00:54:42,119 --> 00:54:44,239 it's always seemed to be a part of his life. 778 00:54:45,199 --> 00:54:48,920 But he's willing and ready to draw narcotics, anonymous medians 779 00:54:49,079 --> 00:54:53,039 and any anything else that the Whole Project is also 780 00:54:53,079 --> 00:54:58,280 going to support in with finding those resources. I remmuted 781 00:54:58,519 --> 00:55:04,000 in will packet a list of local narcotics anonymous meetings 782 00:55:04,199 --> 00:55:06,280 in the area where he's going to be with me 783 00:55:11,639 --> 00:55:15,679 should the board rule. Mister Harris has the support of 784 00:55:15,760 --> 00:55:20,639 his family, his friends, and a dual project. As you've heard, 785 00:55:20,639 --> 00:55:22,599 the pro Project is going to help him with the 786 00:55:22,840 --> 00:55:26,760 entry and everything that he's going to be meeting navigating 787 00:55:27,480 --> 00:55:33,159 coming to the Three worlds after forty six years. His 788 00:55:33,320 --> 00:55:37,559 sister Brenda has supported mister Harris's entire time in prison, 789 00:55:38,199 --> 00:55:43,119 visiting him, supporting him, and she's ready to give back 790 00:55:43,159 --> 00:55:47,039 to as well. Mister Harris is also hoping to give 791 00:55:47,159 --> 00:55:51,239 back as a herd, mentoring his nine grand nieces and nephews, 792 00:55:51,800 --> 00:55:56,559 continuing to sing and worship and doing landscape passion he discovery, 793 00:55:56,599 --> 00:55:59,559 while will striving to make the world around the more 794 00:55:59,599 --> 00:56:03,679 beauth The significance of Miller hearings is that children the 795 00:56:03,800 --> 00:56:06,400 extent the majority of their lives in curser, you have 796 00:56:06,559 --> 00:56:10,039 the opportunity to show the change, and in forty six years, 797 00:56:10,079 --> 00:56:14,239 mister Harris has done just that. Today he's a trustee 798 00:56:14,559 --> 00:56:19,039 nan of Faith, literacy tutor and a source of support. 799 00:56:18,679 --> 00:56:21,440 Speaker 5: To those who have astro. 800 00:56:21,559 --> 00:56:24,159 Speaker 9: Savory wrote, he has a part of the people and 801 00:56:24,199 --> 00:56:26,719 a life that reaches those who see to be unreached. 802 00:56:27,840 --> 00:56:30,679 In light of the person that mister Harris is today, 803 00:56:31,079 --> 00:56:34,159 we urged the honorable Board to bring up closer years. 804 00:56:35,280 --> 00:56:36,119 Speaker 5: Thank you very much. 805 00:56:39,079 --> 00:56:41,599 Speaker 4: Okay, well. 806 00:56:43,039 --> 00:56:47,920 Speaker 6: I will vote well, this will do that. You advocation 807 00:56:48,119 --> 00:56:48,960 will vote first. 808 00:57:00,599 --> 00:57:06,760 Speaker 7: Their hair is h You have to understand all of 809 00:57:06,840 --> 00:57:13,519 us take this role very very seriously. And I read 810 00:57:13,559 --> 00:57:19,480 all two hundred pages of your of your file several times, 811 00:57:20,440 --> 00:57:24,719 and I have I have gone back and forth on this. 812 00:57:26,840 --> 00:57:34,639 Hearing you today was very insightful. You have a low 813 00:57:34,760 --> 00:57:38,880 risk assessment on the tools that we are provided with. 814 00:57:42,320 --> 00:57:51,599 You have good plans for your release. You have what 815 00:57:51,719 --> 00:57:59,039 I consider adequate institutional educational accomplishments. I can't change what 816 00:57:59,239 --> 00:58:04,360 you have done, but in taking the lines of those people, 817 00:58:05,760 --> 00:58:10,280 many times I ask myself before I make a vote, 818 00:58:10,880 --> 00:58:14,159 would I live next door to this person? Would