Bloody Angola: A Podcast by Jim Chapman

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50 Shades of Evil: South Carolina - Donald “Pee Wee” Gaskins Nov 04, 2026

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Standing barely over five feet tall and weighing around 130 pounds, Donald Henry “Pee Wee” Gaskins looked nothing like the monster he was. Nicknamed for his small stature, the South Carolina native became one of the state’s most prolific and sadistic serial killers—known in some circles as the “Meanest Man in America” or the “Redneck Charles Manson.”
From the late 1960s into the mid-1970s, Gaskins distinguished between what he called his “coastal kills” (random hitchhikers and strangers he tortured for pleasure) and his “serious murders” (people he knew: friends, associates, and even family). Among the confirmed victims were his own 15-year-old niece, Janice Kirby, and her 17-year-old friend Patricia Ann Alsbrook, whom he beat to death. He also murdered pregnant Doreen Dempsey and her two-year-old daughter, among others whose bodies were later found buried in shallow graves near his property in Prospect, South Carolina.
Timestamps:
01:38 South Carolina’s Pee Wee Gaskins
05:36 Prison, Parole, and Early Killings
09:37 The Confirmed Victims Begin
19:05 Murders for Money and Silence
21:56 Kim Lyons and the Killings That Followed
26:13 The Graveyard and Gaskins’ Capture
28:28 Prison Murder Plot
33:59 Execution and Final Words

Nightmare on Cell Block: Expanded Edition Oct 31, 2026

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In this Halloween episode, Jim revisits haunted prisons and jails, discussing their histories and reports of unexplained voices, footsteps, apparitions, and other activity. We then recount several murders and deaths associated with Halloween, including both solved cases and unsolved killings.
Timestamps:
02:37 Yuma Territorial Prison’s Dark Cell
07:45 Charleston’s Infamous Old City Jail
13:09 Missouri’s Haunted Prison Walls
15:45 Butch Cassidy’s Wyoming Prison
18:00 West Virginia Penitentiary Hauntings
20:44 Dillinger’s Escape from Lake County Jail
29:32 Murders Committed on Halloween Night
29:48 A Halloween Night Killing in Napa
37:37 The Halloween Murders of the Griffin Family
38:38 An Unsolved Manhattan Halloween Killing
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50 Shades of Evil: Utah - Gary Gilmore Oct 27, 2026

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Gary Mark Gilmore committed two cold-blooded murders by robbing Max Jensen, a young gas-station attendant and BYU student in Orem, ordered him to the floor, and shot him twice in the head—reportedly saying one bullet was “for me” and the other “for Nicole.” The next evening he did it again, killing motel manager Bennie Bushnell in Provo under nearly identical circumstances.
Timestamps:
04:58 A Family Built on Lies and Violence
11:12 Prison Becomes Gary’s Home
18:40 Two Young Fathers, Two Brutal Robberies
24:30 Conviction—and a Death Sentence
29:06 A Mother, the ACLU, and the Battle
31:26 A Failed Suicide Pact and a Hunger Strike
33:11 Gilmore’s Final Night and Firing Squad Execution
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Fishing Trip Oct 22, 2026

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At Louisiana State Penitentary at Angola, 48 incarcerated fathers spent time with their sons through fishing, games, boat rides and conversation as part of an outreach program focusing on building stronger relationships between incarcerated fathers and sons, how did they do it, and what is the impact of an event like this? Jim Chapman brings you behind the wire and onto a 400 acre lake in this episode.
Timestamps:
01:41 Angola’s Father-Son Fishing Day
03:25 Lake Killarney’s Storied Past
04:49 Reuniting Fathers and Sons
08:28 First Meetings and Family Stories 1
1:27 Incarceration’s Generational Impact
15:05 Fishing, Games, and New Memories
25:47 Rehabilitation Through Family Connection
31:46 Angola Cowboys Take the National Stage
34:23 Rodeo, Redemption, and Recognition
36:46 Camp 57 Repair Update
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50 Shades of Evil: Nevada - Thomas Randolph Oct 13, 2026

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Thomas Randolph called 911 on the night of May 8, 2008, from his Las Vegas home with a chilling story: he and his sixth wife, Sharon Causse, had just returned from a date when a masked intruder shot her in the head. Randolph claimed he then killed the intruder in self-defense. The dead man turned out to be Michael Miller, a handyman Randolph knew. Investigators quickly saw problems with the scene and the story.
Prosecutors later argued Randolph had hired Miller to kill Sharon so he could collect hundreds of thousands of dollars in life insurance, then shot Miller to eliminate the only witness and stage the whole thing as a heroic act of self-defense. It was a calculated double murder dressed up as a random home invasion. What made the case even darker was Randolph’s history. He had been married six times, and four of his wives were dead by the time he was arrested.
One earlier wife in Utah, Becky Gault, had also died from a gunshot wound in circumstances that raised suspicions; Randolph was tried and acquitted in that case years earlier. The pattern—marriages, insurance policies, and untimely deaths—earned him the nickname “the Black Widower.” The road to conviction was long and complicated. Randolph was found guilty in 2017 and sentenced to death, but the Nevada Supreme Court overturned the verdict because jurors had heard evidence from the earlier Utah case. At his 2023 retrial, with that prior-act evidence barred, a second jury still convicted him of conspiracy to commit murder and two counts of first-degree murder. In 2024 he was sentenced to 60 years to life. He continues to maintain his innocence.
Timestamps:
02:06 Vegas Home Invasion
05:28 Early Marriages
09:50 Becky’s Death
14:05 Jailhouse Plot
14:43 Leona’s Marriage
15:44 Gayna’s Escape
19:03 Frances’s Mysterious Death
26:13 Sharon’s Murder
29:42 Conviction Overturned
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Botched: The Failed Execution of Christa Pike Oct 06, 2026

