Small Town Murder - #21 - A Sinister & Murderous Plot in Anniston, Alabama

Episode Date: June 7, 2017

This week, we take a peek at the town of Anniston, Alabama, where 2 men hatched a terrible plan, that spun out of control, leaving 2 people at the bottom of a river. Along the way, we find out just how toxic a town has to be before people start to leave, how riding a certain bus, in Alabama, in 1961 could be quite dangerous, and why you should never let anyone into your house Ever!!Hosted by James Pietragallo & Jimmie WhismanNew episodes every Thursday!!Please subscribe, rate, and review!Listen on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, or wherever you listen to podcasts!Head to shutupandgivememurder.com for all things Small Town Murder!For merchandise: crimeinsports.threadless.comCheck out James and Jimmie's other show: Crime in Sports Follow us on social media!Facebook: facebook.com/smalltownpodInstagram: instagram.com/smalltownmurderTwitter: twitter.com/MurderSmall Contact the show: [e-mail] See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

You're listening early and ad-free on Wondery Plus. What if you married the love of your life and then stood by them as they developed 21 new identities? What would you do? This Is Actually Happening is a weekly podcast that features extraordinary true stories of life-changing events told by the people who lived them. Listen to the newest season of This Is Actually Happening on the Wondery app or wherever you get your podcasts. This week, we check out the town of Anniston, Alabama, where two men acted on their worst instincts and sent a wave of fear through the entire area. Welcome to Small Town Murder. Hello, everybody.

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Train stuff. Now, before, small town train references. There's always trains involved in these small towns. They're very big with the trains. Now, before we get started, we do have to give our disclaimer that we give every week. This is a comedy podcast. Facts are real. Research is real.

Stories are real. Everything is real. It's true. But it's a comedy podcast. We're stand-up comedians, so we make jokes. We never make jokes at the expense of the victims or the victims' families. We're not assholes. That's not what we do. Well, we're assholes. We're not scumb families. We're not assholes. That's not what we do.

Well, we're assholes. We're not scumbags. We're assholes, but we're not scumbags, like we've said. We've said this before, and it's true. We're not scumbags. We're not going to make fun of these people. It comes at the expense of small towns, which we're all from small towns. They all deserve to be made fun of.

And, of course, bumbling police forces and murderers. We make fun of murderers because they're murderers. Fuck them. They should be made fun of. They're the assholes. That's right. If nothing, at the very least, they should be mocked. Let they're murderers. Fuck them. They should be made fun of. They're the assholes. That's right. If nothing, at the very least, they should be mocked.

Let's just say that. At minimum. So without further ado, Jimmy, what do you say? All right. Let's dive in headfirst. Headfirst down to Anniston, Alabama. Okay. We're going down south this week. Entirely different area of the country.

We're going down south. We're going to piss off people with a different accent this week. Because the south is, I got to say, the one place out of everywhere that gets the most angry if you say anything about them. They get super pissed off about it. Minnesota gets upset about pronunciations. Everything is a long I. Everything is I. It's not eh.

So Edina is Edina. Just Lionel Lakes. Just get that. Other people get a little whatever, but the South, they get very upset. The South, holy shit. No reason to get upset. Sorry. We're not picking on the South.

We make fun of everywhere. We've made fun of England, for Christ's sake. It's not about you. Relax. We didn't necessarily call Seattle, Washington fucking racist. No. Like we will probably in the South somewhere. Well, there's some stuff in here.

But listen, Seattle didn't fight for slavery. No, but they're all looking for Bigfoot. So we made fun in the South somewhere. Well, there's some stuff in here. But listen, Seattle didn't fight for slavery. No, but they're all looking for Bigfoot. So we made fun of them for that. And we made fun of Illinois for their sundown town. But we're in Alabama, guys. It's in the northeast part of the state over by Georgia. It is in Calhoun County, which sounds like a county in Alabama. If you said name five counties in Alabama, I didn't know any, and I had to make some

up off the top of my head. I think Calhoun would come out of my mouth, honestly. I'd be like, Calhoun? You're right. Holy shit, I did it. Wow, Johnson? Is Johnson one? I guarantee there is.

There's got to be. It's about an hour to Birmingham, Alabama, and about two hours west of Atlanta, also Atlanta, Georgia. So it's pretty much middle of nowhere. Yeah. It's in the middle sitting out there. It's in between where people want to be. Pretty much.

It's sitting in the middle there just kind of hanging out by itself. It's a little bit bigger of a small town. We'll get into the population. But it's so rural in itself. It's not like it's a tributary or a suburb of another town. It's just that's all there is out there. It's so weird out there, too, in the sticks like that. When they say in the sticks, they're not playing.

There's trees everywhere. Yeah. And it's just so sticky and gross. It is. Very pretty to look at. It's so weird out there, too, in the sticks like that. When they say in the sticks, they're not playing. There's trees everywhere, and it's just so sticky and gross. It is very pretty to look at. It's gorgeous to look at. Yeah, it's gorgeous. It's nice in the spring and fall. Until you think about all the shit that went down there. Not so nice in the summer, and then let's not bring memories or past indiscretions into this. God forbid we discuss the past.

The South is like a girlfriend. It's like you don't bring up the past. Hey, that's a beautiful building. Well, you know what that building was used for in the 1860s? I don't want to know. Don't tell me. Remember when you fucked that girl? No.

I like the brickwork. That's all I want to say, and I want to move on. So we are going to zip code 36201, area code 256. It's a large town and land area. It's 45.7 square miles. So that is a huge in terms of area. It's a lot of land. Yeah, it's a lot of land. It's mostly trees. If you said that was a fire, that much land, that's a ridiculous fire.

It really is. It is the county seat of Calhoun County. The city website proclaims it, Aniston, quote, the model city. Oh. So they're, it was very well planned, this city. They make a big deal out of how well it was planned, which, I don't know, they're very proud of their planning. They were the ones that didn't have slavery. Um, well, they actually didn't.

Really? This town, no, because it wasn't populated yet. Okay. The town was incorporated in 1883. Now, before that, the area really wasn't populated. Like, during when the Civil War started, nobody lived there. Really? So there really wasn't populated yet. Oh, okay. The town was incorporated in 1883. Now, before that, the area really wasn't populated. Like, during when the Civil War started, nobody lived there. Really? So there really wasn't any slavery because it was just trees. Trees can't have slaves, I don't think.

No. I mean, yeah. That's what makes them nice. Yeah. They are slaves. Yeah. Pretty much. Yeah.

Make our oxygen, asshole. All right. So the surrounding area was settled earlier, but it just wasn't that big. It really didn't get booming until the Civil War because they found the mineral resources because there's iron down there. Gotcha. So they dug that right up. The Confederate States of America, as they were called, the rebels, the secessionists, operated a big iron furnace down there, which is pretty much right where downtown Anniston is now. And then the Union cavalry came in and destroyed it in 1865.

