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Speaker 1: M a wall street line, shackle change, ohsome gird, it's

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calling my name. There is no mercy and this being

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a tentery juice as the hill stream game Rango three.

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Speaker 2: Come in by me to die inside these walls, inside

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the wild.

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Speaker 3: Hadn't went no girls.

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Speaker 4: I Hey everyone, and welcome back to Bloody Angola, a

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podcast one hundred and forty two years in the making,

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the complete story of America's bloodiest prison. I'm Jim Chapman,

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and today I'm going to tell you the story of

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a man convicted of killing an accountant in a Shreeport

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City jail in nineteen fifty seven and another inmate inside

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in Gola during the bloody years of the nineteen sixties.

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His name was Douglas Dennis, and he went by the

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name Swede inside of Bloody Angola. So Douglas Dennis was

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born in Chicago, Illinois, in nineteen thirty five, but he

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was not there long. As a matter of fact, within

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six months of his birth, his family would move and

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this would be a continual thing throughout the life of

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Douglas Dennis. Early on in life, in childhood, he would

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live in New York, he would live in Oklahoma, Bluxi, Mississippi, Baltimore,

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and various other places. Now, Douglas Dennis was super smart.

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As a matter of fact, people who knew him back

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then would tell you his IQ likely tested close to

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the genius level. So he graduates from school early. He

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works these odd jobs, and then he decides he's going

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to go into the Marine Corps. Does that, and for

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some reason that even he could not explain, he decided

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he's gonna go a wall that's absent without leave from

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the Marine Corps, which they will hunt you down and

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throw you in military prism when you go a wall,

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especially during this time in history, so he couldn't be

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exactly public after he went a wall. Now, at this point,

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he's only eighteen years old. So he ends up leaving

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the military base, steals a car to make his getaway,

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and he goes to California. In California, he worked for

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a logging company, and he kind of gets bored of that.

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He's not someone who, let's say, enjoys manual labor. He

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steals another car, but this time he gets caught, so

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he gets sent.

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Speaker 5: To a youth facility.

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Speaker 4: Now, I know he's eighteen years old, and you're probably

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thinking why did he get sent to a youth facility.

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The answer is, I don't have an answer. Maybe at

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this point in time in history, they didn't want to

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put eighteen year olds in big boy prison, if you will,

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So he does go to a youth facility. He ends

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up getting parole at the age of nineteen, but there

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was a catch to that, a caveat, if you will.

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One of the stipulations was he had to remain with

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his dad during his parole. I guess they figured his

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dad would keep him on the straight and narrow path,

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so that's what.

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Speaker 5: He does now.

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Speaker 4: His dad at the time was the general manager of

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a news station in Florida, and it's important to mention

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that at this point in Douglas Dennis's life, he and

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his dad did not have a great relationship. I mean,

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he is getting kind of wild at just eighteen years old.

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It seems like he's making all the bad decisions. He's

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already stolen to cars and he's barely nineteen years old,

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and he's also going a wall from the military. But

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his dad tried to help him out. He says, look,

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I'm going to try to straighten you out, and he

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gets him a job working for his dad's TV station,

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and seemingly Douglas Dennis is getting on the right track.

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He even enrolls in a real estate law school because

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he has a big interest in the law. But all

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that comes to an end when the family had to

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move yet again for his dad's work. His dad was

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essentially a reporter, and you live all over the country,

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you go around chase him where the jobs are. This

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was obviously something in his childhood he dealt with a lot,

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and even at nineteen, his dad goes up to him

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one day and he says, I'm out of here. I

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got a job in another state. The problem was his

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paroles stated that he had to live in the state

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of Florida with his dad, so it was going to

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be a bunch of red tape to get to be

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able to move with his dad to another state. This

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kind of blewed Douglas Dennis's mind and he decides, I'm

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just not going and I'm not gonna tell anybody where

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Speaker 5: Screw it.

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Speaker 4: So the family leaves and at this point Douglas decides

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he's gonna start hitchhiking throughout the country. And this time

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in history that was you know, early sixties, hitchhiking much

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more common thing, and so he does that with a

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bunch of guys. But they're not exactly what you would

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call a good group of guys to just hang out with.

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They're mostly ex cons, and this group of guys they

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pretty much pull off petty crimes as they go about traveling.

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None of them had any money, so they're stealing things

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and pawning them, whatever they've got to do to make

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it through to the next day. And as they go

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about their travels, Douglas hears about a place known as

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Morgan City, Louisiana, and he hears there's a bunch of

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high paying jobs for laborers.

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Speaker 5: It doesn't matter if you have a record.

