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Speaker 1: I walk the street line.

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Speaker 2: Shackle change, ohsome gird, it's calling my name.

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Speaker 3: There is no mercy and this being a tentery juice

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as the hill stream game Wrangle three, I'm here by me.

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Speaker 4: Or die.

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Speaker 3: Inside these walls, inside the wild.

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Speaker 5: And when the girls.

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Speaker 4: Out.

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Speaker 5: Hey, everyone, and welcome back to Bloody Angola, a podcast

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one d 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'm going to cover the crime and conviction of

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resident of Death Row inside of Bloody Angola, and that

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is a man by the name of Gregory bou Brown.

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And we're going to go back to the early evening

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of October fourth of nineteen ninety eight in the town

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of Clinton, Louisiana for this one and for those that

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may not be familiar, Clinton, Louisiana is a small community

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in South Louisiana, and although it's proximity to Baton Rouge,

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the capital city, is relatively close, it's a very rural

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area of the state. Its population is just a little

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over one thousand residents, and it is just what you

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would envision a quaint little town. Still to this day

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in twenty twenty five. Things like the story I'm about

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to tell you about, they just didn't happen in Clinton,

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especially back in the late nineties. So I'm gonna tell

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you about a guy by the name of Gregory Brown

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who went by the street name of Boo, and Boo

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not a nice guy. He was a guy who was

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very familiar with what you would call the street life.

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And actually this guy only had one eye because a

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couple of years prior to this incident, in nineteen ninety six,

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he was involved in a gang related shootout where someone

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impure a Christmas story Ralphie style shot his eye out.

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Speaker 1: So by this.

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Speaker 5: Time in nineteen ninety eight, he was knee deep in

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a full fledged life of crime. So it was on

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October fourth of nineteen ninety eight the Boo, along with

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the guy by the name of Jonathan Booth, another guy

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by the name of Brian Risen, another guy by the

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name of Brian Williams, and a fifth guy by the

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name of Eldrick Thompson, they decide it would be just

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a great idea to travel from Baton Riage to Clinton

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to rob a drug dealer by the name of William

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Moore who went by the street name little Man. So

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they hop into a nineteen eighty four Gray Chevy van

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and off they go to head to Clinton, Louis Enna,

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the small town. At around five point fifteen pm, they

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arrive at a trailer home in Clinton, which they believed

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to be the home of William Littleman Moore. Jonathan Booth

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enters the residence. He's unarmed and he's encountered by a

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guy by the name of Davy Thompson, no relation to

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Eldrick Thompson, who is one of the assailants in this story.

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So Davy Thompson confronts Jonathan Booth, and Davy Thompson was

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coincidentally a correctional officer and he asked Davy basically where

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is little Man, to which the response was he ain't here.

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Booth then exits the trailer, but he returns, and this

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time he is armed with a handgun and he attacks Thompson.

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They start fighting. There is a struggle for the gun

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and Thompson manages to disarm Booth.

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Speaker 1: However, by this.

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Speaker 5: Time Boo Brown enters the trailer and he shoots Thompson

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in the thigh as he sees him get control of

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that gun. Now Boo also by accident, shoots Booth in

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the upper arm his own friend. And at this point

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both Boo Brown and Thompson they jump back in the

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van with the other three guys and they hal ass.

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They realize the heat is up. Now we're firing shots

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Speaker 1: In this trailer.

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Speaker 5: Surely somebody's heard that we need to get the hell

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out of here, and that's just what they do. They

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get back in the van, they take off, screeching tires

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to get the heck out of Clinton, Louisiana, and they

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only get about three blocks before they get in a wreck.

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And what caused this was they were in such a hurry.

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white twed of camery and that Camery was driven by

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a sixty eight year old named Sarah Cheney. Now, due

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to this wreck, the van becomes inoperable and all five

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men they actually have to crawl out through the windows

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of that van to get out of the van. But

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once they get out, they start hearing sirens headed to

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the shooting scene. Because as they were making their escape,

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that correctional officer, he struggles across the street where his

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mother lived, stumbles into her house his brother sees him

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who happened to be at that house, and he tells

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his brother call police, I've been shot. So police were

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already on the way and they could hear those sirens

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in the background, and these guys, they're pretty sure that

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they're going to come across this wreck, and so they

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haul ass on foot and they run into some nearby

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woods that had a lot of coverage.

