#colorado state penitentiary

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"SUICIDES END A PRISON RIOT," The Mercury (Manhattan, Kansas). October 4, 1929. Page 1. ---- COLORADO UPRISING ONE OF BLOODIEST IN THE NATION'S HISTORY ---- RINGLEADERS SUICIDE ---- Revolt Leases in Its Wake a List of 12 Known Dead and Many Wounded Some of Whom May Die Guards Killed in Cold Blood ---- Canon City, Colo, Oct. 1 (AP) - Due of the bloodiest prison mutinies in the nation's history came to an end at dawn this morning with the suicide of four leaders of the rebellion in the Colorado stare penitentiary.

The mutiny left in its wake list of 12 known dead and many wounded, some of who may die.

Four ringleaders of the mutiny barricaded with more than 150 other convicts in cell house No. 3, surrounded by troops, police and prison guards, and hopelessly outmumbered, first killed a wounded comrade and then fired bullets into their own brain.

The other convicts then surrendered and were marched out of the cell house just at sunrise. Four of the dead were prison guards, disarmed and slaughtered in cold blood inside the cell house, to emphasize the convicts' demand for unmolested freedom. Warden, Crawford, who declined all offer in parley with the embattled prisoners was himself wounded during one of the attacks on the cell block.

Dynamite Used National guard troops and police details from four Colorado cities fired more than 7.000 rounds of ammunition into the convict stronghold during the night. The battle was marked be the attempt to dynamite the cell house wall, one blast breaking all the windows but failing to effect a breach in the masonry.

The hero of the dynamiting attempts was a Catholic priest Father Patrick O'Neill, who carried the bombs to the foot of the cell house wall, under cover of machine gun fire from the prison walls.

In all seven prison guards were killed, three al the outbreak of rioting Thursday morning and four more during the night.

Those killed in the early rioting were Roy Brown, Walter Rinker and Elmer G. Erwin.

Those slaughtered in the cell house were John J. Ettes. Robert A. Wiggins, Charles Shepherd and John W. McClelland.

The convicts dead included Danny Daniels, who led the rioting, and acted as executioner of the guards; Charles Davis. A. Η Davis, George (Red) Riley and James Pardue.

Killed by Comrade Pardue was wounded in the abdomen during the early rioting.

He was removed to cell house No. 3 by the other convicts. He was found this morning with a bullet through his head, fired by one of the other convicts to end his suffering.

Three of the other ring leaders were found dead in the same cell, powder burns on their temples bearing mute testimony to shots fired at close range. The body of Daniels was in the doorway crawled half in and half out of the cell.

The floor of the cell house, which host night served as the execution chamber of four unarmed guards, was slippery with blood. The bodies of Charles Shepherd and John W. Clelland, two of the slain guards were found in the cell house, found hand and foot. Both had been shot through the head.

Close estimates is the time of the suicides the riot leaders at 4 a. m. but was not until an hour and a half later, at daybreak when O. E. Karl, one of the surviving guards, made his way to the prison yard, that the attacking forces learned of the fact, entered the cell house and rounded up the prisoners.

Afraid to Leave Earl said he was afraid to leave the cell house until daylight, for fear of being mistaken for a convict and shot by the watchers on the walls. With him in the cell house were John Pease and Lawrence Roche, who escaped the fury of the convicts, Roche's sister Josephine, secretary Crawford, had to remained at the prison all night, fearing each to see her brother's bullet body tossed out of a window the cell house, as the bodies Elles and Wiggins were tossed out.

Giving her brother up for she had left the prison shortly before daylight. When she learned that he was alive, she collapsed.

Gutted by fire, which destroyed the dining room and chapel and two of the cell houses and scarred by machine gun bullets and dynamite, the prison yard this morning was utter ruin.

One of Guards Mad Marvin Duncan, one of the guards in the cell house, was carried to a hospital this morning stark mad from terror. He was found locked in a cell and it was necessary to take off the door to get him out. He was at first thought to he dead, but examination revealed he was not even wounded. He saw Elles, prison hangman, shot down and saw his body tossed out of the cell house window.

He stood by while "Danty" Daniels asked Abe Wiggins, another guard if he had said his prayers.

"Yes," Wiggins replied without of emotion. "Where do you want me to stand"

He heard Daniels say "right where you are." and saw a bullet fired through Wiggins' head.

He heard Daniels tell John Shea, another guard, to take Wiggins body out to the warden, and fell him that Marvin Duncan would be the next guard to die.

That was at 9:30 o'clock. From then until he lost his mind, he expected each moment to be his last. Prison physicians said his condition resembled shell shock.

Warden Crawford today estimated the damage to the penitentiary at between $300,000 and $400,000. All the cell blocks except No. 3, in which the mutinous convicts were barricaded, were destroyed by fire, and number three is badly damaged, he said.

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Colorado State Penitentiary inmates watching a screening of the movie Canon City. It was made at CSP about a real escape.

CSP inmates were marched in a rigid protocol requiring arms to be folded over their abdomen.

A 16 year old murderer serving life at CSP. His intake head shave is fresh, and his prison made denims are still crisp and new!

A screen shot from the movie Canon City. They used real prison inmate and guard uniforms during the filming.

At the world premier, the ushers were issued real prison uniforms! I am so fucking jealous!!!!!!

Canon City Prison Photos

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ANTON WOOD

1892

Anton Wood, 11 year-old psychopath almost hanged for murder, age in photo 12.

In November of 1892, young Joseph Smith was hunting with Anton Woode, 11, on the Woode family ranch near Denver when he was shot in the back and killed by Woode. When Anton was arrested, he immediately confessed and told authorities he shot Smith because he envied the boy’s gold watch and chain.

Woode’s first trial ended in a hung jury when the jury couldn’t come to a unanimous decision on the boy’s sanity.

During his second trial, however, he was found guilty of second-degree murder on March 24, 1893 and sentenced to 25 years to life in prison, or just 25 years, (the newspaper accounts differ). His insanity defense was supported by testimony from a doctor who concluded that because Anton drank coffee, as a boy, it likely lowered his “mental constitution,” leading to his “insanity.”

