Jan. 30, 2026

Introducing: 50 Shades

Introducing: 50 Shades
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Season 1

In this episode of Exposed: Scandalous Files of the Elite, Jim brings you the very first episode in a brand new series released under his "Bloody Angola Podcast" brand.

50 Shades of Evil covers the most notorious and dangerous inmates incarcerated in each of the fifty states. In this first episode in the series Jim takes you to Texas where Texas Death Row inmate Billy Joel Tracy was sentenced to (2) life sentences for the attempted murder of a 16 year old Texas teen.

 Billy’s evil life behind bars was even worse. His reign of terror would result in 27 separate altercations with correctional officers culmination in a death sentence in 2017 for the murder of a correctional officer while incarcerated. Billy Joel Tracy is widely considered the most dangerous inmate in the state of Texas.

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Hey everyone, and welcome back to Exposed Scandalous Files of

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the Elite. I am your host, Jim Chapman, and I

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have a little surprise drop for you today. Now I'm

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dropping this on a Saturday, so if you're listening to

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this today, I don't typically drop episodes on Saturday, but

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I wanted to promote another podcast that I do today

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called Bloodying Gola and put one episode of a new

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series that I started on that particular podcast on this feed.

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And the reason I'm doing that it kind of relates

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to Exposed Scandalous Files of the Elite in some ways.

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And what I'm doing with this series is it's called

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fifty Shades of Evil. In each week on Bloodying Gola podcast,

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I cover what is considered the most dangerous inmate from

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each state in the country. Obviously there's fifty states, so

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I'm covering fis fifty different inmates. The very first episode

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from that series that I released just this past week

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on Bloodying goal of podcast was an inmate from Texas

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and his crimes absolutely unbelievable. So I'm only going to

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drop one of these on this feed, and it is

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the inaugural episode. If you like what you hear. I'm

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linking Bloodying Goal of Podcast in the description of this podcast,

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so go listen to it. If you already followed both podcasts,

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no worries, Please feel free to share it with someone

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that you feel might enjoy the podcast. But if you

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do not follow Bloody and Goal of podcasts, this one's

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for you. Just a little extra this week. And here

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it is fifty Shades of Evil Texas. I walk the

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street line.

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Shackle Change, Oh Whosome Gerdy.

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It's calling by the name there is no Mercy and

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it's been a tenery juice as the hill stream game

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Rango three.

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Com b.

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By me to die.

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Inside these walls, inside the wise.

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And when the girls I know it's old Bloody Angle,

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Obody Angle.

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Hey everyone, and welcome back to Bloody Angola Podcast. I'm

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your host Jim Chapman, and I am starting a brand

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new series today. I'm going to be calling fifty Shades

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of Evil Now. Each week with this series, I'm going

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to be bringing you the story of some of the

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most dangerous inmates in each of the fifty states. This week,

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to start off the series, I'm bringing you to Texas

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

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inmate Billy Joel Tracy, and I did research this, y'all,

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and his parents were not a fan of Billy Joel.

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Surprisingly enough, it just so happens he has the same

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first and middle name. But he is currently on death

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row at the Polunsky Unit, where he is housed for

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one of the most brazen acts of prison violence in

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recent Texas history. Billy Joel Tracy was originally sentenced to

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life for aggravated assault and burglary, and it was not

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long before he became a documented menace behind bars. He

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racked up over twenty seven assaults on correctional officers alone

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before he actually killed a forty seven year old correctional officer.

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So let's get into it, and I'm going to take

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you back to November thirtieth of nineteen seventy seven. That's

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when Billy Joel Tracy was born in the town of Zanesville, Wisconsin.

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And for those not familiars, Zanesville is a rather large

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city sixty five thousand residents. It's known for its outdoor recreation.

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It has great hiking trails as well as recreational boating

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along what is known as the Rock River. But Billy Joel,

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he was not really in that area long enough to

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enjoy it. While still an infant, his family relocates to Dallas, Texas. Now,

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this was the late seventies. Dallas, Texas at that time

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was booming economically, and in his parents' mind, it seemed

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like a good place to settle with their only child,

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Billy and seek work. Now, while the Dallas area was

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going through a major economic boom during that time due

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primarily to the oil industry, the Tracy family not so much.

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And when Tracy was around seven years old, they actually

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move again, this time to Colorado, but three years later

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they would return back to the Dallas, Texas area, in

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specifically Rockwell County. Now, growing up through adolescents in the nineties,

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Billy would start what I would call his descent into crime,

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and he would gain kind of a reputation around the

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Rockwell area as being very volatile. This would lead to

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some psychiatric issues that would lead to his mother actually

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hospitalizing him at twelve years old in a psychiatric hospital. Now,

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his parents really all the documented details that I have

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on his parents, they suffered from mental issues themselves. There

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were allegations of physical abuse that would occur during Billy's

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upbringing and the household at this point would be considered

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very dysfunctional. So he's going in and out of these

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psychiatric hospitals and they're not really finding him. When I

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say they, doctors are not really finding anything that would

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necessarily point to him being mentally ill. So he would

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get released pretty quick and he would return to his household,

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but the issues with Billy would continue to persist. He

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was just not a good kid man. He was always

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getting into trouble, and by the time he reached seventeen

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years old, his mother had enough. He was incorrigible, just

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a bad kid, and she would kick him out of

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the house. So Billy Joel Tracy. He's on his own

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at seventeen years old, and he has to make his

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way right. No lifeboat anymore. He can't go back home

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to mom and dad's house. And it was just a

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few months later that he gets arrested for retaliation against

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a witness to a crime, and because he was a

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juvenile at this time, the records on that particular case

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were not released, they were sealed. However, he does get

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a three year jail sentence, which he starts serving and

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after twenty months in prison. He does get paroled on

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that jail sentence, and at this point in time it's

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July of nineteen ninety six, so he's back out into

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the real world and he's got to make his way again.

