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Speaker 1: The United States is home to some of the world's

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most dangerous killers. Individuals responsible for such heenous crimes other

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inmates fear them.

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Speaker 2: One of these killers was Rocky Beaman.

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Speaker 3: There is a lot of evidence that clearly Beman is

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not psychiatrically stable.

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Speaker 4: That kind of depravity, that kind of hatred, that kind

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of malice, Why are you evil?

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Speaker 5: Are you born evil?

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Speaker 1: To feed a severe drug habit, Rocky Beaman, along with

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his girlfriend, killed and then robbed an innocent woman.

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Speaker 5: They wanted the money, and they wanted her car.

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Speaker 6: He tied her hands, he gagged her, and for a

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couple minutes, holds her underneath the water.

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Speaker 7: In this heinous it was cruel, an absolute animal.

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Speaker 1: Once incarcerated, Beaman's behavior reached a new level of depravity.

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Speaker 3: All of his attacks are extremely rage filled and they're

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all premeditated. These aren't impulsive homicides.

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Speaker 8: There's no prestige and attacking a man who has no

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clothes on in the shower in.

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Speaker 2: The back.

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Speaker 1: A threat to anyone who crossed his path. Rocky Beaman

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received the ultimate punishment.

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Speaker 6: I have no doubt he would have tried to kill

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somebody else. Definitely was the only option.

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Speaker 9: I believe I personally have never known anybody to get

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two death sentences.

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Speaker 2: Uly one just does a trick.

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Speaker 1: The state of Florida has the third largest prison system

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in the USA, incarcerating around eighty nine thousand prisoners across

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one hundred and thirty four prisons. One of these institutions

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houses inmates deemed the worst of the worst.

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Speaker 8: Santa Rosa Preational Facilities. Located in Milton, Florida. It houses

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approximately three thousand inmates. It sits on fifty four acres

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and is surrounded by woodland.

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Speaker 4: Santa Rasa has always had something of a reputation as

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being one of the violent penitentiaries.

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Speaker 8: Has housed some of the state's most violent and notorious criminals.

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Speaker 1: One of the most callous individuals who have ever been

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held there was Rocky Beaman.

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Speaker 3: If you look at the traits of psychopaths, Beman hit

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almost every single one of them. He made a decision

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from a very early age that he was going to

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go against the grain. He was going to be anti authority, antisocial,

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anti society, and he went with that all the way.

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Speaker 10: Rocky appeared to be a very fit guy, but you

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could tell that his use for crack cocaine had clearly

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taken a physical effect on him.

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Speaker 1: His insatiable drug addiction led him to rob and murder

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a woman for her car, to.

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Speaker 10: Bound somebody and actually throw them away like trash into

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a pond and leave them like that.

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Speaker 7: Whoever did this was just pure evil.

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Speaker 6: What affected me in this case was the horror that

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she went through until she was dead.

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Speaker 1: Once in prison for murder, Bemon's calculating nature was revealed

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through letters he wrote.

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Speaker 8: He said he would kill again and then his next

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victim he would carve the name of the judge in

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the victim's back, metaphorically saying this blood is on your hands.

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Speaker 3: Bemon loves being in control. He loves controlling women. He

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loves controlling his victims. This is feeding that narcissistic quality

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that psychopaths tend to have, where you know he's the judge,

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the jury, and the executioner.

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Speaker 1: Rocky Ali Beeman was born in nineteen seventy seven.

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Speaker 5: He was born in Naples, Sorta.

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Speaker 4: And moved at a young age to Like Placid with

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his mother and his stepfather.

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Speaker 1: Rocky's biological father was an alcoholic and never met his

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baby's son.

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Speaker 3: He made Beman a low priority and opted instead to

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make alcohol a high priority, which has got to be

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really hurtful to a child. It could have sent a

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message to Beaman that he was not loved or not wanted.

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Speaker 4: Rocky Beeman always claimed that he'd been sexually assaulted as

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a child, but he never specified who had abused him,

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whether it was a biological parent or a step parent,

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or someone off the street.

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Speaker 3: The only source of information that points to him having

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been sexually abused came from him. You never want to

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be dismissive. However, I'd be remiss to say that there

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aren't individuals out there who falsely report abuse.