The following article details Anton Woode’s reaction over hearing the guilty verdict.

DENVER, COLO, special: Anton Woode, the 11-year-old murderer of Joseph Smith, was convicted of murder in the second degree. The Jury was out sixteen hours and little Anton came near being sent to the gallows. The stubbornness of one juryman saved him. When the verdict was read in court, Anton wept. He thought the verdict meant hanging for him, and he expressed his regret for not murdering Smith’s two companions that were with him on the day that Smith was killed.

Little Anton looked viciously at Alexander Pecker, the principal witness against him, and said: “If I had plugged that [obscenity] nobody would know nothing about the thing at all.” The lad was then taken to the sheriff’s office, and the first thing that attracted his attention was the rogues’ gallery. He called the sheriff over, and, pointing to the photographs of the dead body of a desperado dangling from a telegraph pole, said: “I suppose that’s what you going to do with me? Well, I’ll fool you.”

The sheriff assured the lad that he would be only confined in jail. This satisfied him. The idea of getting enough to eat and having no work to do tickled him.

“In the West,” The Farmer’s Leader, Canton, South Dakota, March 31, 1893, page two.

He may have been wrong about having no work to do. Another source reported that Woode was sentenced to 25 years of hard labor.

On January 23, 1900, Woode and three other convicts escaped from the Colorado State Penitentiary in Canon City after one of the men, Thomas Reynolds, stabbed to death a captain of the guards. The four men split up into two groups, and Woode and his accomplice, Kid Wallace, were captured two days later. Reynolds was captured one day after Wallace and Woode. When a posse was leading Reynolds back to the prison, an angry mob followed and snatched Reynolds when he was just outside prison walls.

Reynolds, who knew what was coming, told his captors: “If they start to make trouble for me up there, just put a bullet through me. I don’t want to be hanged.”

Nobody put a bullet through him and the mob lynched him instead. The fourth man in the escape, Bill Wagoner, was rumored to have been lynched but this went unconfirmed by newspapers from that era.

Special Thanks to John Johnson of Colorado.

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Truecrimehistorian.com

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October 22nd, 2023

Have you ever risen from sleep and wondered why your heart aches; why it yearns for something it can't have? Like some peace of mind, or friendship, or an answer to why you've treated people rotten. Maybe it's simply why at times you feel lonely? As I write this, I still haven't found those answers.

I've been sitting in a cell for the last twenty years, trying to figure out the answers to some of those questions.

My name is Eric Emmanuel Humes Jr. I'm a 48-year-old man, serving multiple life sentences without the possibility of parole, in addition to an added 81 years to be served consecutively.

As I dig back into my past, I can say that I've dealt with physical and emotional abuse as a child, which led to drug abuse as an adult. I was passed around to various family members because when one couldn't handle me, they would send me to the next one in line. Not once has anyone asked what's going on with me. Even if they did, I wouldn't have been able to tell them because I didn't know.

With the fading years of my life, I think I finally found out. I think that I am mentally unstable -- something that I likely will never be able to receive a diagnosis for because the Colorado Department of Corrections fails us in our mental wellness every day. When we're dealing with these internal issues that we don't have the language to describe, we're on our own. I'd certainly like to know what's going on with me.

In the coming weeks, I will talk about the mental health challenges in the Colorado Prison System, and I invite you to ask any questions that you might have. They'll be delivered to me by email and I'll be able to respond -- I only ask that there be no questions about my conviction, seeing as how I'm still currently in litigation with the court system.

Thank you for taking the time out to read this brief introduction to the Two Weeks Blog.

Sincerely,

Eric E. Humes Jr. #119468 Colorado State Penitentiary POBOX 777 Cañon City, CO 81215 USA

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Me looking up the Colorado State Penitentiary and going into street view in google maps just to see where Craig would park his car in one of the chapters of my WIP

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Events 10.2

829 – Theophilos succeeds his father Michael II as Byzantine Emperor. 939 – Battle of Andernach: Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor, crushes a rebellion against his rule, by a coalition of Eberhard of Franconia and other Frankish dukes. 1263 – The Battle of Largs is fought between Norwegians and Scots. 1470 – The Earl of Warwick's rebellion forces King Edward IV of England to flee to the Netherlands, restoring Henry VI to the throne. 1552 – Russo-Kazan Wars: Russian troops enter Kazan. 1780 – American Revolutionary War: John André, a British Army officer, is hanged as a spy by the Continental Army. 1789 – The United States Bill of Rights is sent to the various States for ratification. 1835 – Texas Revolution: Mexican troops attempt to disarm the people of Gonzales, but encounter stiff resistance from a hastily assembled militia. 1864 – American Civil War: Confederates defeat a Union attack on Saltville, Virginia. A massacre of wounded Union prisoners ensues. 1870 – By plebiscite, the citizens of the Papal States accept annexation by the Kingdom of Italy. 1920 – Ukrainian War of Independence: Mikhail Frunze orders the Red Army to immediately cease hostilities with the Revolutionary Insurgent Army of Ukraine. 1928 – The "Prelature of the Holy Cross and the Work of God", commonly known as Opus Dei, is founded. 1937 – Rafael Trujillo orders the execution of Haitians living in the border region of the Dominican Republic. 1942 – World War II: Ocean Liner RMS Queen Mary accidentally rams and sinks HMS Curacoa, killing over 300 crewmen aboard Curacoa. 1944 – World War II: German troops end the Warsaw Uprising. 1958 – Guinea declares its independence from France. 1967 – Thurgood Marshall is sworn in as the first African-American justice of the United States Supreme Court. 1968 – Mexican President Gustavo Díaz Ordaz orders soldiers to suppress a demonstration of unarmed students, ten days before the start of the 1968 Summer Olympics. 1970 – An aircraft carrying the Wichita State University football team, administrators, and supporters crashes in Colorado, killing 31 people. 1971 – South Vietnamese President Nguyen Van Thieu is re-elected in a one-man election. 1971 – British European Airways Flight 706 crashes near Aarsele, Belgium, killing 63. 1980 – Michael Myers becomes the first member of either chamber of Congress to be expelled since the Civil War. 1990 – Xiamen Airlines Flight 8301 is hijacked and lands at Guangzhou, where it crashes into two other airliners on the ground, killing 132. 1992 – Military police storm the Carandiru Penitentiary in São Paulo, Brazil during a prison riot. The resulting massacre leaves 111 prisoners dead. 1996 – Aeroperú Flight 603 crashes into the ocean near Peru, killing all 70 people on board. 1996 – The Electronic Freedom of Information Act Amendments are signed by U.S. President Bill Clinton. 2002 – The Beltway sniper attacks begin in Washington, D.C., extending over three weeks and killing 10 people. 2004 – The first parkrun, then known as the Bushy Park Time Trial, takes place in Bushy Park, London, UK. 2006 – Five Amish girls are murdered in a shooting at a school in Pennsylvania, United States. 2007 – President Roh Moo-hyun of South Korea goes to North Korea for an Inter-Korean summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong-il. 2016 – Ethiopian protests break out during a festival in the Oromia region, killing dozens of people. 2018 – The Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi is assassinated in the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, Turkey. 2019 – A privately-owned Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress conducting a living history exhibition flight crashes shortly after takeoff from Windsor Locks, Connecticut, killing seven.

