Presenting: Bloody Angola

0:00 Hey everyone, and welcome back to Exposed, Scandalous Files of the Elite. I'm your host, Jim Chapman, and as I told you in yesterday's episode, I have been dropping an episode obviously every day. If you listen to Exposed, then you know we are bringing you the content, and all of that content lately has been about Seawan Combes. A lot of people are enjoying this, We're getting great downloads. But I want to assure everybody that this trial is just about over. We probably got I think we're going to reach a verdict by next Tuesday or Wednesday, in which case there's not many days left now. The jury was off today in the Shawn Combes trial. Tomorrow starts the closing arguments, etc. Which is today if you're listening to this right now, because I'm recording this on Wednesday, but I wouldn't have an update obviously because the jury was off today. So some of you are aware you listen to my other podcasts that I have called Bloody in Gola. It tells the history of Louisiana's most notorious prison, which is Louisiana State Penitentiary and in Gola, but many of you are not aware that I have that other podcast.

1:15 So here's what I'm going to do for you today. I wanted to bring you something, so I'm bringing you this week's recording of Bloody in Gola podcast. I hope you enjoy it. If you do enjoy it, in the description of this video, I am linking the link so you can go listen and follow Bloody in Gola very interesting. I tell all kinds of different stories in this week's is fire, so if you're so inclined, go check it out. But here is this week's Bloody in Gola podcast. And I will be back with you tomorrow on another update of the Diddy trial. And it looks like we're going to go back to our normal episodes of Exposed SCANDALUS Files of the Elite very soon, probably by the end of next week. So thank you so much for listening.

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3:37 Hey everyone, and welcome back to Bloody Angola a podcast one and forty two years in the making, the complete story of America's Bloodiest Present. I'm Jim Chapman, and today I'm going to tell you what is a little known story in the state of Louisiana outside of the area that I live in, and that is the story of the Good Year Killer. Now, this story centers around a guy by the name of Charles ray Spears, and not a lot is known about Charles ray Spears prior to his incarceration in what is known as Jackson Barracks. So I need to tell you a little bit about Jackson Barracks if you're not familiar. Jackson Barracks is located in New Orleans. It was established in eighteen thirty four and it was originally a US military base. Now, during the nineteen sixties, a work release prison was established within that Barracks and that played a big role in what we are going to discuss today. Now, in the nineteen nineties, that prison underwent renovations as part of what was known as the Jackson Barracks Prison Project. It included adding educational programs for inmates that were on work release. However, in nineteen ninety three. It closed after a notable escape and a murder, and I may tell you about that in

5:09 a future episode. After that event, the former prison was converted into a police training facility. And then Hurricane Katrina hit. This was in two thousand and five, and that caused significant damage to Jackson Barracks, including the destruction of that police training facility. And today the barracks is currently the headquarters of the Louisiana National Guard. So that's a little history on that. And we're going to go back to July twenty ninth of nineteen seventy five when Charles Ray Spears escaped from Jackson Barracks. He was working in the work release program there and he was serving time on a petty theft charge. Eleven days after that escape, a robbery and murder at a good Year Tire store in ham In, Louisiana would change the course of history in several people's lives, including that of Charles Ray Spears. Now, ham In, Louisiana a relatively small town in nineteen seventy five, however, Hammon was and still is the largest city in Tangipahoa Parish, Louisiana.

6:25 Hammond is the home of Southeastern Louisiana University. And aside from rambunctious nature of kids right college kids in nineteen seventy five, things like when I Am about to tell you about they just didn't occur often in Ham and Louisiana. So on August eighth of nineteen seventy five, the Goodyear Tire and Appliance store, they were just finished wrapping up another day. The tills were being pulled, cash et cetera, being placed in a money back, all the things you do when you close the day as a retail establishment. It was five thirty PM and the staff had not even locked the front door yet when a man enters the store. Now at the time, the store manager John Reid, he was forty seven, and the assistant manager a guy by the name of Roy Walters who was twenty six.