I 819 00:58:14,239 --> 00:58:19,239 be afraid to live next door to this person? Mister Harris, 820 00:58:19,239 --> 00:58:22,039 there's still some things in your record that can sern me, 821 00:58:22,079 --> 00:58:25,639 some of the write ups that you've had, especially the 822 00:58:25,639 --> 00:58:36,159 twenty ones. I'll be honest, I twenty one. But at 823 00:58:36,159 --> 00:58:43,400 this point, after thirty seven years of incarceration, I believe 824 00:58:43,440 --> 00:58:46,519 that you're ready for the streets. And so my vote 825 00:58:46,519 --> 00:58:50,719 today is to grant parole with the condition that the 826 00:58:50,800 --> 00:58:55,760 par project tuned in very carefully to your needs for 827 00:58:56,039 --> 00:59:00,599 your giving you the tools to make good dess sessions. 828 00:59:00,719 --> 00:59:06,679 Speaker 19: Okay, so love that is chick aren Okay, thank you, 829 00:59:06,039 --> 00:59:08,239 h mister Pray. 830 00:59:09,159 --> 00:59:13,000 Speaker 12: I've heard some very strong arguments and recommendations today, and 831 00:59:13,039 --> 00:59:16,320 I flawgm with to harents for your growth and the 832 00:59:16,360 --> 00:59:17,480 accomplishments that. 833 00:59:17,400 --> 00:59:23,400 Speaker 10: You've uh that you have accomplished. I think you're truly 834 00:59:23,480 --> 00:59:27,320 repented of what you've done. I think we all have 835 00:59:27,480 --> 00:59:31,280 our mission fields and life. I'm a strong believer in 836 00:59:31,320 --> 00:59:38,599 that I truly believe that your mission field is there 837 00:59:38,639 --> 00:59:44,280 at Angola, at Louisiana State's Penitentiary. And it's similar to 838 00:59:45,159 --> 00:59:48,199 I guess in my mind, it's similar to a person 839 00:59:48,280 --> 00:59:53,039 that might smoke and then develop cancer and then quit smoking. 840 00:59:53,639 --> 00:59:56,679 They still have the cancer. They still have to pay 841 00:59:56,719 --> 00:59:59,800 the price for what they did. And so having said 842 00:59:59,800 --> 01:00:03,360 all of that, and considering the fact that you were 843 01:00:03,400 --> 01:00:07,400 giving three life sentences to write consecutively, my vote is 844 01:00:07,440 --> 01:00:08,760 to deny. 845 01:00:09,400 --> 01:00:14,559 Speaker 6: Okay, thank you. Okay. Uh, you know I looked at this, 846 01:00:15,199 --> 01:00:17,440 mister Tyris in a lot of ways. You were sixteen 847 01:00:17,519 --> 01:00:21,880 years old when when this occurred. You own drugs, real bad. 848 01:00:23,079 --> 01:00:23,199 Speaker 9: Uh. 849 01:00:24,360 --> 01:00:28,719 Speaker 6: You know that does not make any excuses for what 850 01:00:28,800 --> 01:00:31,199 you did. It was, like you law, you said, it 851 01:00:31,239 --> 01:00:36,519 was a very horrific crime. But uh, I do feel 852 01:00:36,519 --> 01:00:38,480 that you've done all you can do and ain't going 853 01:00:39,440 --> 01:00:44,079 that that that your work is done there. But you 854 01:00:44,159 --> 01:00:48,320 have plenty of work left. Uh So my vote today 855 01:00:48,719 --> 01:00:54,119 is also gonna be too grant to the parole project. Okay, 856 01:00:54,400 --> 01:00:58,880 mister Myers, I want him very thoroughly drug treat treatment. 