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CJ current events 21mar24

Pornhub has shut down access in Texas.

Pornhub wants you to know its feelings hurt over Free Speech Coalition v. Paxton, 23-50627 (5th Cir. 2024).

CV NEWS FEED // Pornhub has ceased offering its explicit website in the state of Texas, citing the Lone Star State’s passage of a law that protects children from viewing online pornography. The Houston Chronicle reported Thursday that visitors who attempt to access Pornhub’s site from Texas “are now greeted with a long message from the company railing against the legal change as ‘ineffective, haphazard, and dangerous.’” “The company calls for age verification by the makers of devices that let people on the internet, instead of individual websites,” the Chronicle added. Pornhub wrote in its message to users: “As you may know, your elected officials in Texas are requiring us to verify your age before allowing you to access our website.”***

Oh, no. If you're a Texan who like pr0n, how will you survive?

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CIA was at the Capitol on January 6????

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ATF SRT After Action Report, Activation Number SRT- 21-075 (Jan. 6-7, 2021).

WT Flock?

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Testify against Clinton or something?

Police said the Boeing whistleblower found dead in his car outside a South Carolina hotel last Saturday was found with a "silver handgun" and a "white piece of paper that closely resembled a note," Newsweek reported Friday. The Charleston Police Department said it was still making inquiries about John Barnett, who was discovered in a hotel car park with a single gunshot wound to the head.*** A coroner’s report said Barnett, 62, died from a "self-inflicted" wound, though a close family friend of Barnett’s told WCIV-TV,"I know he did not commit suicide." "He wasn't concerned about safety because I asked him," the friend said. "I said, 'Aren't you scared?' And he said, 'No, I ain't scared, but if anything happens to me, it's not suicide.' "*** https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/john-barnett-boeing-handgun/2024/03/15/id/1157484

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Colorado Prison Director is "TRAVIS TRANI?"

Colorado is poised to become the first state in the country with segregated holding cells for transgender women in prison, if a judge signs off on it.  After a class action lawsuit was filed by several transgender inmates in 2019 against the Colorado Department of Corrections (CDOC) alleging discrimination, harassment and assault, a judge is scheduled to rule on a consent decree that would bring further changes – including surgical sex changes and hormone treatment – to the state's penitentiary, Fox News Digital has learned.  The consent decree, a court-ordered settlement in a legal dispute, would also require all trans women currently or previously in CDOC to receive a $2.1 million payout, depending on the severity of the alleged assault, discrimination and harassment while in prison. Rewards could range from $1,000 to $10,000 per plaintiff. *** The decree would enact several changes. First, it would create two separate housing units for transgender women inmates: the "Voluntary Transgender Unit" (VTU) at the men's Sterling Correctional Facility, and the "Integration Unit" (IU) at the Denver Women’s Correctional Facility.*** Greisen told Fox News Digital the decree would also "allow the class members to transition to gender-affirming housing at the women’s facility, and ensure that necessary medical and mental health treatment will be provided." *** https://www.foxnews.com/politics/colorado-to-become-the-first-state-to-build-separate-inmate-units-for-transgender-women

Raven v. Polis, 2019CV34492 (Denver D.).

Nothing in the consent decree says transgender people won't or can't be incarcerated in women's prisons. You might be a small woman serving a sentence for a non violent crime sharing a judicially approved cell with

Keith Rivers, 46, now known as "Cupcake," is currently serving a life sentence for murdering a victim outside a tavern in 1999. According to the class action lawsuit, Rivers came out as transgender in 2004 *** Another plaintiff, Andre Karpierz, 47, who goes by "Lavinya," is also serving a life sentence without the possibility of parole for first degree murder. Karpierz is currently being held in the Denver Womens Correctional Facility, according to CDOC records.

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Military aide must ‘dummy cord’ nuclear football after leaving it on Biden’s Corvette

"I guess finger sandwiches are more important than nuclear security, huh?"

Whiskey Fueled Tirade March 18, 2024 THE WHITE HOUSE – Lt. Col. Jason Schmutz will be required to ‘dummy cord’ the President’s Emergency Satchel, commonly referred to as the ‘nuclear football,’ to his body after leaving it on top of President Biden’s 1967 Corvette Stingray, sources confirmed today.  “What a f*cking newb,” White House Chief of Staff Jeff Zients told the Duffel Blog. “The nuclear football sat on the hood of the President’s ‘shaggin’ wagon’ for the better part of an hour while Schmuckatelli was stuffing his face.” This is not the first time sensitive materials were left in the vicinity of the president’s sports car. In 2023, it came to light that President Biden had classified documents stored in his garage next to his Corvette.*** Sources say Schmutz was eating lunch in the West Wing when he stopped eating and looked around his seat, turned pale, and ran out of the Navy Mess. By the time he reached the President’s Corvette, a Secret Service agent had secured the nuclear briefcase and handed it over to the White House Military Office sergeant major.  “Missing something, sir?”, the sergeant major asked, the briefcase sitting on his desk next to a large spool of 550 paracord. “I spoke with the Chief of Staff and he thought it might be a good idea if we made it, uhh, a bit more difficult to leave your weapon system here behind, hooah?”*** “He messed up but I think he can still recover,” Schmutz’s colonel said as he signed career-ending UCMJ paperwork for an enlisted servicemember who lost his government cell phone. “He’s a good officer and man can he run fast.” At press time, Schmutz was seen walking toward Marine One next to the President, the nuclear football tethered to his Army Green Service Uniform belt. https://www.duffelblog.com/p/military-aide-must-dummy-cord-nuclear-football-after-leaving-it-on-biden-s-corvette

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Why try to hide it?

