oh, it s a letter from my brother robert. hey, bro, how are you doing in here? i hope you re doing good in here. i know it sucks being in here and you never really got a chance to bond with me. now wolford had become pen pals with his estranged sister andrea, who was also in the jail. so lockup came and interviewed me a couple of times. they showed me your picture and i broke down. i honestly didn t know i would do that but for some reason it hit me hard when i seen your picture. rekindling his relationship with his sister might seem like good news. but in prison, robert had become a member of the white supremacist gang, the aryan brotherhood. and andrea was engaged to a co-defendant, sheldon hickman. we re family no matter what choices we make or how many times we mess up. a white supremacist has a sister who s engaged to a black man. in the prison world, that is not acceptable. did you know your brother was in the aryan brotherhood? no.
she s never even gotten in trouble a day in her life. she s never even been in the back of a cop car before that i know of. but andrea wolford was facing very serious charges. several counts of child endangerment. they came about because her fiance allegedly harmed some children they were babysitting. specifically, he is alleged to have struck two of the children five times each with a cloth belt, leaving bruises on their thighs and buttocks. a few weeks after we concluded our extended stay shoot in cleveland, andrea would be completely exonerated, found not guilty on all charges and released. but for now she was struggling to deal with the hardships of incarceration. i ve cried about ten times since i ve been here. a lot of fact due to missing the family. haven t been out there. i m my grandmother s caregiver. haven t been able to be there to take care of her. andrea was different from
both her brothers bobby and robert. she was much more of an innocent. it was obvious to me that robert was doing time, bobby had done time. andrea seemed a little bit like a fish out of water. very much just floating in this existence. a lot of times you wake up for court and they don t call you and you re like, wow, it just got canceled. i been waiting all this time to go to court. but in the end they can t keep you forever. just when we thought there could be no more odd twists to the story, we were wrong. it turns out that andrea s fiance and now co-defendant was housed in the jail as well. my co-defendant s name was sheldon hickman. we ve been dating for about a year and a half now. it s a strong relationship between us. we don t plan on separating just because of the case that we have together. sheldon hickman was also facing child endangerment charges. and like andrea, he too pled not guilty. can you tell me what they said occurred?
situation to be without your family. it just hurts not being able to see him face to face and actually go hang out and do something a brother and sister would do together. have that family bond that families should have. so here we have three siblings who, although separated by units, were suddenly under the same roof. for the first time in a long time. and andrea was yearning for a relationship with her brother robert, so she started writing him letters. but after so many years apart, that family bond might not be so easily forged. especially given andrea s relationship with sheldon. during his time in prison, robert joined the white supremacist gang, the aryan brotherhood. i don t believe i m racist. i believe it s just who i am. i don t sit here call the black dude n word. i just don t believe with a white woman messing with a black
well, they said that i whooped the kids and put bruises on them, which never happened. andrea was asleep. when i was watching the kids. she was there so they indicted her on my charges, i guess. make me feel worse because she s sitting down here for no reason at all. later on, sheldon would agree to plead guilty to only one count of child endangerment. he was sentenced to time already served in jail and released. but one of the new friends he made in his housing unit was none other than the future brother-in-law he had never met. that s another one that you didn t see coming either. talking about bobby wolford, any relation? my little brother. i love him like family, like blood. he s actually a friend of my best friend and they knew each other since they was little kids so that just brought us closer even quicker. when they first met in jail,