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True Crime Documentary - Rocky Beamon · The Evolution of Evil - True Crime Stories

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Speaker 1: The United States is home to some of the world's
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Speaker 1: most dangerous killers. Individuals responsible for such heenous crimes other
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Speaker 1: inmates fear them.
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Speaker 2: One of these killers was Rocky Beaman.
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Speaker 3: There is a lot of evidence that clearly Beman is
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Speaker 3: not psychiatrically stable.
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Speaker 4: That kind of depravity, that kind of hatred, that kind
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Speaker 4: of malice, Why are you evil?
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Speaker 5: Are you born evil?
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Speaker 1: To feed a severe drug habit, Rocky Beaman, along with
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Speaker 1: his girlfriend, killed and then robbed an innocent woman.
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Speaker 5: They wanted the money, and they wanted her car.
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Speaker 6: He tied her hands, he gagged her, and for a
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Speaker 6: couple minutes, holds her underneath the water.
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Speaker 7: In this heinous it was cruel, an absolute animal.
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Speaker 1: Once incarcerated, Beaman's behavior reached a new level of depravity.
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Speaker 3: All of his attacks are extremely rage filled and they're
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Speaker 3: all premeditated. These aren't impulsive homicides.
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Speaker 8: There's no prestige and attacking a man who has no
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Speaker 8: clothes on in the shower in.
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Speaker 2: The back.
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Speaker 1: A threat to anyone who crossed his path. Rocky Beaman
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Speaker 1: received the ultimate punishment.
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Speaker 6: I have no doubt he would have tried to kill
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Speaker 6: somebody else. Definitely was the only option.
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Speaker 9: I believe I personally have never known anybody to get
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Speaker 9: two death sentences.
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Speaker 2: Uly one just does a trick.
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Speaker 1: The state of Florida has the third largest prison system
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Speaker 1: in the USA, incarcerating around eighty nine thousand prisoners across
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Speaker 1: one hundred and thirty four prisons. One of these institutions
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Speaker 1: houses inmates deemed the worst of the worst.
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Speaker 8: Santa Rosa Preational Facilities. Located in Milton, Florida. It houses
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Speaker 8: approximately three thousand inmates. It sits on fifty four acres
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Speaker 8: and is surrounded by woodland.
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Speaker 4: Santa Rasa has always had something of a reputation as
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Speaker 4: being one of the violent penitentiaries.
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Speaker 8: Has housed some of the state's most violent and notorious criminals.
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Speaker 1: One of the most callous individuals who have ever been
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Speaker 1: held there was Rocky Beaman.
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Speaker 3: If you look at the traits of psychopaths, Beman hit
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Speaker 3: almost every single one of them. He made a decision
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Speaker 3: from a very early age that he was going to
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Speaker 3: go against the grain. He was going to be anti authority, antisocial,
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Speaker 3: anti society, and he went with that all the way.
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Speaker 10: Rocky appeared to be a very fit guy, but you
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Speaker 10: could tell that his use for crack cocaine had clearly
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Speaker 10: taken a physical effect on him.
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Speaker 1: His insatiable drug addiction led him to rob and murder
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Speaker 1: a woman for her car, to.
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Speaker 10: Bound somebody and actually throw them away like trash into
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Speaker 10: a pond and leave them like that.
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Speaker 7: Whoever did this was just pure evil.
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Speaker 6: What affected me in this case was the horror that
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Speaker 6: she went through until she was dead.
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Speaker 1: Once in prison for murder, Bemon's calculating nature was revealed
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Speaker 1: through letters he wrote.
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Speaker 8: He said he would kill again and then his next
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Speaker 8: victim he would carve the name of the judge in
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Speaker 8: the victim's back, metaphorically saying this blood is on your hands.
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Speaker 3: Bemon loves being in control. He loves controlling women. He
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Speaker 3: loves controlling his victims. This is feeding that narcissistic quality
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Speaker 3: that psychopaths tend to have, where you know he's the judge,
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Speaker 3: the jury, and the executioner.
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Speaker 1: Rocky Ali Beeman was born in nineteen seventy seven.
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Speaker 5: He was born in Naples, Sorta.
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Speaker 4: And moved at a young age to Like Placid with
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Speaker 4: his mother and his stepfather.
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Speaker 1: Rocky's biological father was an alcoholic and never met his
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Speaker 1: baby's son.
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Speaker 3: He made Beman a low priority and opted instead to
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Speaker 3: make alcohol a high priority, which has got to be
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Speaker 3: really hurtful to a child. It could have sent a
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Speaker 3: message to Beaman that he was not loved or not wanted.
