i m going to show you what i m made of. but gilbert proved to be more than just a violent man. he also showed us a thoughtful side. in the last interview we did with gilbert, he seemed resigned to spending the rest of his life most likely alone. but five years later, we would discover that gilbert s lockup had opened up a new chapter in his life. she goes by the name of angel, preferring not to give her last name, and she is bobby gilbert s fianc fiancee. we ve been together four years. it s just something that happened. i didn t set out for it to happen, it just did.
violent phone calls to you? you ve got to be about 7 feet tall. talk about kicking my ass. don t be a stranger, angel. take care of yourself. with a smile, bobby g. when angel began her accordance with gilbert, she was living in joliet, illinois. her son nico was living with her at the time. at first i was very concerned about her emotional safety because i wasn t sure how it would end up. but what began as a pen pal relationship quickly became something more serious. on a sunday evening at 8:00 at night, my son brought me the phone and he said, there is a collect call on there. i thought perhaps it was from sherman. it was him. it was bobby. and i communicated with him every day since. my mom was just glowing, she was happy, and it was really nice to see her like that. i started feeling something for bobby. i was falling in love with him, and it s an emotion that you
most of the inmates featured on lockup dream of the day they will leave prison and everything associated with it behind. but for one of them, forgetting will be virtually impossible. though he is now out of prison, he will forever carry an inescapable reminder of his days behind bars. we first met david boltjes when he was serving time for credit card fraud in the limon facility in colorado. he and his friend had each tattooed the whites of their eyes. boltjes chose red, ian, blue. i don t really ask why. the question is why not. two and a half years later, his cellmate is still in prison, but david boltjes has completed his sentence and is living outside denver in aurora, colorado. i told them i wasn t coming back. i m done. boltjes has seen a number of changes in his life since leaving limon. he s found love with his girlfriend, miss hendricks. and what s surprising is his appearance on lockup have made him a sensation. google me and see what pops up. i do. sinc
sentences, a 40-year sentence, a 20-year sentence, and a 10-year sentence, all together. at the time of our visit bobby gilbert had been at alabama s holman correctional facility for only four years. but he first landed in prison at the age of 18. he told us how a minor dispute over money led him to murder an acquaintance from his town. he said basically the only way i would get my money is over his dead body. you know. i was hot-headed then. so that s how i got it. how much money did he owe you? he owed me $36. i paid $37 for the gun i killed him with. so, you know once behind bars, gilbert s violent temper led to numerous other crimes, including stabbing another inmate to death. this time for much less than $36. but gilbert made it clear to us, in prison, things aren t always
as they seem. everybody wants to talk about i killed somebody over a carton of cigarettes. you know, it s not a carton of cigarettes. that may be the catalyst that leads to something, but, you know, if somebody owes me a soda pop or i owe him a soda pop and they come to me and say i need to get that soda pop you owe me, i spit in their face and talk to them like they a bitch or something and they kill me, whose fault is it? it isn t about the soda pop no more. on the street, you call the police to put a stop to it. what do you do in here? i tell you what you do, you go get you a knife and you stab that son of a bitch and say you ain t taking nothing else. that s the end of that. here s what happens when you come to take something from me. a-1 to a-4. gilbert s life behind bars is often punctuated by his frequent battles with holman s warden. grant culliver. at the time, culliver and a