And so they started making cast iron for sewer systems. That was their industrial output base. That's what they wanted to do. They're building pipes. They made pipes. They made all sorts of shit like that. Yeah, all sorts of... Anything out of iron.

They were into it. They were going to do it. Now, the messed up part is the Union troops who destroyed the, this is a thing that's, this happens in war, Union troops that destroyed the furnace, they hanged the wrong guy. They hanged a local farmer who was like five people in the whole area.

And he had nothing to do with it. No, they just, it was a Confederate soldier that was attacking a Union guy for trying to get it, for trying to get the furnace, and they didn't know who it was, and so this poor guy's farm was nearby. They just said, it must have been him. Wow.

So they hanged the guy. Yeah, it was kind of a big thing. In fact, they were pissed off. Yeah, but you can't. The five people in town were not happy with this. You don't get to do that. No, you can't just do that. You can't just hang people for no reason.

Did they find out who did it? It was just a soldier. Just some Confederate soldier that was doing his duty and ran off and, you know, whatever. He was just trying to fight off the ironworks and, you know, keep people away from the furnace. And they said, well, it must have been that guy. Like, wow, okay. I would think my first, okay, if you have like five farmers and then hundreds and hundreds and thousands of troops, I would blame the troops for attacking the military out install first.

I'd be like, it's probably one of the troops. Anybody see him with like a hoe in his hand or any farm equipment? No, then it was probably a troop. I'm going to go with troop on that one. Let's just say he had a musket. Yeah, probably one of ours. We're one of them. Did he smell like cow shit?

No, it was probably one of them. They smell like cow shit too. Never mind. We all smell like cow shit. We're in the middle of nowhere. We're one of them. Did he smell like cow shit? No. He's probably one of them. They smell like cow shit, too. Never mind. We all smell like cow shit. We're in the middle of nowhere. It's the 1700s. It's the 1800s. 1800s.

In 1872, the Woodstock Iron Company comes into town. It's all organized. They rebuilt the big furnace. This furnace is something, boy. Wow. They rebuilt the furnace on a larger scale. Wow. And they also started planning.

They keep talking about planning. They started planning a community. It was called Woodstock originally after the Iron Company. Yeah. And it was renamed Annie's Town for the wife of the railroad president. Of course. Her name was Annie Scott Taylor. And it was changed to Anniston, obviously.

All right. And then when it was chartered in 1873, that was the name. Anniston, we're going after this chick. Uh-huh. Hey, your wife, she's kind of good. I think we're going to name the town after her. We're all going to live inside her. We're all going to climb right up in there.

Everybody wants to get inside her, so we're just going to name the town after her. I love how there's just like some guido down there. It's like, hey, I've been looking at this broad, right? I'm checking her out, and I find out it's this guy's wife. And I'm like, all right, you know, I can't bang her. It's this guy's wife, so you know what? I'm going to name a town after her. You know what I mean? We's this guy's wife. And I'm like, all right. You know, I can't bang it. It's this guy's wife. So you know what? I'm going to name a town after. You know what I mean?

We can all get inside. Some real jerk Guido. Yeah, he's grabbing his dick the whole time. Like, let me ask you a question. It's one of my uncles. One of those switchblade combs and fixes his pompadour. And I am allowed to say anything I want about Italians because my last name is Petra Gallo. So when you have that your whole fucking life, you can say anything you want.

Anything about them. Anything. Yeah, it's amazing. You're whining spaghetti at your bastards. It'd be like if you were Seal. You can say anything you want about black people. You go, I'm the blackest motherfucker alive. I'll say anything I want. And burn victims. Yeah, exactly. And burn victims. Yeah, he can do that. He had lupus, actually. Is that what it was? It was lupus.

Well, I'm going with burn victims. Scarring from the poor guy. But you? He's a mess. He is a mess, yeah. Back to Anniston. 1961, some serious controversy happened in Anniston. That's why I was like, they didn't have slavery, but two freedom buses, the freedom riders were down there.

This was when civil rights, they were trying to get civil rights cooking. If you don't know, this was 61. It was right before the Civil Rights Act was passed two years before. So it was kind of a, uh, uh, there's 64, it was signed. So three years before. So this was like, these people were protesting and just trying to integrate things because the Supreme court was making decisions that would say, you know, you can't segregate and they'd be segregating anyway. So that people would come in from everywhere else to try to just protest it and whatever. Be a pain in the ass to this whole system.

Good. So, yeah, they were going down there. This was after the Supreme Court ruled that bus segregation was unconstitutional. So there was two buses, and one was outside of Anniston sitting right there. It was an integrated bus to protest the laws. Anniston, sitting right there. It was an integrated bus to protest the laws. And one of the buses was attacked and firebombed by a mob outside Anniston on Mother's Day, no less.

Wow. Sunday, May 14th, 1961. They firebombed buses. Yeah. Prior to this, prior to firebombing, listen to what they did. They broke windows, slashed tires, and beat it with metal pipes and clubs and chains and crowbars. window, slash tires, and beat it with metal pipes and clubs and chains and crowbars. Before the police came to get the bus, the bus was forced to stop. And what they did was, this was, you know, they wanted to, they had to protect people from goddamn people coming in and saying that, you know, people should be able to ride the

bus together. They need to die, right? Obviously. Jesus Christ. Burn them alive. Yeah. So they broke the windows and eventually threw firebombs into the bus. And as it burned, they made sure to hold the door shut to make sure nobody could get out.

And everybody would burn to death. Good people. Yeah. And anybody who did get away were beaten viciously and beaten within an inch of their life and lynched and things like that. Great town. Finally, it was dispersed by the fuel tank exploding and them backing away from it. So that's got a little... My God.

Yeah, things got a little touchy there in the 60s down there. A little dicey, yeah. A little dicey. That's... I have so much to say and I can't get a fucking thought out. It's ridiculous. That whole racist thing that the whole South... That's extreme too. That's not just sitting around being like, I don't want no black guy dating my out. It's ridiculous. That whole racist thing that the whole South. That's extreme, too.

That's not just sitting around being like, I don't want no black guy dating my daughter. That's not that. Let's get out there and hold people in a bus so they burn to death. Unbelievable. At what point does that switch flip? That's what we need to do as a group. I don't want to make it political, so never mind. It's not even political.

I know my thought that I was going with was very political. Ignorant, ignorant. It doesn't matter. Oh, okay. Well, yeah, let's keep it to this.'s not even political. I know my thought that I was going with. Ignorance, ignorance. Doesn't matter. Oh, OK. Well, let's keep it. It's just like it's let's let's. Yeah. People are people are miserable, miserable things. We are. We are monsters.

