the chatham county detention center in savannah, georgia, is an immense jail covering 20 acres, the equivalent of 15.5 football fields. nathaniel wilkins has occupied a smal sliver of that real estate for the last positive. he is accused of murdering his former boss and that man s girlfriend. basically it s overwhelming because, like, every day, like, i wake up in the cell like how many nights i cry. wilkins admits his form are boss fired him prior to the murders, but he insists he had no animosity towards him and maintains his innocence. i m actually sitting in here waiting to go to trial. i don t know what trial will be. it might be two years from now, three years from now. i don t have time to waste because i have kids, and i have to go home to. i have no choice. there s nobody out there willing to help anybody once you get
don t except the people i they don t even know. swroenz and wilkins have cut off communication for now, but another pair of co-defendants writes to each other every chance they get. happy anniversary. how are you doing today? i m all right except for the fact we can t be together, but i know there s many more to come. i m just ready to get our lives moving towards a better future. laurie and her boyfriend josh were both arrested for second degree burglary. she has pled guilty and will soon serve one we re in prison. he is working with prosecutors for a plea deal. we went into a school, got electronics and stuff and we just wanted a quick dollar and everything went downhill there, and then we ve been calling each other for a while. we ve been together for six months. he was trying to my whole life being in group homes.
when you walk in, everybody s looking at you crazy, it s kind of funny. what y all looking at? we just seen you on the news, it s like watching a ghost walk through the door. wilkins has had prior stays at chatham county on convictions including fighting in a public place and battery. all my charges are basically just fighting. me shooting somebody, it s not going to happen. wilkins admits, however, that the male victim in this case, his former boss, fired him prior to the murders. i had got fired because they said it was slow and i really and i can honestly tell the truth and say i really wasn t doing my job there because i got too comfortable. and when i got comfortable, i really start slacking in my work. wilkins says it was weeks between his firing and the murders but could not be specific. the actual timeline between the murders and the firing has not
the people i break bread with. he don t even know about my case, really. i don t care about his case. while jones and wilkins have cut off communication for now, another pair of co-defendants writes to each other every chance they get. happy anniversary, babydoll. how are you doing today? i m all right considering the fact that we can t be together on this day but i know there s many more to come. i m just ready to get our lives moving towards a better sister. laurie dowda and her boyfriend josh holtsclaw were both arrested for second-degree burglary. dowda has pled guilty and will soon serve one year in prison. holtzclaw is working with prosecutors for a plea deal. we went into a school, got electronics and stuff in that nature. we just wanted a quick dollar. then went downhill in that area. then actually be calling each other bonnie and clyde for a while. we ve been together for six months. he was trying to give me my fairy tale life. my whole life being in group homes
cooking. 24 hours earlier, wilkins says he was working as a chef at a popular savannah restaurant. but now he has exchanged his apron for a jail uniform, akumsed of a high-profile double homicide. the murders shocked neighbors, some who told news 3 this was the first time of trouble on this quiet street in decades. the victims, wilkins former boss who was an executive chef at another restaurant, and that man s girlfriend. they were found shot to death outside their home. wilki wilkins arrest came two weeks shy of the crime s one-year anniversary. honestly, i can tell you all on camera, i did not do it, i didn t have anything to do with it at all. charged with two counts of first-degree murder and aggravated assault, wilkins says when he enters his plea it will be not guilty. he was my old boss. basically, everything that i learned as in cooking-wise i learned from him. so me actually trying to do something to him, my heart wouldn t even allow me to do that at all.