7:20 They were in the store alone at this time. The guy walks up to them and he approaches John Reid and he asked him about looking at radios. Remember we're in the year nineteen seventy five. Reid went ahead sold him a radio. The man turns to leave, then he turns back around and he asked about some cassette tapes. So before either of the managers could respond. The man pulls out a snubnose thirty eight caliber revolver and he orders both of those men to the floor, pulls out some handcuffs, and he handcuffs both of the manager's arms together. He starts going through the cash rugis starts approaching the safe, all those sorts of things. He goes back and he asks the men, are you going to remember me? John Reid says what all of us would say at this point, which is no. But at this time, the assailant pulls a gun and he shoots both of these men in the.

8:20 Back of the head. He then exits the store, so Roy Walters he looks over and he discovers that John Reid is already dead. Now. Roy Walters at this point as a thirty eight caliber bullet in the back of his head, but he's still alive in what you can only describe as a miracle. Although he loses his sight at this point, he can't see. He's totally blind now. Despite this, Walters does manage to drag John Reed, remember they were handcuffed together, across the floor to the telephone, where he manages to call police. The police show up and Reed is pronounced dead on the scene and Walters gets rushed to Auctioner Hospital in New Orleans and he is in critical condition now. Despite Walter's condition, when police first arrived at the scene, he was able to provide some details regarding a description of the man. He described the man as being six foot two, He was a black male, medium bill and had what was known at the time as Afro style hair. He was wearing a brown shirt with green pants and black shoes, and the police determined after talking to other employees that between two and three thousand dollars had been taken in the robbery. At this point, he gets rushed to the hospital.

9:45 The police are shutting down roads, they're setting up roadblocks, forming a perimeter, trying to catch this guy, but unfortunately no one was captured. Now, five days after this event, in sly Della, Louisiana, which is just a half hour or so from Hammon, Louisiana, a police officer by the name of Earl Alfred, who was thirty one, He responds to the call of a silent alarm which was triggered at a jewelry store called Champagne Jewelers. This is on August thirteenth of nineteen seventy five. He arrives with the robbery still in progress. He sees the robbery suspect going out the back door. Alfred was the first officer to arrive on the scene. He gets into a struggle with the assailant and he was shot and killed with his own service revolver inside of that jewelry store. Betty Graves, who was a twenty year old store employee, she lay stabbed twenty two times with a pair of scissors. So somehow she manages to crawl to Sergeant Alfred's patrol car to call for help, but she loses consciousness before being able to do so. Incidentally, she did survive.

11:08 Now. Witnesses reported seeing a black and white nineteen sixty four Chevy truck on that scene. But again police do what they do, roadblocks, et cetera. Yet the killer gets away. And at this point this is big news. People all over South Louisiana totally freaking out and they're thinking these robbery slash murders may be related. In the case of the Hammond, Louisiana robbery, the Chamber Commerce gets into the act. They offer one thousand dollars for any information leading to the capture of the suspects. Actually up that to twenty three hundred dollars with collections from members for information on the Good Year killer. And it wasn't too long before police did manage to unconnect, if you will, the these two robberies in short order, when three days later after that Hammond robbery, at twenty six year old by the name of David Eugene Lewis turns himself in for the murder of that police officer. This guy turns himself in and he was later convicted of first degree murder, attempted first degree murder, and armed robbery, and he was given a life sentence. Now, unfortunately the Goodyear slayings they would take much longer. But a big break in the case does surface when the following February of nineteen seventy six, police arrested a man by the name of Larry Donahue

12:39 who was twenty four after he was caught perse snatching in New Orleans. So they start questioning people in Donahue's circle, including his cousin. His name was Clay Spears, and Clay tells police that Donahue had told him that he robbed and killed a New Orleans man in Hammond, Louisiana, with the help of two cousins, guy by the name of Leroy Donahue and a guy by the name of Charles Ray Spears, which that got the attention of police because they're still looking for Charles Ray Spears who walked off of that work release site in Jackson Barracks, and they knew that he would be desperate, likely dangerous, etc. So armed with this information, they interrogate Clay Donahue further for another four hours, and he eventually cracks and he tells him that Larry and Charles Ray Spears robbed a drug dealer of his money and his drugs, but that it was Spears that actually killed the drug dealer, so the police they then bring this information to Larry Donahue and he coroborates his cousin's story, complete with fingering Spears as the killer of that dealer, who intimately was named Ernest Smith.