Oh, we are. We when we get together, we're worse. Yeah. Now, in 2002, an investigation by 60 Minutes revealed that Henniston is among the most toxic cities in the country. In terms of chemicals? In terms of chemicals. PCBs were produced there. PCBs were produced there from 1929 to 1971.

I know PCBs. Those things are bad news. They never get out of your system. Yes. The Monsanto Industrial Chemicals Corporation bought it in 1935 and just dumped the shit into the Snow Creek. Wow. And, yeah, that's important. And it's heavy, and it goes into the bottom of the stream, and then fish eat it, and it gets in the fish, and then you eat it.

The plant closed in 71, and it's still one of the most toxic places. So, I mean, that tells you a lot right there. Now, population of this town, 22,347, which is down a lot. It's gone down over the last century. The PCBs are killing them. Well, that's probably it. Honestly, in the last 15 to 20 years, it's had a huge, you know, about 5,000 people have left. That's probably after a huge expose on television, national television, for an hour, saying how horribly toxic your town is.

You might go, maybe we'll move two towns over. What do you think? Let's get the hell out of here. What do you think? Birmingham's only an hell out of here. What do you think? Birmingham's only an hour away. Atlanta's two hours away. There's trees everywhere. Our car will make it.

Let's get the hell out of here. It's one of those things. So it's, yeah, scary. So they left. PCBs, you have to dig. When there's a contaminant that's like a foot deep, you have to dig like 10 feet around it to clear out the contaminant because it's such bad shit. That's how horrible PCBs are.

They're not willing to do that, apparently. They're just going to leave it there. Well, they'd have to dig the whole town out. Yeah, true, true. Female and male is about regular, 52% female, 47%. It's about normal. 40.6 is the median age. Normal median age is about 37.4.

But we're going to get at one of those things where it's a weird – it turns out to be about 40, but there's a shitload of old people here. It's one of those deals. Like the married population's actually way less than normal, which I would not expect down there. I'd expect everybody to get married off quickly because it's very religious down there, as we'll get into in a minute. But it's only 40% married population. twice the widows, like I said, old people down there, more divorced people than average, which I would not expect down there either. I didn't think you were allowed to do that. Baptists, what are you doing? Yeah.

What the hell's going on here? Lots of Baptists. We'll get into the race of the state or the city here. Race, it's 42% white, which is way lower than the 62% average, 51.8% black, which is way higher than the 12% average. 1.9% Asian, so that's something. Yeah, not bad. They got somebody in there. 2% Hispanic, way lower than the 16.9% normal there.

So that's a deal a little different. It's super white. It's white and black. Oh, yeah, yeah. It's 51% black people. It's just white and it's black. That's what it is. I missed that part.

72.2% religious. is part 72.2 religious 72 72.2 about 50 50 is the average my god 72 they're religious 42 baptist but they are fine with divorce boy no queers and firebombs too yeah and firebombs about 42 baptist that's all shitload of baptists or whatever that's fine but it's you're not you don't you know there's no ceiling on how many you can have, but it's still like that's a lot of Baptists, boy. Now, 0.1% Jewish. There's a comfort level, but no ceiling. Yeah. 0.3% Muslim, which is more than I would expect, honestly.

65% Republican, 33% Democrats in the voting, which is exactly what you would expect. That is exactly on the state average. Really? Yeah, you would expect. They're exactly on the state average. Really? Yeah, that's exactly. They're right along with the state. Now, the economy down there, not doing so hot. Really? Let's just say.

About 26% of the people make under $15,000 a year, which is not terrific. But they're loaded with PCBs, so they don't even know it. They don't even know it. They're a little brain damaged. They're watching Scooby-Doo, and they're happy with that. They're like, I don't remember this episode. I saw it when I was 10, and I don't remember it at all. The Globetrotters are in this one.

Calm down. Everybody shut up. Didn't they help Killigan get off the island? I'm not sure. I'll watch that when it comes on, too. So all the incomes under $50,000 a year are more than average. There's more people making under $50,000 than normal in every bracket. And there's only about half the average number of people making over $75,000 a year.

So there's way more poor people than normal, basically. Way less upper middle class or middle class people. Unemployment rate is about 3% higher than the rest of the country. It's over 8% there. Yeah, the job growth is negative. So it's not because people are leaving. So you don't get positive growth when people leave. It's over 8% there. Yeah, the job growth is negative. So it's not because people are leaving. So you don't get positive growth when people leave.

It's just one of those things. And it's the people with jobs that are leaving. Absolutely. It's people with jobs. It's people with their PCBs. If they're mobile, they're like, let's get the fuck out of here. While the getting's good. Yeah, before we have cancer. Average household income there is about $31,000, which is well below the $53,500, which

is normal. Jobs down there, it's like average in every category. It's within a percent of average. I've never seen it so average. 24% is the average for sales and office and that sort of thing, and they're right at 24%. It's all within a point of everything. So the average of everything when it comes to that. The cost of living, we say 100 being the average. The zero. The zero. The par. Yeah.

100 being par. It's 82 overall there. Some things are a little higher. Some things are a little lower. Housing is 52. Okay. 52. Most houses there are worth between about $40,000 and about $150,000 a year.

And if we've convinced you- $40,000? $40,000, there's a lot of houses in that range. They're not houses. I've seen them. Really? They're little houses. They are houses. Do you think they've got a foundation?

Two bedroom, two bath. They're houses. They're not like manufactured. They're not Cinderbolt trailers? No, they're like 200 years old. They're like a 100-year-old shack, basically. A lot of them are that sort of thing. Now, if we've convinced you that you need to live in Anniston, you want to go check out that big iron furnace down there, we have the Anniston Real Estate Report for you.

You can get a two-bedroom apartment. The average price of that there is about $643, which is about $400 under the average. Very affordable. It's reasonable. Three-bedroom, two-bath house on Hillside Drive, $59,900. Four-bedroom, three-bath house on Pebble Creek Circle for $164,900. Sounds lovely. And it's a nice house, that house. Good words.

It's a big house. It's a nice house. Pebble Creek sounds fantastic. Pebble Creek Circle sounds very quiet. Sounds nice. Now, things to do in Anniston. Oh, I want to know. Things to do.

Because right now, apart from get poisoned and die, there isn't much. You'll see a common theme here. Fort McClellan is there. Fort McClellan is the Army Training Center base. Fort McClellan is number one. That is the number one thing to do there. What is that to do? Go look at it.

Get recruited? Go look at it and be like, yeah, people trained here. The Anniston Army Depot is number two. You've got to have that. They have old artillery and shit like, yeah, people trained here. The Anniston Army Depot is number two. You've got to have that. They have old artillery and shit like that sitting around. And finally, this is what you really got to go to, the Homeland Security Center for Domestic Preparedness. Wow. That is one of their top three things to do.