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Speaker 1: By the age of twelve, Rocky Beeman, like his father,

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had become heavily dependent on alcohol.

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Speaker 8: At fourteen, he had moved on to cocaine, and he

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started using methamphetamine in combination with alcohol and marijuana.

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Speaker 3: He progressed to full blown addiction very very quickly. Is

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it because he was indeed sexually abused and went on

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to self me dedicate. On the flip side, he could

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have just turned to drugs and alcohol experimentally decided that

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he enjoyed it. His brain is not fully developed and

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he's already introduced all of these mind altering illicit substances

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into his system.

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Speaker 1: Throughout his teenage years, Beeman's addiction to substances was matched

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by a growing addiction to crime.

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Speaker 8: And nineteen ninety five, Beeman was arrested and convicted for

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two counts of criminal mischief, three counts of grand larceny,

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as well as arm burglary. As a result of those convictions,

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he spent much of his younger years either on probation

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or incarcerated in the juvenile justice center.

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Speaker 3: His goals are now to be antisocial and to engage

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in criminal behavior. He's a slave to his addiction and

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he's going to need money to facilitate that addiction, and

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so he's getting himself in a tangled web that he's

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not going to be able to escape easily.

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Speaker 1: Beman went on to make a full time career out

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of crime.

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Speaker 4: Between nineteen ninety seven. In two thousand and four, Rocky

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Beamon was convicted of alligator poachin battery, larcenies, driving suspended licenses.

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Speaker 3: Beman really is the classic escalating offender. He went from

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nonviolent crimes and now you start to see by the

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time he's in early adulthood, he already has three charges

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of domestic violence. He's misogynistic, He's hating women.

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Speaker 1: By age twenty seven, Beaman's life had mostly been centered

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around taking drugs, committing crimes, and doing time in county jails.

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Now living in Sefner, a suburb of the city of Tampa,

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he got himself a new girlfriend.

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Speaker 4: Beeman met a girl named Karen Wilkins. She was a

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good person that was led astray by Rocky Beaman and

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they did a lot of drugs together.

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Speaker 1: Beeman and his thirty nine year old girlfriend Karen were

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sitting out the front of their home. They spotted the

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ladies slowly driving down their street. The driver was forty

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seven year old Deborah Lacey.

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Speaker 10: Deborah worked for the post office. From all accounts, she

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was a great lady.

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Speaker 1: Deborah Lacey had a sixteen year old daughter and shared

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a close bond with her large circle of family and friends.

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Speaker 10: She had some issues and ended up with a drug addiction,

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which kind of led her down this path where she.

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Speaker 7: Ended up meetings sur beingon at that point.

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Speaker 10: Initially Miss Lacey, she sees mister Beeman standing outside of

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his house. She stops to have conversation with him.

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Speaker 4: Deborah said, do you have anything I could drink to

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swallow my pills, and that led Rocky to offering to

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take her to his house, where he gave her a beer.

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Speaker 6: There was no suggestion that mister Beeman and miss Wilkins

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knew Miss Lacey. Miss Lacey, unfortunately, had indicated that she

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had a lot of money, and all Miss Wilkins and

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mister Beaman could see was money for drugs.

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Speaker 1: Bemon, motivated by his unrelenting addiction, decided he was going

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to rob Deborah Lacey. When Deborah told him that she

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wanted to consume some crack cocaine, Beman saw his opportunity.

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Speaker 6: They got in her car, they went to one of

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mister Beaman's suppliers and got cocaine. Mister Beaman and Miss

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Wilkins indicated where they wanted to smoke the crack cocaine.

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It was an isolated area because it was a wooded

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area and in the middle of it there's a pond

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or a lake.

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Speaker 2: Unbeknown to Deborah, she was walking into a trap.

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Speaker 4: Deborah is in the wood with Rocky and Karen and

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they're doing this crack cocaine. At that point, Roki decided

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that he would rob and kill Deborah Lacey. Rocky hit

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Deborah with a stick and tied her hands with a

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drawstring from his shorts. He then stuffed a rag in

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her mouth to keep her from screaming, and duct tape

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that over her mouth.

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Speaker 8: He and Karen then walked Miss Lacey approximately one hundred

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and fifty yards to a nearby pond. That is a

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long way that is an American football field and a half.