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Speaker 4: You just go out there and they're gonna give you

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work and they're gonna pay you a ship pile of money.

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And for those of you unfamiliar with Lake Charles, it's

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a city on the Gulf of Mexico, and even today,

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but especially during that time, it was the place to

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be if you were in the shrimping industry, or if

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you wanted to work in the oil fields, or if

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you were someone that you just liked tord work, or

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maybe you didn't have that much of an education. But

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you wanted to make enough money to support a family comfortably,

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that's what you did. So that's where Douglas Dennis went.

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But as I told you earlier, Douglas Dentnis ain't much

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for manual labor and.

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Speaker 5: He hated it right off the bat. Just not his

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type of work.

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Speaker 4: And it wasn't easy money by any means, which is

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what he that's kind of work he liked. So he

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ends up taking a job with a cab company. Hey,

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I can drive a cab. I don't have to break

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a sweat. This is perfect.

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Speaker 5: It's in the area.

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Speaker 4: In one particular night, the guy could not pay Douglas

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Dnnis for driving that cab. The cab company owner, so

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he gives Douglas Dennis a twenty five caliber pistol rather

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than pay him, basically in lieu of cash. Not long

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after this, Douglas Dennis hears through the streets that the

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police were looking for him because they heard he had

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that gun. But Dennis assumed it was because he violated

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his parole. He didn't know that's actually why they were

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looking for him, and he kind of panics, and he

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and a couple of friends they decide we need to

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get the hell out of town. The police are on

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to me. They're going to violate me for my parole,

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and I'm going to go to Big Boy prison. But

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before he leaves, according to Douglas Dennis, this was his account,

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a couple of guys owed him some money and he

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needed to collect that money obviously because he was leaving town.

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So Douglas and his crew of guys they go over

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there and they pay a visit to these two guys,

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and the guys tell Dennis and his crew they don't

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have any money. So Douglas Dennis, he pulls out that

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twenty five caliber pistol and one of the guys, he

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just pistol whips the shit out of him. The other

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folks with him, they beat up the other guy, and

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then they're like, what do we do? What do we

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do with these two guys because the second we leave,

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they're gonna call the cops. So they say, all right,

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here's what's gonna happen. You're gonna get in the car

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with us. We're gonna drive to basically the county line

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or parish line as it is here in Louisiana, and

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we're gonna let you out and that way, if you

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call the police, we're gonna be out of the jurisdiction.

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And hopefully they want to be chasing us. Who So

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that's what they do. They drive to the edge of town,

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they let these guys out, Douglas Dennis makes a few

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threats to him, and then they drive away. Now at

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this point in Douglas Dennis's life, he's twenty one years old. Well,

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those guys reported Douglas Dennis and his crew, and in

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nineteen fifty seven he gets caught and he's charged with

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a slew of charges, the most serious being armed robbery

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and kidnapping of those guys. And the arm robbery charge

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came in because before he threw them in the car

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to drive them to the parish line, they had like

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twenty bucks on him. He took that twenty bucks. Now,

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later on in life he would say they owed him

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that money, but you know, take that with a grain

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of salt. But here's where it gets really bad for

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Douglas Dennis because he would run a scam of sorts

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in the Shreveport jail where he was housed, and he

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would actually bully inmates coming into the jail for drunken

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disorderly charges. They would get thrown in the drunk tank.

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And in those days, you could keep your money on

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you when you were booked into jail. They didn't take

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it from you and put it in a little ziplock

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bag or something, and you signed for it saying you

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gave them five bucks. You just kept it on you. Now,

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Douglas Dennis would take advantage of that. And I haven't

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mentioned this yet, but y'all, Douglas Dennis was a big guy,

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six y three and weighed.

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Speaker 5: Over two hundred pounds.

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Speaker 4: So these drunk guys, they would get booked and they

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would get thrown into that drunk tank and Dennis, who

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would be in the same cell. And it's important to

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say this is known as a bullpen. It's basically a

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holding cell where a lot of prisoners are they're waiting

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to get booked into actual jail or they're waiting to

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see a judge. And that's where Dennis sat for weeks.

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would just beat the shit out of them and take

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their money, and if they had cigarettes, he'd take their cigarettes.

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Whatever he could get off of them. Well, on February

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thirteenth of nineteen fifty seven. He actually pulled this off

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with four different guys in the same day, just beat

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the shit out these guys took their money, took their cigarettes, whatever.

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But the fifth guy that he encountered, he was an

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accountant of all things, and he fought back, which not

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a good idea because Douglas Dennis beat this inmate to

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death in a holding cell in the Shreport City jail,

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killed him. So he goes into the jail, into the

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Shreport City jail four charges of kidnapping and robbery, and

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now he gets transported to a parish jail with murder.