So it's all things to go look at. It's basically let's go look at the military that kicked our ass. Yeah, and the current one. Well, no, the current one. It's the current one, but look at the military that kicked our ass. Yeah, let's go and the current one. Well, no, the current one. It's the current one, but it's the military that kicked our ass. And let's be scared about everything. Let's go there and figure out just in case terrorists want to go after rural Alabama, which is the first place they're going to

go, I figure. Right. New York City first, then maybe D.C., and then Anniston is third. So get ready, guys. Get down there. And also, too, let's go look at the people that we're going to have to fight, and we're the reason that those are the people that are looking at the. And also, too, let's go look at the people that we're going to have to fight. And we're the reason. Those are the people that are looking at the military and then going, now let's go down to the local convenience store or gun store and buy some guns that are not going to match up to what we just looked at. Yes, yes.

And then say, I'm protecting. And get prepared. Yeah, I'm protecting. No, they're not. Yeah, well, for them, their domestic preparedness might be against their own government. They might be thinking, I'm not sure. I don't know how many. I see a bunch of guys running around in you know gray uniforms down there going it's not over with the bowie knife it ain't over i'll tell you that right now

they think it's over up there but they don't rise again okay we've made fun of them enough and let's move on uh the crime there what we're what we're really interested in here the crime uh property crime burglary larceny theft is more than double the average. Like way more than double the average. Like almost triple the average. It's way high. Violent crime, murder, rape, robbery, assault is twice the national average. This place is fucking dangerous.

Those PCBs will make you steal shit and murder people. Speaking of murder... You commit every crime. You bet your ass. Now speaking of murder, this encompasses all of that. Let's get into our murder this week. Fantastic.

We start with Fred and Evelyn Blackman. Let's introduce to them. Fred is actually the son. They're wealthy people. Fred is actually the son of an old Alabama congressman. Oh. Fred Blackman Sr. He's a junior.

Fred Leonard Blackman. He served from 1873 to 1921 in Congress. So he was in there a long time. He was born in Lime Beach, Georgia. Moved over there. Almost 50 years in Congress? Yeah, he was in Congress forever.

He was an attorney. He practiced. He ended up also getting re-elected when he died in 1921. A dead guy got reelected? No, he was elected and died. He got reelected in November, died in February. So he was finishing out another, he was starting another term. I was just going to say he probably died in office then if he served for 50 years. So yeah, that makes sense. He died on February 8th, 1921. I wish it was the opposite. Fred is his son. Fred is born in 1910.

He's a young man in 1910. When we catch up with Fred, it is 1986. Fred is 76 years old, Fred Blackman. He is married to Evelyn Kane Blackman, who is 41 years old in 1986. Because, Fred, money will get you 25 years. Oh, boy. You never see a 40-year-old woman with just like a poor guy. 25-year-old? No, no. With a 76-year-old man who's just on Social Security. years oh boy you never see a 40 year old woman with it with just like a poor guy 25 year old

no no with a 76 year old man who's just on social security like he's his ass who's eating cat food like you don't see that happen often but the rich guy a guy that without her would would die and then be eaten by his cat and that's not sexist that's factual so that's just a fact evelyn also it's like you said there's not a lot of tall homeless people that's a fact that's just a fact. Evelyn also, it's like you said, there's not a lot of tall homeless people. That's a fact. That's just what it is. That's just the way it is. Evelyn has a daughter, Julie, from a previous marriage. She's 20 years old in 1986.

Like I said, they're loaded, this family. They have a lot of money. Julie used to go out with a young man named William Glenn Boyd. Now, he's a 20-year-old shithead, basically, this guy. They went together for about two years. We're catching up with this whole situation in March of 1986. They had just broken up in February of 1986 from a two-year relationship. Boyd, in later years, looks exactly like – he's another one.

We said last week the woman looked like she's crazy and looks like she'd do what she did. You'd look at this guy and be in fear of him doing exactly what he did. You'd go, yeah, that's – fuck. I wouldn't want that guy to do that. Not for nothing, but there are very few successful people with the last name of Boyd. That's a very common fuck up last name. It's more looks than name on this one. You can go, yeah, you got problems, dude. So Boyd hangs around with another shithead named Robert Milstead.

Now, Boyd needs money because he's an idiot. So he hatches a plan and he tells Milstead about the plan. On March 24th, 1986, he tells Milstead that he's going to blackmail Mrs. Blackman with the names of men she had slept with while married to the older Mr. Blackman. He said he was then going to sell the names to Mr. Blackman. So he was going to try to double blackmail him and get them on both. So he just tells them he needs him to come with him to set this scam up is all he does. Doesn't say anything else to Milstead about this. This is the equivalent of stealing a sex tape and trying to sell it back to somebody.

It's exactly what it is. Yeah, the 1986 equivalent. Now, this is like straight as blackmail as you get. Milstead doesn't know the Blackmans at all. He'd met his girlfriend and stuff, but he doesn't know his ex-girlfriend's parents. They don't know him. So Julie at the time, she's living with her mother

and Fred. It's on Fairway Drive in Anniston. And so she leaves for school on March 26, 1986. She leaves. Both of them are home. Fred and Evelyn were both at home. She goes to school. She leaves. It must have been sometime right after she left because it's before 8.40 a.m.

Boyd and Milstead come in here. They pull up. They park about a couple blocks, about a quarter a mile away. It's several blocks. It's about a quarter mile away from the Blackman's home, from Fred and Evelyn's home. Boyd's driving a white 1976 Camaro. So you

know he's white trash. You know he's white. She's got REO Speedwagon pouring out of that shit. It's not great. It's I Can't Drive 55. It's some Sammy Hagar garbage music. Jesus.

They pull up to the house. It's Milstead and Boyd. Hop out in their jean jackets. They do, but before they do that, before with a big, you know, Judas Priest patch on the back,

before they get out with their... Got another thing coming, people. Before they get out with their Leonard Skinner patch on their jean jacket, Boyd gives Milstead a.25 caliber gun and tells him to go up to the Blackman's house. He says, hold them until I get there. So this is his deal.

He said the Blackmans aren't going to let Boyd in. Boyd's like, they're not letting me in. They know me. Julie doesn't like me. They're pissed off at me. You need to go out. But as an accomplice, if somebody throws you a little deuce fizzle and says, run up there and hold them at gunpoint, be like, I thought we were going to blackmail them with sex names. What are we doing now?

These people are idiots. This is the dumbest fucking plan. Well, it gets worse from here. And this is why, what the plan was originally, we don't know here. That's a ridiculous, this is already out of control it's out of control it gets much worse milstead puts the gun in his pants he's just like cool all right he does it knocks on the door mr blackman here he comes to the door and says that uh you know he's in his pajamas but he let milstead in and milstead said he was a friend of julie that's

how he got in yeah and he said he needed to talk about talk to mrs blackman about her daughter's safety that was how they were going to get to talk to Mrs. Blackman. That's what Milstead thinks. Like, okay, I'm going to talk to her, then we're going to blackmail her, and then we're going to move on from there. That's the basic deal. Milstead then goes downstairs in the house to see Mrs. Blackman. She's taken there. He's taken there by Mr. Blackman.

