Patuxent housed 1200 inmates.  Segregated inmates.  Integration had not yet reached Maryland prisons or jails or mental hospitals or any combination of the two like Patuxent. 

  Negro inmates, the polite term, used by officialdom in those years, were not only housed in separa… Read full post »

Charlie and Louie were always asking for my story.  The story of the priest. 

But I couldn’t tell them since I didn’t remember killing the priest. 

As time went by I did seem to remember more and more about that night.  I remember the blood. 

But I know… Read full post »

 Buddy (continued)

 October 31, 1958-March 3, 1961 

The State of Maryland’s Defective Delinquent Law was unique in the 1950’s and 1960’s and was eventually declared unconstitutional by the United States Supreme Court. I was sentenced under that unconstitut… Read full post »

                                                BUDDY 

I don’t remembe… Read full post »

J.P

He was kind of a weird kid. Strange, ya know? But nice looking. And nice. Real butch lookin. And tall. Nice body for a kid. I mean, I was never into chicken or anything like that but I knew he was nice. But too young. For me, at… Read full post »

Sam

I think the kid was probably a psychopath. I mean, even I didn’t suspect it at the time. But that’s my whole point. He showed up at the bar one night and everyone there is just knocked out. J.P.’s practically drooling. Fat Mary’s assuring everyone that the kid is… Read full post »

PAM

Sam was the person who really convinced me to testify. Not that it did any good. All I really said was what I thought of Buddy. I looked at the judge the whole time I talked. That judge reminded me of my father. He had white hair… Read full post »

Mary

Sam tole me first. Pointed ‘em out. Said that boy some sweet trouble. Tole me to talk to ‘em.

Look in his eyes, Mary, he say. Find out who in there and why he here. That’s the first time I ‘member seein Buddy. Standin in the corner of… Read full post »

August 15, 1958

There was a bar in Baltimore in the late 1950’s , frequented by homosexuals, lesbians, small time hoods, drug dealers, prostitutes and male hustlers.

There were rooms upstairs where for five dollars you could spend an hour with a man or woman. The whores and hustlers… Read full post »