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. but it was clear that not only does he still struggle with what he did, he worries about what he still might do. it s heinous. if i had i believe in an eye for an eye and a 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, that my judge was very pointed to point out, i still think having crossed that line, it s therefore that much easier to go back across.
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. 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 ever 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.