finally wear clothes. he dressed up in a suit. he was trying to normalize himself so quickly that it was important for him to acclimate. one going to south bend work release. hopefully i will be able to get a job sometime this week. i mean, you got to pay the room and board and victim s crime fund, so while i m here, about half my paycheck will go to the state, but it allows me to go ahead and save some money up for when i get out because, you know, from my experience of talking to other guys that have gotten out, the ones that have the most trouble don t have family to go to or anything. i have family. my mom, but she s locked up herself. so i m on my own. i need to do whatever i can because nothing is free anymore. once he arrived at the work release facility, he met with sergeant david gowan for an orientation. he soon discovered his new life wouldn t start as quickly as he had hoped. right back here in the visiting room.
they had to actually fry him five times because i guess the electric chair wasn t functioning properly at the time. his mother is sent away to prison forever. both received 55 years for the murder, 45 years for the conspiracy to commit murder, and my mom s case, she ll be 83 years old in about two weeks. as far as i know she s the oldest woman prisoner in the state of indiana. and his sister ended up testifying against the rest of the family, and she s out there free. my sister received eight years. last time i seen her was 1983 when she was on the witness stand testifying against me and my mom. i remember thinking back then, i hope there s going to be for me all this time in prison. maybe i pulled through a little more saner than i expected. that s debatable. coming up never see me in here again after today. paul becomes a free man. i m on my own.
that was me just a few months before i got locked up. wow. yeah, i was in my senior year of high school when i got locked up. are you ready for your picture? when we met him at indiana state prison, he was 43, had served 26 years of a 55-year sentence, and was working as the visiting room photographer. look at me. we went digital about three months ago. still kind of learning it. there s a lot of things with the 35 millimeter i was accustomed to. when i first met paul he came up to me because i had a little digital camera and he had taken photographs of people on family days and whatnot. he had a million questions about photography and, you know, telling me everything he did. so for me he was like one of the most harmless people at the prison. how are you doing? with his very simple, sweet demeanor, i was shocked to find out that he and his family had murdered his father.
i kind of glossed over that. okay, well, go back. well, after the stabbing had occurred, you know, my brother-in-law asked, he said, do we have an axe, and i said no. we used to have one in the garage. so we went out there, and he picked out a cross cut saw and a pruning saw. those will do. i have no idea what s going on at this time, and so we go back in there and he dismembers the body. where? head, arm, arm, torso, leg, leg. where? in the bedroom. on the bed? on the floor of the bedroom. wasn t that messy? yeah, it was pretty messy. it was a bizarre family situation behind paul s father s murder. the brother-in-law is convicted and given the electric chair. he s the last man to die in the electric chair. everything went wrong about that execution.
know, from my experience of talking to other guys that have gotten out, the ones that have the most trouble don t have family to go to or anything. i have family. my mom, but she s locked up herself. so i m on my own. i need to do whatever i can because nothing is free anymore. once he arrived at the work release facility, he met with sergeant david gowan for an orientation. he soon discovered his new life wouldn t start as quickly as he had hoped. right back here in the visiting room. the first two weeks you need to calm down, take it easy, okay, get acclimated to the facility, learn what s going on, get used to the schedules, the routines, and things of that nature. after the two weeks, they re going to go ahead and they re going to give you a counselor orientation. you cannot go out job seeking until that counsel orientation is done. it s very crucial.