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Speaker 5: Charges added to that list. So instead of looking.

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Speaker 4: At maybe a year in jail, now he's looking at it,

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as you can imagine, a lot more time.

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Speaker 5: It's not looking good for the Swede.

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Speaker 4: So in short order, as a matter of fact, in

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the same year nineteen fifty seven, Douglas Dennis pleads guilty

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to all of this, the kidnapping, the robbery in Morgan

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City and also the murder in that Shreport City jail.

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Now he pleaded guilty because he got a deal where

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they said we'll take the death penalty off the table,

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and he went for it, and he ended up getting

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a life sentence inside of Bloody in Gola. And look

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this is when in Gola was that it's most dangerous,

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the totally bloody years, even for a man as aggressive

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as the Swede. And he will recall that upon arriving

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at Bloody in Gola, he would make his way single file,

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led by the guards to what was at that time

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an all white cell blocks. You're walking single file down

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a tier when out of the shadows, an inmate appears

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with a pipe and he beats the shit out of

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another inmate with it and then disappeared just as fast.

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Speaker 5: Dennis would describe it.

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Speaker 4: Now, that was his first day in Louisiana State Benitentiary

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at Angola, and he would try to assimilate to life

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inside the country's largest maximum security present, which that wasn't

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easy because he had no outside support. His family at

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this time had given up on him, so there was

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no way for him to get money for the canteen

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outside of what he could earn working in the fields,

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which was about six cents a day back in those days.

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So he would start rolling cigarettes and he would make

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these cigarettes into packs and he would sell these packs

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pretty frequently, which would help him get soap and other

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items from the canteen. That was the way he made

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his money. However, it was not long before the Swede

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would become the target himself. Two inmates had stolen the

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contents out of Douglas dennis locker. They had these lockers

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that were underneath their bunk beds. Somebody broke that lock

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and they stole everything out of his locker. And he

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was at dinner with another inmate when another inmate tips

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him off and he says, look, not only did they

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steal all your shit out of your locker, but they

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also intend to kill you when you get back from dinner.

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So Dennis blines it to what's known as the leather

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known as a leather knife, and this is just a

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stiff piece of leather that's very sharp on the edges,

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and he heads back to his dormitory. So as soon

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as he gets in to that dormitory, a fight ensues

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between Douglas Dennis, an inmate named Wesley Sonier, and another

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inmate named Earl Duprey who went by the name Blackjack

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and as the Swede tells it. Wesley pulls out a

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cane knife, and so Douglas pulls out that leather knife.

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Speaker 5: And he wraps it around his arm.

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Speaker 4: So he is focusing on these two inmates, Blackjack and Wesley,

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and then out of nowhere, a third inmate appears and

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cracks the Swede right in the eye with a lock

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in a sock. Literally took a padlock, put it in

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a sock and cracked him with it. Now, it seemingly

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the same time, Wesley slices his arm several times with

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that cane knife, sliced it so good, in fact, that

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it sliced through the swedes tendons.

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Speaker 5: So he's bleeding.

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Speaker 4: Profusely, and he staggers a little while, and then he

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collapses onto the ground. Now he ends up getting picked

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up by the guards and he's brought to the infirmary

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where the doctor in the infirmary was able to reattach

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the tendons in his arm, and that would give him

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eventually the use of his arm again. However, his right

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eye was put out forever by that strike with.

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Speaker 5: The lock and the sock.

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Speaker 4: So after weeks in the hospital, Douglas Dennis gets sent

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to Angola's lock down straight from the hospital, of course,

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because hey, you're involved in a fight, doesn't matter if

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you were defending yourself, you're going to lock down. And

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that's where he went. Sat there for a good while,

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and then from there he would work in the warehouse

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where items stored for the canteen were kept. And this

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is where he would come across, according to him, one

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of the worst inmates in Angola at that time.

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Speaker 5: As it related to reputation.

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Speaker 4: And that was a guy named Robert Lee George whose

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nickname was Tangle. I can't make that shit up now.

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Tangle I was kind of like the warehouse manager. And

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according to Douglas Dennis, nobody liked tim. He would boss

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people around. He was a big guy, he was very intimidating,

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and he was, you know, according to Douglas Dennis, just

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an asshole. So he had already stabbed Tangalia a barber

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at Angola. And look, these barbers, they're like the most

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popular people in prison.

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Speaker 5: In most cases.

