I know him better than you do, she says. I know Bobby better than anyone; I’m not a trick and I’m not game, and I know what I am to Bobby Gilbert.
Her name is Angel and she knows him alright; she married Bobby Ray Gilbert in prison.
Gilbert robbed a gas station one night, pistol-whipped and shot the attendant. Bobby laughs when he says, I got thirty-five dollars. The gun I used cost thirty-seven.
Once inside prison and to no one’s surprise, Bobby Gilbert killed again. A fellow inmate this time. Now serving multiple life sentences, Gilbert won’t leave ‘til the day he dies, and I surely won’t lose any sleep over that.
i set my drawing board up so when the sun comes through my window, i can get some good light on my board. they don t turn the lights on back there unless they need to see in your cell. six months after we last saw him, gilbert was finally transferred to a prison closer to his mother s home. he d successfully completed his anger management course and maintained good conduct. so we were shocked when he made national headlines in july of 2008. just days before another holman inmate was to be executed for a murder committed in 1982, gilbert claimed responsibility for the crime. when i heard bobby was taking credit for this murder, it brought back a very specific memory i had during one of the interviews i did with him. if i live another 20 years, i imagine, the last few will be on death row. why? because i know me.
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let s don t have one. what s going on? my mom travels 400 [ bleep ] to see me. you need to keep beating on that glass. you know we can t let you keep doing that. take it, i m ready to go then, i don t care. do [ bleep ] i ve been working for right here. i haven t been able to do it from this day forward. they two sides of me, ain t been to see [ bleep ] up next so help me god they re going to transfer me. bobby ray gilbert continues to rage. you ll be back behind that camera filming them putting a needle in my [bleep] arm. that s just how fed up i ve got. but also shows us another side of his personality. one thing that surprised me was the fact that he was a very talented artist. how do you chase what you love