13:57 So in short order, the NOPD they fire and they arrest Charles Ray Spears and they charge him in the murder of Smith, but not so fast. A defense lawyer for Clay Donahue, he argues in court what is known in the legal world, as quote the fruit of the poisonous Tree doctrine, which states that any evidence obtained through unconstitutional means is rendered inadmissible in court. The lawyer argued to the state that Clay Donahue's information that he provided was done so due to coercion by the police, and in this case the judge agreed and charges against all three men were dropped because none of the information that this guy gave them could they use but hand. The police they had been following this and they felt like they had a case against Spears for the good Year robbery slash slang, especially after a man inside jail was Spears when he was incarceraty for the Smith killing, actually speaks up and says that Spears admitted that he was the good Year killer. So when he was cleared of these charges for the Smith murder, ham and police they pick him up and he's charged with murder and attempted murder as well as two counts of armed robbery in those Goodyear tire slangs. This was on March twenty seventh of nineteen seventy six. Of course, at this point it

15:29 goes to a grand jury. The evidence is presented and he is indicted. He goes to trial, and on August thirtieth of nineteen seventy six, the News Digest in Amy City, Louisiana, they came out with an article and I'm going to reference that now because it really covers the trial in great detail and it reads Charles Ray Spears, defendant in the good Year murder case, was found guilty of second degree murder attempted second degree in two counts of armed robbery. Spears will be sentenced September sixteenth by Judge Gordon Causey. A pre sentenced investigation must be returned honor before that date.

16:12 The trial began August twenty fourth near five pm, and it continued until seven point thirty when Causey recessed the proceedings until nine am on August twenty six. Spears stands convicted of murder by shooting good Year store manager John Reid as he lay on the floor of the Hammond store handcuff to Roy Walters Junior. Spears is also convicted of attempted second degree murder of Walters by shooting him in the head as he lay on the floor handcuff to Reed. The two convictions for armed robberies stemmed from Spears taking money from the store's cash drawers safe and from Reed's wallet. The incidents occurred on August eighth of nineteen seventy five. The State, represented by first Assistant District Attorney Joe Simpson, told the jury they would hear the story of one of the most cold blooded and horrible murders ever committed in Tanjebahoe Parrish. Assistant District Attorney Billy Quinn assisted in the case. Timothy Higgins, a public defender, told the jury in his opening statement that the case was one of mistaken identity. Doomas, who was retained by the Spears family on Friday, August twentieth, assisted with the defense case. The judge ordered tight security and all those who entered the court room were searched. No one was allowed to enter or leave while court was in session.

17:34 The security was also deemed normal by officials, who explained that such practices are not unusual in cases of such a violent nature. Taking the stand for the state first was Tom Kelly Ferris, medical doctor who performed the autopsy on Reed. Under questioning by Quinn, Farris said that he was one of the three pathologists on call for Jefferson Parish Corner's office on August eighth, or nineteen seventy five. Parris said that the cause of Reid's death was the bullet which entered one side of his head and exited the other. The second state witness with Sheriff's public information officer Dick Morgan, who testified the photos of the Goodyear's store taken on August eighth were real and not retouched.

18:19 Morgan was not allowed to describe items in the pictures, but only to comment on his position when he took the photos. The state's strongest witness was Roy Walters Junior. Next he took the stand for questioning by Simpson. Walter said he had been at his desk working on a report all afternoon and was still at his desk when the employees left at five point thirty. Only he and Red remained, and Reid went to the back of the store to lock the backup. Before returning to Walter's desk. The two men talked of Reed's vacation to the Ozarks, which he had taken a week previous. Walter said Reed started toward the front door around five thirty five. Spears then entered the store from the front and went to the opposite counter to Reid, where Reid was helping Spears select a radio which was purchased with cash. Walter said he heard Reid ask Spears his name, and he heard only an unintelligible mumble, which caused him to look at Spears.