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Speaker 4: Rocky Beeman always claimed that he'd been sexually assaulted as
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Speaker 4: a child, but he never specified who had abused him,
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Speaker 4: whether it was a biological parent or a step parent,
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Speaker 4: or someone off the street.
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Speaker 3: The only source of information that points to him having
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Speaker 3: been sexually abused came from him. You never want to
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Speaker 3: be dismissive. However, I'd be remiss to say that there
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Speaker 3: aren't individuals out there who falsely report abuse.
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Speaker 1: By the age of twelve, Rocky Beeman, like his father,
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Speaker 1: had become heavily dependent on alcohol.
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Speaker 8: At fourteen, he had moved on to cocaine, and he
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Speaker 8: started using methamphetamine in combination with alcohol and marijuana.
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Speaker 3: He progressed to full blown addiction very very quickly. Is
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Speaker 3: it because he was indeed sexually abused and went on
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Speaker 3: to self me dedicate. On the flip side, he could
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Speaker 3: have just turned to drugs and alcohol experimentally decided that
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Speaker 3: he enjoyed it. His brain is not fully developed and
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Speaker 3: he's already introduced all of these mind altering illicit substances
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Speaker 3: into his system.
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Speaker 1: Throughout his teenage years, Beeman's addiction to substances was matched
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Speaker 1: by a growing addiction to crime.
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Speaker 8: And nineteen ninety five, Beeman was arrested and convicted for
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Speaker 8: two counts of criminal mischief, three counts of grand larceny,
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Speaker 8: as well as arm burglary. As a result of those convictions,
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Speaker 8: he spent much of his younger years either on probation
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Speaker 8: or incarcerated in the juvenile justice center.
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Speaker 3: His goals are now to be antisocial and to engage
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Speaker 3: in criminal behavior. He's a slave to his addiction and
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Speaker 3: he's going to need money to facilitate that addiction, and
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Speaker 3: so he's getting himself in a tangled web that he's
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Speaker 3: not going to be able to escape easily.
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Speaker 1: Beman went on to make a full time career out
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Speaker 1: of crime.
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Speaker 4: Between nineteen ninety seven. In two thousand and four, Rocky
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Speaker 4: Beamon was convicted of alligator poachin battery, larcenies, driving suspended licenses.
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Speaker 3: Beman really is the classic escalating offender. He went from
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Speaker 3: nonviolent crimes and now you start to see by the
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Speaker 3: time he's in early adulthood, he already has three charges
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Speaker 3: of domestic violence. He's misogynistic, He's hating women.
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Speaker 1: By age twenty seven, Beaman's life had mostly been centered
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Speaker 1: around taking drugs, committing crimes, and doing time in county jails.
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Speaker 1: Now living in Sefner, a suburb of the city of Tampa,
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Speaker 1: he got himself a new girlfriend.
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Speaker 4: Beeman met a girl named Karen Wilkins. She was a
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Speaker 4: good person that was led astray by Rocky Beaman and
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Speaker 4: they did a lot of drugs together.
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Speaker 1: Beeman and his thirty nine year old girlfriend Karen were
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Speaker 1: sitting out the front of their home. They spotted the
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Speaker 1: ladies slowly driving down their street. The driver was forty
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Speaker 1: seven year old Deborah Lacey.
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Speaker 10: Deborah worked for the post office. From all accounts, she
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Speaker 10: was a great lady.
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Speaker 1: Deborah Lacey had a sixteen year old daughter and shared
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Speaker 1: a close bond with her large circle of family and friends.
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Speaker 10: She had some issues and ended up with a drug addiction,
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Speaker 10: which kind of led her down this path where she.
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Speaker 7: Ended up meetings sur beingon at that point.
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Speaker 10: Initially Miss Lacey, she sees mister Beeman standing outside of
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Speaker 10: his house. She stops to have conversation with him.
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Speaker 4: Deborah said, do you have anything I could drink to
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Speaker 4: swallow my pills, and that led Rocky to offering to
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Speaker 4: take her to his house, where he gave her a beer.
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Speaker 6: There was no suggestion that mister Beeman and miss Wilkins
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Speaker 6: knew Miss Lacey. Miss Lacey, unfortunately, had indicated that she
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Speaker 6: had a lot of money, and all Miss Wilkins and
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Speaker 6: mister Beaman could see was money for drugs.