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In this episode Jim Chapman examines the crime, conviction, and eventual failed execution of death row inmate Christa Pike in Tennessee after being convicted in the murder of Colleen Slemmer.
Timestamps
01:45 Failed Execution Shock
02:58 Job Corps Background
10:33 Krista Pike Emerges
20:11 Clues on Campus
26:31 Pike Confesses
30:05 Death Sentence Handed Down
32:11 New Execution Date Set
34:15 Medical Issues Raised
36:21 Execution Goes Wrong
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50 Shades of Evil: Alaska - Israel Keyes Sep 29, 2026

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In this episode Jim Chapman brings you to Alaska and tells you the story of Israel Keyes. Jim covers the disappearance of Samantha Koenig in Anchorage in 2012 and the investigation that followed, including the ransom scheme and the evidence later linked to him. Jim also dives deep into Keyes background, military service, and adult life, along with the violent behavior and confessions that shaped the case.
Timestamps
05:12 Wilderness to Extremism
10:38 Soldiers See the Rage
20:05 Samantha Koenig’s Last Night
26:43 Ransom Scheme Unravels
30:13 Murder and Body Disposal
39:14 Confession and Charges
41:08 Failed Escape Attempt
43:19 Victims Revealed
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50 Shades of Evil: Darrell Brooks Jr. Sep 21, 2026

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On the afternoon of November 21, 2021, downtown Waukesha, Wisconsin, was packed for the city’s annual Christmas parade. Kids in baseball uniforms. Bank employees handing out candy. The Milwaukee Dancing Grannies in sequins and pompoms. Then a red Ford Escape came down the route and did not stop.
In the span of a few blocks, Darrell Edward Brooks Jr. struck dozens of people. Six were killed. More than sixty were injured. The dead ranged from 8-year-old Jackson Sparks, marching with his brother and the Waukesha Blazers, to 81-year-old Wilhelm Hospel, walking with the dance group his wife belonged to. Three members of the Dancing Grannies — Virginia Sorenson, 79; LeAnna Owen, 71; and Tamara Durand, 52, in her first parade with the troupe — never made it home. Jane Kulich, 52, was walking with a Citizens Bank float.
This episode reconstructs that Sunday: the domestic fight earlier that day, the low cash bail that had put Brooks back on the street, the barricades he ignored, and the five-block path of the SUV. It also traces the two decades that came before it — battery, domestic violence, prior incidents involving vehicles, and open Milwaukee felony cases that never kept him locked up.

50 Shades of Evil: Ohio - Casey Pigge Sep 04, 2026

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In 2008, a young man from Chillicothe, Ohio, slit his girlfriend’s mother’s throat, sat on the couch, and watched her die—then set the apartment on fire. He called himself “Box Cutter.” Prosecutors wanted death. A psychologist’s finding about his IQ took it off the table. He went to prison for life. That should have been the end of the story. It wasn’t.
In February 2016, Casey Pigge carved a cinder block out of his cell wall at Lebanon Correctional Institution, talked his cellmate into a “card trick,” and beat Luther Wade to death. He later said he wanted a cell to himself. Officials still put him on a prison bus. Two days after he pleaded guilty to that killing, he sat in the back of a transport vehicle with no cameras and no line of sight to the officers up front. Using a restraint chain, he strangled and smothered 61-year-old inmate David Johnson while other prisoners watched. When it was over, Pigge boasted: “I guess you never seen that on a bus before.” A year later, in another February, he and another lifer used homemade shanks to stab a Lucasville correction officer 32 times. The officer lived. Pigge did not stop talking about killing again.

The Tinder Trap: The Murder of Sydney Loofe – Aubrey Trail & Bailey Boswell Aug 28, 2026

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On November 15, 2017, 24-year-old Sydney Loofe left her Lincoln apartment excited for a second Tinder date. She posted a Snapchat: “Ready for my date.” She never came home.The woman she matched with was Bailey Boswell.
Sydney didn’t know Boswell lived with older boyfriend Aubrey Trail — a career criminal prosecutors said was already looking for someone to kill. Boswell lured Sydney to a basement apartment in Wilber. There she was strangled with an extension cord, cut into 14 pieces, stuffed into trash bags, and dumped along rural roads. For three weeks her family and the FBI searched. Then the bags were found.
Store video showed Trail and Boswell buying saws and bleach while Sydney was still alive.
Trail was sentenced to death. Boswell got life. In 2024 her conviction was upheld. Sydney just wanted a second date. What she walked into was a trap set before they ever matched.
Timestamps:
03:51 Sidney Loof
14:26 Aubrey Trail’s Criminal Past
18:27 Bailey Boswell’s Fall
25:21 The Wilbur Basement
29:00 Tinder Trap Set
38:07 Trials and Verdicts
41:37 Justice After Loss

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