on november of 1975, i got into my car and started driving around. high on alcohol and pills, brook s joy ride with a stolen gun took a dramatic turn when he encountered the girl. she looked at me real funny, like, and i got mad. i got mad at the way that she was looking at me. she looked at me the way my wife did, that hurt and made me angry. she was like all the others. i felt the anger well up in me again. she had growled at me and now she was talking to another guy. so i pulled up on the side street and walked over to their car. and showed my gun and got in. i ordered them out and made him get into the trunk of the car.
not afraid to talk about his crime, but admitting to sexually assaulting his victim is risky. the members in the group have agreed to total confidentiality, but with a crime this taboo, he still runs the risk of having his story make its way to the yard. he was really armored. he was very apprehensive that his crime was especially the sexual aspect of it, in here is a touchy subject. guys who do that kind of thing, that was he showed a lot of trust in the group to have shared that with us. it s been three weeks since ronald brook admitted to
during today s session, ronald brook will finally have to talk about the night he murdered susan worthen. this is the first time he is telling the story in such detail and yet, the emotional impact of what they did. when you put in all the details, and you begin to paint a picture, then you really get emotionally what happened. so try and complete the most most extensive prime impact statement you can, my perception of the crime. on november of 1975, i got into my car and started driving around. i had been drinking vodka and had taken a handful of codeine. i wasn t going anywhere in particular. i had been arguing with my wife again and just wanted to get
now back to our msnbc special. in 1978, ronald brook decided he had enough of prison life. partner, he s got this clipboard and he acts like he s writing while i point along the fence. and i whip out the wire cutters and pop, pop, pop, pop! it took him less than a day to escape and six years of running to get caught. i had a good life in memphis. i was there, oh, about eight or nine months, and i met this very nice lady, and we got to liking each other and, eventually i moved in with her and her son, and she didn t at any time know that i was on the run.
i don t know, offhand. ronald brook s lifetime of anger towards women ended the life of susan worthen. but there are darker secrets from that night that may be more difficult to admit. i am quiet, because usually if people let their mouths run away, they end up saying things that they really shouldn t say. but in the group, i am not going to hold back my feelings if i can help it. what brook admits in this room in the upcoming weeks will put this new trust to the test. coming up, as his marriage falls apart, brook begins to unravel. we had been married about a year when she told me that she cheated on me. and later now, this was a stupid thing to do. brook takes a shortcut and