Milstead tells her, tells Evelyn, that Boyd is on a rampage, was his quote, and he's scared that Boyd is going to hurt Julie. That's what he says. So Milstead and Evelyn then go back upstairs to talk to Mr. Blackman in this case. And at this point, Boyd comes in the house. This is when he bursts in. Boyd has a.22 revolver. So you told her he's fucking crazy. There he is.

Yes, exactly. He bursts in. That's perfect timing, honestly. It was a stage's fucking crazy. There he is. Yes, exactly. He bursts in it. That's perfect timing, honestly. Like it was a stage direction. Like, now, now, go, go. Enter stage right. Go, no.

Fucking that's your cue. Move. So Boyd, right on cue, runs out there. Oh, shit, okay. Puts a.22 revolver to Evelyn's head. She tells her husband to call the police. She tells Fred to call the police. And Boyd said, probably not a good thing to do.

Why don't you guys sit down? I'll shoot you if you call the police, obviously. That's why I brought a gun to stop you from doing that. He tells Milstead to hold the gun on him, and then he goes up into the kitchen and rips a pillowcase into pieces. He then ties up Mrs. Blackman, ties up Evelyn, gags her and blindfolds her. All right. Now, right around this time at 840 a.m., Officer Ken Murphy of the Anniston Police Department testified that he was patrolling the area and saw a white two-door 1976 Chevy Camaro illegally parked near the intersection of the road. Again, this is always a bad parking job. Remember Burlingame, Kansas?

Nosy neighbors with the parking. Park two miles away and walk, you lazy bastard. Not that I want you to get away with murder, but think for one fucking second here. So he checks the tag number, 11K9970, and it comes back to Mr. Boyd. So they're just writing him a ticket. That's all they're doing. They don't think that he's doing what he's fucking doing, obviously. You know, that wouldn't be your first assumption.

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That's his game here. Boyd then tells Mr. Blackman here, he tells Fred that Julie is a hostage and that he needs $75,000 from him for Julie not to be harmed. Boyd said that? Boyd tells Mr. Blackman this. OK. Mill said should be going like, dude, we need to talk in another room. We got to chat. I think he's like, we're getting 75 grand.

Like that's what they're, these guys are not thinking straight. So he says he doesn't have that much money. Mr. Blackman, he says he has to get the money because it's tied up in stocks. And you know, he's a wealthy guy. He's got, you know, things he's got. It's tied up. He says that he agreed. So at this point, Boyd says, well, I'll tell you what, I'll take 5, for now. So give me five thousand for now. OK, just give me five. Yeah. They go

upstairs. Mr. Blackman puts clothes on because he's in his pajamas and then they take him to the bank. OK, now the operations officer at the bank at the first Alabama bank testifies that she knew Fred. She saw Fred Blackman several times a week. He pulled up in the drive in and she said a white, slender male with long dark hair was with him and he was acting super weird. He presents the check of $5,000 and he wasn't like looking at her. And she said, hey, Fred, this is Linda. How are you doing?

And he just looked ahead and nodded. He didn't do anything. So she was like, that's weird. But she cashes it, gives him his $100. She's like, well, maybe he's having a bad day. What am I going to do? Go out there and berate a bank customer for not being polite enough for me? Like, whatever.

So, you know, it was one of those things. But she sees Boyd right in the car. Yeah. And she can identify who he is. He's been spotted now. It's not. Yeah, that's right there. He's already fucked up five times.

Yeah. His car's there. It's piling up for fuck ups. So they get back to the house. They have the money, $100 bills. They give, by the way, Boyd gives Milstead half this money. Right away. Which is shocking.

Not right away, but later. But that's still that he did. He tells him, then Boyd tells Milstead, he says, we're going to take the Blackmans to a secluded spot, tie them up, and leave them. So that way I can get out of the state. He's like, they know who I am. They don't know you, but they know who I am. And they're going to say, hey, it was this asshole.

You know what I mean? So I got to go. So they do that. Milstead already, though, is probably going, oh, so we're going to kill him? Because everything else you've said so far has escalated to something worse. It's all escalated. Yeah. So before they leave the house, Boyd takes $1,500 out of Mr. Blackman's wallet, steals that.

He had $1,500 in his wallet. Not bad. So now he's got $6,500. Yeah. Well, $2,500. And so he's got four grand. Right. Oh, OK. He had $1,500 in his wallet. Not bad. So now he's got $6,500. Yeah. And, well, $2,500. And so he's got four grand. Right. Oh, OK.

I see what you're saying. And he also takes one of Evelyn, Mrs. Blackman's gold necklaces also. Takes that, steals it. He's going to hock it later or whatever. So they all leave in Mr. Blackman's black Cadillac Eldorado, which sounds like what a 76-year-old wealthy guy would drive. You mean Eldorado. Sorry.

Sorry, Illinois. An Eldorado. Thank you, Jimmy. Sorry. So anyway. So they're leaving a big caddy. He also, Boyd, on the way out, grabbed two of the phones out of the house because he said he knew they were tapped, which I don't know why leaving them there would be bad then. I don't understand how that would help.

Either way. So Milstead's driving. Mr. Blackman's in the front. The other two, Boyd and Mrs. Blackman are in the back. They drive across the Coosa River and drive down a dirt road, which is scary if you're tied up with a couple of psychopaths. Boyd

and Milstead and Mrs. Blackman get out of the car. They leave Mr. Blackman in the car. They walk her to a clearing behind a brush pile. They tell her to sit down. They tell Evelyn to sit down. He ties her hands and feet. She's gagged and blindfolded. They talk to her for a minute. And then after that, Boyd decides he's going to hit her in the head with a stick. So he hits her a few times with a big stick in the head and the forehead. She starts screaming.

He's like, oh, you're supposed to die. Yeah. Boyd tries to choke her with a cloth then. She's screaming. So then Boyd takes out his.22 and muffled over the cloth and shoots Mrs. Blackman. I see him in me, myself, and Irene when Jim Carrey is like, he fires three rounds into the cow, and then he gets on the ground and chokes it. Yeah, yeah.

He's just like, oh, you didn't die from the stick. Now I have to choke you. That's what it is, except not funny at all. No, not right. Not bumbling. He did it in reverse order, though. He's trying to choke her. He shoots her.

She's still not dying. Oh, my God. So he calls to Milstead to shoot her with the.25 caliber gun. So he shoots her in the back of the head, and they cover up her body and leave her there. Goodness gracious. They head back to the car. Now, if you're Mr. Blackman, you're in the car. They left with your wife.

