open 504. shortly after bean and trowbridge are allowed back into their cell corrections officers return to administer the drug tests. we test for 8 different drugs. morphine, oxy, amphetamines, methamphetamines, cocaine and marijuana. the containers are designed with a drug detection patch that provides immediate results. bean. i have you positive for meth am feet mean. want that sent out to the lab? sent it to the lab. there is no way. if an inmate tests positive he can request a second test in
see. to young person or anybody who think that coming to prison is cool or whatever. come here. that s what i got the look at for the rest of my life. those wires. that might be the closest that i ever get to freedom is close but it s far away. that s what lock up is. that is what my extended stay is like. that s for real. that s real life. it s not high like in the movies. it ain t none of that, man. this is my bed. when i look out the window that s what i see. dustin trowbridge keeps a record of the cells he occupied over the last 15 years. i wrote down where i was every birthday since i been here. 15th was in the drunk tank in the county jail. 16th was in the cell above me. 17th was on the right side. 18th was on the right side. trowbridge has decided to write a letter to the elderly woman he robbed, murdered and
trowbridge s cell mate joshua bean shares the same circumstances. murder and abuse of a corpse. he is serving 68 years. the victim was his ex-girlfriend heather norris. it was a toxic relationship. it was love/hate and i still very much love h her. throughout the couple s three year relationship, heather told her family that bean was physically abusive and even though bean faced a pending trial on domestic abuse charges he says he wasn t abusive. it is predicated on a lie. the lie is that we had a violent relationship. i m not saying i m without fault but as far as what happened with her death worst
the county jail. 16th was in the cell above me. 17th was on the right side. 18th was on the right side. trowbridge has decided to write a letter to the elderly woman he robbed, murdered and sexually assaulted. i can never ask you to forgive me for the horrible things i did to you. i am sorry i stole your sense of security when i snuck in your home and stole your sense of accomplishment and endeavors. i am sorry i stole your dignity. i m sorry i stole you from your loved ones when i very cowardly took the life that god gave you. there is no words that can ever suppress how sorry i am. to those who knew and loved [ bleep ] i m sorry and will not ask forgiveness either.
every day for over half my life not a moment has gone by when i didn t hang my head in guilt and shame. that s it. why did you feel the need to write that? well, i think it was this was as much for myself as it was for anybody else s sake. i this is going to sound kind of silly but i really didn t couldn t comprehend death until someone i knew until i had experienced that loss. and it it kind of put things in a completely different perspective when my grandma died. trowbridge s cell mate wrote a