i can t financially support you. all i can do is love you and be your friend and be there for you. i mean, i got tears coming down my eyes because i know what s getting ready to happen. and bobby asked me, he says, i love you and i ve never loved a woman as much as i love you. and will you be my wife? i mean, i m crying, oh, yes! and i threw my arms around him, and that was it. angel quit her bartending job, packed up her teenage son and her life in illinois and moved to a small town in alabama where she would only be an hour s drive from the prison. she got a job as a bartender and built her life around visits to gilbert. you ve got to be strong for it because it s not all fun and games. our visits, we laugh and just enjoy each other s time. but when they say visits are now over, you re leaving someone
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.
counts of murder, one of which was carried out against another inmate in prison. during our shoot, we would see his anger erupt again. [ bleep ] five minutes trying to do it the right way! 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, creative side. in the last interview we did with gilbert, he seemed resigned to his fate of spending the rest of his life most likely alone in a small cell. at this point, you just look back and realize that the best part of it s over with anyway. but five years later, we would discover that gilbert s appearances on 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 ray
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.
gilbert s 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. the alabama department of 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.