Both https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/maryland-church-teacher-accused-of-child-sex-abuse/3565670/ and https://wjla.com/news/local/sexual-abuse-teacher-derwood-montgomery-county-police-department-ervin-jeovany-alfaro-lopez-minor-children-charges-arrest-multiple-charges-crime report that Ervin Jeovany Alfaro-Lopez molested multiple kids at a church in Maryland.

What they fail to mention is that Alfaro-Lopez is "an undocumented immigrant from El Salvador who has been deported twice from the United States." Even MSN can see how that's relevant. https://www.msn.com/en-in/news/world/ervin-jeovany-alfaro-lopez-maryland-church-teacher-charged-with-child-abuse-is-a-twice-deported-illegal-migrant.

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Yeah, so?

An expert who has testified in foster care cases across Colorado admits her evaluations are unscientific

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Diane Baird, LCSW, at her desk in Wheat Ridge. (Photo by Trent Davis Bailey for ProPublica)

Diane Baird had spent four decades evaluating the relationships of poor families with their children. But last May, in a downtown Denver conference room, with lawyers surrounding her and a court reporter transcribing, she was the one under the microscope. Baird, a social worker and professional expert witness, has routinely advocated in juvenile court cases across Colorado that foster children be adopted by or remain in the custody of their foster parents rather than being reunified with their typically lower-income birth parents or other family members. In the conference room, Baird was questioned for nine hours by a lawyer representing a birth family in a case out of rural Huerfano County, according to a recently released transcript of the deposition obtained by ProPublica. Was Baird’s method for evaluating these foster and birth families empirically tested? No, Baird answered: Her method is unpublished and unstandardized, and has remained “pretty much unchanged” since the 1980s. It doesn’t have those “standard validity and reliability things,” she admitted. “It’s not a scientific instrument,” Eli Hager reports.

If you thought social work was a science, I really must ask you to drop the crack pipe.

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Watched a really good movie, Regression (2015). Shrink purported to offer scientific advice on interrogation in a ritual satanic abuse case. trailer The result was false accusations.

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Aspiring drag queens have the right to Equal Protection

SHANGELA WAS A breakthrough star. With her sharp-tongued retorts, viral catchphrases, and distinctive Southern accent, the gregarious Texas drag queen quickly rose to become one of RuPaul’s Drag Race’s most beloved contestants. “[It’s] like ‘Angela’ with an ‘S-H,’” she explained on the show. “The debutantess of the Deep South.” Despite an early Season Two elimination when the queen was in her late twenties, a more polished version of the future star returned to the runway for two other installments in the show’s franchise. Drag Race fans often complain that she was robbed of the crown during her appearance on the show’s All Stars spinoff. “She’s amazing. We’ve actually put her on the show, like, three times?” RuPaul told Andy Cohen in 2022. “She’s a fabulous queen.”*** But behind the curtain — in hotel rooms and apartments — four people allege to Rolling Stone that Darius Jeremy (“DJ”) Pierce, the man behind the famous drag persona, either sexually assaulted them or attempted to have sex with them when they were too inebriated to consent. A fifth person claims Pierce attempted anal penetration in a bathroom closet despite rejecting his advances. *** Five people independently described nights out with Pierce when they were between the ages of 18 and 23. All five said that Pierce, nearly double their age and fresh off headline-grabbing spots on the silver screen and awards-show red carpets, drank with them through the late hours of the night and into the morning. The accusers all said they were acutely aware of Shangela’s celebrity status — three people said they were aspiring drag queens. *** https://www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv-movie-features/shangela-rupaul-drag-race-sexual-assault-1234974148/

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Thurs

Good parents?

HOUSTON – A trio of suspected bank robbers dubbed “little rascals” are in custody, according to FBI Houston. The three boys are accused of robbing a Wells Fargo in the 10200 block of North Freeway. “They are 11, 12, and 16-year-old boys charged locally with robbery by threat. Because they are juveniles, their names, and no additional details will be released,” FBI Houston said on X, formerly known as Twitter. According to KPRC 2, KSAT’s sister station in Houston, the group of suspects demanded cash from a bank teller.*** Two of the suspects were arrested after their parents allegedly noticed them in the security footage and contacted law enforcement, according to CNN.*** https://www.ksat.com/news/local/2024/03/20/group-of-children-dubbed-little-rascals-arrested-for-robbing-wells-fargo-bank-fbi-says

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Free speech case

Rubbing it in.

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If you want to work at that school, they prolly want your fingerprints

Bensenville, Illinois - Chicago suburb

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[blogparanormalexpresso2stuff]

UFOs over Prisons

UFOs are hovering over prisons!

UFOs are known to be attracted to technological installations such as power stations, military bases and more, including, evidently, prisons. These are not coincidental fly-bys. In these cases prisons are being directly targeted. The objects hover at very low levels for long periods of time. They are often viewed by both prison officials and inmates.

There are more than 20 cases on record. These are not simple sightings, but also include physiological effects and strange electromagnetic effects. In a few cases, photographs have been taken. There's at least one case of a landing. Humanoids have been seen, and there's even an apparent abduction. Clearly something very profound is happening here!

San Quentin Prison, Lebanon Correctional Institute, Colorado State Penitentiary and many others have all had encounters. Some locations have been visited repeatedly. The question, of course, is why? After watching this presentation, you will know the answer.

For those who are interested in learning more about UFOs over prisons, I collected many of these cases in chapter six of my book, "Not from Here: Volume Three," now available on Amazon.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/1719142742/...