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The state of Texas is not paying for him to

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have room in boarding food anymore. And he does get

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a job he's performing primarily manual labor, and he also

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gets an apartment. And hey, maybe this kid is scared

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straight by this point after serving those twenty months in prison.

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No way, not a chance with this guy. In nineteen

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ninety eight, at the age of just twenty years old,

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he makes the biggest mistake of his short life thus far,

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when on the evening of January twenty eighth of nineteen

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ninety eight, he invites a friend over to his apartment

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for drinks. This is in Garland, Texas. His friend brings

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along his girlfriend, who is sixteen year old Casey Coon,

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and they start drinking beer, primarily nothing super hard, and

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Billy starts making sexually suggestive remarks to a sixteen year

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old Coon. Now he's twenty years old. At this time,

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her boyfriend is sitting right there in Coon She's like

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I was worried, but I wasn't that worried because my

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boyfriend was right there. I felt safe at the time,

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so I was just blowing off and ignoring those comments. Now,

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eventually she and her boyfriend would leave. Her boyfriend brings

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her home where Casey lived with her mother, and she

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would get dressed for bed, take a shower. She'd crack

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open the window to smoke a cigarette, and around that time,

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much to her surprise, Billy Joel Tracy appears at the

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window and he starts happing on it. She sees this,

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she tells him to go away, and he not only

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ignores that request, but he gets pissed and he basically

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bends the frame of that window to gain entry into

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the house. And this sixteen year old girl at this time,

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she is basically shocked. So you have heard me discuss

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before the three f's fight, flight, or freeze. That's the

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three responses people are going to have to high stress

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scary situations, and in Casey's case, it was definitely freeze.

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She just stood there, she was unable to scream, and

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Billy Joel Tracy made his way into her bedroom. Now,

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as soon as he gets in her bedroom, he starts disrobing,

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he removes his shirt, he takes off his shoes, and

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he attempts to kiss this sixteen year old girl, Casey Khon.

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At this point, she responds to that kiss and she

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bites the shit out of his lip. In response to that,

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Billy Joel Tracy hits her, knocks her to the ground,

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jumps on top of her, and he starts strangling her

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to the point she loses consciousness. So the next thing,

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Casey Koon knows, she's waking up and she's in the

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back of Tracy's car on the floorboard. She's bloody, she's

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very bruised up. And upon noticing that she has regained

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consciousness in the back of that car while he's driving,

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Billy Joel Tracy just continues to beat on her. He

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then drives to a park in Rockroll, Texas, and y'all,

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this is the middle of the night. It's like three

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point thirty in the morning. He pulls in that park,

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he pulls Casey out of the car, he drags her

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in the woods, and he just continues to relentlessly beat

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on her. Now about this point in time, a police

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officer by the name of Paul Brett. He's driving by

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that park and he happens to notice a car parked

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in the parking lot, so he pulls up to investigate

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the situation, initially thinking it's some underage kids drinking in

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the car or something like that. But when he pulls up,

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he hears a very faint scream, help me. It wasn't

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even a scream that he would describe later as a

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loud scream. It was very faint, but it was a

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scream that he knew someone was in serious trouble. So

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the officer pops his flashlight up in the tree line

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where he heard that coming from in the park, and

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he sees Billy Tracy on top of sixteen year old

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Casey Kuhn. Now, at that point, Tracy sees the flashlight,

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he sees where it's coming from, and rather than run away,

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he runs straight at this police officer full speed. The

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police officer, shocked by this officer britt he draws his

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gun and before he could even point it in the

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direction of Billy Tracy, the two begin to fight in

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this park. And keep in mind Billy Tracy young guy

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twenty years old. He's not very big, maybe about five eight,

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but he is very strong and very muscular. Now the

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police officer, Paul Britt, he's no slouch himself, and he's

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still relatively young as well. He's only thirty years old

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at this time, and he's well built, muscular. So they

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start going at it and they literally fight for six

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minutes straight. They were kicking each other, punching each other.

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And look, six minutes straight of this, y'all, this is

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like an eternity in a fistfight, no stopping, no resting,

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just swing after swing after swing, wrestling with each other, etc. Fortunately,

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during this melee, if you will, the officer was able

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to access his radio on his shoulder and call for backup.

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What's running through his mind at this time is, if

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I can keep this guy off of me long enough

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and I can continue to fight him long enough until

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backup arrives, I may actually have a chance here. And

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shout out to this officer that he was able to

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actually do that just before he was totally exhausted and

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Billy Tracy would start getting the best of him. Backup

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shows up. So Billy Tracy sees this other officer arrive

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at the scene and he hauls ass into the woods. Now,

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first instinct from this officer he was fighting. Paul Brett

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was to give chase to the suspect right but when

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he took off run after Billy, he notices this sixteen

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year old girl, Casey Kuhn, was still alive. Now he

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had assumed because she had moved during this whole six

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minute fight, didn't even breathe that he could tell that

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she was dead, but she wasn't. So rather than chase

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Billy down these officers, Paul Brett and his backup, they

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chose to render aid to sixteen year old Casey Kuhn,

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which turned out to be the right decision because she lived,

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although barely. She would suffer a broken orbital bone, a

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broken nose, lost teeth, permanent vision damage, and she would

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require facial reconstructive surgery. So as soon as police would

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get an ambulance and it would arrive and Casey Kuhn

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would be loaded onto that ambulance, it's time to find

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this assailant. Alerts get issued for everybody to stay in

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their house. Helicopters are deployed and Billy Joel Tracy is

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on the run and police knew who he was because

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they interviewed Casey Kuhn. Obviously, the scene and she said

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his name. So he's on the run, and he would

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break into several houses during this man hunt. He would

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steal cash, he would steal food from these houses. And

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eleven hours later, Tracy would make a mistake and break

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into an occupied house. Now the people living there, Joyce

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Lemons and her daughter, They obviously are startled by this.

