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Speaker 1: M m.

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Speaker 2: A Wall Street line, shackle change, Oh someome gird, it's

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calling my name. There is no mercy and it's been

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a tentery juice as the huge stream game Wrangle three,

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come by me to die inside these walls, inside the wild.

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Speaker 1: Han't went the girl as. I'm hey everyone, and welcome

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back to Bloody Angola Podcast. I'm your host Jim Chapman,

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and i am starting a brand new series today. I'm

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going to be calling fifty Shades of Evil Now. Each

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week with this series, I'm going to be bringing you

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the story of some of the most dangerous inmates in

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each of the fifty states. This week, to start off

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the series, I'm bringing you to Texas and I'm going

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to tell you the story of Texas inmate Billy Joel Tracy.

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And I did research this, y'all, and his parents were

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not a fan of Billy Joel. Surprisingly enough, it just

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so happens he has the same first and middle name,

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but he is currently on death row at the Polunsky Unit,

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where he is housed for one of the most brazen

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acts of prison violence in recent Texas history. Billy Joel

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Tracy was originally sentenced to life for aggravated assault and burglary,

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and it was not long before he became a documented

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menace behind bars. He racked up over twenty seven assaults

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on correctional officers alone before he actually killed a forty

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seven year old correctional officer. So let's get into it,

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and I'm going to take you back to November thirtieth

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of nineteen seventy seven. That's when Billy Joel Tracy was

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born in the town of Zanesville, Wisconsin. And for those

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not familiars, Zanesville is a rather large city sixty five

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thousand residents. It's known for its outdoor recreation. It has

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great hiking trails as well as recreational boating along what

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is known as the Rock River. But Billy Joel he

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was not really in that area long enough to enjoy it.

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While still an infant, his family relocates to Dallas, Texas. Now,

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this was the late seventies. Dallas, Texas at that time

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was booming economically, and in his parents' mind, it seemed

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like a good place to settle with their only child,

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Billy and seek work. Now, while the Dallas area was

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going through a major economic boom during that time due

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primarily to the oil industry. The Tracy family not so much,

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and when Tracy was around seven years old, they actually

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move again, this time to Colorado, but three years later

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they would return back to the Dallas, Texas area, in

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specifically Rockwell County. Now, growing up through adolescents in the nineties,

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Billy would start what I would call his descent into crime,

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and he would gain kind of a reputation around the

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Rockwell area as being very volatile. This would lead to

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some psychiatric issues that would lead to his mother actually

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hospitalizing him at twelve years old in a psychiatric hospital. Now,

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his parents really all the documented details that I have

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on his parents, they suffered from mental issues themselves. There

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were allegations of physical abuse that would occur during Billy's upbringing,

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and the household at this point would be considered very functional.

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So he's going in and out of these psychiatric hospitals

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and they're not really finding him. When I say they,

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doctors are not really finding anything that would necessarily point

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to him being mentally ill. So he would get released

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pretty quick and he would return to his household. But

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the issues with Billy would continue to persist. He was

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just not a good kid man. He was always getting

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into trouble, and by the time he reached seventeen years old,

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his mother had enough. He was incorrigible, just a bad kid,

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and she would kick him out of the house. So

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Billy Joel Tracy, he's on his own at seventeen years old,

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and he has to make his way right, no lifeboat anymore,

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He can't go back home to mom and dad's house.

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And it was just a few months later that he

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gets arrested for retaliation against a witness to a crime,

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and because he was a juvenile. While at this time

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the records on that particular case were not released, they

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were sealed. However, he does get a three year jail sentence,

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which he starts serving, and after twenty months in prison,

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he does get paroled on that jail sentence. And at

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this point in time, it's July of nineteen ninety six,

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so he's back out into the real world and he's

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got to make his way again. The state of Texas

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is not paying for him to have a room and

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boarding food anymore. And he does get a job he's

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performing primarily manual labor, and he also gets an apartment,

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and hey, maybe this kid is scared straight by this point,

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after serving those twenty months in prison, no way, not

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a chance with this guy. In nineteen ninety eight, at

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the age of just twenty years old, he makes the

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biggest mistake of his short life thus far, when on

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the evening of January twenty eighth of nineteen ninety eight,

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he invites a friend over to his apartment for drinks.

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This is in Garland, Texas. His friend brings along his girlfriend,

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who is sixteen year old Casey Coon, and they start

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drinking beer, primarily nothing super hard, and Billy starts making

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sexually suggestive remarks to his sixteen year old Coon. Now

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he's twenty years old. At this time, her boyfriend is

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sitting right there in Coon. She's like, I was worried,

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but I wasn't that worried because my boyfriend was right there.

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I felt safe at the time, so I was just

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blowing off and ignoring those comments. Now, eventually she and

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her boyfriend would leave. Her boyfriend brings her home where

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Casey lived with her mother, and she get dressed for bed,

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take a shower. She'd crack open the window to smoke

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a cigarette, and around that time, much to her surprise,

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Billy Joel Tracy appears at the window and he starts

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tapping on it. She sees this, she tells him to

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go away, and he not only ignores that request, but

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he gets pissed and he basically bends the frame of

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that window to gain entry into the house. And this

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sixteen year old girl at this time, she is basically shocked.