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Check out this listing I just added to my Poshmark closet: Vintage Colorado State Penitentiary belt buckle.

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Check out this listing I just added to my Poshmark closet: Belt Buckle Colorado State Penitentiary G-36 Canon City CO Solid Brass Buckle.

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'El Chapo' Guzmán asks to be transferred to a prison in Mexico

The former leader of the Sinaloa Cartel, Joaquín ‘El Chapo’ Guzmán has asked the Mexican authorities to be transferred from the Colorado prison, in the United States, where he is serving a life sentence, to a penitentiary center in Mexico. The lawyer for ‘El Chapo’, José Refugio, has assured this Tuesday that the famous drug trafficker wants to send the president of Mexico, Andrés Manuel López…

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Escapes from Colorado State Penitentiary, Cañon City, 1947. The top two photos show R.L. Freeman, escaped prisoner, being captured in a snow storm and brought back to the prison. The bottom two show, fist, “convict A.B. tolley, 21 serving life sentence for slaying his mother-in-law. Red Fenwick on right, in hat. Tolley's sentence was commuted. Fenwick.". The bottom most shows “Werner Carl Schwartzmiller, recaptured after leading the break from the State Penitentiary in Canon City, Colorado, glares as Warden Roy Best pulls his shirt.” These all come from the Denver Public library here.

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As hot as shaving the heads of incoming convicts is, I believe some prisons decades ago would shave half of an inmate’s head for better identification.

Was this a common practice in America or only found in a few institutions and reserved for a few high risk inmates? I also believe Imperial Russia did the same for prisoners condemned to Siberian gulags.

It was absolutely used in the United States. The example that immediately comes to mind is the Colorado State Penitentiary under the administration of Warden Roy Best in the 1940s and 1950s.

The convicts shown below were half head shaved after recapture following an escape. They also have amazing, prison made chambray shirts with bold prison number stencils along with prison made pants.

I have numerous photos of CSP at Canon City if you are interested.

Question about Partial Head Shaves in Prison

[thehustlebeautifultraveler]

My US Travel Bucket List

1. New York City, NY

2. San Antonio, TX

3. Niagara Falls, New York

4. Golden Gate Bridge, San Francisco

5. Old Faithful and Grand Prismatic Spring, Yellowstone National Park

6. South Beach, Miami

7. The Narrows, Zion National Park

8. Santa Fe, New Mexico

9. Pacific Coast Highway, California

10. Nashville, TN

11. Boston, Mass

12. Joshua Tree National Park, California

13. Maui, Hawaii

14. Anchorage, AK

15. Red Rocks Park and Amphitheatre, Colorado

16. Horse Show Bend, AZ

17. Austin, TX

18. Mount Rushmore National Memorial, South Dakota

19. Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta, New Mexico

20. Griffith Observatory, California

21. Going-to-the-Sun-Road, Glacier National Park

22. Las Vegas, NV

23. Acadia National Park, Maine

24. Bryce Canyon National Park, Utah

25. Liberty Bell and Independence Hall, Philadelphia

26. Hot Springs, Arkansas

27. Redwood National and State Parks, California

28. Crater Lake National Park, Oregon

29. Taos Pueblo, NM

30. Antelope Canyon, AZ

31. Lake Superior, MN

32. Arches National Park, Utah

33. Kentucky Derby, Louisville KY

34. Maxkinac Island, Lake Huron Michigan

35. Santa Monica, CA

36. NASA Space Center, Houston TX

37. Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado

38. Fenway Park, Boston MA

39. Alcatraz Island, San Francisco CA

40. Drive the whole Route 66

41. Hollywood Boulevard, Los Angeles

42. Tour The White House

43. Disneyland

44. Death Valley

45. Elvis Presley’s Home in Memphis

46. Millennium Park, Chicago

47. Big Sur Coast, Carmel to San Francisco

48. Eastern State Penitentiary (Al Capone), Philadelphia

49. Tour Warner Brothers Studio, LA

50. Walk Across the Brooklyn Bridge, NYC

51. Catch a Cubs game in Chicago

52. Wine Tasting in Napa Valley, CA

53. Gateway Arch in St. Louis

54. Swim in the Havasu Falls Pools, Arizona

55. Universal Studios, Hollywood

56. Catch a Broadway Show

57. Visit the Smithsonian Museums in Washington DC

58. Maroon Bells, Aspen CO

59. Lake Tahoe, Straddling Nevada and California

60. Climb to the Hollywood Sign

61. Everglades National Park

62. Navy Pier, Chicago

63. White Sands National Monument, New Mexico

64. Central Park, New York

65. Martha’s Vineyard, Mass

66. Eat Lobster in Maine

67. Go to Coachella

68. Go to SBSW

69. lollapalooza

70. Experience a real American Ranch

71. Ben & Jerry’s Factory, Vermont

72. Watch A Rodeo in Cody, Wyoming

73. Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, Ohio

74. The Seven Magic Mountains, Nevada

75. Salem Witch Trials Tour

76. Visit Members Mark in Kentucky

77. Watch Talledega Super Speedway, Alabama

78. Salvation Mountain, Niland, CA

79. Hole N The Rock, Moab Utah

80. Carhenge: Alliance, Nebraska

81. Prada Marfa, Valentine TX

82. Enchanted Highway: North Dakota

83. Dinosaur Kingdom II, Natural Bridge Virginia

84. Cadillac Ranch, Amarillo TX

85. Winchester Mystery House, San Jose California

86. Pineapple Garden Maze: Wahiawa Hawaii

87. Gum Wall, Seattle WA

88. Bubblegum Alley, San Luis Obispo California

89. Flintstones Bedrock City, Coconino County Arizona

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all work and no play makes niall a dull boy

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The Stanley Hotel. Estes Park, Colorado. St. Augustine Lighthouse. St. Augustine, Florida. The Queen Mary, Long Beach, California. Colonial Park Cemetery. Savannah, Georgia. Eastern State Penitentiary. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. 