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They run out the front door to a neighbor's house,

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and that neighbor would call police. So police arrive at

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the scene and Billy Joel Tracy climbs to the roof

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of this three story house. He stands on the top

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of it, on the peak if you can picture that.

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He screams bye bye to the police, and he literally

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does a backflip off of the house. He hits a tree,

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a bunch of limbs, and then he lands in a

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flower bed, and he's somewhat injured in this incident, but

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nothing major. However, he was injured enough the police were

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able to take him into custody right there in the

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flower bed. Now, at this point, he goes to jail

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and on July thirty first of nineteen ninety eight, he

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gets sentenced for the attemptive murder of Casey Kuhn, as

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well as a slew of other charges, and when it

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was all said and done, he ended up with two

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life sentences plus twenty years for the burglaries that he

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committed during those eleven hours on the run. And to

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say that this guy was not a model prisoner when

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he got to prison would be putting it lightly. As

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soon as Billy Joel Tracy goes to prison, he's getting

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written up left right in sideways. And he's a young kid, y'all,

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twenty one years old at this time. He would spend

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the majority of that early time in prison in segregation,

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and every time he would get out of segregation and

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go back into general population, his favorite thing to do

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seemed to be assaulting other inmates and especially correctional officers.

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He would flood his cell a lot just to piss

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off the officers on his tier and just to be

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a menace. Twenty seven different assaults, y'all in a short

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period of time. He eventually gets transferred because they just

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can't handle him at this prison, and he gets transferred

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to what's known as the Clemens Unit in Amarillo, Texas.

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And look, Texas, they don't call their prisons prisons. They

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call them units, and they all of course have different names,

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and we're going to mentioned many of those today because

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he has transferred so many times. But at this point,

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it's November of two thousand and five that I'm going

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to bring you to November twenty specifically, and Billy Joel

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Tracy at this time was twenty seven years old. Now

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at the time of the incident that I'm going to

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tell you about, Billy was on the third floor of

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what is known as the iPod. I know, I know

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that's convenient, but it's called iPod. They use letters there.

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And a CEO working the pod at that time was

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a female by the name of Katie Stanley, and she

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is on the third floor of that tier in the

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iPod and she's just walking the pod, doing her job, right.

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And look this particular prison, the Clemings Unit, they had

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cameras everywhere, like three hundred different cameras, so this is

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all on surveillance video. And you can see on that

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surveillance video Katie Stanley walking that tear and you see

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Billy Joel Tracy basically come out of nowhere and just

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jump on her and he is raining down punches, he's

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kicking her and he's wielding a prison made shank. He

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stabs her seven times, stabbing her in the neck, stabbing

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her in the lungs, stabbing her in the kidneys. The

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attack was so brutal, in fact, that the only reason

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he stopped is because he lost his shank inside of

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her body. Literally when that happens, he gets up and

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he attempts to throw her off the third floor of

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the tier, and in the surveillance video you can see

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him kind of struggling to pick her up and put

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her over that railing. He eventually gave up on that

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and he just basically lets her body fall to the

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ground and runs off down the tier. Obviously, officers take

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him into custody in the tier and they questioned him

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about the attack, and Billy Joel Tracy said it was

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because his cell was constantly getting tossed, and that primarily

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he was pissed because his toothpaste kept getting confiscated and

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that someone had to pay for that, and it just

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so happened that she was the one working that day,

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that it wasn't personal against her. Now, in the trial

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that ensued, Katie Stanley, who would live, she described Billy

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Tracy's face as being completely blank during that attack. She

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said he had no emotion whatsoever. Now, for that attack,

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which clearly is a case of attempt to murder, right,

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Billy Joel Tracy, he receives just an additional forty five years,

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which you're serving two life sentences. And that's what makes

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this guy say dangerous or really any anybody that's serving life,

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is that I have anything to lose. I mean, he

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got forty five years on top of two life sentences.

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That's like nothing. As for Katie Stanley, not only did

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she recover but shout out to this lady. She actually

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continued to work as a CEO after her recovery. So

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after this incident, Billy gets transferred to another present and

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that is a Robertson unit. This is in Abilene, Texas,

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and just four years later, in January of two thousand

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and nine, he attacks yet another correctional officer, this time

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by the name of Brian Lomas. And Billy at this

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point he had quite a reputation as an extremely dangerous inmate,

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and he also had what you would call special circumstance

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when handling him. He would be under constant guard and

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he was transported everywhere by officers. But despite this, somehow

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this guy managed to be caught with contraband pretty frequently,

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everything from homemade screwdrivers to needles to razor blades. His

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cell would be searched often, and he would develop a

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particular disdain for CEO Brian Lomas now Lummis. During one

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of these cell tossing, Incidous confiscated Tracy's mail, and as

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I describe to you a few minutes ago, this guy

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does not like it when officers take stuff out of

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his cell. He not only viewed this as a personal attack,

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but he also felt as though he had no choice

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but to retaliate. So it's safe to say that correctional

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Officer Brian Lomas was on his shit list after that. Well.

