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Speaker 1: H a wall street line, shackle change, Oh someome gird,

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

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been a tentery juice as the huge stream game Rango

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the three.

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Speaker 2: I'm here be by me to die inside these walls,

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inside the wild and when the girl as I.

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Speaker 3: Hey everyone, and welcome back to Bloody Angola, a podcast

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one hundred and forty two years in the making, the

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complete story of America's Bloodiest present. I'm Jim Chapman, and

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today I have a requested story to cover for you.

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And this one proves how awesome all of you who

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listen are because I was not familiar with this particular

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story until it was brought to my attention by a

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fan of the show. And that is is the story

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of Cadillac Jack Favor. So Cadillac Jack Favor was an

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iconic rodeo performer who was sentenced to two life terms

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in nineteen sixty seven for robbery and double murder of

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a couple in Boser City, Louisiana. But in nineteen seventy

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four he started the exoneration process and was exonerated after

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being housed in Bloody Angola for seven years, and like

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any story. We start at the beginning with Bloody Angola.

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So I'm bringing you back to nineteen eleven and I'm

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gonna bring you to a place called Eula, Texas. Which

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this is a very small town in the center of Texas,

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so small in fact that the population is just one

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hundred and twenty five people even today. So it's really

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amazing that this guy who accomplished so much and we'll

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get into that, grew up in Ula, Texas. So Jack,

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he grew up on a ranch in Ula, and he

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lived which you would consider a true cowboy lifestyle from

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an early age. As you would expect, he developed some

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pretty amazing values as it relates to hard work, resilience, discipline,

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all the things. You're growing up on a ranch, on

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a farm, basically you're herding cattle, you are practicing rodio skills,

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and we're going to get into that. It was these

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formative years that provided Jack with those skills that he

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would need later and it would make him a standout

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figure in the world of rodeo. Now, by the time

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Jack made it to high school, he had already developed

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a love for competitive sports and especially the very physical

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nature of what's known as bronc riding, and for those

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of you not familiar with the radio world, bronc riding

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is an event similar to bull riding, but a rider

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actually mounts and attempts to ride a bucking horse for

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eight seconds. The riders are judged not only on their

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ability to stay on the horse, but the style in

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which they ride, their ability to spur the horse in rhythm,

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and even the horse itself is judged by its bucking difficulty.

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So you can't get out there and get on a

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horse and it just prants out to the middle of

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the arena and does a buck or maybe bucks one time,

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it's still going to hurt your score even though you

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stayed on it for eight seconds. Now, it was during

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high school that Jack started riding bronks, and he just

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fell in love with all things radio and not only

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that event.

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Speaker 4: We'll get into that a little bit later.

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Speaker 3: Jack, after he gets out of high school, he knew

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this is what he wanted to pursue as a living.

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But this is the late twenties, y'all.

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Speaker 4: This is the.

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Speaker 3: Great Depression Era time in America. And it's also a

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time in America where American pride was a big deal.

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And if you were a young man in those days,

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you were expected to serve your country before anything else.

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And that's just what Jack did. He served in the

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US Navy from nineteen twenty nine to nineteen thirty two.

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In his service in the Navy, that honed Jack's work

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ethic even more than it was working on that form,

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and it exposed Jack to a world outside of his

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ranch in Texas. I mean, when you're in the Navy,

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you travel all over the world, and he was in

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this little small community in Yula, Texas, with one hundred

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people his whole life prior to this, So it just

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opened up the entire world to Jack. Now, radio in

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these days did not pay worth a shit. So when

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Jack completed his military service, he returned to Texas and

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he settled in Abilene, Texas. He worked as a truck

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driver for a plumbing company, and he continued to radio

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part time. And then it happened December seventh, nineteen forty one,

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a day that will live in infamy, Pearl Harbor, and Jack,

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like most Americans, he was outraged, and he re enlisted

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in the Navy to fight in World War Two. Now

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years prior to that, in nineteen thirty three, a lady

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by the name of Pearl Alexander and Jack. They get married. However,

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they divorced in nineteen forty one, just prior to his realistment,

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and then Jack married a lady by the name of

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Ponder Roads, and then it was off to his second

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stint in the military. So he serves that second stint

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and then he gets back home to Texas and he