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Once they arrived at the pond, mister Beeman forced Lacey's

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head under the water and held her there until she

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was dead.

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Speaker 3: That is a long, tortuous, sadistic way to commit a homicide.

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He let Lacey know that she needed to be absolutely

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terrified prior to her death. He's filled with rage, and

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on top of that, he's a serious drug addict, which

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is easily disinhibiting his impulsive nature.

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Speaker 6: That must have been terrifying for Miss Lacy realizing that

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she's underwater, not being able to breathe, and that she's

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never going to get out of that situation.

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Speaker 4: After the murder, Rocky and Karen took thirty dollars out

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of divers purse. They stole her Lincoln Continental and traded

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it for two to four hundred dollars worth of crack cocaine.

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Speaker 3: You can rob someone in order to gain money. You

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can even assault somebody in order to gain money. But

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did you really need to murder her to get money

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for drugs? It seems unnecessary.

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Speaker 1: Following the murder, Beamon and Wilkins unashamedly carried on living

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their lives as normal. Seven days later, Deborah Lacy's sister

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had not heard from her sibling for over a week.

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She called the police to report her missing.

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Speaker 5: My name is Douglas Covington.

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Speaker 6: I was a Fellowy Division chief and this case landed

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on my desk. Miss Lacy had been reported as a

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missing person. A sergeant with the Sheriff DEPARTM had indicated

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to his squad to be on the lookout for miss

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Lacy and to start looking for her.

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Speaker 1: With officers dispatched to drive around the neighborhood, the sergeant

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noticed a suspicious looking vehicle.

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Speaker 6: That same sergeant was driving down the road and noticed

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a car with its back window out.

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Speaker 5: He stopped the car.

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Speaker 6: The driver jumped out and said he didn't have a

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driver's license.

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Speaker 1: The man was arrested for failing to provide valid documentation.

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Speaker 5: There were two other individuals in the car.

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Speaker 6: They brought them all down to the station and they

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started questioning them.

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Speaker 1: The detective in charge of the questioning for the Hillsboro

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County Sheriff's Office was Charlie Keen.

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Speaker 10: Two thousand and five, I was assigned to the homicide

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section with the Sheriff's office. Myself and my partner conduct

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an interview with the two young men in possession of

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the car.

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Speaker 7: We learned that they actually.

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Speaker 10: Trade the crack cocaine for the car to individual known

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as Rocky Beaman.

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Speaker 1: Officers quickly discovered that Beaman did not own the car.

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It was in fact registered to the missing Debora Lacy.

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The police urgently wanted to talk to Beman. As they

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attempted to track him down, a call came in.

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Speaker 5: I was in the office.

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Speaker 10: We received the call of a body being found in

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a small pond.

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Speaker 7: Deputies arrived.

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Speaker 10: They confirm, in fact, there was a deceased female victim

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there that had been taped up.

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Speaker 1: Detective Keene immediately left for the crime scene.

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Speaker 10: As I entered the scene, it's been marked off the

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crime scene tape and I can see there's a female

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victim and the water, her hands and her feet were

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tied together and then her mouth was also taped up.

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Speaker 7: It was heartbreaking to know that any human would be

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treated like that. We knew that whoever had committed this

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crime was just violent.

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Speaker 1: Police confirmed the body was that of Deborah Lacey. Forensics

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had identified her through her fingerprints. They also calculated that

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her body had been in the pond for ten days.

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Speaker 10: So when we notified Miss Lacy's family that she had

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been found in that she was deceased was heartbreaking.

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Speaker 7: No family wants to hear that their daughter had been murdered.

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Speaker 1: The same afternoon Deborah's body was found, the LAE had

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managed to track down where Beeman lived.

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Speaker 6: They began doing some surveillance on his house and then

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they went and knocked on the door and Miss Wilkins

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answered the door and they asked her if anybody else

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was in the residence.

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Speaker 5: She said, Rocky was.

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Speaker 6: They arrested him for an outstanding warrant and brought him

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down to their station.

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Speaker 1: Emon and Wilkins were questioned together that very same evening.

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Officers cut straight to the chase and asked them how

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they knew Deborah Lacey and why they had her car.

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Speaker 6: Both of them initially completely denied knowing miss Lacey.

