that s pretty heavy right there. on a cold december morning a million miles out to sea stare down at a letter from my wife and kids to me why do you write such sad songs? i don t know. i don t know, actually. i really don t have an answer for that. they feel good to write, though. they really do. and a letter from home saying how they miss me every day life s about emotion. i think we re all related emotionally, all of us. how much longer will i have to stay i think before i came to prison in 85, i didn t relate. i didn t feel like i related. just with human beings, you know?
it s time consuming, but it is tedious. everything was very tiny. so the amount of time and focus and energy it took him to do each one of these rocks must have been immense. i m going to do a yoda. a yoda on one of them, for a friend of mine. though stall looked for distractions in prison, he wasn t completely unwilling to face the consequences of his actions. during our stay at holman, he decided to participate in a victims empathy class the prison conducts for those convicted of murder. though the guest speaker was in no way connected to stall s victim, she might as well have been. well, this afternoon we re really honored to have pat tuthill with us. she is a surviving victim of a really horrible crime. her daughter s name is peyton. and her daughter was murdered eight years ago. and i have to tell all of you, i didn t know how i d feel about being here today. she was 23.
explosive to my mother whom he had known since childhood and it killed my mother. czech news reports say he was involved in the plot to kill his mother to gain an inheritance but kuna denies that. translator: i just wasn t able to protect her. i could have protected her if i had gone to the police at that time. but you can t go back and undo it. once it was set in motion it was like being on a plane and not being able to jump off. the only thing i can take comfort in is the fact that nothing happened to my daughter. even though i missed out on her childhood, and of course i regret that. kuna s daughter was 6 years old when he entered prison 14 years earlier and he counts his loss of his relationship with her among the many consequences he s dealt with. translator: i was planning on hanging myself. i spent a lot of time feeling sorry for myself. but then i started to think, it s the wrong way to think because why should i feel sorry for myself when actually a lot of people were
it was like being transported into another time. it was beautiful and quaint. there were none of the trappings i m used to, billboards, advertisement, fast food places. then on top of a mountain was this gorgeous old castle and that was mirov prison. inside this fairytale-like 13th century castle we had an encounter with a man whose life was anything but a fairytale. his name was vladimir kuna. i heard a lot about vladimir kuna when i got to mirov prison. he was one of the most notorious inmates housed there. because he was such a high profile inmate he had to be taken into a specific cell before we were able to go in and interview him. so there was this big buildup about his notorious crimes. the violence. he was like a character out of goodfellas. when i started talking to vladimir, i was a little surprised. he was a very calm, gentle guy. he was relaying his situation to me. translator: i was living a
and the people whose lives can t be returned and the victims and their relatives as well? and it just made me feel very sorry. these are things that can t be undone. but ever since then, i believe that the soul is immortal. and that helped me to come to terms with the idea that perhaps even the dead will be born again into a new life. but kuna was still making the most of his life. even behind the ancient walls of mirov prison. he had recently remarried. this time to a woman he met through an inmate pen pal program. translator: with this hell i ve gone through, my life values were completely reversed. i realized that some kind of property and money and all that means nothing, compared to a healthy love. a person s health and love of life. i was aware of that. even when those things were happening. but you realize it in here. when you re locked up in iron and concrete. without being able to go out in