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ended up going between Texas and Oklahoma a lot. That's

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where kind of a rodeo circuit was, and he really

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ramped up his radio career. He became absolutely dominant throughout

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the nineteen forties and fifties, traveling all over the United States,

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and he established himself as a fearless competitor. And it

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was during that time that a specialty kind of changed

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from bronck riding to what's known as steer rustling, and

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that's also known as bulldogging, which, in this event, a

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rider on a horse, he chases a steer, he jumps

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off the horse, and he rustles the steer to the

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ground as quickly as possible. Now, this event requires speed

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and a ton of brute strength. I mean you're literally

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throwing this steer to the ground as quick as you can.

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And it was an event which really turned Cadillac Jack

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into a global name when at a radio in Houston, Texas,

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he successfully bulldogged a steer and get this, two point

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two seconds and that was good enough to break the

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world record. And interestingly enough, this record still stands today

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and it cemented Cadillac Jack's status as the greatest steer

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wrestler in radio history. Now, in addition to that, Jack

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was also a four time world champion in steer wrestling,

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and he also stood out as a bronc buster.

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Speaker 4: Which would lead to one of his most.

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Speaker 3: Iconic wins if you will, when at Madison Square Garden

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he he won eighteen thousand dollars a ton of money

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in those days as the only cowboy to successfully ride

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what was known as Hell's Angel.

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Speaker 4: And you just can't beat the names.

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Speaker 3: That they give these bulls in these bronx in rodeo

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right now, this horse was widely regarded as the greatest

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bucking horse of all time.

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Speaker 4: So this brings us.

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Speaker 3: To nineteen sixty four and Jack at this time was

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retired from rodeo.

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Speaker 4: He was in his fifties, he was.

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Speaker 3: Married, he had three children, very happy and he became

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a traveling salesman, which would serve him well. He would

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make good money being a traveling salesman because he was

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very likable and he had a huge name. Everybody in

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that area of Texas and Oklahoma where he kind of traveled,

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they knew who the hell Cadillac Jack Favor was. I mean,

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even if you were not a huge fan of radio

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during this time in history, you still knew Jack Favor.

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So on April sixteenth of nineteen sixty four, Jack was

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traveling to Tulsa, Oklahoma as part of his job, and

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he stops to eat lunch in Muskegee, Oklahoma, and it's

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here that he meets two men, a guy by the

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name of Floyd Chiger Comby, that's right, his nickname was Chigger,

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and Donald Lee Yates. Now, also in the mid sixties,

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hitchhiking was a thing, and you didn't have the concerns

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necessarily that you have today with picking up hitchhikers, and

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many times you welcome.

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Speaker 4: The company when you were on the road.

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Speaker 3: Now, in Jack's case, he knew what it was like

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to have to hitchhike.

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Speaker 4: Remember he did radio.

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Speaker 3: There were many times he would have to hitchhike from

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one town to another many times.

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Speaker 5: Jim, did you see what happened in Texas today?

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Speaker 3: Wait before you tell me that, let me tell you

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what happened in New York.

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Speaker 5: It cannot be as crazy as the case I told

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you about yesterday in Louisiana.

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Speaker 4: You know what, we should do a podcast about it.

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crime news headlines that have dominated the week.

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even sprinkle in a few globally.

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Speaker 3: Simply by searching Crime War Weekly or clicking the link

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in the description of this podcast. So after these two

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men that he met at this restaurant for lunch just

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by a chance, expressed to him that they needed a ride,

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he agreed as long as they were good with him

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making his sales call in Oklahoma and then riding with

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him to his next stop the following day. Jack was

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so nice, in fact, that when the two men expressed

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that they had no money to stay every night anywhere,

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he agreed to let the men stay with him in

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his hotel room and just kind of bunk out on

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the carpet.

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Speaker 4: Right.

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Speaker 3: So the next day the two men wake up, Jack

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wakes up and they drive back to Texas. And even

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though Jack was meeting another salesman in Houston that day,

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he drove several hours out of his way so that

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the men could start hitching rides in Louisiana. Now, the

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reason he did that was Texas was pretty strict on hitchhikers.

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Speaker 4: Louisiana not says strict.