Those were the five destinations on the SF-FunFriday Halloween merger 5-episode season. I had gotten the go ahead from Brooke and Malcolm had called only about ten minutes later. I got the impression he was wanting this to come together as soon as possible. Which was why only three days later, I was on a plane. We had already missed the first week of October, since Malcolm had only gotten in contact with Brooke a few days ago, but he was still planning on a five-week segment that would just go into the first Friday of November for all those Halloween fanatics who weren’t ready to give up their spooky sides yet. 

I had only been to Colorado once during the 2016 Presidential Campaign, but I didn’t explore much, given I was in a conference room the entire time. I was excited to see a little bit more of Colorado, and I was especially excited to see The Stanley Hotel. Even though I wasn’t a huge fan of horror and I didn’t believe in the supernatural, being in the hotel that literally inspired The Shining was enough to make anyone anxiously excited.

But before that, I had to meet my co-host.

Luis was supposed to have come, but since Niall was going to be in the segments for Halloween, Luis had to pick up some of the slack at their office in Los Angeles. So, it was just myself and Niall, and about five crew members ranging from people at SF I knew to people from FunFriday that were new faces.

I sat at the hotel bar (where we were actually staying, not The Stanley Hotel, as Niall mentioned he would rather die than stay there). Niall was supposed to meet me here at seven, and it was only five until. I knew he wasn’t late by any means, but it had been brandished with a hot iron into my head that “early was on-time, on-time was late, and late was dead” by my mother. Luis and I were always freakishly early. I surreptitiously checked my watch once more, sipping on my water. 

“Evangelina, right?” I heard a charming Irish accent ask. I turned in my seat, giving Niall my full attention.

He was handsome, that was for sure. His hair was gelled tonight, but not in that overly so way that made it look greasy. Luis mentioned he wanted to look good for tonight, because he probably wouldn’t bother doing his hair for our segments, given he’d most likely scream and run his hands through it anyway. Tonight he wore a white button-down with a maroon colored suit jacket over it. He paired it with black dress pants. The ensemble looked great on him, and Sabine’s swooning came back into my mind. No one certainly would have blamed her for her attraction. And even from where he stood, seven feet away, I could tell the blue in his eyes was the most intense blue I’d ever seen. 

“Eva,” I replied, holding out my hand, “nice to finally meet you, Niall.”

“You s’well,” he said, giving me a crooked grin. “Luis doesn’t know when to shut the fuck up about you.”

I shrugged. “We’ve always been close.” He plopped himself down in the seat next to me, took notice of my water and nothing else, and ordered himself a club soda. “So…”

He laughed in agreement. “So… thanks for agreeing to do this. It wasn’t exactly my idea and I can’t say I’m excited, but I do know it’ll raise ratings for both our companies. Malcolm seemed really excited about it as well.”

Brooke hadn’t disclosed if she was excited, per say, but she did seem happy with Malcolm’s reasoning that it would raise ratings for both our channels. “I’m excited too. Tell me a little about the concept.”

His eyebrows furrowed. “They didn’t send you the logistics?”

“They did. I just want to hear it from FunFriday. And since you’re repping them right now…”

“The task falls on me,” he said, nodding his understanding. He ran a hand through his hair, seemingly forgetting that he gelled it. “So obviously Malcolm sent you over the itinerary because you’re here. But he wants us to just be ourselves in these places. He wanted me to do it because I don’t do ghosts. He thought it would be funny to make me go and do this since I’ll probably shit my pants at least once. He wanted to ask someone at SF who didn’t necessarily believe in shit like that, so it’ll be fun for viewers to see us bicker.”

It was basically the same summary Malcolm had told me on the phone, but with a little more language. “So, you’re actually scared of shit like that? Not just playing it up for the cameras?”

He gave me a deadpan look. “I once cried for three hours because my brother told me a restaurant we were eating at was haunted and a woman had died right where I was sitting.”

“Shitty brother pranks I can relate to.”

“Yeah, mine’s the best with them,” he mentioned, rubbing the back of his neck. He turned to face me a little more than he was, and I noticed that his knee touched my thigh. “So, what about you? You really don’t believe in the ghost shit?”

I shrugged. “It’s all just campy and funny to me. Like it’s all a show. I mean, my family celebrates Day of the Dead and all, but ghosts for horror purposes? I don’t buy it.” 

“That’s so weird to me. Luis completely believes in all that stuff.”

I laughed. “Believe me, I know. He tried to scare me into believing it when I was younger, but it never took.”

He laughed, reaching for his club soda. I was oddly entranced as I watched him swallow down a gulp. Sabine’s lustful words filtered through my head. Though I had seen Niall before by watching Luis’s segments, he had a different energy to him. Initially, I had thought he was too serious for my taste, but he was holding his own well enough with the witty banter I thrived on. Perhaps working with Niall wouldn’t be the horrible, daunting task it seemed. 

“So, you ever seen The Shining?” he asked. It was the first time he was acknowledging where we were going tonight. They were closing it at ten and we were headed over at midnight. Luis told me Niall had almost strangled the producer when they assigned him late nights at these “haunted” places. 

I nodded. “I actually love that movie. It’s funny.”

“Funny?” He blinked at me. “The guy nearly murders his family…” 

“Not scary,” I said, shrugging, “just psychological horror. Doesn’t bother me.”

He shook his head and took another sip. “You’re a mighty woman, Eva Valencia.”

I found the compliment to be endearing, so I sent him a grin and lifted my glass to my lips. After copying him and taking another drink, I asked, “what are your plans until the filming tonight?” We had about three hours to spare, and I knew that after the plane ride and dealing with the airport, a hot shower with a citrus scented Lush shower jelly was calling my name. But I was more than content to sit and talk with Niall for a little before that happened. 

“Shitting myself because I don’t want to do this.”

I pat his shoulder comfortingly. “Aw, you’ll get through it. I’ll be there to hold your hand.”

Instead of being insulted, like some other men would be if I insinuated they needed me to feel safe, he just laughed. “Keep that promise in mind when I’m cutting off your blood flow. We’ll see who laughs then.”