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In January of two thousand and nine, Tracy was escorted

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to the shower area by CEO Brian Lomis. He takes

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his shower and upon it finishing, he is to be

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transported back to his cell. When out of the clear

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blue sky, Billy Joel Tracy brandishes what's known as a

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razor whip, which essentially is a shank made out of

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disposable razor blades, and he starts slashing Brian Lomas's face. Now,

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he was restrained initially, but he managed somehow to slip

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out of these cuffs and the slashes to the Coe's

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face were so severe that his face required two hundred

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stitches to close the cuts and led to permanent facial scorn.

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He gets convicted after a trial of assault on a

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public servant and guess what, he gets an additional ten years.

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That's it, And again Billy Joel Tracy is moved to

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yet another prison, this time to the Huge Unit, which

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is in Gatesville, Texas. And at this time he is

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thirty three years old. So let's get to April of

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twenty fourteen, and at this time, with the new convictions

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for all those assaults on correctional officers, Billy is serving

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two life sentences plus an additional seventy five years. He

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didn't have a whole lot to lose and obviously has

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no intent to get better or even try to rehabilitate himself,

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so he starts plotting an escape, and he hooks up

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with two other inmates to devise the plan. And it's

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important to note that these two accomplices, if you will,

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and Billy Tracy, they were all in what's known as Axact,

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which is administration segregation. So they were locked down twenty

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three hours a day and they're only allowed out for

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an hour a day for recreation, exercise, et cetera. But

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somehow Billy managed to smuggle in tools, and these tools

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would be used by these three inmates to cut bars

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in the exercise area of the prison. Now, to conceal this,

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they would paint over the cuts and they would use

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matching paints so that the cuts would not be noticeable,

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and they would actually communicate in Spanish when the CEOs

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were around that they knew did not speak Spanish. Even

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though Billy was not of Spanish descent, he was fluent

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in the language. But fortunately, over time, some astute officers

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they would notice some irregularities in the bars and they

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would halt that escape before any breach had taken place.

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I mean, could y'all imagine this guy, Billy Tracy breaking

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out of prison. Holy smokes. So this incident in twenty

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fourteen led to Billy Joel Tracy's transfer to yet another

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prison and in this case, a murder. So let's go

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to July fifteenth of twenty fifteen and Billy Joel Tracy

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at this time is housed at the Telford Unit. This

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is in New Boston, Texas. And I'm going to tell

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you about an incident involving a relatively new correctional officer

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at that time, a forty seven year old by the

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name of Timothy Davidson. Now, he had actually started at

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the prison just seven months prior. He had no prior

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experience in corrections. He had relocated from another state after

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his brother who happened to work at the prison teaching inmates.

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He gets him an interview at the President went well

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and they hired him. He was a father of two daughters,

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and he was assigned to the AgSe Guinnett. Now, fellow

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officers would describe him as somewhat quiet, always on time,

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always ready to work, very eager to learn, just a

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joy to work with this guy. So on the morning

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of July fifteenth of twenty fifteen, around nine o'clock am,

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Billy Tracy is being escorted by Officer Davidson from a

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day room, which, y'all, that's a one hour per day

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of recreation room for the inmates. That's where their wreck

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area is. He's escorting Billy back to his single cell,

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which incidentally is Sell sixty six on what's known as EPOD. Now,

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Tracy at this time obviously well known how dangerous he is,

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and his hands are handcuffed behind his back as he's

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being escorted. Now by this point, due to his reputation,

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typically Billy Joel Tracy would be double cuffed. However, for

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whatever reason, he was just in single cuffs with his

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hand behind his back. So as the correctional officer and

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Billy Tracy they start ascending the staircase that leads to

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Billy Sell. Billy slips one of his hands out of

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those handcuffs, and remember he had a history of doing that.

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He actually mastered somehow how to slip out of handcuffs,

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and Officer Davison does not notice this. They continue walking

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up those stairs. You can see that in the surveillance videos.

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They reach the top of these stairs and Billy, out

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of nowhere, suddenly punches Officer Davidson in the face and

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he hits him so hard he knocks the correctional officer

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to the floor, and he then grabs what's known as

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a metal tray slot bar out of the waste belt

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of the officer. And y'all, this is a metal bar

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used to open a cell door slide tray to pass

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food through that cell. It's about sixteen inches long. Think

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of it as a crowbar with a bent end, a

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slightly bent end. So he starts beating Officer Timothy Davidson

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directly on the head with this slot bar, and he

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continues to do that even after Davidson loses consciousness. And

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when he's done, he picks up Davidson's body and he

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throws him unconscious, headfirst down the first flight of metal

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stairs that they just walked up. And he paused just

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long enough to grab the officer's pepper spray out of

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his duty belt. So the officer goes down them stairs

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still unconscious, and he starts spraying this pepper spray in

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the air. And the reason that he did that was

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to keep officers from coming up the flight of stairs

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without choking, etc. After all that, he calmly turns around,

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walks into his cell and awaits the Special Response team

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to extradite him. Now, Correctional Officer Timothy Davidson, he's airlifted

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to the hospital. He has massive injuries to his face,

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and later his injuries were described as making his face unrecognizable.

