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Speaker 1: I walk straight line.

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

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Speaker 1: There is no mercy and it's been a tentery juice

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as the hill stream game Wrangle three.

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Speaker 3: Come here, be by me or die inside these walls,

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inside the wild and went the walk as I'm Bloody.

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Speaker 4: Hey everyone, and welcome back to Bloody Angla, 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 prison. I'm Jim Chapman, and

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today I'm bringing you another episode from the High Bristophilia

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series and the subject of today's episode is Lynette Barnett, who,

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on August twenty ninth of nineteen ninety nine, while I

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employed as a prison guard at Crossroads Correctional Center, not

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only assisted in the escape, but went on the run

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with a convicted murderer by the name of Terry Banks.

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So that's what we're going to be talking about today.

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Let's get right into it, and I'm going to give

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you a little bit of background on Lynette Barnette. She

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was twenty eight years old when everything I'm about to

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tell you about went down, and she had kind of

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a different path than most early on in life. She

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met her husband, David, when she was sixteen years old

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and working at a grocery store as a cashier. And

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at that time David, he was working in the produce

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department of that same store. He was five years older

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than Lynette at twenty one years old, and as I said,

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she was sixteen at the time, and they fell in

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love just a year later at seventeen. So David was

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pretty controlling of Lynette after they married, and Lynette wanted

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to return to school and graduate, but David was worried

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she would meet someone else and he just wouldn't let

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her do it. So she decided to get her ged instead,

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and that's just what she did, and it's kind of

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off with life. David gets a job as a case

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worker at what was known as Western Missouri Correctional Center,

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and Lynette, she worked several different jobs. She's trying to

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find her footing in life, right, She's much younger than David,

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So she takes a job at a shoe factory. She

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becomes a nursing aide and a nursing home and eventually

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a job opportunity comes up at Crossroad Correctional Facility as

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a correctional officer Now, this job intrigued Lynette. She thought

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it would help strengthen her marriage because of her husban David,

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as well as her father in law, both worked in

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corrections and her employment was close in proximity to David's.

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Crossroad Correctional Center and Western Missouri Correctional Center were actually

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just next door to each other. So she certainly thought

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this new job would help. But the marriage stayed bad

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for these two, and it really was bad the whole time. Lynette,

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as a matter of fact, leaves the marriage several times

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throughout the ten years that were married, but each time

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her husband would say he was going to change, et cetera,

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and she would go back to him. However, in nineteen

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ninety nine, the relationship reached a breaking point when Lynette

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caught David cheating on her and she left the marriage. Now,

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for the record, David, he denies any cheating allegations, and

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he claims it was Lynette who was the one that

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was controlling. But she there's a lot of family that

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backs up her claim. And so it's the single life

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for Lynette, and life at this time was really bad

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for her. She ended up moving in to her mother's

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boyfriend's home, she was sleeping in a plane utility basement

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and stopped making her car payments all together. She was struggling,

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and it's at this point in her life she starts

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kind of opening up on her relationship while working at

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the correctional center, and specifically to a particular inmate by

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the name of Terry Banks. So let's talk about Terry

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real quick. He had a pretty rough childhood himself. His dad, Charlie,

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was in and out of jail constantly, and they moved.

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Speaker 5: Around a lot.

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Speaker 4: In nineteen ninety two, they landed in Joplin, Missouri, where

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Terry's brother lived, and it was at this point that Terry,

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who was nineteen, fell for a seventeen year old by

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the name of Sheena Eastburn. Now Sheena, although young, had

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already been married and divorced, and this girl totally hated

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her ex husband, who she described as a drug dealing loser,

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and she made claims to Terry that he had also

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raped her, and Terry, along with Sheena and their friend

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Tim Eastburn, her ex husband, So they go to his

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home inside a trailer park and Sheena goes into the home,

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and she's acting like she wants to reconcile with her

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ex husband Tim. Right, she gets him by the window

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where Terry fires a single shot through that window and

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takes down Tim Eastburn. So Terry and his friend Matt,

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they then go inside of the home and they steal

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everything they thought was of value, and on the way

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out Matt myers. He notices Tim move and appears.