We chatted a bit more, and I relished in the fact that I was talking to a seemingly competent and intelligent man. I talked to Luis everyday, but in my eyes he was a worm and not an actual human being, so it was nice to interact with Niall. If this was how the five weeks were going to go, I would have no problem doing this segment. He even slid money over to the bartender and paid for our drinks (Niall had somehow convinced me to get a vodka cranberry) when we were done. We parted ways to our respective hotel rooms, right next door to each other. With a promise of coming to grab me at eleven-thirty, he bid me a goodnight.

I was still in my flowy pants (that made my ass look fantastic, if I did say so myself) and shirt from the airport, but I decided to change into something a little dressier since I was going to be filmed. After a long shower with more time spent just enjoying the hot water than anything else, I dried my hair and styled it before putting on a little makeup. More than likely it would be night shooting and viewers wouldn’t even see my makeup, but it was more of a habit than anything to get ready for shooting.

Lounging around in my robe for the two hours until I was supposed to meet Niall, I snacked on carrot sticks I had bought from the little corner store around the block from the hotel. I figured what the hell and bought The Shining on the hotel’s movie section and watched through as much as I could before I had to peel myself out of the couch seat and change into the jeans and flannel I had laid out.

At exactly eleven-thirty (we’d really have to talk about his timing), I heard a knock on the door. When I swung it open, I saw Niall and a crew member from FunFriday standing at my door. Niall was dressed pretty similarly in jeans and an open flannel, a white graphic shirt underneath. I tried to hide my smile.

“Hey,” he said, tossing a thumb over his shoulder. “This is Dante.”

Dante looked like he was probably about my age, with dark curly hair and big glasses. From the reflection on them, I assumed they were blue-light blocking ones. Luis always wore those and was trying to get me to pick up a pair. “What’s up? I love Current Noose.”

I brightened even more. “Hey, nice to meet you. Thanks.”

“My mom and I watch every week. She’s from Nigeria, so you’re kinda her first experience with American politics.”

That’s why I loved working on Current Noose. “Okay, you’ve got to stop the compliments before I get an ego. You guys ready to go?”

Niall nodded and Dante led us out of the hotel. We had a big black Range Rover that was taking us to the hotel, and I slid in without a problem. Niall, however, looked like he wanted to throw up, as if the reality that this was actually happening had finally caught up with him.

“Hey,” I said gently, holding my hand out, “I can live without feeling in my fingers.”

“Ha-ha,” he mocked, but looked thankful. He took my hand and stepped into the vehicle. He didn’t release my fingers, but I didn’t bring attention to it, especially because I could tell he was trying to keep himself calm.

Because I didn’t believe in any of this shit, it was interesting to see how genuinely scared he was. My brain worked with facts and stats, something that the paranormal was not. To see his fear work in real time was a new experience. Though Luis believed in the paranormal, he wasn’t usually scared of it. He laughed right along with me when we watched scary movies. 

It took us about ten minutes to drive to The Stanley Hotel, and I took this time to get to know my crew members. There was Dante, who liked Halloween and was generally believing of all the supernatural stuff, but had some skeptical nature still. He was the one who talked most during our car ride there. Jocelyn, another crew member from FunFriday, and Gabriel, someone I recognized from SF, were nearly asleep the second they got in the car. Dante regaled me with stories of Nigerian myths and folklore, which made Niall tighten his grip around my hand even more.

We pulled into the sprawling lot of the hotel and I eagerly pressed my face against the window. The hotel was beautiful, a giant white building with a brick-red roof. It didn’t look haunted, but then again, I didn’t really know what qualified as a “haunted” looking building, given I didn’t believe in that stuff. It looked magnificent, looming ahead of me with its brilliance. Even though I wasn’t a believer, I could still appreciate the notoriety of the building. 

“Jesus I’m going to throw up,” Niall said under his breath while Dante prattled on. He continued to hold onto my hand, using it to help me out of the car when it came to a stop. He dropped my hand as we walked up to the front, but I could see a small bead of sweat forming on the right side of his forehead. “If I start to throw up, you have to promise me we’ll stop filming.”

I laughed, patting his shoulder again. “I promise. You’ll be fine, Niall. We’re going on a guided tour, so we’ll have someone familiar with us too.”

My reassurance didn’t seem to help him, but I saw him take in a shuddering breath as the tour guide met us at the door. Their name was Frankie and they gave us a big smile when we walked up to meet them. “Hi!” Frankie said happily, clapping their hands together. “We’re happy to have you guys here.”

“Yeah, thanks for letting us walk around past closing,” I said.

If Frankie noticed the way Niall was groaning under his breath, they didn’t mention it. “Well, I want us to start with the ice house and we’ll make our way to the pet cemetery from there.”

“Pet cemetery?” Niall asked me under his breath while the crew began setting up. Frankie chatted with Dante for a little bit, and I could hear them exchange fun haunting stories. “As in the book, Pet Sematary?”

I shook my head. “No, this pet cemetery existed before King wrote that.” When he gave me a dubious look, I shrugged. “I did my research before coming out here.”

When Dante and a half-asleep Jocelyn and Gabriel finished setting up, they hooked us up with mics and some silly ghost-hunting things, like a small camera we could take if we went off from the crew, and the EVP wrist recorder that looked like my Apple Watch. We would record the intro at the hotel later tonight, after we were all a little calmed down and had more time to sleep, so for now we were jumping right into the content. When Dante gave me a thumbs-up, I grinned.

I loved being on camera. I used to not like it as much, especially at my job beforehand, but now that Brooke had given me opportunities and I had started Current Noose, I had no problem being recorded. And even through his fear, I could sense Niall was the same. His entire posture straightened and a charming smile appeared on his face as soon as Dante gave us the go ahead.

“We just arrived at the famous Stanley Hotel,” Niall said, his voice clear and with perfect enunciation (which, as someone who did filmed segments, I appreciated). “Here with us is our tour guide, Frankie. Frankie, how long have you been working here?”

“I’ve worked here for about three years,” Frankie replied.

“My lovely co-host doesn’t believe in ghosts,” Niall paused so I could roll my eyes, “but what about you? Has working at the Stanley changed your perspective on the supernatural?”

Frankie nodded. “I’m with you, Niall. I 100% believe in the supernatural, and I’ve had my own fair share of ghostly encounters while working here. We’ll just have to try our best to make Eva believe.”

