people make mistakes, some people more than others, but i know his heart, and he s a good person. coming up, the former lockup inmate who went from head-banger to professional wrestler. of msnbc lockup fame. have some respect. and later, the woman determined to tame bobby way gilbert s wild heart. i saw more than the crazed psychopath. i saw past that.
coming up, bud doobie takes to the ring. ah! and michael gill reflects on where bud ends and he begins. it s kind of hard to distinguish the real me and the character i play. and the woman who is about to become wife to one of lockup s most memorable inmates. i don t look at bobby as a killer. it s just something he did. it s not something he is.
make obscene phone calls to you? thank you for the picture, angel, very nice. love that hair. you ve got to be at least 7 feet tall, talk about kicking my ass, ha ha. don t be a stranger, angel. take care of yourself. with a smile, bobby g. when angel began her correspondence with gilbert, she was living in joliet, illinois. her son, niko, was only 15 at the time. at first, i was very worried about her emotional safety, because i wasn t sure how it would end up. but what had begun as just 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 s a collect call on there, and i thought perhaps it was from sherman, and it was him. it was bobby. and i ve communicated with him every day since. my mom, she was glowing, she was happy, and it was really nice to see her like that.
up and kill everybody in it. despite bobby ray gilbert s history of violence, both in and out of prison, his fiancee, angel, says when she sees him, she sees a different side. i don t look at bobby as a killer. it s just something he did. it s not something he is. though gilbert is serving life without parole, angel still manages to find ways to include him in her daily home life. these are visiting pictures. people may think it s an obsession, which it s not. i can t see him physically, daily, like joe blow and his wife, you know. i see him on a picture. he s with me, but he s not with me physically. there s more to a relationship than sex. you ve got to have trust, respect, good communication, companionship. i have all the above, but i just don t have the physical part.
corrections denied a request to interview gilbert, but angel told us the story of how she first became involved with gilbert shortly after seeing him on lockup. angel had initially contacted another holman inmate featured on the series, sherman moore, who held the job of prison barber. it was moore who acted as match-maker. wrote to sherman and developed a friendship with sherman. it s like you pulled a flattop fade out of your head? is that what you want? but i also saw the segment on bobby and i inquired about bobby, you know, what kind of a person is he? i was telling them all about me drinking that bottle of scope up in west jefferson. sherman encouraged me to write to him. he s like, write him, angel. he said you might hit it off. he says you and him personalitywise are very similar. so i wrote bobby a letter because i just saw something more than what was shown. bobby breaking that window, pacing in the cage, you know,