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Speaker 1: Bemon, motivated by his unrelenting addiction, decided he was going
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Speaker 1: to rob Deborah Lacey. When Deborah told him that she
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Speaker 1: wanted to consume some crack cocaine, Beman saw his opportunity.
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Speaker 6: They got in her car, they went to one of
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Speaker 6: mister Beaman's suppliers and got cocaine. Mister Beaman and Miss
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Speaker 6: Wilkins indicated where they wanted to smoke the crack cocaine.
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Speaker 6: It was an isolated area because it was a wooded
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Speaker 6: area and in the middle of it there's a pond
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Speaker 6: or a lake.
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Speaker 2: Unbeknown to Deborah, she was walking into a trap.
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Speaker 4: Deborah is in the wood with Rocky and Karen and
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Speaker 4: they're doing this crack cocaine. At that point, Roki decided
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Speaker 4: that he would rob and kill Deborah Lacey. Rocky hit
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Speaker 4: Deborah with a stick and tied her hands with a
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Speaker 4: drawstring from his shorts. He then stuffed a rag in
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Speaker 4: her mouth to keep her from screaming, and duct tape
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Speaker 4: that over her mouth.
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Speaker 8: He and Karen then walked Miss Lacey approximately one hundred
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Speaker 8: and fifty yards to a nearby pond. That is a
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Speaker 8: long way that is an American football field and a half.
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Speaker 8: Once they arrived at the pond, mister Beeman forced Lacey's
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Speaker 8: head under the water and held her there until she
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Speaker 8: was dead.
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Speaker 3: That is a long, tortuous, sadistic way to commit a homicide.
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Speaker 3: He let Lacey know that she needed to be absolutely
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Speaker 3: terrified prior to her death. He's filled with rage, and
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Speaker 3: on top of that, he's a serious drug addict, which
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Speaker 3: is easily disinhibiting his impulsive nature.
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Speaker 6: That must have been terrifying for Miss Lacy realizing that
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Speaker 6: she's underwater, not being able to breathe, and that she's
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Speaker 6: never going to get out of that situation.
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Speaker 4: After the murder, Rocky and Karen took thirty dollars out
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Speaker 4: of divers purse. They stole her Lincoln Continental and traded
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Speaker 4: it for two to four hundred dollars worth of crack cocaine.
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Speaker 3: You can rob someone in order to gain money. You
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Speaker 3: can even assault somebody in order to gain money. But
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Speaker 3: did you really need to murder her to get money
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Speaker 3: for drugs? It seems unnecessary.
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Speaker 1: Following the murder, Beamon and Wilkins unashamedly carried on living
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Speaker 1: their lives as normal. Seven days later, Deborah Lacy's sister
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Speaker 1: had not heard from her sibling for over a week.
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Speaker 1: She called the police to report her missing.
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Speaker 5: My name is Douglas Covington.
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Speaker 6: I was a Fellowy Division chief and this case landed
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Speaker 6: on my desk. Miss Lacy had been reported as a
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Speaker 6: missing person. A sergeant with the Sheriff DEPARTM had indicated
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Speaker 6: to his squad to be on the lookout for miss
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Speaker 6: Lacy and to start looking for her.
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Speaker 1: With officers dispatched to drive around the neighborhood, the sergeant
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Speaker 1: noticed a suspicious looking vehicle.
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Speaker 6: That same sergeant was driving down the road and noticed
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Speaker 6: a car with its back window out.
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Speaker 5: He stopped the car.
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Speaker 6: The driver jumped out and said he didn't have a
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Speaker 6: driver's license.
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Speaker 1: The man was arrested for failing to provide valid documentation.
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Speaker 5: There were two other individuals in the car.
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Speaker 6: They brought them all down to the station and they
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Speaker 6: started questioning them.
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Speaker 1: The detective in charge of the questioning for the Hillsboro
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Speaker 1: County Sheriff's Office was Charlie Keen.
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Speaker 10: Two thousand and five, I was assigned to the homicide
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Speaker 10: section with the Sheriff's office. Myself and my partner conduct
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Speaker 10: an interview with the two young men in possession of
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Speaker 10: the car.
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Speaker 7: We learned that they actually.
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Speaker 10: Trade the crack cocaine for the car to individual known
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Speaker 10: as Rocky Beaman.
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Speaker 1: Officers quickly discovered that Beaman did not own the car.
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Speaker 1: It was in fact registered to the missing Debora Lacy.
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Speaker 1: The police urgently wanted to talk to Beman. As they
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Speaker 1: attempted to track him down, a call came in.