19:18 Walter said he looked at Spears intently from a distance of no more than twelve feet, because he wanted to see if he knew him, since he was in charge of store credit and felt he should know the customers. Again, Reid asked for spears name, and the answer was again unintelligible. According to Walter's Walter said, Reid broke the name Randall on the receipt, took the cash, and turned away from Spears. Walter said he was then standing sorting mail at the counter. Walter said Spears then asked to see cassette tape recorders, and Reid called him to come and examine a machine to see how it worked, gave him the machine, and at the instant both men were holding the machine, Spears pulled a gun on them and told them not to move.

20:02 Walter said Spears then gave a pair of handcuffs to read and told them to put them on reed, put one cuff on himself and the other cuff was put on Walters by Spears. Spears then made the two lie down behind the counter in which the two cash drawers were. Both men were on their stomachs, side by side. Walter said Spears went to the unlocked safe and found five hundred to six hundred dollars in the safe for the Saturday employee payment and walked to the back and asked what was back there. Walter said he told Spears that it was the warehouse. Spears seemed satisfied with the answer and walked to the front and then asked them where the rest of the money was. According to Walters, Walter said he was afraid because the man was holding a gun on him and he felt like if he tried to resist that he would be shot, But he said he didn't feel that Spears was going to shoot them. Instead, he felt Spears would take the money and just leave.

20:58 Walters told Spears where the cat ass drawers were and had to get them open, and Spears took the money and asked to see both men's wallets for identification so he could get them if they tried to identify him. Walter said, Reed then spoke for the first time since Spears pulled the gun. They were also Reed's last words. He told Spears he wouldn't have to worry about them identifying him because they didn't know him. Both men had their wallets in front of them on the floor between the forums, and Spears took out the money inside Reid's wallet and tossed it in the waste basket. Walter said Spears didn't take his wallet. As he looked down, Walter said he could hear bam, bam, and he realized he couldn't see. He said his ears started ringing, his head was spinning, and he hunted for his glasses. He said he realized Reed had been shot as well as himself when he could hear no sound from Reed. When he thought Spears had left the store, Walter said he knew he had to get to the telephone on a desk nearby, and he tried several times to reach it. He said he had to pull Read with him because of the handcuffs, and he finally found the phone after several tries. He said he missed dialed the first time and reached an operator on his second attempt. He then asked for an ambulance and the police to come to the store. After Walters used the phone to summon help, he said he heard someone enter, but he was afraid to call out for fear with Spears returning. Then he heard the door open and he heard some people running in and someone

22:29 say get the cuffs off. He said he heard a voice say, Roy, this is Lieutenant White. Can you tell me what happened. Walter said he gave a physical description of a black male six' to two, tall between one hundred and seventy and one hundred and eighty, pounds, afro wearing green, pants a brown spotted, shirt no, socks and sandals with soles one to one and a half inches, thick and that is one heck of a. Description walter, said while he was still, handcuffed he had deliberately Studied spears While spears was moving around the store so that he would be able to accurately describe him to. Police reid said he was then taken To Seventh ward and told he would be taken To Auctionner. Hospital he said he was having serious pain and that he lost consciousness on the ride To. Auctioners once at the, Hospital walter said he was x, rayed taken to a waiting, area x rayed, again and then told he would have to undergo surgery to remove the bullet which would lodge against his optic nerve and bruised. It he said he remembers talking with his wife and praying with her and their.

23:32 Pastor his next memory was Of saturday, morning and he still had fuzzy. Vision during the week that, followed he said he spoke With Captain Charles binder of The Sheriff's office and worked with The Jefferson Parish Crime lab to make a composite. Sketch walter said he went over the description of spears every day in his, mind said that he would not forget And walter said after he was home from the hospital that he went To New orleans With Captain binder And Lieutenant white from the Ham And Police department to look at photos of black armed robbery. Suspects he said he must have eventually viewed over one thousand. Photos walter testified that he later went to the Ham And Police department and went through more Photo he said that periodically officers would bring him stacks of photos to.