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He succumbed to his injuries just a few hours later

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and he dies. Over ten thousand people attend the funeral

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of correctional Officer Timothy Davidson. The entire state of Texas

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was appalled at the brutality of this incident. Now, as

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I told you, the entire event was caught on cameras

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throughout the prison, so there was no deniging that Billy

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was responsible, and he was of course immediately subdued upon

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them entering his cell. He will respond by calling the

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staff stupid for not having at least a lieutenant guarding him,

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and he admitted right off that he was responsible, saying, quote,

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maybe it will be another guard next time. Billy would

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go on to say that the reason he did that

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was the correctional officer owed him a cell phone for

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five hundred dollars that he gave the correctional officer. But

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no evidence, of course, exists of this, and it's widely

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known this was total bullshit, and he claimed that he

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just wanted to assault the guard. He didn't want to

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kill him, But I mean, you hit this guy at

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least six times with essentially a crow bar after he's unconscious,

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then thrown down a flight of stairs, head first, bring

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that bullshit somewhere else. You absolutely intended to kill this guy. Now,

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during the trial, they instituted some major security measures, including

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installing a giant bolt in the floor where he would

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sit at the desk for his trial, and they would

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lock his shackles into the bolt, and that was to

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ensure he would not be able to get up at

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all during the trial. And the question was not whether

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he was guilty or not guilty. They had all that

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on surveillance video. The question was what type of punishment

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is he going to get for this? There was no remorse,

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There was no emotion at all during the entire extent

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of this trial. The jury watched the entire video of

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the attack in the brutality of it, and that would

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00:33:49.279 --> 00:33:54.440
cement Billy's fate because that surveillance video is just horrific.

468
00:33:54.640 --> 00:33:57.880
So after trial, he was found guilty in the murder

469
00:33:58.119 --> 00:34:03.079
of correctional officer Timothy Davidson, and the jury I only

470
00:34:03.119 --> 00:34:06.640
had to deliberate for just an hour to find that

471
00:34:06.680 --> 00:34:12.559
guilty verdict. He was sentenced to death by lethal injection

472
00:34:13.199 --> 00:34:18.280
on November fifteenth of twenty seventeen for that murder at

473
00:34:18.280 --> 00:34:22.000
the age of thirty nine years old. Now, after this,

474
00:34:22.199 --> 00:34:27.440
Billy Tracy was transferred to the Alan Polunsky Unit. This

475
00:34:27.519 --> 00:34:32.079
is in Livingston, Texas and that's where their death row is.

476
00:34:32.559 --> 00:34:35.440
And as you would expect, there were a ton of

477
00:34:35.480 --> 00:34:42.239
appeals and all those appeals were eventually exhausted. However, as

478
00:34:42.280 --> 00:34:45.719
of this recording in January of twenty twenty six, Billy

479
00:34:45.800 --> 00:34:49.840
Joel Tracy, who is now forty eight years old, still

480
00:34:50.280 --> 00:34:53.679
sits on death row with one hundred and many other

481
00:34:53.719 --> 00:35:01.440
inmates in Texas currently awaiting execution, and he's currently widely

482
00:35:01.519 --> 00:35:06.480
known as the state of texas most dangerous inmate. So

483
00:35:06.679 --> 00:35:10.440
before I wrap this one up, Billy Joel Tracy, He's

484
00:35:10.480 --> 00:35:14.239
written several articles, if you will, while on death row,

485
00:35:14.639 --> 00:35:18.559
discussing his daily life, etc. And I want to read

486
00:35:18.639 --> 00:35:23.039
one to you, which to me is the very definition

487
00:35:23.920 --> 00:35:30.199
of Billy Joel Tracy's narcissism. So it reads November fifteenth

488
00:35:30.280 --> 00:35:33.519
of twenty seventeen, I was sentenced to die by lethal

489
00:35:33.599 --> 00:35:37.519
injection for the death of Timothy Davidson, a Texas Department

490
00:35:37.559 --> 00:35:40.960
of Criminal Justice guard. After being sentenced to death, I

491
00:35:41.039 --> 00:35:45.199
was immediately taken from the courtroom by Department of Correction

492
00:35:45.320 --> 00:35:49.800
transportation officers and driven to the Polunsky Unit in Levings

493
00:35:49.840 --> 00:35:53.000
in Texas, where the men of death Row are housed

494
00:35:53.000 --> 00:35:56.920
in solitary confinement. Four hours after being sentenced to die,

495
00:35:57.119 --> 00:36:00.480
I find myself inside a cell the State of Texas

496
00:36:00.559 --> 00:36:03.480
had spent the previous two weeks modifying for me in

497
00:36:03.559 --> 00:36:08.159
anticipation of me receiving the sentence of death. The specifically

498
00:36:08.239 --> 00:36:12.639
modified cell is housed on twelve building a pod one

499
00:36:12.719 --> 00:36:17.079
section and is the section named Deathwatch. The death Watch

500
00:36:17.119 --> 00:36:20.000
section is for those death row inmates whose appeals have

501
00:36:20.079 --> 00:36:23.360
run out and have received their execution date their date

502
00:36:23.440 --> 00:36:26.199
to die. They each are given at least ninety one

503
00:36:26.280 --> 00:36:29.599
days to prepare some last ditch appeals and get their

504
00:36:29.679 --> 00:36:33.480
affairs in order before the state section execution starts. On

505
00:36:33.599 --> 00:36:36.320
this section, they are kept away from other death row

506
00:36:36.440 --> 00:36:40.519
inmates who have not received execution dates. The death Watch

507
00:36:40.639 --> 00:36:44.440
section has fourteen cells, all with cameras inside the cells

508
00:36:44.519 --> 00:36:46.719
in the upper left hand corner with a view of

509
00:36:46.760 --> 00:36:51.639
the entire cell. There are monitors inside two separate control pickets,

510
00:36:51.960 --> 00:36:55.360
two different warden officers, and a surveillance office where the

511
00:36:55.400 --> 00:36:59.199
footage inside the cells can be viewed. A Texas senator

512
00:36:59.280 --> 00:37:03.320
even has x us to this live footage. There's zero privacy.