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Speaker 5: I was in the office.
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Speaker 10: We received the call of a body being found in
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Speaker 10: a small pond.
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Speaker 7: Deputies arrived.
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Speaker 10: They confirm, in fact, there was a deceased female victim
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Speaker 10: there that had been taped up.
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Speaker 1: Detective Keene immediately left for the crime scene.
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Speaker 10: As I entered the scene, it's been marked off the
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Speaker 10: crime scene tape and I can see there's a female
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Speaker 10: victim and the water, her hands and her feet were
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Speaker 10: tied together and then her mouth was also taped up.
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Speaker 7: It was heartbreaking to know that any human would be
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Speaker 7: treated like that. We knew that whoever had committed this
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Speaker 7: crime was just violent.
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Speaker 1: Police confirmed the body was that of Deborah Lacey. Forensics
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Speaker 1: had identified her through her fingerprints. They also calculated that
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Speaker 1: her body had been in the pond for ten days.
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Speaker 10: So when we notified Miss Lacy's family that she had
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Speaker 10: been found in that she was deceased was heartbreaking.
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Speaker 7: No family wants to hear that their daughter had been murdered.
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Speaker 1: The same afternoon Deborah's body was found, the LAE had
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Speaker 1: managed to track down where Beeman lived.
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Speaker 6: They began doing some surveillance on his house and then
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Speaker 6: they went and knocked on the door and Miss Wilkins
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Speaker 6: answered the door and they asked her if anybody else
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Speaker 6: was in the residence.
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Speaker 5: She said, Rocky was.
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Speaker 6: They arrested him for an outstanding warrant and brought him
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Speaker 6: down to their station.
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Speaker 1: Emon and Wilkins were questioned together that very same evening.
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Speaker 1: Officers cut straight to the chase and asked them how
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Speaker 1: they knew Deborah Lacey and why they had her car.
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Speaker 6: Both of them initially completely denied knowing miss Lacey.
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Speaker 5: They all lied as to where the car came from.
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Speaker 6: But when they started talking to these individuals separately and
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Speaker 6: said the owner of that car had been found murdered,
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Speaker 6: then they decided to tell the truth.
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Speaker 7: Taking a piece of wood and hit her. Tie her hands,
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Speaker 7: illustrated the water.
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Speaker 2: Tell me about the duck cheep?
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Speaker 7: Couldn't yell?
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Speaker 1: You put it across her mount.
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Speaker 2: That.
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Speaker 8: Yes.
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Speaker 10: Once he confessed committing the homicide, his demeanor completely changed.
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Speaker 7: It's kind of like it was a lighter version of
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Speaker 7: him at that point. I've never had.
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Speaker 10: Somebody confess the way that he did. We asked questions
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Speaker 10: and he gave us a direct and point of answers.
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Speaker 10: He was just this is what I did. Most of
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Speaker 10: the interviews go on for three, four, five, six hours,
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Speaker 10: sometimes with him, you know.
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Speaker 7: But he knew he was caught and he owned it.
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Speaker 11: So you hit her first, You didn't find her hands?
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Speaker 11: What do you use to do that? With a straining
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Speaker 11: out of my sorts?
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Speaker 5: This a see lace.
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Speaker 1: Bimon went on to admit his desperate motivation behind the
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Speaker 1: horrific murder.
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Speaker 7: How much money did you get? Thirty bucks?
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Speaker 2: Was that had a problem with drugs?
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Speaker 7: We did just apply it.
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Speaker 6: You have a drug problem, we do all kinds of
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Speaker 6: things to support.
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Speaker 2: And get more.
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Speaker 3: I don't think the drugs had anything to do with
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Speaker 3: this murder, because this wasn't a huge drug dealer that
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Speaker 3: he robbed and shot. This was an innocent, forty seven
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Speaker 3: year old woman who also happened to struggle with addiction
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Speaker 3: that he took advantage of.
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Speaker 5: He killed for the kill.
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Speaker 3: He did not kill for the drugs.
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Speaker 7: I think he was so strung out on crack cocaine
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Speaker 7: that I don't think he really gave it a whole
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Speaker 7: lot of thought.
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Speaker 10: Seemed like it was just a normal day of doing
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Speaker 10: business for him.
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Speaker 1: Amen's girlfriend, Karen Wilkins, confessed to her role in Deborah
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Speaker 1: Lacy's murder.
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Speaker 10: She certainly took heart in homicide, but I don't think
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Speaker 10: she planned it, and she wasn't the one who did
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Speaker 10: the binding of miss Lacy.