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local authorities get the call that the van that they

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were looking for that it had been involved at a wreck,

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and they knew these are the suspects in that shooting

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because that van was described as the getaway vehicle, and

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to the scene in pursuit of these five guys, and

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in very short order they arrest Brian Risen, who was

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one of the five. He's caught actually at a car

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wash not too far away, and he's trying to solicit

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a ride to Baton Ridge from someone that was out

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there washing their car. That person knew something wasn't right

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called police and they end up catching him there. Now

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they continue to look for the other four guys. In

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about fifteen minutes after they arrest Brian Rising, something very

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horrific happens. So a guy by the name of Ike Roberts,

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he is in his shed and he's working on a

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gate for his horse stall, and his wife, Sharon, she

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was in the house at this point, thank god. When

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Boo Brown, Eldrich Thompson, and Brian Williams, three of the

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four that are still not arrested, they approach mister Roberts.

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Boo was shirtless at this time. He was very sweaty,

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he was out of breath, and mister Roberts noticed this

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right away and knew this guy's been running from something.

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So Boo decides he's going to be the spokesman for

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all these guys, and he basically says, hey, man, we

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need a ride to Baton Rouge. And Roberts, who's a

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fifty five year old man, lived in Clinton his entire life.

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He knew everyone who lived in Clinton, small town. He

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went to school there, born and raised there, and he

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knew one thing for sure. He didn't know none of

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these cats and they were not from Clinton, Louisiana. So

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basically he says, no, I'm not giving you a ride anywhere.

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Speaker 1: And he was honest with him.

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Speaker 5: He said, I don't know who you guys are, but

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you're coming over here out of bruth You came through

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the woods to my house. You're running from something, and

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I'm not going to help you get away from it.

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So they offer him money. First, they start out with

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four hundred dollars, then five hundred dollars. They go all

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the way up to twelve hundred dollars to bring them

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to Baton Rouge, and this guy still declines. Mister Roberts says, no,

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I don't want to do this. So they realize they're

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not getting a ride from him, and at this point

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they get pissed off and they grab some rope and

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they decide to tie him up. Now while attempting to

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do this, one of the men, Eldrick Thompson, he notices

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Roberts truck, which was in nineteen ninety gray Ford Diesel,

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and he asked mister Roberts where the keys were. Mister

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the truck, which, y'all, this should tell you something about

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Clinton Louisiana in the late nineties. It was nothing to

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leave keys inside your vehicle. You just didn't have to

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worry about shit like this happening. You'd leave your doors unlocked,

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your windows up, whatever, You didn't have problems like this.

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So these guys, they're from Baton Roudage, where you did not,

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even in the late nineties, leave your keys in your car,

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probably surprising them that they could just go to the

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truck and the keys were in it. But okay, at

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this point, one of the men, he goes, he jumps

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into the truck and he attempts to start that vehicle. However,

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due to these morons not knowing how to start a diesel,

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they couldn't even get the truck started. See, with a diesel,

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you have to turn the key slightly and wait a

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few seconds because you're heating up the glow plugs. Then

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you turned the key the rest of the way. But

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these folds didn't even know that, they had no idea

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how to do it. So they're trying to start this

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diesel like you'd start a regular gas truck and it

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Speaker 4: Jim, did you see what happened in Texas today?

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Speaker 5: Wait before you tell me that, let me tell you

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what happened in New York.

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Speaker 4: It cannot be as crazy as the case I told

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you about yesterday in Louisiana.

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Speaker 1: You know what, we should do a podcast.

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in the description of this past So Boo Brown he

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sees all this going down, and he fucking loses it.

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He goes into a complete fit of rage. When that

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truck would not get started, he picks up a sixteen

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ounce claw hammer full one pounder, and with the help

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of both Thompson and Williams, he starts beating mister Roberts

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with that hammer. The three men then take a rope

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they tied around mister roberts neck, and Thompson and Williams

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hold mister Roberts down while Boo Brown starts slamming this

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hammer into mister Roberts. Now about midway through this assault,

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Thompson and Williams they release their hold on Roberts and

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they start making their way back to mister Roberts truck.