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So you have heard me discuss before the three f's fight, flight,

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or freeze. That's the three responses people are going to

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have to high stress scary situations. And in Casey's case,

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it was definitely freeze. She just stood there, she was

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unable to scream, and Billy Joel Tracy made his way

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into her bedroom. Now, as soon as he gets in

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her bedroom, he starts disrobing. He removes his shirt, he

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takes off his shoes, and he attempts to kiss this

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sixteen year old girl, Casey Khon. At this point, she

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responds to that kiss and she bites the shit out

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of his lip. In response to that, Billy Joel Tracy

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hits her, knocks her to the ground, jumps on top

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of her, and he starts strangling her to the point

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she loses consciousness. So the next thing, Casey kuh knows

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she's waking up, and she's in the back of Tracy's

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car on the floorboard. She's bloody, she's very bruised up.

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And upon noticing that she has regained consciousness in the

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back of that car while he's driving Billy Joel, Tracy

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just continues to beat on her. He then drives to

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a park in Rockroll, Texas, and y'all, this is the

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middle of the night, it's like three point thirty in

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the morning. He pulls in that park, he pulls Casey

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out of the car, he drags her in the woods,

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and he just continues to relentlessly beat on her. Now,

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about this point in time, a police officer by the

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name of Paul Brett. He's driving by that park and

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he happens to notice a car parked in the parking lot.

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it's some underage kids drinking in the car or something

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like that. But when he pulls up, he hears a

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very faint scream, help me. It wasn't even a scream

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that he would describe later as a loud scream. It

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was very faint, but it was a scream that he

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knew someone was in serious trouble. So the officer pops

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his flashlight up in the tree line where he heard

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that coming from in the park, and he sees Billy

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Tracy on top of sixteen year old Casey Kohn. Now

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at that point, Tracy sees the flashlight, he sees where

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it's coming from, and rather than run away, he runs

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straight at this police officer full speed. The police officer

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shocked by this officer Britt, he draws his gun and

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before he could even point it in the direction of

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Billy Tracy, the two begin to fight in this park.

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And keep in mind Billy Tracy young guy twenty years old.

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He's not very big, maybe about five eight, but he

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is very strong and very muscular. Now the police officer,

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Paul Britt, he's no slouch himself, and he's still relatively

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young as well. He's only thirty years old at this time,

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and he's well built, muscular. So they start going at it,

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and they literally fight for six minutes straight. They were

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kicking each other, punching each other. And look, six minutes

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straight of this, y'all, this is like an eternity in

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a fistfight. No stopping, no resting, just swing after swing

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after swing, wrestling with each other, etc. Fortunately, during this melee,

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if you will, the officer was able to access his

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radio on his shoulder and call for backup. What's running

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through his mind at this time is, if I can

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keep this guy off of me long enough and I

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can continue to fight him long enough until backup arrives,

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I may actually have a chance here. And shout out

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to this officer that he was able to actually do

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that just before he was totally exhausted and Billy Tracy

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would start getting the best of him. Backup shows up.

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So Billy Tracy sees this other officer arrive at the

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scene and he haul's ass into the woods. Now, first

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instinct from this officer he was fighting, Paul Brett was

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to give chase to the suspect right but when he

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took off to run after Billy, he notices this sixteen

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year old girl, Casey Kuhn, was still alive. Now he

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had assumed because she had moved during this whole six

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minute fight, didn't even breathe that he could tell that

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she was dead, but she wasn't. So rather than chase

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Billy down these officers, Paul Brett and his backup. They

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chose to render aid to sixteen year old Casey Kuhn,

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which turned out to be the right decision because she lived,

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although barely. She would suffer a broken orbital bon, a

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broken nose, lost teeth, permanent vision damage, and she would

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require facial reconcstructive surgery. So as soon as police would

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get an ambulance and it would arrive and Casey Couhn

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would be loaded onto that ambulance, it's time to find

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this assailant. Alerts get issued for everybody to stay in

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their house. Helicopters are deployed, and Billy Joel Tracy is

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on the run. And police knew who he was because

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they interviewed Casey Kuhn obviously at the Saint and she

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said his name. So he's on the run and he

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would break into several houses during this manhunt. He would

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steal cash, he would steal food from these houses. And

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eleven hours later, Tracy would make a mistake and break

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into an occupied house. Now the people living there, Joyce

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Lemons and her daughter, They obviously are startled by this.

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and that neighbor would call police. So police arrive at

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the scene and Billy Joel Tracy climbs to the roof

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of this three story house. He stands on the top

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of it, on the peak if you can picture that.