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Speaker 7: Mister Reemon Iterant and Pusher in the water.
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Speaker 6: Them trading that car for crack cocaine solved this crime.
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Speaker 6: After their confession, the Sheriff's department got a search warrant
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Speaker 6: to go into missus Wilkins and mister Remon's residence and
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Speaker 6: they actually found a pair of swim trunks that did
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Speaker 6: not have a tie string in it and related back
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Speaker 6: to the tie string that had tied Miss Lacey's hands.
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Speaker 1: The next day, the eight year old Rocky Beaman was
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Speaker 1: charged with first degree premeditated murder. Karen Wilkins, who was
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Speaker 1: seen as an accomplice, was charged with second degree murder.
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Speaker 2: They were both held in a local jail.
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Speaker 6: I was a prosecutor in the case of State of
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Speaker 6: Florida versus Rocky Beaman and Karen Wilkins.
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Speaker 5: I read the.
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Speaker 6: Police report, it became very obvious to me that this
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Speaker 6: had the aggravating factors that could lead to a death
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Speaker 6: penalty case. The confessions were the biggest piece of evidence
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Speaker 6: I had.
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Speaker 1: The weight of Beaman's confession made a death penalty trial
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Speaker 1: seem inevitable, but he was able to cut a deal.
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Speaker 4: He negotiated a plea where he would plead guilty and
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Speaker 4: spend his life in prison if the prosecutors would take
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Speaker 4: the death penalty off the table.
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Speaker 6: When he offered to plead to life and a voyage
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Speaker 6: of the death penalty, I had no problem with it whatsoever.
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Speaker 6: Is as long as he was not out on the
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Speaker 6: streets for the rest of his life.
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Speaker 5: I was good with that.
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Speaker 1: Five months later, Beaman's plea hearing took place at the
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Speaker 1: thirteenth Judicial Circuit Court in Hillsborough County.
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Speaker 6: Mister Beaman comes into the courtroom with his attorney. He
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Speaker 6: was in a sheriff's office jail jumpsuit. Mister Beaman pled guilty,
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Speaker 6: and at that point in time, the victim's family has
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Speaker 6: an opportunity to indicate how this has affected them.
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Speaker 4: Debrah's family, obviously, I took to murder very hard. The
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Speaker 4: daughter had a letter read on her behalf in which
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Speaker 4: she said, my mother will never get to see the
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Speaker 4: milestones in my life. She'll never get to meet my children.
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Speaker 5: You have taken that from me.
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Speaker 1: For first degree murder, kidnapping, and robbery, Rocky Beeman was
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Speaker 1: sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole.
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Speaker 10: During that sentencing, mister Mehmon, Di's something that I've never
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Speaker 10: seen anybody do it in any trial.
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Speaker 7: Once he played guilty, he looked at me.
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Speaker 10: And he gave me a head nod, and that had
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Speaker 10: not I took it as him saying, look.
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Speaker 7: I did the right thing. I accept responsibility.
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Speaker 1: It was very strange Beeman's girlfriend, Karen Wilkins, was tried
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Speaker 1: separately and pled guilty to second degree murder. She received
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Speaker 1: a sentence of thirty years in prison, followed by ten
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Speaker 1: years probation. For the next seven years, Beaman was moved
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Speaker 1: between various institutions within the Florida prison system. In March
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Speaker 1: twenty twelve, Beaman, now aged thirty four, ended up as
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Speaker 1: an inmate at Appalachi Correctional Institute.
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Speaker 9: Apalaschi Correctional Institute is a correctional institute located in the
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Speaker 9: Panhandle of Florida. The institution opened in nineteen forty nine.
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Speaker 9: It houses approximately thirteen hundred inmates and its mixed custody
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Speaker 9: of clothes, medium and.
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Speaker 2: Minimum security inmates.
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Speaker 1: His cellmate was forty four year old Bruce Hunsicker.
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Speaker 8: Mister Hunsicker was in prison serving a sentence of six
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Speaker 8: life sentences for raping a ten year old girl at
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Speaker 8: knife point. At that point, mister Beeman was unaware of it.
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Speaker 4: The first couple of months that they share a cell
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Speaker 4: together was somewhat cordial. The relationship seems to have started
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Speaker 4: going downhill when Hunsicker borrowed some coffee from Rocky and
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Speaker 4: wouldn't return it. Then Rocky learned that Hunsicker had been
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Speaker 4: convicted of raping a ten year old girl at knife point.