You hear a gunshot. They're walking back. You hear several gunshots. Now they're coming back without her. Right. You're thinking shit has gone bad here. There's several gunshots. Now they're coming back without her.

You're thinking shit has gone bad here. Milstead and Boyd then take Mr. Blackman back across the river, back into Calhoun County. They park on a dirt road. Boyd tells Mr. Blackman to get out of the car. When he gets out of the car, they hit him on the head with a stick. They know that doesn't work. When they hit him, they also smash the taillight on his car and leave plastic, little pieces of plastic all around there. So that's going to come in. They're leaving a trail everywhere.

Absolutely. So they then take a piece of cloth and they start to choke Mr. Blackman. They tried this once. When you choke people, they struggle. So Mr. Blackman starts to struggle and grabs a stick and stabs Boyd with the stick. Nice. So this guy's fighting. He's 76 and he's like, you're not strangling me in the woods.

I will stab your ass. I don't care. I grew up i'm you know my dad was a congressman for 50 years god damn it in alabama you know he did bad things i have no soul so no i'm just kidding anyway so anyway uh boyd then takes out the 25 and puts it to mr blackman's throat which he mr blackman begs and tells him please don't shoot me me. I'll get you $50,000. He's like, I can get you $50,000. And Boyd told him it was too late, and he shot him in the chest and the neck. And they then rolled his body up and put it in the trunk of his own car. They then drove the car to a Piggly Wiggly, which is a grocery store if you're not from the southern part of America.

They drive him to the Piggly Wiggly and leave it parked there. They then go to Milstead's father's house. They wash up. They change clothes. And then they went back that night again to pick up the car. They drive it to a boat ramp on the Cusa River, and they roll the windows down on the car and roll it into the river and just let it sink.

And that's their plan? That's their plan. Let it sink. And they have the woman, though. They have Evelyn out in the woods still covered up. So this is the other thing, too. They did all this. They went back home. At some point, Julie stopped by Boyd's house to pick up some tapes of hers that he had.

Oh. So he saw her during the day. And just let it be. Let it be. Here's your tapes. Have a good one. There they are. So anyway, they go back that night. They just let it be. Let it be. Here's your tapes. Have a good one. There they are. So anyway, they go back that night.

They throw the two pistols in a creek. The next morning, Milstead goes and gets some 55-gallon barrels because they have a job to do now. Boyd and Milstead go back to the woods where they left Mrs. Blackman. They put her in one of the barrels with rocks and weigh it down and rolled it into the river. But they couldn't quite get her in there, so they had to really break her up with an axe. They broke her back and all sorts of shit with an axe to stuff her in there, which one thing I've learned from this show, bodies don't fit in barrels. They don't.

Just stop trying. They don't fucking fit in there. And if they do fit, you have to break them apart and stuff them in there, and they're going to float back up. It's messy, right. It's not going to work. Just stop trying to fucking do that. We know that from episode, I think, five in Ohio.

And then if you put concrete in it, then you can't move it. Then you can't move it. It weighs 800 pounds and then what are you going to do? So, yeah, not smart here. So they had to break her up because she was too stiff, too. So they had to basically- Oh, God, I remember this as a motherfucker. They kind of had to cut her in half.

Oh, God. They then throw her. They put some soft cement, some rocks in there. They cut some holes in the barrel with an axe, too. And they rolled the barrel into the river and sank it. OK. So, yeah. Boyd tells Milstadt, if anybody asks, the police ask, tell them a story.

Tell them it was the mafia. And then he heard that they were all. How do you know that? They were all in with the mafia and all that sort of thing. So it's unbelievable. Like, that's their that's their like, we'll just tell them it was the mafia and all that sort of thing so it's unbelievable like that's their that's their like we'll just tell them it was the mafia everyone will buy that point does does milstead say as is it as he's pushing the car or is it when he's rolling the drum when he goes what happened to just a list of people that she fucked like yeah where's that how do we get to

this i do have money in my pocket though so unreal so milstead then goes and talks to a friend of his, a woman named Sharon Johnson, who is going out with Boyd. Milstead tells her that he and Boyd kidnapped the black men's and killed them. Oh, so she now he's telling other people. So they're making every mistake possible here. Sharon would later testify also in this whole thing. There's also a guy named Kenny Surrett. in this whole thing. There's also a guy named Kenny Surrett. Now, Kenny Surrett goes to talk to Boyd the next day because Boyd had given him a bad check to pay back a debt,

so he's going to get the money from him. He shows up. He said that he gets there. Surrett gets to Boyd's. Boyd comes out of the bathroom, and he said, Boyd tells him, Kenny, I didn't realize how cold-blooded I was. And he kind of tells him about the whole thing.

He said, yeah. He tells him that he did this thing. What an idiot he doesn't even believe him so he's like i don't even think he's telling the truth whatever but then there was a bunch of money on the table and he said he got the money for mr boyd said he got the money for mr blackman and here's the money i owe you and have a good one buddy and he was like okay this is super weird very strange finished using the bathroom he comes out after taking a piss and he goes, hey, how you doing, Kenny? Good to see you. Did you know how cold-blooded I am? Let me tell you. I'm shocked about it.

I can't believe this. I am cold-blooded. You're damn right you are, sir. You're a real asshole. Yeah, next day, Surat goes with Boyd to the barbershop and he's making jokes. Boyd's making jokes about the couple being at the bottom of a river. And he's like, hey, they could be at the bottom of a river

by now. Isn't that funny? And the SIRT guy's like, I don't want to hear that shit. I don't want to know about this. Don't tell me. I don't want dead people's money. How do you get to that? That's just what your conversation is all day now? Yeah. He's just bragging. He's an idiot, this fucking guy. So March 28th, 1986, this is two days after they've

disappeared, Julie Greenwood, the daughter and her father, file a missing persons report because they still haven't come home yet. And they have no idea where they are. They're just gone. Now, on April 3rd, now the police through this whole thing, they're trying to put shit together, obviously. They're doing their job and they're following any leads. And there are a lot of leads because there's a lot of physical evidence. People have seen these two idiots with them.

The evidence is. There's a lot of clues at minimum. Yeah. Of at least who you're going to talk to. Right. You know what I mean? So on April 3rd, 1986, Boyd is parking his car in front of a house on Mulberry Street in Anniston, Alabama, when police arrest him for kidnapping in the first degree.

Good. OK. They take him. They take him into custody. They impound his vehicle. The vehicle was taken to the police department impound area. They locked the fence and all that. So, you know, they have to put that in the reports to know that nobody tampered with it or anything like that.

The Camaro, the 76 Camaro, the REO Speedwagon Mobile. The long one. So they read him his Miranda rights, and he decides he wants to give a statement. Really? He's going to give a full statement. He gives about four of them, all of them admitting some form of whatever, some form of either I shot this one and Milstead shot this one or Milstead shot this one or he shot both.