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Speaker 5: They all lied as to where the car came from.

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Speaker 6: But when they started talking to these individuals separately and

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said the owner of that car had been found murdered,

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then they decided to tell the truth.

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Speaker 7: Taking a piece of wood and hit her. Tie her hands,

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illustrated the water.

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Speaker 2: Tell me about the duck cheep?

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Speaker 7: Couldn't yell?

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Speaker 1: You put it across her mount.

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Speaker 2: That.

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Speaker 8: Yes.

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Speaker 10: Once he confessed committing the homicide, his demeanor completely changed.

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Speaker 7: It's kind of like it was a lighter version of

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him at that point. I've never had.

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Speaker 10: Somebody confess the way that he did. We asked questions

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and he gave us a direct and point of answers.

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He was just this is what I did. Most of

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the interviews go on for three, four, five, six hours,

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sometimes with him, you know.

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Speaker 7: But he knew he was caught and he owned it.

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Speaker 11: So you hit her first, You didn't find her hands?

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What do you use to do that? With a straining

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out of my sorts?

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Speaker 5: This a see lace.

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Speaker 1: Bimon went on to admit his desperate motivation behind the

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horrific murder.

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Speaker 7: How much money did you get? Thirty bucks?

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Speaker 2: Was that had a problem with drugs?

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Speaker 7: We did just apply it.

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Speaker 6: You have a drug problem, we do all kinds of

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things to support.

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Speaker 2: And get more.

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Speaker 3: I don't think the drugs had anything to do with

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this murder, because this wasn't a huge drug dealer that

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he robbed and shot. This was an innocent, forty seven

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year old woman who also happened to struggle with addiction

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that he took advantage of.

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Speaker 5: He killed for the kill.

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Speaker 3: He did not kill for the drugs.

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Speaker 7: I think he was so strung out on crack cocaine

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that I don't think he really gave it a whole

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lot of thought.

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Speaker 10: Seemed like it was just a normal day of doing

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business for him.

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Speaker 1: Amen's girlfriend, Karen Wilkins, confessed to her role in Deborah

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Lacy's murder.

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Speaker 10: She certainly took heart in homicide, but I don't think

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she planned it, and she wasn't the one who did

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the binding of miss Lacy.

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Speaker 7: Mister Reemon Iterant and Pusher in the water.

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Speaker 6: Them trading that car for crack cocaine solved this crime.

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After their confession, the Sheriff's department got a search warrant

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to go into missus Wilkins and mister Remon's residence and

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they actually found a pair of swim trunks that did

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not have a tie string in it and related back

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to the tie string that had tied Miss Lacey's hands.

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Speaker 1: The next day, the eight year old Rocky Beaman was

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charged with first degree premeditated murder. Karen Wilkins, who was

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seen as an accomplice, was charged with second degree murder.

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Speaker 2: They were both held in a local jail.

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Speaker 6: I was a prosecutor in the case of State of

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Florida versus Rocky Beaman and Karen Wilkins.

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Speaker 5: I read the.

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Speaker 6: Police report, it became very obvious to me that this

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had the aggravating factors that could lead to a death

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penalty case. The confessions were the biggest piece of evidence

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I had.

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Speaker 1: The weight of Beaman's confession made a death penalty trial

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seem inevitable, but he was able to cut a deal.

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Speaker 4: He negotiated a plea where he would plead guilty and

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spend his life in prison if the prosecutors would take

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the death penalty off the table.

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Speaker 6: When he offered to plead to life and a voyage

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of the death penalty, I had no problem with it whatsoever.

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Is as long as he was not out on the

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streets for the rest of his life.

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Speaker 5: I was good with that.

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Speaker 1: Five months later, Beaman's plea hearing took place at the

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thirteenth Judicial Circuit Court in Hillsborough County.

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Speaker 6: Mister Beaman comes into the courtroom with his attorney. He

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was in a sheriff's office jail jumpsuit. Mister Beaman pled guilty,

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and at that point in time, the victim's family has

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an opportunity to indicate how this has affected them.

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Speaker 4: Debrah's family, obviously, I took to murder very hard. The

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daughter had a letter read on her behalf in which

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she said, my mother will never get to see the

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milestones in my life. She'll never get to meet my children.