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Speaker 4: I mean, they keep your your hair high and tight

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and all those sort of things. They know everybody's business

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because it's just like in the free world. You go

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into barbershop in the free world, and it's a gossip

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session for as long as you're getting your haircut. No

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different inside of Bloody and Gola. And this guy was

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well liked and Tangali stabbed him, tried to kill him,

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and so he was feared and hated by most of

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the inmate population, according to Douglas Dennis. Now, Douglas Dennis

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said Tangli would try to bully him a lot.

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Speaker 5: There was a lot of friction with them.

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Speaker 4: And one night, Tangle II goes into the warehouse and

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he gets pessed at Douglas Dennis for something, and he

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just starts ripping into him over some bullshit and he

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screams at Dennis and he tells him, if you don't

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watch it, I'm gonna put your other eye out.

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Speaker 5: Now, that's a.

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Speaker 4: Threat inside a prison that everybody heard. And let me

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tell you how this works inside a prison. If you

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let somebody do that to you and basically punk you

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out in front of everybody and you don't say anything,

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you're gonna be in a real big bind, real quick.

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Douglas Dennis knows how this game is played, and so

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he had to respond to that, otherwise everybody was going

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to start trying to bitch him out. Basically, so he

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leaves and he goes to the yard and one of

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his buddies in the yard was a guy that was

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known to get you things, and he says, I need

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a knife, and that ain't gets him a knife. As

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a matter of fact, he had one on him, according

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to Douglas Dennis. So he gets it. He walks back

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into the warehouse and right then and there he stabs

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Tangali many multiples of times, killing him on the spot.

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So what's worse than life inside of bloody Angola? How

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about death inside of bloody Angola? As he headed to

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death row. This was in the spring of nineteen sixty five. However,

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he appeals that death sentence, and he appealed it on

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the grounds of self defense.

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Speaker 5: He said he was defending himself.

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Speaker 4: Tangli tried to attack him when he had that knife,

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and that's when he went to stab in him. And

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his lawyers they demand a retrial based off this evidence,

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and basically the state comes back and I'm not sure

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what they saw, but they essentially said, look, we'll offer

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you a plea deal and we'll take you off of

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death row and we'll give you another life sentence. So

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Douglas Dennis, He's like, I'm down with that. He takes it,

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and he actually gets off of death row. This was

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in nineteen sixty eight, so by the early seventies, surprisingly

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Dennis has completely changed his behavior. Inside of Bloody and Gola.

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He earns trustee status and he actually becomes a very

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well respected member of the inmate population.

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Speaker 5: Inside of Angola.

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Speaker 4: He also becomes the inmate that the attorney for Louisiana Prisons,

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the first attorney, guy by the name of Richard Crane.

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Richard Crane would lean on Douglas Dennis a lot when

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revamping the penitentiary's approach to law and to the inmate's

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access to law. And the reason he did this was

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he knew how intellectually smart that the Swede was. Don't

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forget this guy. A lot of people said he was

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pretty close to a genius, and he graduated high school early.

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He may have acted like an idiot, but he wasn't

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an idiot. Eventually, Douglas Dennis would change his behavior so

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much that he would spend as much time outside of

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the wire of Angola as he would spend inside of it.

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He will work at the Capitol, he will work at

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the Police Bears, he will work at the DOC the

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Department of Correction offices in Baton Rouge. And he even

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attended night classes at LSU taking criminal justice. And while

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he was taking those classes, believe it or not, he

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had a three zero point nine six GPA, not too shabby.

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But no matter how much good the Douglas Dennis could

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do for himself, trouble just seemed to always follow this guy. So,

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while driving outside of the prison in Baton Rouge, he

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gets involved in an auto accident. This is in nineteen

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seventy nine, and this accident was not his fault. Someone

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hit him, but the person that hit him died in

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that accident, and that created a political shit storm and

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everyone started losing trust in the suite. He was damaged

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goods then, because, as you would think, people were coming

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from everywhere saying, why was this freaking guy driving outside

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of the prison. He sents for the rest of his

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life out of Louisiana State Penitentiary and he gets in

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a rack and kills someone outside.

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Speaker 5: Of the gates, and even though it wasn't his.

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Speaker 4: Fault, is a political shit storm oc Brown, as a

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matter of fact, who would become the District.

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Speaker 5: Attorney of Baton Ruage.

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Speaker 4: He didn't like it one bit. He was very vocal

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about it during that time. So all of this pressure

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on Douglas Dennis later that year in nineteen seventy nine.

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Speaker 5: Would lead to a dramatic escape.

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Speaker 4: So Douglas Dennis, through some criminal friends on the outside,

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would be supplied a car and a getaway driver, and

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late one day in nineteen seventy nine, this getaway driver

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picked him up at the Department of Corrections headquarters and

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Douglas Dennis escapes and he's on the run for ten years.