857 01:00:58,880 --> 01:01:00,960 I want I want him to look at that closely 858 01:01:03,239 --> 01:01:07,480 and if he needs impatient treatment you get back with us. Okay, 859 01:01:09,599 --> 01:01:13,199 do that. Also, I want you to have drug screens 860 01:01:13,320 --> 01:01:17,320 two times per month for the first six months. Uh 861 01:01:17,440 --> 01:01:19,840 you fell any of those drug dreams, I can promise 862 01:01:19,880 --> 01:01:24,719 you you will be returned. And and that's all the 863 01:01:24,760 --> 01:01:26,519 conditions I'm gonna put on you. I'm gonna let you 864 01:01:26,559 --> 01:01:30,239 off to put the rest. I thank your family for 865 01:01:30,280 --> 01:01:33,320 showing up here today, and your representatives have meant a lot. 866 01:01:34,960 --> 01:01:37,320 Like your sister said, y'all need to doll grow together. 867 01:01:38,400 --> 01:01:39,000 Speaker 5: Thank you, sir. 868 01:01:40,119 --> 01:01:43,519 Speaker 6: World's gonna be watching you. I can promise you so 869 01:01:43,599 --> 01:01:44,159 be careful. 870 01:01:45,119 --> 01:01:45,760 Speaker 5: That's my lit. 871 01:01:48,000 --> 01:01:52,119 Speaker 7: To say, mister Harris, It's difficult to make these kind 872 01:01:52,159 --> 01:01:55,199 of choices, Okay, and then I appreciate what you do. 873 01:01:56,000 --> 01:01:57,559 Speaker 5: I understand. Thank you, ma'am. 874 01:01:58,360 --> 01:02:04,440 Speaker 4: Now after hearing that, personally, my opinion hasn't changed. I'm 875 01:02:04,440 --> 01:02:08,519 gonna say it again. Three four victims convicted of at 876 01:02:08,599 --> 01:02:14,119 least three where's the justice for the victims here? And 877 01:02:14,280 --> 01:02:16,679 you heard him say, Hey, I was high on drugs. 878 01:02:16,719 --> 01:02:20,039 I was a drug addict when I committed these murders. 879 01:02:20,719 --> 01:02:26,199 I mean, so fucking what that doesn't excuse it or 880 01:02:26,239 --> 01:02:28,719 in my opinion, carrying any weight as to why you 881 01:02:28,760 --> 01:02:33,000 should be released from prison for it. There are millions 882 01:02:33,000 --> 01:02:35,760 of people on this earth that are addicted to drugs 883 01:02:35,800 --> 01:02:41,719 that don't go around killing random, multiple people because of it. 884 01:02:41,719 --> 01:02:47,360 It's a bullshit excuse and it totally negates the victims 885 01:02:48,159 --> 01:02:53,000 in my opinion. Could he have changed during those forty 886 01:02:53,000 --> 01:02:57,440 six years in prison, sure, maybe, but that doesn't mean 887 01:02:58,599 --> 01:03:03,679 you should walk the streets. You have to serve the 888 01:03:03,760 --> 01:03:11,519 time for your crime. It's just bizarre. They you have it. 889 01:03:13,119 --> 01:03:16,480 Check us out on Patreon for commercial, free, early releases 890 01:03:16,480 --> 01:03:19,199 and more. Patreon dot com slash Bloody and Goal of 891 01:03:19,280 --> 01:03:22,400 podcast and thank you so much for those members for 892 01:03:22,440 --> 01:03:25,440 their support. I couldn't do the show without them, as 893 01:03:25,440 --> 01:03:30,360 simple as that. And until next time for Bloody and Goal, 894 01:03:30,480 --> 01:03:33,239 a podcast one and forty two years in the making. 895 01:03:33,880 --> 01:03:36,840 The complete story of America's Bloody is present. 896 01:03:37,719 --> 01:04:03,000 Speaker 1: Peace a wall Street line, shackle chain, Oh, who'so gird? 897 01:04:05,159 --> 01:04:11,519 It's calling my name? There is no mercy and it's 898 01:04:11,639 --> 01:04:19,960 been a tentery Jesus as the huge string game Rangle three. 899 01:04:22,000 --> 01:04:23,239 Speaker 17: I'm here, be. 900 01:04:25,320 --> 01:04:27,119 Speaker 3: By here to die. 901 01:04:28,760 --> 01:04:33,920 Speaker 1: Inside these walls, inside the wild. 902 01:04:35,519 --> 01:04:37,079 Speaker 4: And when the walk. 903 01:04:38,519 --> 01:04:47,679 Speaker 1: As I know, it's aboody angle. 904 01:04:50,239 --> 01:04:53,760 Speaker 9: Obody, angle 905 01:05:01,280 --> 01:05:06,800 Speaker 4: Down and finding