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Speaker 5: You have taken that from me.

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Speaker 1: For first degree murder, kidnapping, and robbery, Rocky Beeman was

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sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole.

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Speaker 10: During that sentencing, mister Mehmon, Di's something that I've never

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seen anybody do it in any trial.

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Speaker 7: Once he played guilty, he looked at me.

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Speaker 10: And he gave me a head nod, and that had

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not I took it as him saying, look.

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Speaker 7: I did the right thing. I accept responsibility.

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Speaker 1: It was very strange Beeman's girlfriend, Karen Wilkins, was tried

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separately and pled guilty to second degree murder. She received

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a sentence of thirty years in prison, followed by ten

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years probation. For the next seven years, Beaman was moved

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between various institutions within the Florida prison system. In March

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twenty twelve, Beaman, now aged thirty four, ended up as

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an inmate at Appalachi Correctional Institute.

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Speaker 9: Apalaschi Correctional Institute is a correctional institute located in the

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Panhandle of Florida. The institution opened in nineteen forty nine.

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It houses approximately thirteen hundred inmates and its mixed custody

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of clothes, medium and.

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Speaker 2: Minimum security inmates.

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Speaker 1: His cellmate was forty four year old Bruce Hunsicker.

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Speaker 8: Mister Hunsicker was in prison serving a sentence of six

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life sentences for raping a ten year old girl at

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knife point. At that point, mister Beeman was unaware of it.

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Speaker 4: The first couple of months that they share a cell

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together was somewhat cordial. The relationship seems to have started

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going downhill when Hunsicker borrowed some coffee from Rocky and

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wouldn't return it. Then Rocky learned that Hunsicker had been

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convicted of raping a ten year old girl at knife point.

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Speaker 1: As someone who since adolescents claimed he held a particular

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hatred for child molesters, Beeman was enraged. He decided he

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was going to kill his cellmate in cold blood.

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Speaker 8: Beamon at that point began stalking mister Hunsicker and essentially

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analyzing his daily patterns, and what he learned is that

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Hunsicker took a shower every day precisely at four pm.

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Speaker 4: The whole stalking thing kind of goes to his preparation

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to kill this man.

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Speaker 1: Beeman decided to murder Hunsicker and the shower during his

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daily visit.

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Speaker 8: He then fashioned a fourteen inch shank or a jailmate weapon,

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out of a piece of fence that he was able

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to become in possession of.

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Speaker 9: Murders of an inmate in a shower is an area

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of opportunity because these inmates are unsuspecting of being attacked

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while they're showering.

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Speaker 2: They have their guard Doum.

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Speaker 1: Five days after learning about Hunsicker's crime, Beman made his move.

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Speaker 4: The attack started with Beman coming up from behind a

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Hunsicker and putting his left arm around his neck and

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choking him to keep him quiet, while with his right

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arm stabbing him in the abdomen and other areas of

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his body. He would ultimately end up stabbing him eighty

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times and left him for dead on the bathroom floor.

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Speaker 3: Stabbing somebody eighty times is what we referred to as overkill.

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It did not require eighty stabbing to kill his cell meat.

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That tells me that Beaman was enjoying what he's doing.

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Speaker 4: After the attack, Rocky, covered in blood, takes a shower,

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cleans himself up, and then he takes the evidence, being

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his shorts and the weapon, and flushes him down to toilet,

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and then he leaves.

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Speaker 2: Beaman left Hunsicker's body where he lay.

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Speaker 4: Hunsicker's body wasn't found for a couple hours during a

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security check.

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Speaker 8: Mister Hunsicker suffered a punctured heart, a punctured kidney, a

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punctured right lung, a punctured diaphragm, and injuries to other organs.

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Speaker 4: Authorities did eventually find the weapon, and unfortunately, there was

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so much DNA in the prison system sewer lines they

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couldn't confirm that it was the weapon that Rocky eight East.

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Speaker 1: But the authorities did not need to prove who had

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killed the Hunsicker as Beman once again took responsibility for

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his actions.

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Speaker 4: Beemen confessed to the crime and told the authorities that

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it was his hatred of child molesters that had driven

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him to do what he did.

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Speaker 5: Bamin did not.