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Speaker 3: So, just to be nice, he's like, look, if you're

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trying to get from point A to point B here,

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I'll go ahead and bring you to the state LINEA

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in Louisiana, you'll have a much greater chance of hitching

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a ride there. Pretty nice dude, right, So on April

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seventeenth of nineteen sixty four, he drops them off in

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Bojer City, Louisiana, and Jack leaves. He goes he meets

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with this other salesman and in the meantime in Hofton, Louisiana,

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which is just outside of Boser City, mister and Miss W. R. Richie,

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they owned abate and Tackle shop in Hofton. They were

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brutally murdered by those two hitchhikers, Comby and Yates Apparently

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Comby and Yates were convinced that the richies had sixty

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thousand dollars hidden in their safe. So they break in

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to the richie's house and they demand the money. Now

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the richies they denied, have said money. So these two hitchhikers,

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they order these folks into the bedroom of their home.

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They place pillows over their head, and they shoot both

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of them several times through those pillows, killing them. The

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duo then robbed the house of what they could find

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and they could carry, and they just flee the scene. Now,

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although police knew that several people were involved, they were

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unable to locate any leads to point to whom. Now

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remember this is still close to forty years before DNA

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would be a thing, y'all. This was like what you

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would call real detective work. So in December of nineteen

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sixty four, Combe, one of those two hitchhikers, he's a

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waiting trial for a completely separate robbery. And this guy

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had a very long criminal history, so he was looking

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at a lot time if he got yet another conviction

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for robbery. So he gets an idea and he says,

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I'm going to cut a deal, and he goes to

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the police and he says, look, I have details about

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the Richie murders and if I can get out of

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this robbery trial somehow that I'm currently facing and maybe

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work a deal if I confess to some things, I'll

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share the whole story with you.

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Speaker 4: So the chief.

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Speaker 3: Deputy of Bojer Parish Sheriff's Office, a guy by the

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name of thal Dooley. He sits down with Comby and

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Comby gives him this version of events. Now, according to Comby,

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he was the getaway driver in the lookout and Yates

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was the instigator of all this and Jack Favor was

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the triggerman of the whole deal. So police they arrest

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Yates and it took a while, but on September first

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of nineteen sixty five, Duly tracks down and arrest Cadillac

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Jack in Texas and he charged him with robbery and

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double murder in the Richie case. So on November twelfth

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of nineteen sixty five, there's an extradition hearing and this

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is held in Texas and Cadillac Jack he's like, this

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is all bullshit. But as we say today, he provided

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the receipts quite literally. He provides a mountain of evidence

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in his defense, he had receipts from restaurants that he

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traveled to the same day and night that all of

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this went down. He even had gas station receipts that

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proved he could not have been in Bojer City or

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even the Boser City area at the time of these murders.

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same day far away from where Berger's City is, and

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even his wife who testified that he was in Oklahoma

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and that she was visiting him the night the Richies,

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the very night the Richies were murdered. In addition to that, police,

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of course, they interrogated Yates and he verifies that Comby

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was full of shit and the Cadillac Jack had nothing

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to do with the murders. But despite all of this evidence,

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after hearing Comby's testimony, Jack Favor is extradited to Louisiana

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to face trial. So, with the extradition pending, Jack calls

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Duley and he says, hey, what if I take a

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lie detector test to prove my innocence because I didn't

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do this and y'all are trying for some reason, you

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have this tunnel vision. You're believing a guy that is

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nothing but trouble. Has been nothing but trouble his whole

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life in Combe. You're believing everything he tells you. What

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if I take a lot of detector test to prove

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him innocent? And Dully agrees. He says, yeah, sure, come

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on down to Bosier City and we'll do a light

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of detector. So Favor does that. He goes to Boser

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Parish jail. He meets with some people there. I'm imagining

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he met with a polygrapher and he's ready to take

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this lie detector test.

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Speaker 4: But guess what, it was all a trick.

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Speaker 3: It was all a trick just to get him back

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to Louisiana as quickly as possible. When he gets there,

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he's told, oh, there's no lie detector. If you want

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to talk to Dooley, you're going to need a confession.