They vary. Milstead gives five versions of the story. Really? Five different versions varying from they each shot one of them to Boyd just went crazy and did everything on his own. Those are the varying stories. But he's willing to put Boyd in. Yeah.

But he's also implicating himself. He's implicating himself, but he's saying, hey, I'll fucking throw that guy in. I don't give a shit about him. Fuck that guy. Yeah, exactly. So now Mr. Blackwell. And he's a liar, too. He told we were going to do one thing, and then we get there and do another.

None of it adds up. I'll tell you all the stories. That's exactly what it is. That's exactly liar, too. He told me we were going to do one thing, and then we get there and do another. None of it adds up. I'll tell you all the stories. That's exactly what it is. Good for him. That's exactly what it is. So Milstead told them where the car was in the river. So they pull Mr. Blackman's car out of the river. They compare pieces of taillight found on the dirt road to the missing portion of the taillight, and it fit perfectly.

They go to Milstead's house, and they find a blue metal barrel, because he bought two. Like, how are you going to put them in two? And an axe, they find in the backyard. Now, the next morning, April 7th, or two days later, they conduct a search of Boyd's vehicle. Okay, and in Boyd's vehicle, they find a piece of white and yellow entwined cloth on the front floorboard of the car, which matches the one end is knotted and there's hair in it. And guess whose hair that matches? A black mesh shirt, a pair of blue underwear, a black jacket, and another piece of cloth were found in the right floorboard. Another one, this one, used as a gag.

They also found a roll of gauze in the console of the car with a gold necklace inside an envelope. The necklace belongs to Mrs. Blackman. It's the one he stole at the house. He was keeping that as a little souvenir or something, the hock later, whatever. Also, two spent.22 caliber shells were found on the dashboard. So every bit of evidence you could possibly leave to have a trail of breadcrumbs is what this fucking idiot did. leave to have a trail of breadcrumbs is what this fucking idiot did. Now, Boyd accompanies police to, they take him out to show them to the creek to where the guns have been discarded on April 11th.

Sure. Also, they have to go find Mrs. Blackman because they still have to pull her out of a goddamn barrel from a fucking river because this poor woman's been cut in half and stuffed in a river. Three gunshot wounds were in Mr. Blackman's shirt. Three holes were in the shirt. Two gunshot wounds were in Mr. Blackman's shirt. Three holes were in the shirt. Two gunshot wounds were found on his body. One was in the neck and passed through the chest cavity,

and the other one went in the left side of the chest and passed through the heart. So they also recovered both the bullets. They said they were very close range, and also they found some minor blunt force injury consistent with being hit in the head with a goddamn stick. Now, Mrs. Blackman, there was a gag in her mouth, a piece of cloth tied around her ankles, three gunshot wounds for her,

one to the head and two others, one to the right side of the neck and one in the back. They never found any of the bullets for that one and she had a chop wound in her lower back where they chopped her with an axe to make her fit in a goddamn thing, in a barrel. Boyd is charged with eight counts, including kidnapping and capital murder, which means death penalty.

That is death penalty. And this is the South. That's one thing that I do like about the South. They don't fuck around. Milstead makes a deal. He makes a deal to testify in exchange for life in prison without the possibility of parole. Okay. So, fine.

Fuck you, Milstead. You go sit in there forever. Surrett, his friend, the Surrett guy that we discussed before. The barbershop guy, right? And Sharon Johnson both testify. Johnson testifies for the defense. Really? She testifies for Boyd.

She says that Milstead came over and said that Milstead told her that he shot both of them. Okay. So, she's like, he's lying. Yeah, but she's sleeping with Boyd. She says that Milstead came over and said that Milstead told her that he shot both of them. Okay. So she's like, he's lying. Yeah, but she's sleeping with Boyd. She's sleeping with Boyd. And who knows if Milstead did that to brag. Because these guys are jackasses and they think that it's a positive if they're shooting people. Like, people will be impressed with that shit, right?

Yeah, it's great. Forensic people testify that the soil samples given were contained from blood and clothing and blood stains there match stains in the car. Everything matches everything. The only liquid in this dirt that's not PCB is blood. Yeah. And it's hers. No, absolutely. They did tool mark checks like comparisons with the acts.

I mean, it's everything. It's a forensic slam dunk on every level. It's a circumstantial slam dunk. It's everything that could possibly put someone in jail. They admitted it. This is one of those cases where you're like, yes, death penalty. There's no chance they didn't do it. Everyone knows they did it.

Everything matches up, and they admit it to it. Let's just say that they fucking did it. Let's just kill them now. Let's warm up the generator for that chair. Let's do it now. Let's get the iron furnace cooking. Let's go. Let's throw them in that. Hey, fuck it. They did it. Let's just kill them now. Right. Let's warm up the generator for that chair. Let's do it now. Let's get it going. Let's get the iron furnace cooking. Let's go. God damn it.

Let's throw them in that. Hey, fuck it. They got it. Let's fire that bad boy up. There aren't any cast iron pipes anymore. No. We're using fucking PVC now. That's right, man.

So Boyd is, well, shocker, they go to the jury, and the jury actually had some, there were some things with the jury. A juror shouted out some information that he read in the paper at one point, so that was some controversy there, so they didn't know whether they were going to have to have a mistrial. Heard they were going to blackmail. Or whatever. Yeah, I heard this, and I heard that this one was there.

I heard the mafia was involved, or whatever the fuck it was. So Boyd is found guilty on all counts. All right. No shocker there. I mean, really, you'd have to, I don't know what the fuck kind of jury would find him not guilty. I'm not sure. You can find one. I mean, really, you'd have to, I don't know what the fuck kind of jury would find him not guilty. I'm not sure. You can find one down there, I think.

It'd be tough, man. I think the OJ jury would have convicted him if it was this. He said he did it. He said he did it. Right. And other people saw him with, oh boy, yeah, that doesn't sound good. There's blood all over his truck. Oh man.

And on him, and it all meant, oh boy. It all meant. Oh my. So. How many of those shoes are there? Oh boy. It all met. Oh, my. How many of those shoes are there? Oh, boy. Now, for sentencing, the same judge who provides over Boyd's trial, here's the sentencing. This is April 9th, 1987.

This is right after the jury thing. Now, the defense tries to present mitigating evidence. His attorney, Cindy Pierce, prepares a life history of Boyd's to read to the jury to get sympathy. I can't imagine that's a good thing. Well, they're trying to. It's mitigating factors. Look at how fucked up. It's not his fault.

He's only 20 and look at his life so far. But I can't imagine those things are going to do him any favors. No, I mean, a lot of times they do. They'll mitigate. But something like this, you're beyond that shit. This wasn't an accident. They said that his parents divorced when he was two. His father went to prison and tried to escape, and everybody found out.