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Speaker 1: As someone who since adolescents claimed he held a particular
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Speaker 1: hatred for child molesters, Beeman was enraged. He decided he
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Speaker 1: was going to kill his cellmate in cold blood.
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Speaker 8: Beamon at that point began stalking mister Hunsicker and essentially
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Speaker 8: analyzing his daily patterns, and what he learned is that
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Speaker 8: Hunsicker took a shower every day precisely at four pm.
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Speaker 4: The whole stalking thing kind of goes to his preparation
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Speaker 4: to kill this man.
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Speaker 1: Beeman decided to murder Hunsicker and the shower during his
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Speaker 1: daily visit.
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Speaker 8: He then fashioned a fourteen inch shank or a jailmate weapon,
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Speaker 8: out of a piece of fence that he was able
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Speaker 8: to become in possession of.
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Speaker 9: Murders of an inmate in a shower is an area
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Speaker 9: of opportunity because these inmates are unsuspecting of being attacked
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Speaker 9: while they're showering.
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Speaker 2: They have their guard Doum.
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Speaker 1: Five days after learning about Hunsicker's crime, Beman made his move.
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Speaker 4: The attack started with Beman coming up from behind a
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Speaker 4: Hunsicker and putting his left arm around his neck and
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Speaker 4: choking him to keep him quiet, while with his right
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Speaker 4: arm stabbing him in the abdomen and other areas of
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Speaker 4: his body. He would ultimately end up stabbing him eighty
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Speaker 4: times and left him for dead on the bathroom floor.
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Speaker 3: Stabbing somebody eighty times is what we referred to as overkill.
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Speaker 3: It did not require eighty stabbing to kill his cell meat.
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Speaker 3: That tells me that Beaman was enjoying what he's doing.
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Speaker 4: After the attack, Rocky, covered in blood, takes a shower,
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Speaker 4: cleans himself up, and then he takes the evidence, being
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Speaker 4: his shorts and the weapon, and flushes him down to toilet,
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Speaker 4: and then he leaves.
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Speaker 2: Beaman left Hunsicker's body where he lay.
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Speaker 4: Hunsicker's body wasn't found for a couple hours during a
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Speaker 4: security check.
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Speaker 8: Mister Hunsicker suffered a punctured heart, a punctured kidney, a
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Speaker 8: punctured right lung, a punctured diaphragm, and injuries to other organs.
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Speaker 4: Authorities did eventually find the weapon, and unfortunately, there was
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Speaker 4: so much DNA in the prison system sewer lines they
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Speaker 4: couldn't confirm that it was the weapon that Rocky eight East.
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Speaker 1: But the authorities did not need to prove who had
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Speaker 1: killed the Hunsicker as Beman once again took responsibility for
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Speaker 1: his actions.
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Speaker 4: Beemen confessed to the crime and told the authorities that
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Speaker 4: it was his hatred of child molesters that had driven
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Speaker 4: him to do what he did.
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Speaker 5: Bamin did not.
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Speaker 4: Show any remorse for the killing, and in fact, probably
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Speaker 4: seemed almost proud of it.
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Speaker 3: Beaman starts to show these kind of narcissistic traits which
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Speaker 3: are typical in psychopaths, where he is almost beaming with
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Speaker 3: pride that he's taken out a child molester, like he's
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Speaker 3: done this kind of vigilante just that he should be
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Speaker 3: admired and revered. He's not thinking I took a life
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Speaker 3: that I had no right to take. He's now again
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Speaker 3: in control.
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Speaker 1: Beaman was moved into close management or solitary confinement, locked
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Speaker 1: in a single cell for twenty three hours a day.
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Speaker 2: He was there for the next five years.
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Speaker 3: When you're in solitary confinement, you're having a loss of
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Speaker 3: sensory stimulation. You're not interacting with other humans, you're not
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Speaker 3: seeing light as much as you should be. We see psychosis,
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Speaker 3: we see depression, we see anxiety, we see loss of
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Speaker 3: social skills.
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Speaker 1: Twenty seventeen, thirty nine year old Beaman was transferred to
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Speaker 1: Santa Rosa Correctional Facility.
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Speaker 9: Santa Rosa Correctional Institution is a men's prison located in Milton, Florida.
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Speaker 2: The prison opened up in.
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Speaker 9: Nineteen ninety six and houses over three thousand inmates of
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Speaker 9: custody levels clothes, minimum, and medium.
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Speaker 4: Beaman was downgraded from Close Management one to Close Management two,
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Speaker 4: which entitled him to have a cellmate.