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He screams bye bye to the police, and he literally

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does a backflip off of the house. He hits a tree,

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a bunch of limbs, and then he lands in a

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flower bed. And he's somewhat injured in this incident, but

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nothing major. However, he was injured enough that police were

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able to take him into custody right there in the

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flower bed. Now, at this point, he goes to jail

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and on July thirty first of nineteen ninety eight, he

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gets sentenced for the attempted murder of Casey Kuhn, as

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well as a slew of other charges. And when it

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was all said and done, he ended up with two

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life sentences plus twenty years for the burglaries that he

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committed during those eleven hours on the run. And to

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say that this guy was not a model prisoner when

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he got to prison would be putting it lightly. As

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soon as Billy Joel Tracy goes to prison, he's getting

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written up left right in sideways. And he's a young kid, y'all,

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twenty one years old at this time. He would spend

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the majority of that early time in prison in segregation,

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and every time he would get out of segregation and

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go back into general population, his favorite thing to do

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seemed to be assaulting other inmates and especially correctional officers.

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He would flood his cell a lot, just to piss

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off the officers on his tier and just to be

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a menace. Twenty seven different assaults, y'all in a short

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period of time. He eventually gets transferred because they just

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can't handle him at this prison, and he gets transferred

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to what's known as the Clemens Unit in Amarillo, Texas.

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And look, Texas, they don't call their prisons prisons. They

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call them units, and they all of course have different names,

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and we're gonna mention many of those today because he

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gets transferred so many times. But at this point, it's

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November of two thousand and five that I'm going to

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bring you to November twenty specifically, and Billy Joel Tracy

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at this time was twenty seven years old. Now at

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the time of the incident that I'm going to tell

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you about, Billy was on the third floor of what

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is known as the iPod. I know, I know, that's convenient,

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but it's called iPod. They use letters there. And a

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CEO working the pod at that time was a female

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by the name of Katie Stanley, and she is on

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the third floor of that tier in the iPod and

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she's just walking the pod doing her job, right. And

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look this particular prison, the Clemings Unit, they had cameras everywhere,

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like three hundred different cameras, so this is all on

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surveillance video. And you can see on that surveillance video

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Katie Stanley walking that tear and you see Billy Joel

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Tracy basically come out of nowhere and just jump on

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her and he is raining down punches, he's kicking her,

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and he's wielding a prison made shank. He stabs her

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seven times, stabbing her in the neck, stabbing her in

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the lungs, stabbing her in the kidneys. The attack was

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so brutal, in fact, that the only reason he stopped

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is because he lost his shank inside of her body. Literally.

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When that happens, he gets up and he attempts to

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throw her off the third floor of the tiered in

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the surveillance video, you can see him kind of struggling

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to pick her up and put her over that railing.

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He eventually gave up on that and he just basically

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lets her body fall to the ground and runs off

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down the tier. Obviously, officers take him into custody in

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the tier and they questioned him about the attack, and

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Billy Joel Tracy said it was because his cell was

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constantly getting tossed, and that primarily he was pissed because

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his toothpaste kept getting confiscated and that someone had to

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pay for that, and it just so happened that she

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was the one working that day that it wasn't personal

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against her. Now, in the trial that ensued, Katie Stanley,

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who would live, she described Billy Tracy's face as being

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completely blank during that attack. She said he had no

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emotion whatsoever. Now for that attack, which clearly is a

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case of attempt to murder, right, Billy Joel Tracy, he

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receives just an additional forty five years, which you're serving

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two life sentences. And that's what makes this guy say

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dangerous or really any anybody that's serving life, is that

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I have anything to lease. I mean, he got forty

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five years on top of two life sentences. That's like nothing.

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As for Katie Stanley, not only did she recover, but

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shout out to this lady. She actually continued to work

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as a CEO after her recovery. So after this incident,

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Billy gets transferred to another prison and that is a

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Robertson unit. This is in Abilene, Texas. And just four

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years later, in January of two thousand and nine, he

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attacks yet an another correctional officer, this time by the

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name of Brian Lomas. And Billy. At this point he

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had quite a reputation as an extremely dangerous inmate, and

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he also had what you would call special circumstances when

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handling him. He would be under constant guard and he

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was transported everywhere by officers. But despite this, somehow this

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guy managed to be caught with contraband pretty frequently, everything

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from homemade screwdrivers to needles to razor blades. His cell

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would be searched often, and he would develop a particular

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disdain for CEO Brian Lomas now Lumais. During one of

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these cell tossing INCIDENTUS confiscated Tracy's mail and as I

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describe to you, a few minutes ago. This guy does

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not like it when officers take stuff out of his cell.

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He not only viewed this as a personal attack, but

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he also felt as though he had no choice but

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to retaliate. So it's safe to say that Correctional Officer

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Brian Lomas was on his shit list after that. Well,

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in January of two thousand and nine, Tracy was escorted

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to the shower area by CEO Brian Lomas. He takes

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his shower and upon it finishing, he is to be

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transported back to his cell. When out of the clear

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blue sky, Billy Joel Tracy brandishes what's known as a

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razor whip, which essentially is a shank made out of

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disposable razor blades, and he starts slashing Brian Lomas's face. Now,

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he was restrained initially, but he managed somehow to slip

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out of these cuffs and the slash to the CEO's

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face were so severe that his face required two hundred

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stitches to close the cuts and led to permanent facial scorn.