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Speaker 4: He's not dead yet, so Matt fires another shot directly

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into Tim's head and kills him. Police investigate. They talk

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to the ex wife, as you would imagine, that's the

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first person they wanted to talk to, and as you

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would expect, she gives up both Matt and Terry and

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tells police of this plan.

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Speaker 5: So they go speak to Matt.

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Speaker 4: Matt says the same story, and they wanted to pretty

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much nail Terry in Sheena more than Matt, so in

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exchange for a lesser charge. When it's all sudden done,

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Sheena and Terry get life in prison and Matt gets

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sixty seven years with a parole chance because he agreed

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to testify against the other two. And that was in

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nineteen ninety two. So back to nineteen ninety nine. Lynette,

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as I told you, she's in a really bad spot

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in life. She's struggling financially, she just got a divorce,

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and she's confiding in this inmate who she's pretty sure

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is into her. He flirts with her constantly. And Terry

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worked in the food warehouse of this prison and Lynette

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that's where she was assigned to guards, so they would

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see each other every single day. Well, one day, after

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talking back and forth and her confiding in him, and

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him being kind of the shoulder to cry on, Terry

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goes for it. He pulls her behind a stack of

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boxes where no one would see and kisses her, and

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she reciprocates, And so it begins with these two. And

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quite honestly, Terry caught Lynette at a weak time in

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her life. She was dawn, and she was susceptible to

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a male figure coming in and trying to be the

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strong person for her, even if it was an inmate. Right,

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that's all they got is time to do in prison,

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and their whole goal is to try and con people.

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To them, that's what it's all about. It is just

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a game to them, and she played right into Terry's game. Now,

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this prison, it's a pretty big prison. There are a

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lot of places you can get lost in there. You

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can get in a corner where the cameras can't see you,

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and you can have some time with someone pretty easily,

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and they would take advantage of that. In her as

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a correctional officer, she knew where those dead spots, if

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you will, in that prison were, and they would have sex,

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they would do all kinds of things in these dead spots.

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She was absolutely infatuated with Terry. And this continued for months.

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And as I've told you in the past, it's present

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and inmates are the nosiest people in the world, and

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it didn't take long before they noticed something was not

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right with these two. They got so bold, y'all. They

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would hold hands at some points away from cameras and

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sometimes in front of the cameras, and the inmates would

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see them, so they knew something was up. And as

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you would imagine, about two months in the rumors start

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circulating and Terry starts telling Lynette that they need to

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hatch a plan to get him out of there before

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the relationship is discovered. Now, when he's talking to her

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about this, he's saying, I don't want this relationship to end.

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The only way that we can be together is if

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you can break me out of here. Look, this guy

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is just looking for his freedom, but that was his

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story to her. He's playing on her heartstrings and all

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those sorts of things, and they start hatching a plan.

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So on October twenty ninth of nineteen ninety nine, Lynnette

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takes her prison issue badge to a place called the

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printing Center and she tells the clerks that her boyfriend

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had lost his ID card and he'd getting a bunch

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of trouble if he has to go tell the bosses

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at this prison that. So she asked them if they

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would make a copy of that badge, and the clerks

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they say, no, we can't do that. They make the

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right call, right, But she is undeterred and she goes

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to a second stop called Discount Printing and they said, sure,

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we can make you one. That same day, Lynnette also

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charges eighty dollars worth of men's shirts and jeans on

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her JC Penny credit card, and her credit card statement

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also showed that she stopped at a gas station filled up,

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then drove thirty five miles home and stopped to top

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off the tank. So she's making plans to go somewhere

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with a dude. So later that evening she shows up

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for work, but unbeknownst to her colleagues, she's wearing two

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sets of correctional officer uniforms. She takes one set off

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in a bathroom and she hides that in the stall

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and she leaves with the uniform she had underneath on.