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Speaker 8: Nicholas Ryan Anderson was a twenty seven year old inmate
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Speaker 8: and was the cellmate for mister Beaman. Mister Anderson was
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Speaker 8: serving a twenty year sentence for child molesstation.
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Speaker 4: The rationale behind putting Beaman in a cale with a
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Speaker 4: child molester is beyond my comprehension. I don't know why
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Speaker 4: it was done. Beaman had not found this out, and
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Speaker 4: did not find it out until he was notified by
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Speaker 4: members of a prison gang of what he'd been convicted for,
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Speaker 4: and the gang members actually told him that they were
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Speaker 4: going to take him out if Rocky didn't take him
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Speaker 4: out himself.
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Speaker 8: Beeman asked if Anderson would provide him with his commitment
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Speaker 8: papers to show him in writing why he was in custody.
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Speaker 8: Of course, mister Anderson refused to do that. At that point,
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Speaker 8: mister Beaman felt that mister Anderson was lying to him.
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Speaker 1: Now aware of Anderson's crime, Beaman carefully put together a
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Speaker 1: plan to kill his twenty seven year old cellmate.
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Speaker 4: Part of Beaman's preparation was watching the guards and timing
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Speaker 4: their movements so that he ultimately determined that they came
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Speaker 4: by about every twenty five minutes.
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Speaker 8: To prepare for the killing, he was able somehow to
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Speaker 8: get his hands on a double A battery.
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Speaker 2: He ground it down on.
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Speaker 8: The cell floor to create a fixed point blade.
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Speaker 1: Just over a week after being placed in a cell
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Speaker 1: with Anderson, Beaman made his move. He waited until just
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Speaker 1: after the midnight check.
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Speaker 4: Biman told Anderson to get out, up out of his bunk.
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Speaker 4: He told him he got to go, and Anderson said, I'm
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Speaker 4: not going anywhere, at which point Rocky punched him in
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Speaker 4: the eye and pulled him to the ground and tied
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Speaker 4: his arms and his legs, and then tied another bed
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Speaker 4: sheet to hog tie him.
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Speaker 2: Beman then began to strangle Anderson.
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Speaker 4: At some point, he determined that he was dead, so
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Speaker 4: he released him, but Anderson started breathing again, and that's
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Speaker 4: when Rocky started kicking him and stabbing him with the
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Speaker 4: battery shank that he'd created.
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Speaker 1: At twelve fourteen am, an inmate in a neighboring cell
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Speaker 1: called out to officers, who rushed to the crime scene.
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Speaker 1: They were met with Anderson's hogtide body on the floor,
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Speaker 1: with Beamon standing over him. Beamon was restrained and moved
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Speaker 1: to another cell. Despite the nurse's best efforts, they were
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Speaker 1: unable to revive Nicholas Anderson, who was pronounced dead at
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Speaker 1: one point fifty three am.
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Speaker 4: When Beaeman was interviewed after the fact, he did not
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Speaker 4: show any remorse for what he'd done, and if another
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Speaker 4: inmate hadn't sounded an alarm, he would have continued to
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Speaker 4: torture him. His raison was that he hates child molesters
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Speaker 4: and that he intended to kill as many as he could.
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Speaker 3: The fact that Beman's sealmates were sex offenders were an
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Speaker 3: easy excuse for him. I really believe had his cellmates
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Speaker 3: been drug dealers or bank robbers, they likely would have
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Speaker 3: suffered the same fate Beaman wanted to kill.
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Speaker 2: That's it.
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Speaker 4: He was committing his second murder of someone accused of
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Speaker 4: molesting a child. What were you thinking putting this man
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Speaker 4: into a jail cell with this man?
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Speaker 1: Just over a year later, Beaman was charged with a
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Speaker 1: murder of his first cellmate, Bruce Hunsicker, who he killed
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Speaker 1: almost six years earlier.
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Speaker 4: He was charged with first degree murder in the Hunsicker case,
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Speaker 4: and the death penalty was definitely on the table. Beaman
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Speaker 4: responded to the call for the death sentence by writing
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Speaker 4: judges and prosecutors in saying, you better go ahead and
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Speaker 4: kill me, because if you don't, I'm going to continue
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Speaker 4: to kill child molesters until either I die, all of
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Speaker 4: them die, or you put me on death row.
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Speaker 3: I think Beaman really has embraced who he is as
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Speaker 3: a serial killer at this point. He's in enjoying having
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Speaker 3: other people read exactly how sadistic his mind is. Beamon
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Speaker 3: has a desire to be in control at all times.