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So he gets convicted after a trial of assault on

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a public servant and guess what he gets an additional

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ten years. That's it, and again Billy Joel Tracy is

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moved to yet another prison, this time to the Huge Unit,

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which is in Gatesville, Texas. And at this time he

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is thirty three years old. So let's get to April

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of twenty fourteen, and at this time, with the new

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convictions for all those assaults on correctional officers, Billy is

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serving two life sentences plus an additional seventy five years.

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He didn't have a whole lot to lose and obviously

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has no intent to get better or even try to

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rehabilitate himself, so he starts plotting an escape and he

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hooks up with two other inmates to devise the plan.

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And it's important to note that these two accomplices, if

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you will, and Billy Tracy, they were all in what's

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known as AZAG, which is administration segregation, So they were

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locked down twenty three hours a day and they're only

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allowed out for an hour a day for recreation, exercise, etc.

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But somehow Billy managed to smuggle in tools, and these

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tools would be used by these three inmates to cut

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bars in the exercise area of the prison. Now to

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conceal this, they would paint over the cuts and they

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would use matching paints so that the cuts would not

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be noticeable, and they would actually communicate in Spanish when

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the CEOs were around that they knew did not speak Spanish.

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Even though Billy was not of Spanish descent, he was

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fluent in the language. But fortunately, over time some astute officers,

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they would notice some irregularities in the bars and they

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would halt that escape before any breach had taken place.

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I mean, could y'all imagine this guy, Billy Tracy breaking

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out of prison. Holy smokes. So this incident in twenty

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fourteen led to Billy Joel Tracy's transferred to yet another prison,

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and in this case a murder. So let's go to

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July fifteenth of twenty fifteen, and Billy Joel Tracy at

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this time is housed at the Telford Unit. This is

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in New Boston, Texas, And I'm going to tell you

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about an incident involving a relatively new correctional officer at

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that time, a forty seven year old by the name

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of Timothy Davidson. Now he had actually he started at

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the prison just seven months prior. He had no prior

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experience in corrections. He had relocated from another state after

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his brother who happened to work at the prison teaching inmates.

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He gets him an interview at the prison. It went

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well and they hired him. He was a father of

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two daughters and he was assigned to the AgSe Guinnett. Now,

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fellow officers would describe him as somewhat quiet, always on time,

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always ready to work, very eager to learn. Just a

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joy to work with this guy. So on the morning

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of July fifteenth of twenty fifteen, around nine o'clock am,

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Billy Tracy is being escorted by Officer Davidson from a

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day room, which, y'all, that's one hour per day of

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recreation room for the inmates. That's where their wreck area is.

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He's escorting Billy back to his single cell, which incidentally

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is SELL sixty six on what's known as EPOD. Now,

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Tracy at this time obviously well known how dangerous he is,

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and his hands are handcuffed behind his back as he's

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being escorted. Now by this point, due to his reputation,

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typically Billy Joel Tracy would be double cuffed. However, for

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whatever reason, he was just in single cuffs with his

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hand behind his back. So as the correctional officer in

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Billy Tracy. They start ascending the staircase that leads to

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Billy sell. Billy slips one of his hands out of

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those handcuffs, and remember he had a history of doing that.

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He actually mastered somehow how to slip out of handcuffs

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and Officer Davison does not notice this. They continue walking

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up those stairs. You can see that in the surveillance videos.

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They reach the top of these stairs and Billy, out

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of nowhere, suddenly punches Officer Davidson in the face and

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he hits him so hard he knocks the correctional officer

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to the floor. And he then grabs what's known as

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a metal tray slot bar out of the waste belt

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of the officer. And y'all, this is a metal bar

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used to open a cell door slide tray to pass

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food through that cell. It's about sixteen inches long. Think

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of it as a crowbar with a bent end, a

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slightly bent end. So he starts beating Officer Timothy Davidson

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directly on the head with this slot bar, and he

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continues to do that even after Davidson loses consciousness. And

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when he's done, he picks up Davidson's body and he

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throws him unconscious headfirst down the first flight of metal

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stairs that they just walked up, and he paused just

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long enough to grab the officer's pepper spray out of

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his duty bell. So the officer goes down them stairs

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still unconscious, and he starts spraying this pepper spray in

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the air. And the reason that he did that was

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to keep officers from coming up the flight of stairs

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without choking, etc. After all that, he calmly turns around,

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walks into his cell and awaits the Special Response team

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to extradite him. Now, Correctional Officer Timothy Davidson, he's airlifted

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to the hospital. He has massive injuries to his face,

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and later his injuries were described as making his face unrecognizable.