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Terry then goes into the bathroom and he does what

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you think he's gonna do right here, he puts on

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the other set, and at the end of her shift, Terry,

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who's now in a correctional officer uniform, and Lynette they

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proceed to the security gate to leave. So Lynette Barnett,

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she slaps her ID card through the swiping machine at

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the security gate at Crossroads Correctional and incidentally, y'all, this

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is in Cameron, Missouri. Then she swiped it again for

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a man for behind her, which was Terry, and they

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stroll out into the parking lot, but the controlled tower

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guard stops the man behind Barnat because he didn't recognize

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that man, and the guard asked the man who is Terry,

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to take off his black baseball cap and hand over

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his ID card, and I'm sure Terry at this point

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is shitting a brick, but he does as he's told.

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the prison employee cross reference less. So the control tower

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guard gives the ID back and says, you know, have

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a nice day. There was five hundred employees at this prison.

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and a hunter would come in, so it was a

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little chaotic. But they do get out and Terry follows

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Lynnett out into the parking lot. He climbs in her

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truck and they take off down the road. Now, as

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far as Lynette was concerned, no one was expecting her

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home that day. She had told her mother and her

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mother's boyfriend that she was going forty miles north to

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her grandmother's house. This was in Bethany, Missouri, and she

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told them she was taking a five day weekend so

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they wouldn't get suspicious of her missing for at least

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five days. In her mind. Now, all that was missing

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from Lynette's room was a toothbrush, toothpaste, deuterant in her

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seizure medication. So the prison, and this is a stroke

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of bad luck for these two. They do a prison

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count like ten minutes after Lynette and Terry leave, and

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of course that count comes up one man short. What

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happens then they recount, and upon that recount they conclude

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that Terry Banks is in fact missing. So at that

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point they place all the inmates in lockdown and they

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start going through security footage, and sure enough they see

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that whole incident transpire when Terry and Lynnette were leaving

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the prison, and to that point, an arrest warrant gets

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issued for Terry Banks and Lynette. They weren't sure at

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this point whether she was being forced to do this

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or not, but they went ahead and did an arrest

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warrant in the event that she wasn't forced, but they

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weren't quite sure yet. However, that wouldn't last long because

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the FBI gets called in and they discover that upon

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leaving the prison, Lynnette stops at a liquor store outside

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of the prison and cash is her fourteen hundred dollars

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paycheck rather than just bringing it to the bank. So,

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unbeknownst to police FBI, Lynette and Terry their drive drive

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driving and They're three hours away, heading sound to where

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Terry's dad lived with Terry's dad's brother.

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Speaker 5: His name was Charlie Banks.

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Speaker 4: He had moved in with Terry's uncle just a few

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weeks prior to the escape. And of course they tell

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him that Terry's broke out of prison and we need

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you to hide us. And Charlie said that he knew

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some people that leved in Victoria, Texas and he would

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help them, but he'd like to go on the run

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with them. As I told you, Charlie Banks was bad news.

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Always had been his whole life. So the apple didn't

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fall far from the tree there. So they had to Victoria, Texas,

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and that's only about one hundred miles from the Mexican border,

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which was the ultimate goal for the fugitives. And they're

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on the run for about a month. It turns into

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December of nineteen ninety nine and the police they have

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no real leads as to where the hell these people are.

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So police decide to contact a very popular national TV

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show called America's Most wanted to feature the case, and

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they're hoping that this is going to provide some leads. Now,

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one thing they knew was because the three of them

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were on the run together. The chances were pretty good

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that someone may recognize at least one of these three guys.

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The more people you have, the higher those chances increase.

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Now in the meantime, on December tenth, police do find

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Lynette's truck near Joplin, Missouri, and police discover that Charlie

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Banks had sold it to an individual for two thousand

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dollars cash, and that America's Most Wanted episode airs, and

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police receive over sixty tips as to the whereabouts of

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that trio. On December seventeenth of nineteen ninety nine, a

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man in Victoria, Texas calls the tip line and he

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said he recognized Terry and Lynette in that they were

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traveling with an older individual. And he said he remembered

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the tattoos that Terry had on his hands and a

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scar that was mentioned in the episode on America's Most Wanted.