“Good luck,” I mentioned off-handedly.

“So the first thing I’m going to show you is the ice house, where residents claim they see the ghost of Billy.” 

I was reared and ready to go, happily starting to follow Frankie to the ice house, but Niall took a deep breath behind me. “And...and is Billy a nice ghost?”

“He kills anyone who steps into his territory,” I quipped.

“See, now that’s not fucking nice.”

“Billy’s a little kid.” Niall shuddered even more at Frankie’s description. “He can sometimes be seen with another ghost, but more residents make mention of Billy than anything. You’ll be fine if you stick with me, Niall.”

The icehouse, where the hotel stored their ice before indoor refrigeration, had been converted into a museum. The inventor of the hotel, who Frankie called F.O. Stanley, had been in the steamer car business with his twin, so the museum had a couple of the Stanley Steamer Cars on display. Here, Frankie explained, was where guests saw the ghost of Billy.

“He mostly shows up as a blurry or misty figures in photographs,” Frankie said.

“So he’s a little bitch that doesn’t want his picture taken?” I suggested. Frankie laughed, but Niall looked murderous.

“Why the fuck would you say that? You can haunt her, Billy, I’m being respectful.”

Next on our tour was the pet cemetery. “Guests can sometimes hear Cassie the golden retriever scratching on their doors and trying to deliver the morning newspaper. There’s also a fluffy white cat named Camanche is sometimes seen wandering around.”

Niall looked like he was going to throw up. “It’s a golden retriever and a cat!” I exclaimed. “Don’t you have a fucking dog?”

“Not a ghost one who scratches on my haunted hotel room door.”

We made our way inside the hotel, a gorgeous sprawling thing. Frankie told us that The Shining was continuously played on the lobby television, and we happened upon it just as Jack Nicholson shoved his head through the door he had just hit with an axe. I gave Niall a mischievous smile. Niall ignored me in favor of listening to Frankie, who was explaining that the ghost of Elizabeth Wilson sometimes interfered with couples who were staying in the same room but weren’t married.

“She sounds like my mother,” I commented offhandedly.

“She also has been known to put luggage of single men outside their hotel room doors to let them know she doesn’t want them to stay.”

“Jesus,” Niall muttered, shaking his head.

After the anecdote of Elizabeth Wilson, we walked to room 217, the very room that inspired Stephen King to write The Shining. I was pumped up and ready to see it, but Niall looked like he wanted to fling himself out the window.

Frankie told us the story of Stephen King’s horrific nightmare and how it affected him when Dante laughed from behind the camera.

“And what the fuck are you laughing at?” Niall asked.

“I just thought...what if you guys go in there for five minutes each by yourself?”

I shrugged. “I’m game.”

Niall looked like he was on the verge of murdering Dante. “I’m gonna fucking murder you.”

It was decided that I would go first, so I took the camcorder and put on the stupid little headlight. Frankie unlocked the door for me, allowing me to step inside. It was a normal enough hotel room, nothing special. I sat on the desk chair and tapped my fingers on the desk. “How much money do we wanna bet that Niall’s freaking out right now?”

I sat in silence for a couple more minutes. However, unlike Niall, who was probably going to shit himself the entire time, I was getting bored. “Oh ghosts?” I singsonged, loud enough for Niall to hear.

“You’ve got a fucking death wish!” I heard Niall say on the other side of the door.

“Hey friendly ghosts, my friend Niall is super scared of y’all, but I don’t really believe in you. So if you’d like to show yourself, maybe give me a little scare, I’d be more than happy to participate.”

More silence. I just heard the sound of myself breathing. Dante knocked at the door, letting me know my time was up and it was Niall’s turn to enter the room. He did so only after Dante basically pushed him into the room, slamming the door behind Niall with an evil cackle.

“Our father, who art in heaven…”

“Are you praying? Are you even fucking religious?” I called out.

“It doesn’t really fucking matter to me if I’m religious or not at this point!”

Niall survived his five minutes of solitude in Room 217. When Frankie unlocked the door, Niall made a beeline to the stairs, ready to go home. I figured we had enough content for the first episode, plus we still had to shoot the intro. The crew and I followed him down the stairs and outside the hotel. 

“Frankie, you’ve been a dream,” I said happily, shaking their hand. 

“No problem at all. I’m excited to see what the footage looks like. Who knows, Eva? Maybe you’ll watch it back and see a ghost.”

“Don’t tell Niall that. He’s already on the verge of vomiting.”

We bid Frankie adieu and piled back into the car, where Niall immediately took a deep breath. “I’m never going back there again.”

“You never have to,” I assured, patting his hand. “But you do have to do the St. Augustine Lighthouse.”

He groaned. It was quiet for a moment before suddenly Dante shouted, “HERE’S JOHNNY!”

Niall screamed bloody murder, jumping in his seat and grabbing onto my shoulders like I was an anchor holding him down. I noticed Dante has the camcorder on and busted up laughing, relishing in the way Niall was still screaming out curses.

“All of you, fuck off!”

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Leonard “Leo” Caruso - Bisexual Demiromantic Polygamous Cis Male - Married To Linda - Father Of Alex - Cousin To Michael -  From: A Way Out - 35 - FC: Fares Fares

Leonard Caruso, now under the moniker Leon “Leo” Rogers, has been on the run for well over a year after escaping Five Lakes State Penitentiary. When his ‘partner,’ Vincent, turned out to be an undercover cop ready to throw him back into prison, he didn’t take it well, and his vengeance was almost realized when he got the gun first. However, instead of fatally shooting Vincent, he knocked him out with the butt of the gun and fled capture. Linda and Alex have gone to stay with some of Linda’s friends in Washington, and Leo has been doing his best to lose what was left of his pursuers. Feeling safe enough to seek out family, but not enough to take it back to his wife and son, he drove out to his younger cousin, Michael, in Colorado. Between Michael and his uncle in Italy, he has new papers and a fresh, new job in the South Park Police Department. He figures it’ll give him a bit more warning, and having his cousin working there will help. When asked, he tells people that he moved to South Park to help his ‘poor, crippled cousin and his family’ to avoid being sniffed out.