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He's succumbed to his injuries just a few hours later

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and he dies. Over ten thousand people attend the funeral

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of Correctional Officer Timothy Davidson. The entire state of te

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Axis was appalled at the brutality of this incident. Now,

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as I told you, the entire event was caught on

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cameras throughout the prison, so there was no denying that

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Billy was responsible, and he was of course immediately subdued

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upon them entering his cell, he will respond by calling

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the staff stupid for not having at least a lieutenant

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guarding him. And he admitted right off that he was responsible, saying, quote,

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maybe it will be another guard next time. Billy would

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go on to say that the reason he did that

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was the correctional officer owed him a cell phone for

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five hundred dollars that he gave the correctional officer. But

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no evidence, of course, exists of this, and it's widely

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known this was total bullshit, and he claimed that he

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just wanted to assault the guard, he didn't want to

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kill him. But I mean, you hit this guy at

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least six times with essentially a crow bar after he's unconscious,

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then throw him down a flight of stairs head first.

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Bring that bullshit somewhere else. You absolutely intended to kill

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this guy. Now, during the trial, they instituted some major

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security measures, including installing a giant bolt in the floor

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where he would sit at the desk for his trial,

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and they would lock his shackles into the bolt, and

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that was to ensure he would not be able to

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get up at all during the trial. And the question

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was not whether he was guilty or not guilty. They

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had all that on surveillance video. The question was what

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type of punishment is he going to get for this?

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There was no remorse, There was no emotion at all

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during the entire extent of this trial. The jury watched

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the entire video of the attack in the brutality of it,

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and that would cement Billy's fate because that surveillance video

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is just horrific. So, after trial, he was found guilty

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in the murder of correctional officer Timothy Davidson, and the

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jury I only had to deliberate for just an hour

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to find that guilty verdict. He was sentenced to death

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by lethal injection on November fifteenth of twenty seventeen for

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that murder at the age of thirty nine years old. Now,

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after this, Billy Tracy was transferred to the Alan Polunsky Unit.

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This is in Livingston, Texas, and that's where their death

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row is. And as you would expect, there were a

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ton of appeals and all those appeals were eventually exhausted. However,

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as of this recording, in January of twenty twenty six,

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Billy Joel Tracy, who is now forty eight years old

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still sits on death Row with one hundred and eighty

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other inmates in Texas currently awaiting execution, and he's currently

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widely known as the State of Texas' most dangerous inmate.

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So before I wrap this one up, Billy Joel Tracy.

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He's written several articles, if you will, while on death Row,

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discussing his daily life, etc. And I want to read

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one to you, which, to me is the very definition

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of Billy Joel Tracy's narcissism. So it reads November fifteenth

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of twenty seventeen, I was sentenced to die by lethal

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injection for the death of Timothy Davidson, a Texas Department

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of Criminal Justice guard. After being sentenced to death, I

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was immediately taken from the courtroom by Department of Correction

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transportation officers and driven to the Polunsky Unit in Levings

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in Texas, where the men of Death Row are housed

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in solitary confinement. Four hours after being sentenced to die,

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I find myself inside a cell the State of Texas

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had spent the previous two weeks modifying for me in

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anticipation of me receiving the sentence of death. The specifically

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modified cell is housed on twelve billing a pod one

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section and is the section named death Watch. The death

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watch section is for those death row inmates whose appeals

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have run out and have received their execution date their

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date to die. They each are given at least ninety

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one days to prepare some last ditch appeals and get

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their affairs in order before the state section execution starts.

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On this section, they are kept away from other death

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row inmates who have not received execution dates. The death

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00:34:54,920 --> 00:34:58,599
watch section has fourteen cells, all with cameras inside the

477
00:34:58,679 --> 00:35:01,360
cells in the upper left corner with a view of

478
00:35:01,360 --> 00:35:06,280
the entire cell. There are monitors inside, two separate control pickets,

479
00:35:06,559 --> 00:35:10,000
two different warden officers, and a surveillance office where the

480
00:35:10,039 --> 00:35:13,840
footage inside the sales can be viewed. A Texas senator

481
00:35:13,920 --> 00:35:17,960
even has access to this live footage. There's zero privacy.

482
00:35:18,400 --> 00:35:21,719
The cameras were installed years ago under the pretext of

483
00:35:21,800 --> 00:35:26,159
helping prevent suicide attempts, allegedly so Texas could preserve the

484
00:35:26,199 --> 00:35:29,599
condemned life until they were ready to extinguish it themselves.

485
00:35:29,679 --> 00:35:32,679
And you know what, he's absolutely correct on that it

486
00:35:32,800 --> 00:35:36,400
is the state's job to see out the sentence that

487
00:35:36,639 --> 00:35:41,280
was imposed by the people of said state. And you

488
00:35:41,360 --> 00:35:45,280
can't just kill yourself because that's not what your sentence is.

489
00:35:45,719 --> 00:35:50,760
Your sentence is to die via the state in which

490
00:35:50,760 --> 00:35:53,840
you were convicted in. And so yeah, that's their job

491
00:35:54,079 --> 00:35:56,159
to keep you alive so that they can kill you.

492
00:35:56,440 --> 00:35:59,480
I'm glad you acknowledge that the death watch section has

493
00:35:59,519 --> 00:36:02,840
more than one in dark purpose. Texas is infamous for

494
00:36:02,840 --> 00:36:05,519
getting the maximum amount of suffering it can out of

495
00:36:05,559 --> 00:36:09,920
each taxpayer dollar. Texas also houses inmates it doesn't like

496
00:36:10,079 --> 00:36:14,079
on death watch inmates who do not have execution dates.