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Speaker 4: Show any remorse for the killing, and in fact, probably

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seemed almost proud of it.

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Speaker 3: Beaman starts to show these kind of narcissistic traits which

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are typical in psychopaths, where he is almost beaming with

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pride that he's taken out a child molester, like he's

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done this kind of vigilante just that he should be

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admired and revered. He's not thinking I took a life

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that I had no right to take. He's now again

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in control.

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Speaker 1: Beaman was moved into close management or solitary confinement, locked

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in a single cell for twenty three hours a day.

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Speaker 2: He was there for the next five years.

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Speaker 3: When you're in solitary confinement, you're having a loss of

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sensory stimulation. You're not interacting with other humans, you're not

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seeing light as much as you should be. We see psychosis,

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we see depression, we see anxiety, we see loss of

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social skills.

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Speaker 1: Twenty seventeen, thirty nine year old Beaman was transferred to

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Santa Rosa Correctional Facility.

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Speaker 9: Santa Rosa Correctional Institution is a men's prison located in Milton, Florida.

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Speaker 2: The prison opened up in.

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Speaker 9: Nineteen ninety six and houses over three thousand inmates of

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custody levels clothes, minimum, and medium.

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Speaker 4: Beaman was downgraded from Close Management one to Close Management two,

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which entitled him to have a cellmate.

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Speaker 8: Nicholas Ryan Anderson was a twenty seven year old inmate

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and was the cellmate for mister Beaman. Mister Anderson was

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serving a twenty year sentence for child molesstation.

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Speaker 4: The rationale behind putting Beaman in a cale with a

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child molester is beyond my comprehension. I don't know why

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it was done. Beaman had not found this out, and

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did not find it out until he was notified by

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members of a prison gang of what he'd been convicted for,

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and the gang members actually told him that they were

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going to take him out if Rocky didn't take him

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out himself.

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Speaker 8: Beeman asked if Anderson would provide him with his commitment

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papers to show him in writing why he was in custody.

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Of course, mister Anderson refused to do that. At that point,

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mister Beaman felt that mister Anderson was lying to him.

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Speaker 1: Now aware of Anderson's crime, Beaman carefully put together a

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plan to kill his twenty seven year old cellmate.

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Speaker 4: Part of Beaman's preparation was watching the guards and timing

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their movements so that he ultimately determined that they came

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by about every twenty five minutes.

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Speaker 8: To prepare for the killing, he was able somehow to

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get his hands on a double A battery.

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Speaker 2: He ground it down on.

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Speaker 8: The cell floor to create a fixed point blade.

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Speaker 1: Just over a week after being placed in a cell

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with Anderson, Beaman made his move. He waited until just

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after the midnight check.

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Speaker 4: Biman told Anderson to get out, up out of his bunk.

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He told him he got to go, and Anderson said, I'm

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not going anywhere, at which point Rocky punched him in

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the eye and pulled him to the ground and tied

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his arms and his legs, and then tied another bed

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sheet to hog tie him.

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Speaker 2: Beman then began to strangle Anderson.

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Speaker 4: At some point, he determined that he was dead, so

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he released him, but Anderson started breathing again, and that's

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when Rocky started kicking him and stabbing him with the

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battery shank that he'd created.

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Speaker 1: At twelve fourteen am, an inmate in a neighboring cell

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called out to officers, who rushed to the crime scene.

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They were met with Anderson's hogtide body on the floor,

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with Beamon standing over him. Beamon was restrained and moved

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to another cell. Despite the nurse's best efforts, they were

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unable to revive Nicholas Anderson, who was pronounced dead at

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one point fifty three am.

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Speaker 4: When Beaeman was interviewed after the fact, he did not

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show any remorse for what he'd done, and if another

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inmate hadn't sounded an alarm, he would have continued to

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torture him. His raison was that he hates child molesters

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and that he intended to kill as many as he could.

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Speaker 3: The fact that Beman's sealmates were sex offenders were an

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easy excuse for him. I really believe had his cellmates

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been drug dealers or bank robbers, they likely would have

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suffered the same fate Beaman wanted to kill.

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Speaker 2: That's it.

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Speaker 4: He was committing his second murder of someone accused of

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molesting a child. What were you thinking putting this man

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into a jail cell with this man?