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But what was most interesting to police with this particular

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tip is on America's Most Wanted, they didn't mention anything

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about those two traveling with an older gentleman. They didn't

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say anything about Charlie, and that was on purpose because

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they knew if someone mentioned those two traveling with an

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older man. There's no way they would have known that,

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and it would be a good tip. So police are

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fired up. They're pretty sure, hey, we've got a really

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valid tip coming out of.

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Speaker 5: Victoria, Texas.

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Speaker 4: And the tipster he even gave the address where he

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met them at. Investigators go to that address and sure enough,

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there was a couple that lived there. That's the description

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of Terry Banks and Lynette. The apartment manager brings them

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up to the apartment. The police opened the door and

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it's completely empty, no one there. Police would discover later

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on that in between the time that authorities have received

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that tip in them showing up at the apartment, Terry

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Banks had been approached by someone else who lived in

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that complex, and that person told Terry in a joking

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manner that he looked just like the guy from an

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episode of America's Most Wanted, and of course Terry was like,

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holy shit. He goes in, he tells Lynette, and they

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got the hell out of there. And what they actually

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did was they packed their shit and they had to

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Charlie's hideout. He was hiding out in a I guess

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you could say unmarked trailer park. No one could trace

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it back to him, and that became the hotout for

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Terry Andnette and police. They had no idea where they

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were at, but they knew they were close. They knew

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they were hot on their trail. So another tip comes

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in from someone else, but this time that person recognized Charlie,

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who police had at this point made public, and they

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pointed out to police where this guy's trailer park was,

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where this particular trailer was, and police start surveilling it.

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Now FBI agents and officers from the Victoria Police Department,

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the Sheriff's office, the Texas Department of Public Safety. They

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all show up conveniently at one of the officer's house,

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which was up on top of the hill and it

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overlooked that trailer park, so they could watch the comings

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and goings literally from this officer's house. And sure enough,

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that afternoon they see Terry and Lynette walking with their dog,

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whose name was Oreo, through the trailer park. Charlie gets

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home that afternoon and they start drinking beer, smoking cigarettes,

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watching TV, etc. And when night fell, the officers start

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kind of moving in. And there was a fifteen acre

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cornfield that separated that trailer park and the highway and

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that's where they kind of start moving in because that

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corn created natural hiding spots for these police officers. And

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they see Terry. He's walking back and forth to and

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from the trailer. So throughout the night they're positioning, they

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start closing off highways. They know they've got this guy,

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but they had heard a lot of rumors that Terry

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stayed armed at all times, so they weren't taking any chances.

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They figured we'll wait till they're asleep and then we'll

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go make the arrest. So, as luck would have it,

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at some point during the US Charlie walks outside and

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they take him into custody right away. At this point,

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Banks and Barnett they're still inside the trailer, so police

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decide this is the time to make our move. They

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get on the bullhorn and they start screaming Banks and

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Barnett come out with your hands up, and they do

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this thirteen times and nobody comes out. Finally, after what

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seemed like an eternity, some hands come out at the

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front of the trailer and it is Lynette. She immediately

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gets arrested, thrown in a patrol car, and still Terry

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is refusing to come out. Stay on that bullhorn, and

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then they decide, we're not waiting any longer, we're going in.

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And about the seconds that they decide to do that,

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Terry's hands appear and there was no fight. He gave

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himself up and surrenders to police and they actually threw

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him in the patrol corps with Lynnette. So they go

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to the county jail. Lynnette costs her mother, and her

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mother even commented that Lynnette was asking how Terry was doing.

