by cephis saying he was a convict, he was basically saying his crimes were not against a child or of a sexual nature against a woman, and he lives by the convict code, which in prison is a big deal. the laws of the convict is you don t respect others, you don t steal, you pay your debts, you can never become a punk or a bitch. i ve done that. my reputation is clean. but pacific pasco s status as a convict was threatened by another distinction in prison s complicated social structure. are those animals out so we can go eat? feeting time at the zoo. we were interviewing cephis at his cell. and he was awaiting the bell for chow hall. he came out. he was walking down. we were following him. i heard some inmates scream out something. i wasn t actually sure what they had said. but his reaction was so severe, i assumed it had to have been a major insult.
I m a murderer. straight-up convict. the more cephis tried to convince us he was a convict, the more i wondered if there was something else going on. a few days later, pasco told us what did go on the night he committed murder. i was at a bar drinking one night. had nine shots of whiskey and several beers. and gave a ride to my sister-in-law, i think it is or something like that. nephew s ex-wife. we she lured me on to the dogtown, which is the river camps. and we started to have sex. and she backed out of it and got into an argument. and she started smacking me around and i had a hair-trigger temper back then. so, i snapped on her and went off. oh, to hell with it. i stabbed her, i broke her neck and smashed her skull in.
pasco claims his rage erupted because his victim rejected him and that they never did have sex. but some of the evidence indicated otherwise. well, they turned it into a rape trial. they did their tests. and there was a presence of spermatozoa. she was partially nude. i heard an inma offa cer yell something. and cephis whole persona changed. what are you looking at, cephis? i m marking someone. why? because he just said child molester. i m going to break his [ bleep ] neck. total disrespect for anyone in a prison. especially for some convict like me that s been down for so many years. and i got some kid talking trash. i know who he is. and i ll [ bleep ], i ll find him.
the more cephis tried to convince us he was a convict, the more i wondered if there was something else going on. a few days later, pasco told us what did go on the night he committed murder. i was at a bar drinking one night. had nine shots of whiskey and several beers. and gave a ride to my sister-in-law, i think it is or something like that. nephew s ex-wife. we she lured me on to the dogtown, which is the river camps. and we started to have sex. and she backed out of it and got into an argument. and she started smacking me around and i had a hair-trigger temper back then. so, i snapped on her and went off. oh, to hell with it. i stabbed her, i broke her neck and smashed her skull in. pasco claims his rage erupted because his victim rejected him