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That's the only way he's going to talk to you

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is if you confess to all of this. And he

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ends up getting duck at the Boser Parish jail for

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a month. He loses fifty pounds while he's in there

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because they basically tried to starve this guy out of

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a confession. And eventually his attorney gets him out, so

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on April twenty fourth of nineteen sixty seven, finally this

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trial starts. Comby in the meantime, pleads guilty to murder

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with the understanding that there's going to be no death

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penalty involved, and he testifies against Cadillac Jack favor. And

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it's discovered much later that come Be threatened many of

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Jack's key witnesses and they chose not to testify out

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of fear, and most of his evidence in the way

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of receipts, they wouldn't even admit any of that because

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most of those receipts lacked an attendance signature, even though

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they were receipts from the gas station. For example, in

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those days, the gas station attendant would sign those in

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that way, especially in Jack's case, he was a traveling salesman,

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he could turn that over on his expense report and

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get paid for it. Well, many of these weren't signed

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because in a lot of cases the attendants were busy

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with other things, and in some cases they weren't even there,

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so they wouldn't admit any of that evidence. In Yates,

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who steadfastly stated that Cadillac Jack had nothing to do

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with the murders, he wasn't even allowed to testify in

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the trial. So this trial goes on and then the

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jury gets dismissed to come up with a verdict. And

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on April twenty ninth of nineteen sixty seven, the jury

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they send a note to the judge and they say,

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we can't reach a verdict. We're hung. We're hung jury,

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and we just can't agree on whether Jack Favor did this.

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So the judge gets very frustrated. He goes and he

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talks to the entire jury, which is a big no

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no these days, but he goes and he talks to

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them and inexplicitly as soon as he returns back gets

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on the bench.

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Speaker 4: Guess what.

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Speaker 3: The jury comes up with a verdict and Favor is

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found guilty and he sentenced to life inside a bloody angola.

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And y'all this nineteen sixty seven, that is the height

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of the bloody years. This is when inmates slept with

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mail order catalogs on their chest to avoid being stabbed.

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Cadillac Jack, he's on his way there for the rest

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of his life. Now, something very interesting happened in December

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of nineteen sixty seven. Remember Comby, Well, for some reason,

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he's allowed to change his plea from murder to manslaughter.

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He gets resentenced, and he gets resentenced to two consecutive

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twenty one year terms to be served in Bloody in Gola,

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but he never makes it there. Now later it was

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discovered his transfer to Louisiana State Penitentiary in Gola it

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was faked specifically for the trial, so rather than being

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placed at in Gola, Comby was released, released and driven

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to Texa Arcana by Duley himself, and it was under

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the pretense that he would go undercover as an agent

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for the government. Now, according to some accounts, Duly drives

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him to Texts Arcana. He gives Comby a gun, not

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a smart thing to do in twenty five dollars in cash.

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Speaker 4: However, you know how it goes.

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Speaker 3: Once an asshole, always an asshole, and Comby just two

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days later, two days after being released, murders his girlfriend

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and her roommate for not returning valuables that he left

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with his girlfriend while he was incarcerated. And he even

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later commits an armed robbery while he's on the run

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for those murders. He gets caught, and of course it's

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back in jail yet again for Comby. Now Duley. Meanwhile,

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he becomes sheriff, and others involved in the imprisonment of

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Cadillac Jack they rise in their professional careers as well,

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including the attorneys who would later become judges, etc. So

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what happened to Yates, Well, he spent seventeen years at Angola,

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he was released. He then robs a bank and eventually

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gets sentenced to federal prison in Kansas. But while at Angola,

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Yates in Jack Favor would cross paths, and Yates would

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tell Favor about the fact that Comby never actually arrived

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in Angola, and that lit a fire in the ass

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of Jack Favor. So he starts layering up with what's

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known as jailhouse lawyers, and he starts filing appeals, and

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in April of nineteen seventy four he wins a new trial.

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And everything I just told you would explain that right,

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tons of evidence, it was never admitted in trial, key witnesses,

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never admitted in trial, etc. So in this trial, Yates

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is in fact allowed to testify and he reveals something

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pretty shocking. He reveals that a third party was actually

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involved in all of this, and this guy was an

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important politician, and that he and Combe were ordered to

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kill whoever gave them a ride and to steal the car. However,

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he said Favor was so nice the two just could

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not bring themselves to kill Favor in that hotel room.