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Speaker 3: Why not have some more bravado, Why not feed the
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Speaker 3: narcissistic component of psychopathy. He's reveling in this now, this
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Speaker 3: is who he is, this is what he does, and
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Speaker 3: he's now proud of it.
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Speaker 4: I don't know that I've ever heard of a convicted
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Speaker 4: felon asking for the death penalty and basically saying kill.
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Speaker 2: Me or I'll kill more.
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Speaker 4: Beiman said that he had no regrets in either case.
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Speaker 4: He says it was the best feeling I've ever had,
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Speaker 4: better than any drug I've ever had an orgasm.
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Speaker 1: The following year, forty one year old Beaman, frustrated by
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Speaker 1: the slow judicial process, tried to speed up receiving a
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Speaker 1: death penalty sentence by waiving his rights to an attorney.
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Speaker 1: He penned another letter directly for the judge.
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Speaker 9: Beman threatened the judge by telling the judge he was
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Speaker 9: going to carve the judge's name into his next victim,
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Speaker 9: and that he was going to dedicate the next victim
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Speaker 9: to the judge.
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Speaker 3: This is the highest level of attempt at control and
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Speaker 3: manipulation that you can really ever see. These letters reveal
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Speaker 3: who he truly is, which is an extremely manipulative, sadistic,
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Speaker 3: violent offender.
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Speaker 2: Beman got his wish later that month.
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Speaker 1: He was found guilty of first degree premeditated murder and
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Speaker 1: received the death sentence for the killing of Bruce Hunsicker.
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Speaker 1: In November twenty nineteen, Beeman was given a second death
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Speaker 1: penalty sentence for the murder of his other cellmate, Nicholas Anderson.
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Speaker 7: He's come into three murders at that point in time.
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Speaker 10: I mean odds are to me he's going to commit
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Speaker 10: a fourth if you continue to let him have, you know,
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Speaker 10: open interaction with other inmates.
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Speaker 7: So I don't know that there was another option.
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Speaker 1: Rocky Beaman was sent to death row at Union Correctional
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Speaker 1: Facility in Rayford, Florida.
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Speaker 9: Beamon was ultimately How's single cell status, meaning he was
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Speaker 9: alone in the cell and the department separated him from
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Speaker 9: general population due to all the criminal and vicious acts
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Speaker 9: that he did while he was housed on death row.
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Speaker 9: In twenty twenty, he committed the act of suicide.
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Speaker 1: The Florida Department of Corrections didn't elaborate on the circumstances
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Speaker 1: of the forty two year olds suicide.
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Speaker 5: He begged to be.
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Speaker 8: On death row, However, I think what he probably didn't
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Speaker 8: take under consideration is how slow the wills of.
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Speaker 7: Justice can move. You can be on death row for decades.
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Speaker 8: I think he just got tired of waiting for the
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Speaker 8: state to do it, so he did it himself.
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Speaker 6: I can't say I'm sorry bestly after what he had
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Speaker 6: done after my case, and I'm sure those prisoners that
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Speaker 6: he killed had families. Mister Beeman probably did not need
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Speaker 6: to have a place on this hearth.
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Speaker 3: He caused so much chaos and turbulence in everybody else's life,
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Speaker 3: but he still had to remain in control, and he
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Speaker 3: ultimately got his way and was sent to death row.
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Speaker 3: But he was going to say, I'm the last in control.
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Speaker 3: You're not going to kill me. I'm going to kill myself.
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Speaker 3: That's why he committed suicide.
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Speaker 1: The question of why Rocky Beaman decided to choose a
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Speaker 1: path of murder is one that remains unanswered.
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Speaker 3: In spite of a horrific childhood, substance abuse, mental illness,
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Speaker 3: none of that is the reason why Beaman was so
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Speaker 3: horribly evil. Beaman never had a positive effect on anyone
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Speaker 3: that he came across his entire life, including himself.
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Speaker 8: Beaman probably sees himself as some sort of vigilante to
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Speaker 8: provide justice for children that were harmed by adults. Killing
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Speaker 8: Bruce Hunsiger, a man serving six life sentences, posed no
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Speaker 8: additional threat to any children going forward, and sure as hell,
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Speaker 8: forty seven year old Debor Lacy was not a child
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Speaker 8: sex offender, A vigilante no, a predator looking for some
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Speaker 8: level of justification.
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Speaker 7: That's more likely to me