497
00:36:14,679 --> 00:36:18,480
Under the guise of security, Texas puts inmates on death

498
00:36:18,519 --> 00:36:21,760
watch without an execution date, so they will have to

499
00:36:21,880 --> 00:36:25,400
endure living with a camera inside of their cell. But

500
00:36:25,480 --> 00:36:28,719
more importantly so they are surrounded by men with just

501
00:36:28,960 --> 00:36:32,960
days from death, constantly reminded of their doom, and constantly

502
00:36:33,039 --> 00:36:36,880
suffering the loss of friends. Imagine the only people you

503
00:36:36,960 --> 00:36:39,440
are around are those with a few months to live,

504
00:36:39,679 --> 00:36:42,960
getting to know them, watching them experience their last days,

505
00:36:43,320 --> 00:36:46,480
then finally watching them be led away to be killed.

506
00:36:47,000 --> 00:36:51,440
Now expllate that over the years. Can you imagine the

507
00:36:51,519 --> 00:36:55,559
psychological impact this would have on someone? Three other death

508
00:36:55,639 --> 00:36:59,519
or inmates have been housed on death watch as punishment. Y'all,

509
00:36:59,559 --> 00:37:05,559
this is this guy's what is he smoking here? Two

510
00:37:05,639 --> 00:37:08,920
were moved after nine and thirteen months. The thirty has

511
00:37:08,960 --> 00:37:12,039
been in this section over eight years and has endured

512
00:37:12,119 --> 00:37:15,320
over one hundred men being led to their death. Fifteen

513
00:37:15,400 --> 00:37:18,400
were his friends. In twenty eighteen, he gave up on

514
00:37:18,440 --> 00:37:22,000
his appeals because he could no longer take the psychological

515
00:37:22,079 --> 00:37:25,559
trauma of watching men live out their last days. His

516
00:37:25,719 --> 00:37:29,599
words to me were quote, I'm done, Billy, I'm done.

517
00:37:29,679 --> 00:37:32,880
He later decided to continue his appeals at the urging

518
00:37:32,920 --> 00:37:36,320
of his family, but not because he wants to live.

519
00:37:37,079 --> 00:37:40,320
The cell my captor spent two weeks modifying as a

520
00:37:40,440 --> 00:37:45,199
psychological torture chamber. It's the only sell in Texas like it.

521
00:37:45,280 --> 00:37:48,159
They cut the steel table and shelf off the wall.

522
00:37:48,559 --> 00:37:51,159
They cut the still locker box where we store our

523
00:37:51,199 --> 00:37:54,880
property that was welded underneath the bunk. This is so

524
00:37:55,039 --> 00:37:57,679
I have no comfortable place to write, eat, or store

525
00:37:57,800 --> 00:37:59,960
my property. Well, you know what, that's what freaking happen.

526
00:38:00,239 --> 00:38:03,920
When you assault twenty seven different correctional officers and kill

527
00:38:03,960 --> 00:38:08,119
one of them, it's your fault, not anybody else's. He

528
00:38:08,159 --> 00:38:10,159
goes on to say, I must store my property and

529
00:38:10,280 --> 00:38:13,639
bags on the floor. This is a very bad situation

530
00:38:13,760 --> 00:38:16,880
in prison because the sewage pipes back up all the time.

531
00:38:17,199 --> 00:38:19,880
When that occurs, the raw sewage being flushed down the

532
00:38:19,920 --> 00:38:22,679
toilets backs up and comes out of the drains set

533
00:38:22,679 --> 00:38:25,719
into the floor outside of the cells. One such drain

534
00:38:25,920 --> 00:38:29,079
is two feet from my cell door. Multiple times the

535
00:38:29,159 --> 00:38:31,719
drains have backed up and the sewer water has flooded

536
00:38:31,719 --> 00:38:34,920
into my cell, causing me to lose everything it touched

537
00:38:35,039 --> 00:38:38,039
on my floor. When this happens, I must pile all

538
00:38:38,320 --> 00:38:42,760
my uncontaminated property onto my bunk. Same dude bitching about

539
00:38:42,760 --> 00:38:46,159
this that would flood his cell hundreds of times in

540
00:38:46,199 --> 00:38:49,280
the past, just to piss the correctional officers off. He

541
00:38:49,320 --> 00:38:51,239
goes on to say, this leaves me no place to

542
00:38:51,280 --> 00:38:53,800
sit or lay, so I must just stand in the

543
00:38:53,840 --> 00:38:56,639
sewer water or sit on my toilet until a maintenance

544
00:38:56,679 --> 00:38:59,679
crew can unclog the pipes. I've had to stand sit

545
00:38:59,840 --> 00:39:02,760
like this for hours at a time. This creates extreme

546
00:39:02,880 --> 00:39:05,480
anxiety on me. When I go to sleep with a

547
00:39:05,559 --> 00:39:08,880
cell flood, I'm always waking up to check my floor

548
00:39:08,880 --> 00:39:12,280
for water. I cannot ever truly relax with no table

549
00:39:12,320 --> 00:39:14,840
to eat from. I must set my tray of food

550
00:39:14,920 --> 00:39:17,960
onto my sink. My toilet is directly under my tray

551
00:39:17,960 --> 00:39:22,639
of food. Eating directly over a toilet is an appetite killer. Again,

552
00:39:23,039 --> 00:39:26,519
you put yourself in prison, and you put yourself in death.