513
00:37:03.760 --> 00:37:07.079
The cameras were installed years ago under the pretext of

514
00:37:07.159 --> 00:37:11.519
helping prevent suicide attempts, allegedly so Texas could preserve the

515
00:37:11.559 --> 00:37:15.039
condemned life until they were ready to extinguish it themselves.

516
00:37:15.039 --> 00:37:18.039
And you know what, he's absolutely correct on that it

517
00:37:18.159 --> 00:37:21.760
is the state's job to see out the sentence that

518
00:37:22.000 --> 00:37:26.639
was imposed by the people of said state. And you

519
00:37:26.719 --> 00:37:30.679
can't just kill yourself because that's not what your sentence is.

520
00:37:31.079 --> 00:37:36.119
Your sentence is to die via the state in which

521
00:37:36.159 --> 00:37:39.199
you were convicted in. And so yeah, that's their job

522
00:37:39.440 --> 00:37:41.519
to keep you alive so that they can kill you.

523
00:37:41.800 --> 00:37:44.840
I'm glad you acknowledge that the death watch section has

524
00:37:44.920 --> 00:37:48.519
more than one dark purpose. Texas is infamous for getting

525
00:37:48.559 --> 00:37:51.159
the maximum amount of suffering it can out of each

526
00:37:51.320 --> 00:37:55.559
taxpayer dollar. Texas also houses inmates it doesn't like on

527
00:37:55.679 --> 00:38:00.280
death watch inmates who do not have execution dates. Under

528
00:38:00.320 --> 00:38:04.199
the guise of security, Texas puts inmates on death watch

529
00:38:04.280 --> 00:38:07.599
without an execution date, so they will have to endure

530
00:38:07.800 --> 00:38:11.039
living with a camera inside of their cell. But more

531
00:38:11.039 --> 00:38:14.719
importantly so they are surrounded by men with just days

532
00:38:14.760 --> 00:38:18.960
from death, constantly reminded of their doom and constantly suffering

533
00:38:19.039 --> 00:38:22.480
the loss of friends. Imagine the only people you are

534
00:38:22.519 --> 00:38:25.360
around are those with a few months to live, getting

535
00:38:25.400 --> 00:38:28.880
to know them, watching them experience their last days, then

536
00:38:28.960 --> 00:38:32.639
finally watching them be led away to be killed. Now

537
00:38:33.320 --> 00:38:37.719
explate that over the years. Can you imagine the psychological

538
00:38:37.800 --> 00:38:41.079
impact this would have on someone. Three other death or

539
00:38:41.119 --> 00:38:44.920
inmates have been housed on death watch as punishment. Y'all,

540
00:38:44.920 --> 00:38:50.039
this is prison. This guy's what is he smoking here?

541
00:38:50.719 --> 00:38:54.159
Two were moved after nine and thirteen months. The thirty

542
00:38:54.199 --> 00:38:56.880
has been in this section over eight years and has

543
00:38:57.039 --> 00:38:59.760
endured over one hundred men being led to their death.

544
00:39:00.159 --> 00:39:03.599
Fifteen were his friends. In twenty eighteen, he gave up

545
00:39:03.639 --> 00:39:06.559
on his appeals because he could no longer take the

546
00:39:06.599 --> 00:39:10.519
psychological trauma of watching men live out their last days.

547
00:39:10.800 --> 00:39:15.000
His words to me were quote, I'm done, Billy, I'm done.

548
00:39:15.079 --> 00:39:18.239
He later decided to continue his appeals at the urging

549
00:39:18.280 --> 00:39:21.719
of his family, but not because he wants to live.

550
00:39:22.440 --> 00:39:25.679
The cell my captor spent two weeks modifying is a

551
00:39:25.800 --> 00:39:30.599
psychological torture chamber. It's the only sell in Texas, Like it.

552
00:39:30.639 --> 00:39:33.559
They cut the steel table and shelf off the wall.

553
00:39:33.920 --> 00:39:36.519
They cut the still locker box where we store our

554
00:39:36.559 --> 00:39:40.320
property that was welded underneath the bunk. This is so

555
00:39:40.400 --> 00:39:43.119
I have no comfortable place to write, eat, or storm

556
00:39:43.159 --> 00:39:45.559
my property. Well, you know what, that's what freaking happens

557
00:39:45.559 --> 00:39:49.280
when you assault twenty seven different correctional officers and kill

558
00:39:49.320 --> 00:39:53.480
one of them. It's your fault, not anybody else's. He

559
00:39:53.559 --> 00:39:55.559
goes on to say, I must store my property in

560
00:39:55.639 --> 00:39:59.000
bags on the floor. This is a very bad situation

561
00:39:59.119 --> 00:40:02.239
in prison because the sewage pipes back up all the time.