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He's going to beat the shit out of this man

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with this hammer. So they make their way to that

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truck and this time they manage to get it started.

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tell him, hey, man, come on, we got this thing started.

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Let's get the hell out of here before we kill

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this guy. But Boo he just ignores them, as if

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he doesn't even hear them. He's just in this whole

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nother world at this point, continuing to just slam this

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hammer into mister Roberts head, arms, shoulders, whatever.

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Speaker 1: Over and over and over again.

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they're basically like, screw this, we got to get out

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of here, and they leave in mister Roberts truck, leaving

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So go ahead and share this with you before we

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move on in this story. Mister Roberts he lived throughout

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this ordeal, but barely. His injuries included a depressed skull fracture,

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a concussion, a broken left arm, a broken left hand,

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and the damage to his forearm which he was using

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to block all of these blows from that freaking claw hammer.

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It was so severe that damage to his forearm that

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it required surgery in the insertion of a plate with

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seven screws in it to repair his forum. As a

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matter of fact, the attack was so severe that mister

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Robert's right ear was torn completely off with the claw

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end of that hammer. He spent the next three days

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in the hospital and now is permanently disabled. That's how

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bad they beat this guy. They were trying to kill him,

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attempted murder, so Boo Brown. He comes out of this

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rage for a second when he realizes these guys have

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started the truck. They backed it up, and they're taking

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off down the street, and he thinks, oh shit, my

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friends are leaving me. So he climbs off of mister

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Roberts and he takes off running down the street trying

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to catch his friends in that truck, and mister Roberts

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he somehow manages to get up. He runs into his

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house and he tells his wife to call nine to

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one one and as soon as he gets that out

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of his mouth, he collapses right there on the floor.

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Roberts residence and they put out a bulow a be

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on the lookout for mister Roberts truck, as well as

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the fact that the truck was being driven by at

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least two black males. So just twenty or some minutes later,

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a reserve deputy who was actually friends with mister Roberts

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he goes looking. He was in the area and he

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comes up to a major highway it's known as Plank Road.

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luck would have it, he spots the truck. But one problem,

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he was in his personal vehicle. He didn't have his

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police CB on him, so he had no way to

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call this in and say, hey, I've got eyes on

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this truck. And this was nineteen ninety eight y'all. Cell

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phones were not prevalent.

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Speaker 1: At this time.

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Speaker 5: So he follows the vehicle and the vehicle eventually comes

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to a stop in a residential neighborhood and the guys

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are just sitting there in the vehicle, and he sees

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a resident outside of a home and he tells that resident,

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hey call police. As soon as he says that. Long

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story short, Williams and Thompson were arrested without incident by

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this reserve officer. So let's get back to Boo Brown

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who was stranded after his friends left him and he

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was left running down the road. And this guy was

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totally unfamiliar with the town of Clinton. He had no

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idea where he was at. So where does he end up? Well,

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these small country towns, in many cases, family all live

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on the same road a lot of times the road

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itself is named after the family Clinton, no different than

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any town in small town America. And so he runs

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to the first house that he sees, which was eighty

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five year old widow Myrteral Roberts, who also happened to

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be mister Robert's mother. Now, the first thing that Boo

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Brown does is he goes up to her vehicle and

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he pulls on the door handle, attempting to steal her vehicle.

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It was a nineteen ninety one to four pickup, but

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he was unable to do so because the truck's doors

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were locked. However, he did leave a nice bloody fingerprint

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on that door handle that would service evidence in his

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trial later. So at this point, he continues to Miss

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Roberts's back door, and I don't know if he peeked

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in and saw her that she was in the house,

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or if he just figured she was in the house,

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but he kicks the door in, and he leaves a

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nice muddy shoe print on that door, which would be

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also used in the trial later. Now, once inside of

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the home, he comes face to face with the eighty

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five year old Miss Myrtle Roberts, and he throws her

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to the ground, just grabs her with such force as

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a matter of fact, that she breaks her wrist as

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she hits the ground. Eighty five year old woman, simply disgusting.

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He then demands the keys to her car, which this

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poor lady, she's in total shock. You've got this guy

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in your house. You have no idea who he is.