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Had her mother heard anything. She also called her sister,

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and her sister would say later that it was all

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about Terry and she was just defending Terry and was

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very concerned about him. So that shows you how much

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the high bristophilia was filling up this woman. So regardless,

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they're all in jail, and Charlie Banks he remains behind

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bars in Victoria County jail. He gets a bail of

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twenty thousand dollars and there's a lot of people that

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wanted to interview him and find out what was going

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on with these three, but the police would not allow

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interviews at this point. So they all had their arraiments.

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They all do what you think they would do in

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these cases. They plead not guilty because they want to

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work out plea deals, right, and actually, see Charlie Banks,

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he had a pretty good deal. He ends up with

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a year in prison. After it was all said and done,

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Lynette Barnett, she pleaded guilty to aiding in the escape

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of a prisoner in court that was on October second

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of two thousand and the judge gives Lynette the charges

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maximum sentence, which was five years. And as for Terry Banks,

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who was serving life in prison already, he gets an

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additional fifteen years for the escape. So throughout this whole thing,

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he had nothing to lose, right, ends up with an

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extra fifteen years on top of a life sentence. But

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there you have it. And look, America's most Wanted I

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have reviewed a lot of these cases, and back in

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that time, that was like the most popular TV show

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in America in the nineties. So a lot of these

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escapes that took place in the nineties.

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Speaker 5: That's how they would catch these fools.

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Speaker 4: This was kind of pre I mean, there was social

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media and all that stuff, but it's not what it

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was or what it is today. Back then that was

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kind of the social media. That's how you got the

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word out was you had to be on something like

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America's Most Wanted, so shout out to them. And I

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got a little bit of something extra for you today,

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a little lang yap, if you will, as we say

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here in South Louisiana. And it's just a real quick story.

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But I wanted to include this because it's pretty crazy.

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I thought y'all would find it entertaining. And I'm gonna

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tell you about Tina Gonzalez, who was twenty six years

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old and she began her career as a Fresno County

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Sheriff's correctional officer. This was in September of twenty sixteen.

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Now she resigned from her job at the end of

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December of twenty nineteen. So, in early December of twenty nineteen,

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Fresno County jail staff members they received a tip that

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a male inmate was in possession of a cell phone

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and was also involved in a one year sexual relationship

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with a correctional officer by the name of Tina Gonzalez.

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Jail staff they searched the cell of this inmate and

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they find that mobile phone. So those allegations were passed

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on to members of the Sheriff's executive staff and this

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internal affairs unit was assigned to investigate the accused employee

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and the vice unit was tasked with investigating potential crimes

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committed by Gonzales related to all this. So both units

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found evidence to support these allegations. In addition to that,

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detectives discovered that Gonzales had on one occasion, brought alcohol

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into the jail. Now this charge stemmed from a separate

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incident from Gonzala's relationship with the inmate. The you've been

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screwing for over a year. So detectives come in, they

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interview Gonzales, and she submits her resignation to the Sheriff's office.

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So let me tell you how this all goes down

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from there. On Friday, May first of twenty twenty, detectives

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arrest twenty six year old Tina Gonzales after that five

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month investigation, and she faced some felony charges including sexual

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activity with an inmate, possession of a controlled substance in

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a jail in a misdemeanor charge of possession of a

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cell phone with the intent to deliver to an inmate,

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and her bail was set at twenty one thousand dollars

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and she bailed out of custody after spending about a

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day in jail, so the Fresno County DA's office they

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formally file criminal complaints against Gonzales. Then, on June thirteenth

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of twenty twenty, Gonzala's post on Instagram under the handle

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and get the her insta handle is Hustled twenty three

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hard and she even has a slogan under there. Every

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Saint has a past, every center has a future, and

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she posted some pretty provocative photos. You can go check

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them out if you'd like. On Tuesday, July seventh of

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twenty twenty ten, and Gazalis pleded not guilty to three

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counts of sexual activity with a confined adult, one count

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of possession of a controlled substance in jail, and one

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count of possession of a cell phone.

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Speaker 5: With the intent to give it to an inmate.

