to write a guy in prison? aren t you worried that i m going to bust out of here, hunt you down, harass you at work and 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. i started feeling something for bobby. i was falling in love with him, and it s an emotion that you can t control. it just happens. and after four months of calls and letters, angel decided to make the 700-mile trip from illinois to alabama, and she visited bobby for the first time. it was only three hours, and it was very special. he was sitting next to me, and i could see bobby out of the corner of my eye just grinning and staring at me. it was really cute. over the next few months, angel made the trip two more times, and on her third visit, gilbert had something special planned. bobby took my hand and he said, i have nothing for you but this.
somebody else growing up. now it s time to do right. now it s time to put all the stuff that we know about how to do bad, all the illegal stuff we know, flip it and make it legitimate. 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. don t just visit new york visit tripadvisor new york
you can blow this whole prison 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,
bobby breaking that window, pacing in the cage, you know, mad. so help me god they re going to transfer me! i saw more than the crazed psychopath. i saw a little bit more past that. i really didn t have what you d call a childhood where you could, you know, be a kid, play, you know. humor and cutting up wasn t all looked upon too good. there was something more to him. i wanted to get to know him. angel received a response from gilbert almost immediately. angel, so, i m curious, why does an attractive woman with a busy lifestyle take the time out to write a guy in prison? aren t you worried that i m going to bust out of here, hunt you down, harass you at work and make obscene phone calls to you? thank you for the picture, angel, very nice.