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Speaker 1: Just over a year later, Beaman was charged with a

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murder of his first cellmate, Bruce Hunsicker, who he killed

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almost six years earlier.

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Speaker 4: He was charged with first degree murder in the Hunsicker case,

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and the death penalty was definitely on the table. Beaman

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responded to the call for the death sentence by writing

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judges and prosecutors in saying, you better go ahead and

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kill me, because if you don't, I'm going to continue

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to kill child molesters until either I die, all of

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them die, or you put me on death row.

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Speaker 3: I think Beaman really has embraced who he is as

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a serial killer at this point. He's in enjoying having

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other people read exactly how sadistic his mind is. Beamon

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has a desire to be in control at all times.

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Why not have some more bravado, Why not feed the

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narcissistic component of psychopathy. He's reveling in this now, this

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is who he is, this is what he does, and

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he's now proud of it.

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Speaker 4: I don't know that I've ever heard of a convicted

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felon asking for the death penalty and basically saying kill.

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Speaker 2: Me or I'll kill more.

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Speaker 4: Beiman said that he had no regrets in either case.

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He says it was the best feeling I've ever had,

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better than any drug I've ever had an orgasm.

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Speaker 1: The following year, forty one year old Beaman, frustrated by

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the slow judicial process, tried to speed up receiving a

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death penalty sentence by waiving his rights to an attorney.

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He penned another letter directly for the judge.

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Speaker 9: Beman threatened the judge by telling the judge he was

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going to carve the judge's name into his next victim,

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and that he was going to dedicate the next victim

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to the judge.

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Speaker 3: This is the highest level of attempt at control and

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manipulation that you can really ever see. These letters reveal

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who he truly is, which is an extremely manipulative, sadistic,

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violent offender.

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Speaker 2: Beman got his wish later that month.

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Speaker 1: He was found guilty of first degree premeditated murder and

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received the death sentence for the killing of Bruce Hunsicker.

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In November twenty nineteen, Beeman was given a second death

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penalty sentence for the murder of his other cellmate, Nicholas Anderson.

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Speaker 7: He's come into three murders at that point in time.

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Speaker 10: I mean odds are to me he's going to commit

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a fourth if you continue to let him have, you know,

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open interaction with other inmates.

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Speaker 7: So I don't know that there was another option.

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Speaker 1: Rocky Beaman was sent to death row at Union Correctional

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Facility in Rayford, Florida.

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Speaker 9: Beamon was ultimately How's single cell status, meaning he was

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alone in the cell and the department separated him from

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general population due to all the criminal and vicious acts

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that he did while he was housed on death row.

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In twenty twenty, he committed the act of suicide.

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Speaker 1: The Florida Department of Corrections didn't elaborate on the circumstances

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of the forty two year olds suicide.

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Speaker 5: He begged to be.

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Speaker 8: On death row, However, I think what he probably didn't

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take under consideration is how slow the wills of.

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Speaker 7: Justice can move. You can be on death row for decades.

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Speaker 8: I think he just got tired of waiting for the

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state to do it, so he did it himself.

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Speaker 6: I can't say I'm sorry bestly after what he had

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done after my case, and I'm sure those prisoners that

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he killed had families. Mister Beeman probably did not need

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to have a place on this hearth.

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Speaker 3: He caused so much chaos and turbulence in everybody else's life,

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but he still had to remain in control, and he

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ultimately got his way and was sent to death row.

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But he was going to say, I'm the last in control.

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You're not going to kill me. I'm going to kill myself.

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That's why he committed suicide.

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Speaker 1: The question of why Rocky Beaman decided to choose a

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path of murder is one that remains unanswered.

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Speaker 3: In spite of a horrific childhood, substance abuse, mental illness,

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none of that is the reason why Beaman was so

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horribly evil. Beaman never had a positive effect on anyone

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that he came across his entire life, including himself.

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Speaker 8: Beaman probably sees himself as some sort of vigilante to

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provide justice for children that were harmed by adults. Killing

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Bruce Hunsiger, a man serving six life sentences, posed no

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additional threat to any children going forward, and sure as hell,

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forty seven year old Debor Lacy was not a child

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sex offender, A vigilante no, a predator looking for some

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level of justification.

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Speaker 7: That's more likely to me