24:19 View he said he eventually saw a picture Of spears in a stack brought to. Him he said he was told the man would be brought to Ham in for a lineup and that the picture was an old. One near the first Of, april on A wednesday, Night walter said he was called after midnight by the Ham and police to come see something. Important he said he was picked up and he went into the building and told he would go up an, elevator turn, left and that he would see a lineup of men marked with numbers one through. Five walter said he spotted the defendant in the, middle wearing the number. Three he said the men were made to show their profiles and they had to, say, quote what is your? Name walter said spears hair, was and then he had a, mustache which he didn't have at the time of the murder slash. Robbery walter said he told the officers that he wanted to See spears at a distance of four or five, feet so he did that And spears was picked out of that. Lineup, now During walter's, testimony the jury was shown where the bullet entered the back Of walter's. Head simpson Asked walters if the defendant was positively the man who had shot robbed him and Killed, reed And walter unhesitatingly said, yes it.

25:31 Is walter's identified objects in the pictures taken By Dick morgan and marked the photos with axes Where reed and he lay on the. Floor the photos of the scene were shown to the jury's evidence and included a picture of the. Bloodstains under questioning By, Higgins walters told of his injuries and he described the incident as serious in THAT i almost lost my life and it took five weeks out of my. Life he said that he suffered permanent damnag in a small blind spot in his field of vision as a result of the, shooting in that his glasses prescription had. Changed he said that he recently got a new pair of glasses and was told to return a year later for another. Examination higgins then proceeded to delve into the amount of time that it took for the. Robbery walter said it took all of five minutes from the time the gum was. Pulled higgins proceeded to go through an elaborate enactment of each move made by the. Principles he announced that it had taken a total of eight, minutes and that he felt it would have taken the defendant substantially, less not just three minutes, less to do all of the things that were. Done walter's commented That higgins didn't do all of the, things he just acted as though he were doing. Them higgins also introduced a composite published in The Parish daily which was released shortly after the. Incident walter said that was the first one, made not the second, one which was a lot more. Accurate so the defense attorney here he showing the first composite, sketch which apparently did not look

27:03 a lot like the. Defendant and he's also questioning the timeframe that this poor guy had come up, with and he's, saying how could you do all this in five minutes or? Less and the guy, said, WELL i wasn't actually doing all of. IT i was acting LIKE i was doing all Of higgins then asked If walter's thought that someone could make a mistaken identity in a case such as this. One walter, SAID i don't think a person could go through WHAT i have gone through and make a. Mistake when press, further he deemed the possibility was very. Remote higgins brought out a panel of three, photos and he started to Ask walter's questions about. Them simpson objected To higgins presenting these photos of people who were supposed victims of mistaken identities and who were supposedly wrongly. Punished the judge sustained that objection and he instructed the jury to disregard that portion of the. Preceding higgins then Asked walters if he would single out one characteristic for use in making an, identification And walter said, no that identification would have to be made with several characteristics. Together So higgins introduces a human exhibit in the person Of Lionel. Robinson this man was brought from jail and seated in the front.

28:17 Row the man had a shaved head and was in prison. Clothes higgins then Asked walters if he recognized, him And walters replied. No the man had been in the lineup apparently Which walters have, viewed but he did not have a shaved head. Then so the judge at this point recessed court until nine am the following, day and he of course tells the jury you can't talk to anyone about. This the next, Day Detective Melvin wells of The Human Police department testified and he said That walters identified a photo of the defendant after looking at some fifteen hundred photos over the period of eight. Months he said the photo Of spears was shown To walters in a group of ten photos that. Point Steve racky of the Ham And Police. Department he supervised that lineup which was, held and he, testified and he said That spears was advised of his. Rights four black men were taken from the jail and dressed in jail uniforms as With. Spears spears was then allowed to pick his own number in the lineup and to decide how they were to line. Up walters was brought. In he viewed the lineup twice from the front and side, views and he then requested that the men in this lineup be made to say. Something each man, said what is your? Name walters then Identified, spears saying that the hair was, different but he recognized the face and the. Person the defense attorney asked if the slayer of the SLIDE l policeman had been put in the lineup or if any attempts had been made to match his fingerprints with those taking at The goodyear's.

