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Bloody Angola: The Complete Story of America's Bloodiest Prison

Bloody Angola: The Complete Story of America's Bloodiest Prison

From the creative minds of award winning podcasters Woody Overton of Real Life Real Crime and Jim Chapman of Local Leaders the Podcast Bloody Angola is a no holds barred podcast based on stories and interviews of the bloodiest prison in America, told like you have never heard it!

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Recent Episodes

March 23, 2023

Second Chances Part 2 | A Juvenile Lifers Story

Part 2 of this amazing story is here! In June 2016, Andrew Hundley became the FIRST juvenile lifer in Louisiana to be paroled following the U.S. Supreme Court’s Miller and Montgomery decisions that prohibited the mandatory se...

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March 16, 2023

Second Chances Part 1

In June 2016, Andrew Hundley became the FIRST juvenile lifer in Louisiana to be paroled following the U.S. Supreme Court’s Miller and Montgomery decisions that prohibited the mandatory sentencing of children to life without p...

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March 9, 2023

Sons of Guns | The Story of Rapist Will Hayden

At one point Sons of Guns was the most watched television show on TV. The show which centered around the Hayden family gun shop Red Jacket Firearms, was headed towards a lifetime of income from the season renewals and growing …

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March 2, 2023

The Real "Dead Man Walking"

In this episode of Bloody Angola Podcast, Woody Overton and Jim Chapman tell the story of Robert Lee Willie who was executed at Bloody Angola in 1984 and his story was part of the inspiration for the movie "Dead Man …

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Feb. 16, 2023

The Black Rhino

Woody Overton and Jim Chapman of Bloody Angola Podcast tell the story of Clifford Etienne and the Louisiana Prison Boxing Program at Louisiana State Penitentiary and other prisons. #cliffordetienne #theblackrhino #bloodyangol...

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Feb. 2, 2023

Dying In prison!

Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola is known for it's unique way of honoring convicts after they die in prison.

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Jan. 26, 2023

Kelly Jennings Talks Barry Seal Killer Miguel Velez in Angola

Kelly Jennings joins Woody Overton and Jim Chapman for yet another appearance and they discuss Angola prisoner Miguel Velez who in the eighties was hired to kill drug runner Barry Seal by Cocaine King Pablo Escobar. #Barrysea...

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Jan. 23, 2023

Boss Bitches #1 | Bloody Angola Sally Port

Featuring Martha Stewart and other notorious female convicts!

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Jan. 19, 2023

Camp J Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola

First it was the Red Hat, brutal.....Then upon the closure of the Red Hat Cell Block came its replacement, even more brutal was the notorious Camp J. Closed in 2018 forever, Camp J was feared by even the convicts of …

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Jan. 16, 2023

Martin Luther King Jr. | Historic Prisoners with Jim Sally Port

In this Bloody Angola Podcast "Historic Prisoners with Jim" Sally Port. Jim Chapman discusses the imprisonment of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. of over 29 Times and performs his rendition of the historical landmark letter entitl...

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Jan. 12, 2023

Last Meals of Condemned Inmates

What would you choose as a last meal prior to execution?

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Jan. 10, 2023

Inmates Unshackled #1 | Bloody Angola Podcast Sally Port

Scott Huffman who spent over 5 years in a Louisiana prison joins Woody Overton and Jim Chapman to discuss what landed him in prison, life inside of prison and how learning sign language completely changed his life upon his re...

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Bloody Angola Podcast Season 2 wraps with The Wolf Dogs

Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola has quite a history with the kennel program and training they offer. In addition to the guard dogs, Angola also ha…

National Criminal Exoneration Statistics Released

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About the Hosts

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Woody Overton

Co-Host

Award winning podcast host, Woody Overton, is a retired law enforcement officer that has taken to the mic to recount stories of his experiences in law enforcement as a major crime detective, polygraphist, street cop and more!
Woody Overton has become the voice of victims and their families. He holds law enforcement officers accountable for their actions or lack there of.
Overton, Best Male Host of 2021 in the Peoples Choice Podcast Awards, has a voice as "smooth as butter", speaks his mind and has major credentials to back him up.
Overton has solved numerous cold cases, he seeks justice where there is none, helps the innocent and works hard to put the guilty where they belong.
Podcast to his credit include the massively successful Real Life Real Crime, and Scorched Justice!

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Jim Chapman

Co-Host

Jim Chapman has been a historian of prisons his entire life.
His first visit to Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola was at the age of 11 with his church youth group.
Since that time Jim has visited angola countless times which lit his passion for America's prison history!

Jim Chapman is also the award winning Creator and Host of Local Leaders the Podcast.
Jim is also founder of several companies including Envision Podcast Production, Envision Podcast studio Rentals and The Louisiana Podcast Association.

Jim has received numerous awards for his podcasting efforts including being recognized as a finalist for a Peoples Choice Podcast award for Best Business Podcast in 2021.

Jim is also Executive Producer for top ranked podcast including Real Life Real Crime and Hustle Makes It Happen and he is managing sound and video editor and engineer for the smash hit scorched Justice.

In 2022 his podcast Local Leaders has again been nominated for a Peoples Choice Podcast Award for Best Business Podcast.