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He throws you to the ground. You think he's trying

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to kill you, and he probably is. And he's asking

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you where your keys are, and she can't even articulate

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it to him. At this point, her whole mind is

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in panic. She has no idea where her keys are

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in her mind, so Boo he realizes this lady can't

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even articulate where the keys are, and he starts freaking

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out at this point, and he's just ransacking this eighty

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five year old woman's home looking for those keys, and

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missus Roberts. She lays motionless on that floor. She's afraid

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to move and understandably so, and Boo knows that his

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time is numbered here. He doesn't have a whole lot

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of minutes to sit in this house because he's pretty

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sure that the guy he just beat the shit out

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of with the claw hammer is calling the cops or

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the guy's wife has walked out there and seen him dead.

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He had no idea, but he didn't want to hang

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out long, so he realizes he's not going to be

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able to find these keys, and he's freaked out because

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he doesn't want this eighty five year old woman to

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call police. So he tears the phone from the living

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room wall. And this is back in the days when

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you still had a house phone and it was usually

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hooked up to a wall, especially if you were older,

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and he removes it from that home, actually takes it

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outside and he hides it and then he leaves. Now

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Miss Roberts, she also lives throughout this ordeal, thank god,

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but she's injured and a neighbor actually finds her on

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the floor just minutes after the attack, and that neighbor

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ends up police and Miss Roberts actually ends up at

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the same hospital as her son. Now at this point,

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the frustration is at an all time high for bou Brown.

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His third robbery attempt in the same day and all

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three attempts failed, So this jackass. He moves on to

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the next house that he comes across, which was the

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home of sixty two year old William Gay and his

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sixty year old wife of forty five years and and

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William he had retired from Georgia Pacific, Ann was a

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registered nurse. Together, they had raised three children. They had

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only lived in that home for a year when Boo

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came across them. But these were really good people, just

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sad what happened to them that I'm about to tell

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you about, because they were really good people. So we're

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gonna fast forward a few hours to tell you what

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we know of what happened. Police in East Baton Ridge Parish,

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they get a call of a car on fire in

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East Baton Ridge Parish, a red nineteen ninety three Ford Escort,

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and they put out the fire and after they put

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out the fire, they see there's a plate on the

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back of that car. They run the plate and it

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comes out that that vehicle belonged to William Gay. They

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have an address there when they run the plate, and

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they reach out to police in Clinton and they tell them, Hey,

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we just find a car in Baton Rouge with two

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bodies in it that were pretty sure are the bodies

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of the people that this car belongs to. You may

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want to go do a welfare check on them now.

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The bodies sadly were identified of that of William and

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and Gay. In the meantime, police and.

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Speaker 1: They go to the home of the Gays and they.

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Speaker 5: Discover the garage door open. They find an unopened can

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of beer as well as a spilled wineglass on the patio,

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and in interviews with neighbors, that was the last time

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they were seen alive. They were out on the patio,

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you know, just chilling, and they were actually cooking a

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roast and they were waiting on that roast to finish cooking.

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And the way that we know that is that that

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roast was still in the oven, the oven was still on,

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and that roast was burnt to a crust. Now, an

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autopsy would reveal that both William and his wife Anne

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were shot execution style at close range, with mister Gay

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being shot three times, once in the chest and two

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times in the abdomen, and Miss Gay had been shot

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two times, once in the neck and once in the abdomen.

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So police at this point they they head to the

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hospital and they have pictures of Boo to show mister Roberts.

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They knew that Boo was responsible for a lot of this,

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but they needed that positive identification, right.

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Speaker 1: Mister Roberts, more.

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Speaker 5: Than happy to do this, says, yeah, that's the guy

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that attacked me. Now, at this time in the process,

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Boo was the only one left of the five individuals

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yet to be apprehended. So he may say, well, how

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did Jonathan Booth get caught, because he was the one

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that was shot in the initial aspect of this story,

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if you'll remember at that first robbery attempt, and I

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haven't told you anything about him, Well, he split off

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from everybody else in this story in the beginning after

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that wreck when they all had to climb out the windows,

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he split off. He went a whole different direction because

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Booth knew somebody that lived in Clinton, an acquaintance, and

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that acquaintance only lived about a mile from where that

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wreck occurred. So he headed there and he hid in

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that acquaintance closet. That acquaintance didn't know that. That acquaintance

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comes home, opens a closet door and there's Booth in

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there with a gunshot in his shoulder area, arm area,

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and that person called police and he got arrested. So

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at this point, everybody's in jail except for Boo. So

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a warrant gets issued for Boo's arrest, and they go

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to Boo's apartment that he shared with his wife and child.

