christ. i tackled him from behind and somehow got around behind him and slit his throat. and i remember him saying, please don t kill me. and that s when i realized, oh, my god, what am i doing? i said whatever is done has already been done. by this time, i m totally wigged out and i pulled his brain out, you know, and took a bite out of it. joseph garner s treatment in the rtu helped him assimilate into the level four general population, but still he struggles with his crime. oh, it s it s heinous. if i had i believe in an eye for an eye and tooth for a tooth. if i had my way, i believe they should take my life. even though there were extenuating circumstances that were both mitigating and aggravating, still having crossed that line, it would, therefore, be that much easier to go back across. that s always the case. there s less inhibition to take another life now, especially
group therapy. they got me into school. i was able to get my ged, which helped my self-esteem. terry now lives in general population. his cellmates also came from the rtu. it seems like they kind of seem to put us together when we get out here because we better understand, you know, our illnesses and our little idiosyncrasies. they go along with being mentally ill. where a lot of people in general population don t understand that. i wish they had more programs like rtu all over, you know, the country because a lot of mentally ill people are ending up in prisons. for inmate joseph garner, processing his horrific crime has been the hardest part of his punishment. i have been down 9 1/2 years. i got 22 1/2 more to go. i ve been my crime is murder, and i cannibalized during the process. on christmas night, 1996, joseph thought his father was preventing the second coming of
i tackled him from behind, somehow got behind him and slit his throat. and i remember him saying please don t kill me. that s when i realized, oh, my god. what am i doing? our producer later described her interview with garner as exhausting as he often took the conversation on bizarre tangents. each and every nanosecond, moment, impulse second, whatever the latest measurement of time is. repressed freudian alien who had snowballed emotionally and was repressed with drugs and alcohol. and witnessed by 10,000 people at a country hoedown concert in detroit. it was another 30 minutes before our producer could bring him back to the details of his crime. what he told us was both shocking and disturbing. open up my i pulled his brain out and took a bite out of it. like frank street, garner was housed in the residential treatment unit.
graphic details surrounding his mother s murder, the lockup team never imagined we d encounter another inmate at wabash with a similar story. then, we were introduced to 47-year-old joseph garner. i ve been down 9 1/2 years, have 22 1/2 more to go. i ve been my crime is murder. and i cannibalized during the process. garner killed his father on christmas eve 1995. at the time, he believed his dad was preventing the second coming of christ. again, we ll warn you, his account of the murder is extremely graphic. i eventually told him to sit in the chair and not to move. and i started singing the battle hymn of the republic. glory, glory, hallelujah. i told him they re coming. do you hear them? i was wigged out completely at that time. he must have got scared. and he jumped up and tried to push me aside and i thought he was attacking me. i stabbed him in the back. he took about three steps.
it. joseph garner s treatment in the rtu helped him assimilate into the level four general population, but still he struggles with his crime. oh, it s it s heinous. if i had i believe in an eye for an eye and tooth for a tooth. if i had my way, i believe they should take my life. even though there were extenuating circumstances that were both mitigating and aggravating, still having crossed that line, it would, therefore, be that much easier to go back across. that s always the case. there s less inhibition to take another life now, especially even my own. i have threatened that several times. in the stressful and often predatory environment of this maximum security prison, the rtu is helping mentally ill inmates