50 Shades of Evil: Florida

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0:49 Inside these walls, inside the wild. And went more girls as I, Hey, everyone, welcome back to Bloody Angola, and I am back with another episode of fifty Shades of Evil. Last week I dropped the inaugural episode and I brought you to Texas. I told you everything there was to know about Billy Joel Tracy, from his upbringing to his crimes to the convictions that followed.

1:54 Thank you to everyone that listened and shared a ton of response regarding that first episode in this series. And today I am continuing as I bring you to Florida in the story of Wayne C. Dody, who in nineteen ninety six was sentenced to life in prison for the first degree murder of Harvey Horn the Second, a night watchman that he shot during a drug related robbery in Plant City, Florida. Then, in twenty eleven, while serving a life sentence for that murder at Florida State Prison, Doty in an accomplice another very dangerous guy by the name of William Wells murdered a fellow inmate named Xavier Rodriguez.

2:40 He was sentenced to death for that murder and has advocated for his own execution via electric chair ever since. It's an unbelievable story coming to you today, So let's jump right into it, and I'm going to take you first to Pueblo, Colorado, where on April twelfth of nineteen seventy three, Wayne Duddy was born to biological parents, Randal Duty and Mary Cole. Now, from all accounts, from his birth, things were pretty dysfunctional and the relationship already strained between Wayne Doty's mother and father, so much so that before Wayne Doty was two years old, his father, Randall, took him and left the family home, permanently separating Wayne from his mother. Now, according to his biological mother, she and Randall had gotten into an argument. She left to go to the grocery store, and upon her return they were gone, No note, no nothing. She would call the police, and the police would say, hey, he's the biological father, and so it wouldn't be considered kidnapping. You know, that sounds really bizarre to me, especially these days, But that was a different time, right, this was the late seventies, and that's her story and she's sticking to it, and she would not see her son, Wayne Doty for over twenty

4:12 years after that. Now, obviously Wayne Doty very well. He was a baby back then, at just two years old, and this did nothing for his stability. And during the next five years, Randall Dody, his father would remarry multiple times, and Wayne would obviously be exposed to multiple stepmothers. So look, you'll get no argument for me that this instability, the lack of a permanent mother, if you will, the fact from all accounts that his father had his own issues, I have no doubt that certainly shape his early adolescence to where I guess the deck was already getting stacked against him. He just wasn't dealt a good deck of cards.

4:56 But does it excuse what would occur later on in his life. Not in my view, absolutely not. Many people grow up in unstable households, even from a super early age, and they don't kill people. That's just the facts. But it certainly is not a deck of cards that you will want to get dealt. So by the time Wayne was seven, things would escalate even more as it relates to his home life, there were reports of severe domestic violence. Several stepmothers would testify in Wayne's initial trial that will get to later, and they would state that his father, Randall, would not only physically abuse them, but would physically abuse Wayne as well. One of his stepmothers, by the name of Anne Hurdle, would state that Randall's abuse was so severe that it would interfere with Wayne Dodi's daily life, such as going to school. He would have bruises from these beatings that he would get, and he wouldn't be able to go to school because guess what if they see you with a black eye or with a broken arm or something like that, what are they gonna do.

6:08 They're gonna ask questions. So he would have to stay home from school. That would affect his education. And all of this was prior to the age of ten years old. The abuse would then intensify further between the years of nineteen eighty three. In nineteen eighty six, when Wayne was just ten to thirteen years old, Wayne would then start skipping school, hanging with the wrong crowds. His dad didn't appear to give a shit. You could see this kid was already starting to unravel very early in his life. So what do you think would happen at that point. Well, by the time he hit his teenage years, you're probably already thinking he's gonna start drinking, he's going to start abusing drugs. That's exactly what happened. And around the age of seventeen, he actually has had enough. He comes home one day he sees his father beating the shit out of his stepmother. He was quoted later on as saying if he would have had a gun at that time, he would have killed his dad. And he knew that, and he said it kind of freaked him out, so he just laughed. And they were living in Florida at the time. So he leaves, moves in with a friend, and that is where things would really start kind of falling off the rails for Wayne Duty. So before we get into that, I'm going to tell you about a

7:39 resident of Plant City, Florida, by the name of Harvey Horn. And Harvey Horn was born in nineteen fifty nine and he grew up in the Plant City area. Now, his parents were blue collar people, hard workers. They raised him to work hard and it's family had deep roots in the Plant City Florida area, so he would grow up to be a welder and he would focus on a high paying trade to make his way in life. From all accounts, and as a matter of fact, from his own son, his son had said he prioritized his role as a father, took it very seriously, and he would go about life, you know, in a blue collar type of way until he would cross paths with Wayne Duddy.