It was bad publicity for the family. That's why he killed people. That's why. His younger sister was physically and mentally challenged, and when she became older, she became very violent. They used to have to physically restrain her, put her in restraints. He grew up very poor. His friend burned down the family's trailer at one point. He was embarrassed by that his family was poor.

So what? You don't kill people. Lots of people are embarrassed. Apart from Blackman and his family raped me my entire life. Yes, constantly. Right. Constantly. And he was about to do it again, so he had to kill everybody.

Cut his dick out. There's nothing else. So he had difficulties in school. He dropped out at 16. They said his mother remarried and he had to an abusive guy who had serious problems and he beat him and he was very strict. And Boyd's grandfather died. It was so hard for him to get past that.

It's like everybody grew up like everybody. He grew up like me. He grew up like you. He grew up like everybody else. That's the thing. He said Boyd moved to New Mexico when he was 16. Now I get it. To work.

Now that makes sense. But he said he was too immature to take advantage of it, and he came back to Alabama. I don't see how these are mitigating factors, but these are the things. He said he had a romantic relationship, but Evelyn Blackman forbade him from seeing her or her from seeing him because he was white trash. And they were like, look, we're rich. Your stepfather's a congressman. Let's get, or his dad was a congressman. Let's not get fucking whatever.

Said that all his grandparents were alcoholics. Just this whole big whatever. This whole big horseshit. Yeah, he served six months in jail for burglary when he was 17. And like that was a problem. All these things seem like reasons why we don't need this fucking guy around. What that added up to. Yeah.

It seems like we don't need this goddamn guy. I guess his stepfather, known as a brutal guy by everybody, would would beat the shit out of his disabled sister and lock her in a room for days at a time. Like he came from a shit environment. Yeah. But you still don't get to tie people up and shoot them and rob them and lock her in a room for days at a time. Like he came from a shit environment. Yeah. But you still don't get to tie people up and shoot them and rob them and push them in a river. I don't give a shit what you grew up in. So April 1987 is sentencing.

We're going to the sentencing here. Yeah. They come out and Boyd is sentenced to death by lethal injection. See you later, Boyd. Fantastic. They got it right. They did. Lots of appeals, obviously.

Right away, he says that his lawyer wasn't any good. Right away, the counsel, not good enough for the counsel, said the search of his vehicle while it was impounded was warrantless, even though they said they have to search it for inventory when they take it in anyway, so it doesn't matter. It was inconsequential to the case anyway. All they really need is that cops saw that car at the fucking scene. That's it. The jury at one point asked to a distinction between murder and capital murder,

and I guess they're saying the judge's explanation wasn't good enough for them, so they think that's it. They sentenced you to die. That's what they knew. They said capital murder is dead murder. That's the one. That's the one there. Dead murder. So that gets dismissed in 1997.

He has another appeals process, and they dismiss it. They were saying ineffective assistance of counsel in that one. They said go fuck yourself on December 18, 1998. Dismissed that. October of 2000, he started with a federal petition for habeas corpus. He moves to the district court. It's a whole thing. Every time, he's just going from court to court, as they do in death penalty cases, saying the same thing. My lawyers suck. This happened, that happened. Doesn't matter. That all goes. His execution date is set, actually, after a bunch of

these appeals in the late 90s and early 2000s are exhausted. His appeal, his execution is set, actually, after a bunch of these appeals in the late 90s and early 2000s are exhausted. His appeal, his execution is set for March 31st, 2011. Now, before that, he has one final appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court, saying the judge had not followed Alabama Supreme Court and U.S. Supreme

Court rules in overriding the jury's recommendation for a life sentence, which is shaky anyway. The attorney claimed that Boyd had ineffective assistance of counsel and all that. And please don't execute him because this is in March of 2011. And the Supreme Court says, no, that's all right. We'll throw him right in the furnace. Toss him on in there. Somebody sharpen the needle.

They're sharpening the needle. There's a guy on a big wheel right now. So Boyd, in March, the week before, he is moved to the death holding cell near the execution room. He had 12 visitors before that, including his brother, his sister-in-law, a couple of nephews, his sister, that sort of thing, family, spiritual advisor, two ministers, and his attorney. They give him a final meal. His final meal is chicken, French fries, applesauce, a tomato, just a regular tomato, and an orange juice. And also that day, he got a meatball sandwich, a Philly cheesesteak sandwich, a V8 splash drink, and coffee from the vending machine.

That's what they got. Say those sandwiches, a meatball sandwich and then something else. And a Philly cheesesteak sandwich. He ate both of those before dinner? Apparently, yeah, you get anything you want the whole day down there. I feel like the meatball sandwich was just like his cellmate bent over and tucked his balls between his legs. That's possible. That's the meatball sandwich he got.

That's the thing. Yeah, I think you might be right. Now, his final words, they ask him, do you have any final words, a final statement? His final words are no. No. No. Nothing. That's all he said, nothing. Nothing.

And his final words are no. No. No. Nothing. That's all he said. Nothing. He is declared dead at 6.23 p.m. by lethal injection at the Holman prison in Atmore. He had three witnesses on his side, his attorney and the two ministers.

And then his family even came on. You don't want to watch the guy die, probably. Nine people of the victim's families included for the prosecution, whatever the victim's viewing area. Yeah, so they did that. Now Fred and Evelyn are buried in Hillside Cemetery in Anniston together, and it's very, very goddamn sad. Terrible. The whole mess of that thing.

Yeah, so Boyd, if you look at Boyd, he looks exactly like you would think he would look. He used to. He used to. The picture of him, he looks like he's Uncle Uncle Fester's nephew is what he looks like. Jesus. It's frightening looking. And you're like, God, that guy.

Like Puxley? No. Or way worse. No. Yeah, no. One that really got his genes. Was he heavy? One that got his genes. Later on, he was heavy.

He wasn't then. He was 20 years old. Yeah, he was tall and had long hair. Toward the end, he was heavy, though. He was a bald, big, fat, pale, heavy son of a bitch. Sweaty, dying asshole. Yeah. And then he died. Tons of murder. And then he died. So happy days. Yay.

Dead, dead, dead. Take that. So that is Anniston, Alabama. And that is the poor story of the poor Blackmans. And poor, uh, yeah, the poor Blackmans, poor Julie Greenwood and these son of a bitches Milstead and Boyd. But they're dead. So fuck it. One of them's dead. The other one's locked up in Alabama for the rest of his life, which sounds horrible.

Imagine how hot and sticky it is in that jail down there. You can't leave. Man, hot, sticky, awful, terrible. So that is our story for this week. That prison sex is the worst prison sex. Oh, God, Jesus. It's all sticky. Ugh.

All sticky and gross. Beginning to end. Like, not just at the end. Bud's flying around. Okay, that's grosser than the murder, I think. This is grosser than the murder. We got to move on from that. That's not going to work.

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