with officers? did you run into people you knew? yeah. i mean, i ran into a few people. they said, hey, rapatz. they call me by my last name, que paso? what happened, how did you end up here in the joint? what happened? i tell them, i ended up wrong place, wrong time. i was out drinking and using drugs and alcohol. and i messed up my life. as we continue to interview rapatz, we learn although this was his first conviction as an adult, it was hardly his first brush with the law. i started stealing cars at a young age and breaking into schools. i broke into my junior high and my high school. at 11 years old i was living like i was 21. between the ages of 13 and 18, rapatz did time in juvenile detention centers in several states. once i turned 18 i got my files sealed and i actually got my life together until i was about 24. i did do good. and i was trying to change my life around. with his juvenile files sealed, rapatz had a fresh start
did you run into people you knew? yeah. i mean, i ran into a few people. they said, hey, rapatz. they call me by my last name, que paso? what happened, how did you end up here in the joint? what happened? i tell them, i ended up wrong place, wrong time. i was out drinking and using drugs and alcohol. and i messed up my life. as we continue to interview rapatz, we learn although this was his first conviction as an adult, it was hardly his first brush with the law. i started stealing cars at a young age and breaking into schools. i broke into my junior high and my high school. at 11 years old i was living like i was 21. between the ages of 13 and 18, rapatz did time in juvenile detention centers in several states. once i turned 18 i got my files sealed and i actually got my life together until i was about 24. i did do good. and i was trying to change my life around. with his juvenile files sealed, rapatz had a fresh start at life. at age 19, he was hired as a correctional off
buys a house in the suburbs. but still, he s a man with a past. my prison number is 37839. i know it like my social security number. you know, was kng foown l that name. my first name was lowery. my last name was 37839. though lowery is out of prison, he s not free. in 1996, congress passes megan s law. it requires that the names and addresses of sex offenders be made available to the public. i was like, another bombshell to me. you know, i was like, now neighbors are going to find out. people are going to know that i m a sex offender. it s going to be a hard life again. he didn t go to work for a couple of days, and he never missed work. he actually just sat in the living room just kind of like in his chair just like this. like all day. the pain and humiliation is constant. it becomes unbearable one day
bible scriptures and my last name. that s all you wrote? yeah. on his cell door, there was woody wood, which is a derivative of peckerwood, and that s a white supremacist gang. there was a swastika. there was uab, which is the universal aryan brotherhood. all of that is indicators of what? of, uh, hate, yeah. that s also on my wall here, too. how long have you been in this cell? i ve been in here for a little over a year now. and you ve never taken this stuff off the wall? i ve tried to scrub it off and it won t come off. we d been in that jail for quite a while and the one thing the inmates you know, they re always having to take off their pencil drawings, and they only drew in pencil. they were actually provided cleaning supplies, so there was no reason he couldn t have taken those drawings off. this shading is similar to this shading, see? yeah.
another story. tell me what you put on this door. bible scriptures and my last name. that s all you wrote? yeah. on his cell door, there was woody wood, which is a derivative of peckerwood, and that s a white supremacist gang. there was a swastika. there was uab, which is the universal aryan brotherhood. all of that is indicators of what? of, uh, hate, yeah. that s also on my wall here, too. how long have you been in this cell? i ve been in here for a little over a year now. and you ve never taken this stuff off the wall? i ve tried to scrub it off and it won t come off. we d been in that jail for quite a while and the one thing the inmates you know, they re always having to take off their pencil drawings, and they only drew in pencil. they were actually provided cleaning supplies, so there was no reason he couldn t have taken those drawings off. this shading is similar to