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...only restroom. Pitts and Lee, who were part of the group, were apparently beaten after their arrest, and they soon pleaded guilty. Once behind bars, though, they persisted in claiming they were innocent. Three years later while the two were still on death row at the state prison in Raiford, a lie detector expert working on a different case got a taped confession to the Port St. Joe murders from Curtis Adams Jr., a white man who had already been convicted of another murder. Pulitzer-prizewinning Reporter Gene Miller of the Miami Herald began an investigation that helped...
...Rockefeller (and blacklisted in his vocation) for disclosing his findings of widespread corruption and brutality to the press. Dr. Frank Rundle, psychiatrist of Soledad prison-summarily dismissed for refusing to turn over the confidential psychiatric file of a prisoner-patient to the warden. Edward F. Roberts, correctional officer at Raiford State Prison in Florida-who testified before a congressional committee that he was forced out of his job because he refused to go along with his supervisor's credo that "a convict is the lowest thing on earth...
Obsession with sex can range from titillation to the repellent. On Kansas City's Counsellor's Corner, the Rev. R. Lofton Hudson found himself counseling a woman who complained that she was being "pressured" into a neighborhood wife-swapping group. Bob Raiford, on Washington's WTOP, waded unblinking into a discussion of aerosol contraceptives. And when New Orleans' WSMB's Larry Regan asked one deviate caller if he had considered going to a psychiatrist, he got the reply, "Go to a psychiatrist, hell. I go with...
Forger Turner, who used to be Clarence Gideon's neighbor at Florida's Raiford state prison, has been the brains (IQ 140) behind more than 100 would-be Gideonites. A onetime insurance claims adjuster, Turner picks up clients through the prison grapevine, studies their court records, and has often drawn up petitions, hand-printed by a dozen other convicts. Turner's legal skills have already forced public defenders to handle all Gideon Petitions, made court clerks abolish the usual $25 filing fee. At times he writes like a judge: "This breathes of the appellate court...
...Tampa, Fla., Mrs. William Allen Taylor read the same list and stopped at the same name. Spears, a close friend of her husband since the days when they were fellow convicts in the Florida State Prison at Raiford, had been visiting her husband in Tampa. Two days later in the mail she got a $37,500 air-travel insurance policy taken out by Al Taylor (divorced but still friendly) at Tampa Airport just before take-off time of the doomed DC-7B. Taylor was missing, although he was not listed on the plane's manifest...