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Yeah you heard me right, This student was married and

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had a kid. But of course Boo, he wasn't going home.

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He knew better than that. He knew police knew where

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he lived, so he's hiding out. He ain't going there now.

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Two days later, after some really good police work and

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detective work, police discover that Boo had an alternate residence

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in Baton Rouge that was kind of secret. So they

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go there and they find Boo Brown's father in a

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pop a lock employee attempting to gain access to a

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Chevrolet Camaro that was parked behind the house. So they

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go inside the house and the officers find the residence

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is completely empty, virtually empty of any of its contents.

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There's a broom and a mop in the living room area,

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and they could tell that the house had been recently

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cleaned and sanitized. A neighbor informed the investigators that Brown's

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father had already made two trips to the house and

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removed items from the inside of the house. During their search,

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officials also discovered a trash can sitting on the front porch,

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and inside that trash can they discovered two pieces of

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duct tape, a telephone with a smear of blood on

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the handset and later that was determined to match Brown's DNA,

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And they also found a piece of gray telephone cord

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that had been cut, and that telephone cord was similar

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in color and consistency to the cord that was found

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binding the hands of Anne Gay in the backseat of

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the vehicle that was found burned. So they got a

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ton of evidence out of here, but it looked like

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Bu Brown was getting the hell out of town and

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his dad knew something about it.

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Speaker 1: That's what it looked like.

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Speaker 5: So on December twenty third of nineteen ninety eight, a

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confidential informant contacts the US Marshall Service and they informed

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the Marshall Service that Brown was in the Baton Ridge

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area to visit his wife and child. And this informant

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states that Brown was hiding inside a single family, single

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story pink house in back and urge shouldn't be too

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hard to find a pink house. A search warrant gets

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issued for later that day and Boo Brown thankfully was

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arrested inside of that home. He had been a fugitive

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at this point, surprisingly for eighty two days, so he

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got away for quite a while. So on July twenty

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second of nineteen ninety nine, a grand jury indicts Gregory

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Brown Boo for the October fourth, nineteen ninety eight first

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three murders of William and Anne Gay, and.

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Speaker 1: They're going to seek the death penalty.

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Speaker 5: Legendary prosecutor Prim Burns comes out and says, we're going

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for the death penalty in this case. Trial commences. Of course,

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it took a while, but on May sixth, the jury

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returns two verdicts of guilty as charge in the first

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degree murders of and and William Gay against Bou Brown. Now,

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both of those verdicts and death penalty sentences were on

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the same day, so we know how it works with

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death penalty cases.

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Speaker 2: Right.

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Speaker 1: The appeals are.

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Speaker 5: Insane with these types of cases. And look, it's a

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death penalty case.

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Speaker 1: I get it. You don't want to put anybody to

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death that is innocent.

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Speaker 5: And you know, since DNA has come around, there have

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been a few people that were let off. So I

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get the appeals. You want to make sure you got

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the right guy. I don't get the years and years

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and years and years that it takes, but I understand

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that you want to make sure you got the right

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guy in jail.

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Speaker 1: I get that, or you know, in death row.

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Speaker 5: In this case, appeals finally get exhausted. But as I

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told you last week with the Corporal Betty Smother's murder,

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the defense they always go to this mentally not capable

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of getting the death penalty stuff, and they went that

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way with Boo Brown.

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Speaker 1: They were turned down.

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Speaker 5: This thing goes all the way to the Louisiana Supreme Court,

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and the Supreme Court says bullshit. He's completely mentally capable

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of this, and they uphold those death penalty verdicts and

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said the one eyed multiple murderer still today sits on

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death row twenty plus years after his conviction. Inside of

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Speaker 2: A Wall Street Line, Shackle Change, Oh Goosome gird, It's

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

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a tentery juice as the hill Stream game Rangol the

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three I'm in be.

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Speaker 3: By me to die inside these walls, inside the wild,

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And when the girls.

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Speaker 1: I know, it's so.

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Speaker 3: Bloody.

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Speaker 5: Angle, obody, Angle

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