29:49 Store Sergeant Norman davidson of the Ham And Police department said he showed hundreds of photos To Roy, walters including the photo of the suspect in the slide l, police and That walters passed over. It he also said that a fingerprint had been lifted and sent to the crime, lab but that it was just an overlay print and it could not be. Identified Dennis, taylor a twenty one year old black, man was the next. Witness taylor had been convicted for armed robbery but is presently out of prison because he has been working on cases cooperating with The sheriff's. Office taylor was used as a plant at The Saint Helena paris jail Where spears was being. Held according To, Taylor spears admitted robbing The goodyear's store in Shooting reed And, walter saying, QUOTE i shot two jiving motherfuckers in the. Head taylor admitted that he would pretty much do What Detective dykes wanted him to do Because dykes kept him out of. Jail Burnham westmoreland testified that he was an automotive manager at the time and that he had locked the store after the. Incident he estimated a theft of two thousand. Dollars, however an audit later set the stolen out at fifteen hundred. Dollars the state then rested its case after showing photos of the deceased taken at the mordue to the. Jerk the first witness for the defense Was Willy spears Of, chicago who was an uncle of the. Defendant he said the defendant rode with him in his car From New orleans To chicago On august, fifth and he said the defendant rested at

31:22 his home On august, sixth and that on the seventh he took the defendant to The Busy Beaver Auto company to try to get him a. Job the owner of the company was too busy to talk to them on the, seventh So willy said he and the defendant returned on the, eighth and the defendant was promised a. Job he. Said the defendant went to work for The Busy beaver on the ninth Of. August, however the prosecutor Suggested Willy Sam, spears took a cousin of the, Defendant Curtis, spears To chicago on the fifth instead of the, defendant and it was the state's contention the defendant took a bus To chicago after committing the robbery and murder On august. Eighth Jamie, beaver owner of The Busy Beaver Auto company In, chicago was the next. Witness he Said Willie Sam spears had brought the defendant around to get him a, job and that he hired, him but he could not remember the date that he Met. Spears he said that it only seemed to him That spears went to work on A.

32:18 Saturday Mister beaver's, Wife Doris, beaver who works as a secretary for the auto, company she testified she was certain she saw the defendant twice On august. Eighth she said she remembered the, date particularly because she had surgery on her foot that same day and when she returned to the, office the defendant was in the paint. Shop, however no evidence was produced to show the defendant had drawn a paycheck for working on the dates Of august eighth Or august, ninth and no evidence was produced to Prove Miss beaver had foot. Surgery the, Defendant Charles Ray, spears then took the stand in his own, behalf And spears said that he had been convicted of burglary At greensburg and was given three years. Probation he violated the probation was sent To, Angola, Bloody, angola and then on To Jackson barracks In New. Orleans he escaped From Jackson barracks Last july twenty, ninth along with his first, Cousin Curtis. Spears he said he stayed at the home of an aunt In New orleans until he left For chicago With Willie Sam. Spears this was On august, fifth according to. Him he said that he got a job with The Busy beaver On august eighth and went to work On august, ninth and he said he returned To New orleans about two weeks Before Marty.

33:35 Garol on cross, examination it was brought out that When spears returned To New, orleans he was arrested along With Larry donahue And Clay spears On february twenty, second for the murder Of Ernest smith In New. Orleans and of COURSE i told you all about. That Clay spears confessed to the murder and implicated the defendant In. Donahue But clay spears confession was thrown, out as was the defendants And donehue by the court Because clay had been interrogated by police too, long and the confession had been made under. Duress that murder charge had since been dropped against all. Three spears claimed his confession to the Ernest smith murder was beaten out of him By New orleans Officers John dillman And Fred. Dentaggon spears said he said whatever they wanted him to say because he got tired of being beaten.

34:23 On Since Charles Ray spears testified to the existence of The smith case, arrest the state was free to question him on the statement he gave To dilman And. Dentaggonon in order to Attack spears' credibility as a truthful, Witness Billy quinn began to challenge spears truthfulness item by. Item at, First spears insisted the statement was totally untrue and the result of the. Beatings Then spears admitted that a portion of his confession referring to where he parked his car was. True he then admitted the statement was correct where he had said he had gone To smiths to rob him of. DOPE i agreed further that what he told the two officers About smith dealing in marijuana was. True when asked if he said he Shot smith through a pillow to keep him quiet about the robbery of. Money spears admitted that he had said something like that the two. Officers dealman And daggan then testified That spears was properly advised of his rights, twice once On Saint Ann street and once in police. Headquarters they both denied any beatings or coercions had been, used and that spears treatment was made freely.