562
00:40:02.599 --> 00:40:05.280
When that occurs, the raw sewage being flushed down the

563
00:40:05.280 --> 00:40:08.039
toilets backs up and comes out of the drains set

564
00:40:08.039 --> 00:40:11.079
into the floor outside of the cells. One such drain

565
00:40:11.280 --> 00:40:14.440
is two feet from my cell door. Multiple times the

566
00:40:14.519 --> 00:40:17.079
drains have backed up and the sewer water has flooded

567
00:40:17.079 --> 00:40:20.320
into my cell, causing me to lose everything it touched

568
00:40:20.400 --> 00:40:23.400
on my floor. When this happens, I must pile all

569
00:40:23.679 --> 00:40:28.119
my uncontaminated property onto my bunk. Same dude bitching about

570
00:40:28.119 --> 00:40:31.519
this that would flood his cell hundreds of times in

571
00:40:31.559 --> 00:40:34.679
the past, just to piss the correctional officers off. He

572
00:40:34.679 --> 00:40:36.599
guys want to say. This leaves me no place to

573
00:40:36.639 --> 00:40:39.159
sit or lay, so I must just stand in the

574
00:40:39.199 --> 00:40:42.000
sewer water or sit on my toilet until a maintenance

575
00:40:42.039 --> 00:40:45.079
crew can unclog the pipes. I've had to stand sit

576
00:40:45.280 --> 00:40:48.119
like this for hours at a time. This creates extreme

577
00:40:48.239 --> 00:40:50.840
anxiety on me. When I go to sleep with a

578
00:40:50.920 --> 00:40:54.239
cell flood, I'm always waking up to check my floor

579
00:40:54.239 --> 00:40:57.639
for water. I cannot ever truly relax with no table

580
00:40:57.679 --> 00:41:00.000
to eat from. I must set my tray of foot

581
00:41:00.000 --> 00:41:03.039
food onto my sink. My toilet is directly under my

582
00:41:03.119 --> 00:41:05.800
tray of food. Eating directly over a toilet is an

583
00:41:05.840 --> 00:41:10.760
appetite killer. Again, you put yourself in prison, and you

584
00:41:10.800 --> 00:41:14.239
put yourself in death row. Texas has also welded metal

585
00:41:14.280 --> 00:41:17.199
plates with small holes in them over the enflow and

586
00:41:17.239 --> 00:41:21.320
overflow air vents. This restricts the heat and air conditioning

587
00:41:21.360 --> 00:41:24.039
into my cell to such an extent that it's made

588
00:41:24.039 --> 00:41:26.159
my cell a hot box in the summer and an

589
00:41:26.159 --> 00:41:29.599
ice box in the winter. I'm almost always an extreme

590
00:41:29.719 --> 00:41:32.920
temperature inside of this cell. What is worse is the

591
00:41:32.960 --> 00:41:36.320
outflow vent, the vent that sucks the air out, because

592
00:41:36.400 --> 00:41:39.880
slowly the screen will fill up with dust it ends

593
00:41:39.960 --> 00:41:42.719
up looking like the filter in a dryer when you

594
00:41:42.760 --> 00:41:45.679
don't clean it out for a long time. With a

595
00:41:45.800 --> 00:41:48.199
metal plate over the vent, the only way to clear

596
00:41:48.239 --> 00:41:50.199
it of the caked up dust is to put my

597
00:41:50.320 --> 00:41:53.800
mouth over each hole and repeatedly suck the dust into

598
00:41:53.800 --> 00:41:56.599
my mouth and throat, then spit it out. There are

599
00:41:56.880 --> 00:42:00.119
thirty holes. I dread doing this. I'm left coughing for

600
00:42:00.239 --> 00:42:03.559
hours afterward. I must do it, though if I do not,

601
00:42:03.840 --> 00:42:07.400
the cell becomes even more oppressive when no circulation. Well,

602
00:42:07.599 --> 00:42:11.239
poor guy. My cell door was also rebuilt, adding a

603
00:42:11.320 --> 00:42:14.119
steel box over the food slot so the guards can

604
00:42:14.199 --> 00:42:17.159
open it and set whatever item inside the box and

605
00:42:17.199 --> 00:42:20.519
close it. Then they open a smaller door so I

606
00:42:20.559 --> 00:42:23.400
can reach into the box for items. Two layers of

607
00:42:23.440 --> 00:42:26.920
plexiglass were placed over the outside of the door, covering

608
00:42:26.960 --> 00:42:30.519
the two observation sluts. More metal was welded to the

609
00:42:30.559 --> 00:42:33.199
bottom and sides of the doors so the door is sealed.

610
00:42:33.599 --> 00:42:36.840
This restricts airflow and makes it hard for others to

611
00:42:36.880 --> 00:42:39.599
hear anything I say. This guy needs to figure out

612
00:42:39.599 --> 00:42:42.239
where he's at. Right On top of all that, I'm

613
00:42:42.280 --> 00:42:46.119
also only allowed to recreate all alone outside with a

614
00:42:46.199 --> 00:42:50.480
supervisor standing there watching me the entire time. The reckyard

615
00:42:50.480 --> 00:42:53.880
has two cages in it designed for two people to utilize,

616
00:42:54.119 --> 00:42:58.159
yet I am the only one allowed to recreate alone alone.

617
00:42:58.320 --> 00:43:03.079
Every day outside and inside, I myself alone alone, except

618
00:43:03.079 --> 00:43:06.559
for when I have a visitor. Even then a supervisor

619
00:43:06.599 --> 00:43:11.000
stands directly behind me to intimidate my visitor. Living under

620
00:43:11.079 --> 00:43:14.119
such oppression would be hard for anyone to cope with.