553
00:39:26,599 --> 00:39:30,199
Row Texas has also welded metal plates with small holes

554
00:39:30,239 --> 00:39:33,599
in them over the inflow and overflow air vents. This

555
00:39:33,719 --> 00:39:36,880
restricts the heat and air conditioning into my cell to

556
00:39:36,960 --> 00:39:39,480
such an extent that it's made my cell a hot

557
00:39:39,519 --> 00:39:41,960
box in the summer and an ice box in the winter.

558
00:39:42,360 --> 00:39:46,159
I'm almost always an extreme temperature inside of this cell.

559
00:39:46,480 --> 00:39:49,280
What is worse is the outflow vent, the vent that

560
00:39:49,440 --> 00:39:52,719
sucks the air out. Because slowly the screen will fill

561
00:39:52,800 --> 00:39:55,880
up with dust. It ends up looking like the filter

562
00:39:56,119 --> 00:39:58,440
in a dryer when you don't clean it out for

563
00:39:58,480 --> 00:40:01,920
a long time. A metal plate over the vent. The

564
00:40:01,960 --> 00:40:04,159
only way to clear it of the caked up dust

565
00:40:04,280 --> 00:40:07,320
is to put my mouth over each hole and repeatedly

566
00:40:07,440 --> 00:40:10,000
suck the dust into my mouth and throat, then spit

567
00:40:10,079 --> 00:40:13,400
it out. There are thirty holes. I dread doing this.

568
00:40:13,559 --> 00:40:16,880
I'm left coughing for hours afterward. I must do it,

569
00:40:16,960 --> 00:40:19,880
though if I do not, the cell becomes even more

570
00:40:19,880 --> 00:40:24,079
oppressive when no circulation. Well, poor guy. My cell door

571
00:40:24,199 --> 00:40:27,519
was also rebuilt, adding a steel box over the food

572
00:40:27,559 --> 00:40:30,000
slot so the guards can open it and set whatever

573
00:40:30,119 --> 00:40:33,760
item inside the box and close it. Then they open

574
00:40:33,800 --> 00:40:36,519
a smaller door so I can reach into the box

575
00:40:36,599 --> 00:40:39,920
for items. Two layers of plexiglass were placed over the

576
00:40:39,920 --> 00:40:44,000
outside of the door, covering the two observation sleds. More

577
00:40:44,039 --> 00:40:46,320
metal was welded to the bottom and sides of the

578
00:40:46,360 --> 00:40:50,000
doors so the door sealed. This restricts airflow and makes

579
00:40:50,000 --> 00:40:53,280
it hard for others to hear anything I say. This

580
00:40:53,320 --> 00:40:55,800
guy needs to figure out where he's at. Right on

581
00:40:55,840 --> 00:40:58,920
top of all that, I'm also only allowed to recreate

582
00:40:59,079 --> 00:41:02,920
all alone outside with a supervisor standing there watching me

583
00:41:03,039 --> 00:41:06,360
the entire time. The reckyard has two cages in it

584
00:41:06,480 --> 00:41:09,360
designed for two people to utilize, yet I am the

585
00:41:09,400 --> 00:41:14,199
only one allowed to recreate alone alone every day outside

586
00:41:14,280 --> 00:41:18,360
and inside myself alone alone except for when I have

587
00:41:18,480 --> 00:41:22,599
a visitor. Even then a supervisor stands directly behind me

588
00:41:22,760 --> 00:41:27,119
to intimidate my visitor. Living under such oppression would be

589
00:41:27,159 --> 00:41:30,519
hard for anyone to cope with. It's even harder to

590
00:41:30,639 --> 00:41:34,239
endure for someone like me who has a disability. I

591
00:41:34,320 --> 00:41:39,280
have severe organic brain damage. The neurological issues I deal

592
00:41:39,360 --> 00:41:42,760
with cost issues commonly seen in people with mental illness.