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At this point, he had been inside out of Angola

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for twenty two years. So he ends up escaping. He

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spends a week in New Orleans at a hotel. He

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gets two hundred bucks from his criminal friends. He uses

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that to buy a used car and he manages to

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cross the border in mcgallan, Texas into Mexico and for

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the next ten years until nineteen eighty eight, he works

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in Mexico El Salvador and spent the majority of his

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time in Guatemala. He picked up Spanish along the way.

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He worked in the accounting industry in South America. He

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even meets a woman and they fall in love. I

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don't know if they got married or not, but they

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certainly fell in love, and he kind of stays out

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of trouble. Now this woman is also from the United States,

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and all our family still led in the United States.

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And eventually Douglas Dennis he gets a it's a fake passport,

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meaning he used his fake name to gain the passport,

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but the passport itself is real, and she wants to

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go back and see her family, and he says.

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Speaker 5: I'll come with you.

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Speaker 4: He's got this actually real passport, it's just a fake

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name on it. And so they go to the airport

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and it's getting close for their flight and he looks

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around and he's lost his passport, can't find it anywhere.

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So he's like shit. At this point, he's got a choice.

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He's gonna have to stay in Mexico and just say

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screw it, go by yourself, or he had another choice,

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which was what he decided to do, and he said, well,

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just go another day. He makes a fake passport that

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looks very similar to the real one that he had.

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They go back, they hand it to the Mexican authorities,

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and right away they start delaying. These Mexican authorities, they're

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just not so sure about this passport. So long story short,

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he notices that they know something's wrong. They don't know

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who he is, but they know something's wrong with this passport,

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and they're taking a long time to approve him. So

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he's he bolts. He's basically like, I gotta go to

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the bathroom, and he leaves, and he knows, I've got

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to come up with another plan to get back in

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the States because now the Mexican police are on to me.

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So he's really desperate to get back across the border

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because they're going to come arrest him. And he does

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do that within short order, manages to get across the border,

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and he goes to several different states and eventually a

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few months later he he's finally captured. Now, the way

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that he got captured was remember that passport that he

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had that was a real passport with a fake name.

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Somebody found that and turned it in. They put two

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and two together, the US Fugitive Office and the Mexican

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authorities figured out this is the guy that escaped for

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me in Gola. Of course, they had a picture of

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him on the passport. Somehow they were able to put

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all that together. He ends up getting captured in Houston,

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Texas after being on the lamb from Bloody Angola for

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ten years. Now, upon his capture, the Swede would end

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up right back where he started in Angola, and he

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gets more time tacked onto a sentence. But the dude's

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serving two life sentences. I mean, he had nothing to

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lose by escaping. He might have got an extra forty

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years or something like that. It means nothing, But it's

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just shocking to me, kind of amazing that he was

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able to stay away for ten years. He was able

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to go on the land for ten years, and had

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he not crossed the border back into the United States,

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he'd probably still be somewhere in Mexico.

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Speaker 5: Right, So he ends up back in Angola.

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Speaker 4: Eventually he becomes a reporter for the Angolite and towards

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the end of his life with serious health issues, Dennis

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would eventually seek pardon, but due to this escape and

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killing someone inside a prison in addition to killing someone

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inside of another jail, he gets denied that pardon and

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he dies inside a Bloody Angoa. This is in two

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thousand and nine at the age of seventy three years old.

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And there you have it, the story of the Swede.

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And I was surprised. As many episodes of Angola as

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I've done, I've never come across the Swede, but to

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be ten years as I said on the run, pretty

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amazing stuff. Not saying I recommend it, but pretty amazing nonetheless.

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And look, next week is Thanksgiving, so I want to

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say Happy Thanksgiving.

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Speaker 5: I'm likely going to.

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Speaker 4: Release something, not sure what I'm going to release yet,

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but I want to.

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Speaker 5: I'm very thankful. Y'all want to know what I'm thankful for.

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Speaker 4: I am thankful for all of your support, and I

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really mean that. I love doing Bloody and Golah just

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probably my favorite podcast relative to what I like talking about.

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able to do it. Check out the Patreon Patreon dot

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the show. And until next time for Bloody and Gola Podcast,

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one hundred and forty two years in the making, The

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complete story of America's Bloody is present.

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Speaker 1: Peace a Wall Street Line, Shackle, change, Oh, Who's some Girdie,

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

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being a tentery juice as the hill stream game Wrangle three, I'm.

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Speaker 2: In bed by me to die.

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Speaker 3: Inside these walls, inside the wise, and when the walks,

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I know it's

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Speaker 2: Albody angled, obody angle,