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Speaker 4: Then, on Tuesday, April twenty seventh of twenty twenty one,

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Gazalis pleaded no contest to one count of felony sexual

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activity by a detention facility employee with a consenting confined adult,

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one count of felony possession of drugs or alcoholic beverages

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in a jail facility, and a misdemeanor count of possession

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of cellular devices with the intent to deliver to an inmate. Now,

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obviously they worked a deal there, which is why she

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pleaded no contest, and as part of the deal, Prosecutor

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Vanessa Leona said, two felon accounts of having sex with

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an inmate were dropped, reducing her jail sentence from a

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maximum of five years in prison to a maximum of

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three years and eight months and probation was on the table.

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So she eventually gets sentenced, and she admitted to three crimes,

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including having sex with an inmate, providing the inmate with drugs,

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and that cell phone in the Sheriff Steve mccunns said

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at that sentencing hearing that in his twenty six years

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in law enforcement he had seen some pretty disgusting things

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and had heard some pretty discussing things, but what Tiniganzalez

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did was at the top of his list. And get this,

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He goes on to say, cutting a hole in your

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pants to make it easier to have sex with an

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inmate and having intercourse in full view of eleven other

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inmates as something only a depraved mind could come up with.

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And this was the first time the public was hearing

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about that. Mccummus said that Gonzala's betrayed her oath even

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worse when she put her fellow correctional officers at risk

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by giving the inmate razor blades, a cell phone and

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critical jail intelligence. And that's the big problem with these relationships, right,

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is usually once that relationship is formed, it puts everybody

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else in the facility at risk. The prosecutor, Caitlin Drake,

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said of Gonzale's activity in the jail that she at

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times communicated sensitive information to the inmate about individuals who

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were entering the inmate's pod, as well as times when

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the pod would be searched. So Gonzale she didn't say

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anything at her sentencing, but her attorney claimed that her

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marriage was falling apart when she started a relationship with

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the inmate, claiming she was vulnerable and they all used

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that excuse. We just covered that, right. Her attorney went

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on to say it was never her intention to bring

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any harm or danger to the employees in the jail

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or anyone else. Phone records are reviewed for the hearing

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that Gonzalez continued to have a relationship with the inmate

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even after her resignation in December of twenty nineteen, and

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the prosecutor went on to say the fact she continually calls,

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has sexual, explicit conversations with the inmate in question, and

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even boast about the crimes she carried out shows she's

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incapable of owning up to her mistakes, and he implored

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the judge to give Gonzalez the maximum punishment of three

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years in eight months because he wanted to send a

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clear message this type of crime would not be tolerated

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as an employee of the jail, so the judge could

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have sent her to jail for that length of time,

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but Notta she had no prior criminal history and admitted

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her crimes. The judge disagreed with the prosecutor and said

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his job was to punish her for the crimes that

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she committed. The judge went on to say, I think

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what you did was terrible, stupid. You've ruined your career,

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you endangered fellow officers.

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Speaker 5: But I also.

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Speaker 4: Believe that people can redeem themselves. You have the rest

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of your life to prove that, and Gonzalez was eventually

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sentenced to serve seven months in jail in two years

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of formal probation with Time Serve credits.

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Speaker 5: Pretty wild. So that's her high.

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Speaker 4: Bristophilia story, and I wanted to give you a little

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bit extra today. I appreciate you listening and I hope

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you enjoyed this episode of Bloody and Gola. Check us

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dot com, slash Bloody Andngola podcast and until next time

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for Bloody and Gola, a podcast one and forty two

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years in the making, the complete story of America's bloodiest

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present Peace.

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Speaker 2: A Wall Street line, shackle, chain, Oh, bluesome gird, It's

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calling my name.

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Speaker 1: There is no mercy and it's been a tentery juice

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as the hill Stream game.

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Speaker 3: Rangle three, I'm in by me to die.

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Speaker 2: Inside these walls, inside the wild.

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Speaker 3: And when the girl, as I know, it's Boody Angle,

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Obody Angle, an