593
00:41:43,119 --> 00:41:45,760
I grew up in and out of mental institutions because

594
00:41:45,800 --> 00:41:50,039
my brain damage was unknown and misdiagnosed as one mental

595
00:41:50,239 --> 00:41:55,800
illness or another, most commonly intermitte explosive disorder. I've never

596
00:41:55,880 --> 00:41:59,199
received treatment for my brain damage and when unknown until

597
00:41:59,199 --> 00:42:02,079
the day I committed the crime in nineteen ninety eight

598
00:42:02,119 --> 00:42:05,960
that I received a life sentence for Texas. Treatment plan

599
00:42:06,039 --> 00:42:08,679
for me has been to warehouse me in long term

600
00:42:08,760 --> 00:42:13,280
solitary confinement. Solitary confinement which is proven to only worsen

601
00:42:13,320 --> 00:42:17,400
people with the impulse aggression problems like I have. I've

602
00:42:17,440 --> 00:42:20,079
spent almost nineteen years of the last twenty one and

603
00:42:20,119 --> 00:42:22,960
a half in solitary. At the time of the crime,

604
00:42:23,079 --> 00:42:25,920
I'm on death row flour I've been in solitary for

605
00:42:26,039 --> 00:42:28,639
nine and a half years, and now at the time

606
00:42:28,639 --> 00:42:32,039
of writing this piece, I've been in solitary for fourteen

607
00:42:32,079 --> 00:42:35,320
and a half of the past seventeen years. As brutal

608
00:42:35,360 --> 00:42:40,039
as my living conditions are hardest by far to endure psychologically.

609
00:42:40,320 --> 00:42:45,280
Isn't this cell recreating alone and living under constant surveillance

610
00:42:45,639 --> 00:42:49,639
or standing for hours in sewage. It's living around men

611
00:42:49,719 --> 00:42:52,840
who are living out their last days. Over the past

612
00:42:52,880 --> 00:42:55,840
eighteen months that I've lived on Death Watch, I've made

613
00:42:55,920 --> 00:42:59,639
more friends than in all of my other years incarcelready combined.

614
00:42:59,719 --> 00:43:03,239
Something about living so close to death causes most to

615
00:43:03,360 --> 00:43:06,719
drop their fronts and open up with each other. It's

616
00:43:06,760 --> 00:43:10,360
how we cope, I guess, reaching out to others for help, support, comfort,

617
00:43:10,400 --> 00:43:14,119
and understanding. I have become very close, very quickly, with

618
00:43:14,280 --> 00:43:17,320
several of these men, only to watch them taken away

619
00:43:17,480 --> 00:43:21,639
and poisoned until their lives are over. I've watched sixteen

620
00:43:21,719 --> 00:43:25,039
men walk away to their death. I've been in mourning

621
00:43:25,159 --> 00:43:28,280
since January twenty eighteen, a morning that starts over and over,

622
00:43:28,639 --> 00:43:31,360
with layer upon layer added, and I know it will

623
00:43:31,360 --> 00:43:33,880
never end. I must wish that all of these men

624
00:43:33,920 --> 00:43:37,920
were assholes and repugnant personalities, so I wouldn't mourn them.

625
00:43:37,960 --> 00:43:40,880
Several times, imost decide to quit getting to know any

626
00:43:40,920 --> 00:43:44,199
of these men, just to hibernate within myself, to armor

627
00:43:44,239 --> 00:43:47,719
my heart and not allow anyone else in. And y'all,

628
00:43:47,760 --> 00:43:50,239
I just can't take any more of that. You noticed,

629
00:43:50,280 --> 00:43:54,840
it's all about him. It's all about Billy Joel Tracy

630
00:43:54,920 --> 00:43:59,239
and how he's suffering in prison. No acknowledgment of the

631
00:43:59,280 --> 00:44:02,960
fact that he he was in prison for the attempted

632
00:44:03,079 --> 00:44:05,880
murder of a sixteen year old that he tried to

633
00:44:06,079 --> 00:44:10,760
rape when he was twenty and then when he gets

634
00:44:10,800 --> 00:44:16,039
in there, he tries to kill two correctional officers and

635
00:44:16,159 --> 00:44:22,360
kills a third, and he just can't understand why he's

636
00:44:22,400 --> 00:44:25,320
being constantly watched, why they're so mean to him in prison,

637
00:44:25,360 --> 00:44:30,760
and why his living conditions are so bad. That is

638
00:44:30,800 --> 00:44:36,760
the definition of a narcissist, and that's Billy Joel Tracy.

639
00:44:37,320 --> 00:44:41,639
There you have it now. Next week I will continue

640
00:44:41,679 --> 00:44:45,000
with this series fifty Shades of Evil, and I'm going

641
00:44:45,039 --> 00:44:48,960
to go to another state. Will it be yours? Well?

642
00:44:49,199 --> 00:44:52,679
Check us out next week to find out. And until

643
00:44:53,079 --> 00:45:13,360
next time for Bloody and Gola, I'm Jim Chapman, Peace, I.

644
00:45:13,519 --> 00:45:24,159
Speaker 2: Walk straight line, shackle change, Oh weesome, Girdie. It's calling

645
00:45:24,360 --> 00:45:30,280
by the name there is no mercy and this being

646
00:45:30,440 --> 00:45:39,840
a tentery juice as the huge stream game Wrangle three.

647
00:45:40,440 --> 00:45:44,679
Speaker 1: I'm here behind by here to.

648
00:45:44,920 --> 00:45:54,960
Speaker 2: Die inside these walls. Inside the Wise an't went more

649
00:45:56,920 --> 00:45:57,760
as I know.

650
00:45:58,159 --> 00:45:58,559
Speaker 1: It's so

651
00:46:04,119 --> 00:46:11,920
Speaker 2: Very angle, very ang