35:30 Involuntarily both Said spears went To california after escaping From Jackson barracks following a dinner. Break Roy Walters junior took the stand briefly And simpson asked him if the defendant was the man who had shot. Him walters again answered emphatically that it Was. Higgins cross examination was a reaffirmation of the physical Description walters had Given. Spears the state's closing statement By simpson cited the key witness testimony about the eight months of photo viewing the lineup these several identifications in open. Court simpson told the jury that the key thing was, quote do you believe are witnesses or?

36:13 Theirs simpson Explained taylor's criminal, history particularly on the arm robbery, charge was reduced to aggravated burglary quote to give a break to a seventeen year old. Boy he said the thing with these license, plates he had simply forgotten about, them and he Cited taylor's young. Age simpson told the jury That taylor's most significant testimony was his pinpointing the use of A chicago alibi and of his telling Of spears confessing to the shooting Of smith by, saying, QUOTE i upped my, pistol which were the exact words also used in the confession given To New orleans. Police and that's big evidence right. There simpson, stated there is no documentary evidence that puts this man the defendant In, Chicago august, fifth or any. Date he also Cited smith's confession again and cited Where spears said he had lost about forty pounds within a two week. Period he cited the description Of spears wearing thick soled sandals during The Good year, incident at Which walters was forced to View spears from his position on the. Floor the defense statements appealed to the jury to believe their witnesses and accept that the matter was a case of mistaken. IDENTITY a jury of six women and six men returned the guilty verdict after being absent from the courtroom for nearly forty five. Minute only one, Juror Dion, hagen voted for spears acquittal on all four, Counts so there you have. It spears gets

37:44 sentenced to life for the murder Of red and twenty years for the attempted murder Of, walters as well as two ninety nine year sentences for the robbery of each, victim with those sentences running. Concurrent so it's off To Tanjiba parish prison for this. God but once an, asshole always an, asshole, right and he sues The Tangi Beho Parish sheriff's office for mistreatment and actually wins the, suit but he screws himself in the process because the judge also ruled that he be transferred out of that prison and into you guessed, it bloody In. Goola.

38:24 Now in nineteen ninety, six after appealing all kinds of, Shit spears is granted a new trial due to some questions regarding testimony in his original, trial and as scary as it, sounds the judge only gave the district attorney three months to retry the case Or spears would be set. Free, well this district, attorney he made it. Happen spears was retried and eventually justice did. Prevail he was again sentenced to life in. Prison and it's also interesting to point out that On december six of nineteen seventy, six the News digest in A Meat city ran another short article and it said, headline state sued for one, million three hundred and seventy five thousand dollars for actions of prison.

39:14 Escapee The Louisiana department Of corrections is being sued for one, million three hundred and seventy five thousand dollars for damage incurred as a result of The goodyear murder In hammon On august eighth of nineteen seventy. Five and then it goes into what occurred during that, murder Which i've already told. You it Says walters is suing the state for five hundred and twenty thousand dollars and they're Talking Roy. Walters twenty thousand dollars for medical, expenses one hundred thousand for lost earnings and impairment of earning, capacity one hundred thousand for mental. Anguish he's suing for pain and, suffering and for personal. Injuries reed's widow also sued for just a ton of. Money i'm not going to read the tire, article but interesting in THAT i can never find a final verdict on that, lawsuit and a lot of times that will be. Sealed that becomes a civil, matter not a criminal. Matter and unless you do a jury, trial usually you can't find a whole lot of information on civil.

40:19 Cases if it's a judge deciding the whole, thing they're usually. Sealed but there you have. It in the, end justice did prevail in this, case very non well known, case if you, will out of the state Of. Louisiana thank you so much for. Listening check out The Patreon patreon dot com Slash Bloody andngola. Podcast i'm about to really ramp things up On Bloody, andngola so get ready for. That so until next, Time I'm Jim chapman With Bloody, angola a podcast one hundred and forty two years in the, making lead story Of america's bloodiest, Prison peace.

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