621
00:43:14.719 --> 00:43:17.840
It's even harder to endure for someone like me who

622
00:43:17.880 --> 00:43:22.800
has a disability. I have severe organic brain damage. The

623
00:43:22.880 --> 00:43:26.840
neurological issues I deal with cost issues commonly seen in

624
00:43:26.880 --> 00:43:29.519
people with mental illness. I grew up in and out

625
00:43:29.599 --> 00:43:33.199
of mental institutions because my brain damage was unknown and

626
00:43:33.239 --> 00:43:38.679
misdiagnosed as one mental illness or another, most commonly intermittent

627
00:43:38.880 --> 00:43:43.440
explosive disorder. I've never received treatment for my brain damage

628
00:43:43.440 --> 00:43:45.960
and when unknown until the day I committed the crime

629
00:43:46.360 --> 00:43:49.239
in nineteen ninety eight that I received a life sentence

630
00:43:49.320 --> 00:43:52.960
for Texas. Treatment plan for me has been to warehouse

631
00:43:53.000 --> 00:43:57.320
me in long term solitary confinement. Solitary confinement which is

632
00:43:57.400 --> 00:44:00.440
proven to only worsen people with the impulse of Russian

633
00:44:00.480 --> 00:44:04.360
problems like I have. I've spent almost nineteen years, in

634
00:44:04.440 --> 00:44:07.280
the last twenty one and a half in solitary. At

635
00:44:07.320 --> 00:44:09.719
the time of the crime, I'm on death Row four.

636
00:44:09.840 --> 00:44:12.679
I've been in solitary for nine and a half years,

637
00:44:12.800 --> 00:44:15.719
and now, at the time of writing this piece, i've

638
00:44:15.760 --> 00:44:18.360
been in solitary for fourteen and a half of the

639
00:44:18.440 --> 00:44:22.519
past seventeen years. As brutal as my living conditions are,

640
00:44:22.800 --> 00:44:27.559
hardest by far to endure psychologically, isn't this cell recreating

641
00:44:27.599 --> 00:44:32.239
alone and living under constant surveillance or standing for hours

642
00:44:32.239 --> 00:44:36.079
in sewage. It's living around men who are living out

643
00:44:36.159 --> 00:44:39.199
their last days. Over the past eighteen months that I

644
00:44:39.199 --> 00:44:42.239
have lived on death Watch, I've made more friends than

645
00:44:42.280 --> 00:44:45.440
in all of my other years, incarce already combined. Something

646
00:44:45.440 --> 00:44:49.039
about living so close to death causes most to drop

647
00:44:49.079 --> 00:44:52.280
their fronts and open up with each other. It's how

648
00:44:52.320 --> 00:44:55.239
we cope, I guess, reaching out to others for help, support,

649
00:44:55.360 --> 00:44:59.360
comfort and understanding. I have become very close, very quickly,

650
00:44:59.400 --> 00:45:02.320
with several of these men, only to watch them taken

651
00:45:02.360 --> 00:45:06.519
away and poisoned until their lives are over. I've watched

652
00:45:06.559 --> 00:45:09.880
sixteen men walk away to their death. I've been in

653
00:45:10.039 --> 00:45:13.039
mourning since January of twenty eighteen, a morning that starts

654
00:45:13.079 --> 00:45:16.079
over and over with layer upon layer added, and I

655
00:45:16.159 --> 00:45:18.760
know it will never end. I must wish that all

656
00:45:18.800 --> 00:45:22.239
of these men were assholes and repugnant personalities, so I

657
00:45:22.280 --> 00:45:25.360
wouldn't mourn them. Several times I must decide to quit

658
00:45:25.400 --> 00:45:28.199
getting to know any of these men, just to hibernate

659
00:45:28.239 --> 00:45:31.679
within myself, to armor my heart and not allow anyone

660
00:45:31.719 --> 00:45:34.760
else in. And y'all, I just can't take any more

661
00:45:34.800 --> 00:45:37.880
of that. You notice, it's all about him. It's all

662
00:45:38.119 --> 00:45:42.679
about Billy Joel Tracy and how he's suffering in prison.

663
00:45:43.400 --> 00:45:47.000
No acknowledgment of the fact that he was in prison

664
00:45:47.199 --> 00:45:50.559
for the attempted murder of a sixteen year old that

665
00:45:50.639 --> 00:45:55.480
he tried to rape when he was twenty. And then

666
00:45:55.599 --> 00:45:59.440
when he gets in there, he tries to kill two

667
00:45:59.480 --> 00:46:05.320
correction and kills a third, and he just can't understand

668
00:46:06.679 --> 00:46:10.079
why he's being constantly watched, why they're so mean to

669
00:46:10.119 --> 00:46:13.719
him in prison, and why his living conditions are so bad.

670
00:46:15.480 --> 00:46:21.320
That is the definition of a narcissist, and that's Billy

671
00:46:21.400 --> 00:46:26.039
Joel Tracy. There you have it now. Next week I

672
00:46:26.079 --> 00:46:30.079
will continue with this series fifty Shades of Evil and

673
00:46:30.079 --> 00:46:34.239
I'm going to go to another state. Will it be yours? Well?

674
00:46:34.559 --> 00:46:38.039
Check us out next week to find out. And until

675
00:46:38.440 --> 00:46:42.880
next time for Bloody and Gola, I'm Jim Chapman. Peace.

676
00:46:58.599 --> 00:47:00.119
I'll walk up the street.

677
00:47:02.000 --> 00:47:12.480
Shackle Change. Oh whosome Gerdy, it's calling my name. There

678
00:47:12.719 --> 00:47:15.639
is no mercy.

679
00:47:14.960 --> 00:47:21.159
And it's been a tentery juice as the huge string game.

680
00:47:22.400 --> 00:47:24.280
Rangle three.

681
00:47:25.800 --> 00:47:30.920
I'm here but by mere to die.

682
00:47:32.559 --> 00:47:37.320
Inside these waters, inside the wild.

683
00:47:39.320 --> 00:47:50.800
And when the girl, as I know, it's aboody Angle,

684
00:47:54.039 --> 00:48:05.719
ohbody Angle, Ana

685
00:48:09.679 --> 00:48:10.480
And Pad