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In that new trial, Duly testified, and he testified when

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he released Comby in Texarcana, he believed that Comby's sentence

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was suspended. He said he only learned later that it

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was not suspended. He also testified, however, that the day

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before for Comby's release, he prepared fake papers authorizing Comby's

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transfer to Angola, and he testified that he did not

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mention his plea bargain because the Boser Parish officials didn't

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want him to mention it. He said, I was only

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kind of following instruction from these Bosier Parish higher ups.

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So on April nineteenth of nineteen seventy four, after deliberating

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for less than one hour, the jury equits Cadillac Jack Favor,

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and the judge allowed Favor to be released on a

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five thousand dollars bond until the state decided.

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Speaker 4: To drop the charges.

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Speaker 3: However, because of court and he had a lot of

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medical expenses.

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Speaker 4: Look, this guy was a radio rider.

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Speaker 3: Right he's banged up, and he had a lot of

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medical expenses, and Favor just did not have the money

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to even bond out of jail after he'd already been acquitted.

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Speaker 4: Of all this shit.

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Speaker 3: That blew my mind when I came across that. Think

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about that, y'all. You've been acquitted, Okay, we've had you

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in jail.

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Speaker 4: For seven years or so.

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Speaker 3: Prison Bunny and Gola that, and come to find out

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you didn't do this. You get acquitted by a jury

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and you've got to pay five thousand dollars until the

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state makes up their mind.

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Speaker 4: To drop the charges. Absolutely nuts.

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Speaker 3: But Jack Favor still had a name, people still knew

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who he was, and a complete stranger, a guy by

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the name of Alfred Cloud, provides the bond so that

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Favor was able to go home with his family. Shout

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out to that guy. The charges against Favor were dismissed.

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This was on May seventh of nineteen seventy four, and sadly,

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after finally arriving home, he suffers. He underwent a triple bypass.

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He had a pacemaker installed, which was replaced three more

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times before his life ended.

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Speaker 4: On December twenty seventh of nineteen ninety eight.

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Speaker 3: Now during that time, as a matter of fact, just

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two years after his release, he also suffered from pancreatic cancer.

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And you may wonder, you know, you spent seven years

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in jail. It seemed like all these officials were out

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to get you. Did Favor sue? Well, yes he did.

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He sued the State of Louisiana for wrongful imprisonment for

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seven million dollars and that case settled get this for

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fifty five thousand dollars, and all of that money was

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used to pay his court and medical expenses. Now, in

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two thousand and nine Jack Cadillac Jail, he was recognized,

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of course he was already dead, but he was recognized

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with being the radio hero he was by being inducted

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into the Texas Hall of Fame. That was in two

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thousand and nine. And even inside of Louisiana State Penitentiary

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and in Goola, he made his mark just like he

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did outside in the free world. While imprisoned at Louisiana

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State penitentiaryt in Goola, Favor actually played a very pivotal role,

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as you may expect, in elevating the prison radio. When

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he got there, it was a very disorganized event, and

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he helped to make that a professionally managed spectacle, and

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his expertise in radio as a performer and even as

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a manager brought a lot of structure to that event, which,

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of course today is the largest annual prison radio in

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the entire United States.

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Speaker 4: And he played a huge role in that.

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Speaker 3: Wow, what a freaking story. I hope you enjoyed that.

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Thank you and shout out to the person that sent

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me that story. And look, as much as I study

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Louisiana State Penitent Treaty and Gola, I can tell you

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I was not familiar with this story. And after I

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started getting into it, I'm like, man, how the hell

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have I never heard of this? And that's why I

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love so much doing this podcast, because now you've all

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heard of it. Thank you so much again for listening,

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you'd like to support the show. And until next time

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for Bloody Angla, a podcast one forty two years in

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the making, the complete story of America's bloodiest present. I'm

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Jim Chapman, Peace.

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Speaker 1: A wall, street line, shackle, change gluesome Gurdie. It's calling

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by the name. There is no mercy and this been

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a tentery juice ass the huge stream game.

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Speaker 4: Wrangle three.

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Speaker 2: I'm here you to die inside these walls, inside the wild.

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And when the walk as I know, it's overbody angleler

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ohbody angle,