8:29 So I'm going to take you back to early April of nineteen ninety six. At this time, Harvey was thirty seven years old and he was working for a company called Hardy Manufacturing Company. They manufactured agricultural equipment in Plant City, Florida. He was also a night watchman for this company and he was a foreman as a welder for them as well. And the night watchman gig worked out well for Harvey Horn because one of the perks will of being a knight watchman was that the company allowed him to live on the property in a modest mobile home trailer. And he changed for that they got night security. And that's pretty common in industrial areas all over the country. You'll have somebody that maybe lives on the property and helps with securing the facility. So Wayne Doty and I'm going to give you his perspective on the relationship. They worked together at the facility and Harvey was as foreman. Now, according to Wayne, they would do drugs together often, and Doty said that Harvey sold crystal meth as kind of a sideline gig as well as Wayne Doty. Now, this sideline gig brought Dody to Horn's house one night in April of nineteen ninety six. And again I want to say, this is Wayne Doty's story. He claimed that he went over there to do a drug deal. The deal went aroun in a fight broke out. Now, Dudey claimed he

10:03 was only carrying a handgun that night in order to trade it for drugs. Because after all this went down, It's the first thing the police asked him, well, if you didn't go over there to kill the guy, why did you have a gun. He claimed that the gun was a trade for drugs. During this drug deal, a fight breaks out. He said, he pulled a pistol and he shoots Horned to death with it. As a matter of fact, he pumped five bullets into the skull of Harvey Horn. So the next morning, April twenty first of nineteen ninety six, co workers arrive at the Hardy manufacturing facility and it's not long before they get kind of concerned because Horn would not answer his phone. He's typically there in the mornings when everybody arrives at that front gate, and he wasn't there, and people knew something is wrong.

10:57 This was not his typical behavior. Over to that trailer, and then they discover the body of Harvey Horn and it was in just horrendous shape. Right. They called the Plant City Police Department and they tell them about this. It's about eight am in the morning. They report it. The police arrive and the first thing that is this forced entry. It looked to them like his door was kicked in, which makes it kind of questionable as to where they were really doing a drug deal. The whole trailer was also ransacked, Drawers were pulled out, bullet casings scattered everywhere. It was clear that this was a robbery gone wrong in the police view, so they start an investigation and it would not take long for them to get their man, primarily because Wayne Doty could not keep his freaking mouth shut. By the very next day, tips start pouring into police. The Wayne Dotty was actually bragging am this along his drug circles. He just couldn't keep his mouth shut. Not only was he bragging about his role in the murder, but he also had an accomplice, a guy by the name of Brian Lewandowski, who was seventeen years old at this time, and according to all accounts, he had stood guard outside the trailer during this murder. Now, incidentally, Dody was twenty three years old when this murder took place.

12:30 So police arrest both Wayne Doty and Brian Lewandowski and they bring them to the station, and of course, what do you think Wayne Dotty does. He denies everything to police, and so police start investigating. They start building a case. Of course, they get blestic matches from the bullet casings to match it to the actual handgun. Witness statements were taken. Now there weren't any eye wentnesses, but character witnesses, if you will. Fingerprints were recovered, all kinds of things. They bring all this to Wayne Dotty and they say, look, we know you freaking did this. We've got all this evidence, and eventually he would confess to police that he had committed the crime. Now, there are trials for these two individuals, and in those trials, Wayne Doty is found guilty of murder and he does get sentenced to life in prison.

13:31 Now is accomplice Brian. That's where kind of the great area cloudie area of this story exists because I could not find anything out as to what happened to him or what his sentence was. I don't know if he cooperated and they gave him complete immunity or if they gave him just a very light sentence. I don't know. I can't find any information on what really happened. So if you do know and you're listening to this, I would love to know an update of what actually happened to the accomplice in this case. But in Duddy's case, he went to prison for the rest of his life.

14:12 So that should be the end of this story. Right goes to prison, Boom, We're done. Hell no, that's just the beginning of this story. So shortly after his conviction, Duddy was transferred to the Florida State Prison in Rayford and y'all. Florida State Prison in Rayford is a max security prison. It's known for housing only the most dangerous of Florida inmates and Dudy would certainly qualify. The prison has the distinction of being not only Florida's most secure prison, but also the oldest prison in the state of Florida. Now, Florida State Prison has a pretty significant history, not unlike Bloody Angola, and I'm going to reference. It's an article that came out in the New York Times that gives you an idea of it, because it's important in this story.

15:07 Now we're going to go back to nineteen seventy one in that uprising at Florida State Prison, and it reads, I gave the order to shoot. I did it to protect the inmates themselves. Thus did Louis Wainwright, director of the Florida Board of Corressions, explaining the February twelfth, nineteen seventy one incident at the State Prison at Rayford, which is now referred to by the thirty six hundred convicts at the state's largest prison as the Lincoln's Day massacre. Sixty three inmates were wounded when prison guards opened fire on the group of nearly seven hundred rebellious prisoners who were staging a sit down strike on the institution's wreck field and refused to return to their sales for night lock up. The guards peppered the convicts with birdshot, mister Wainwright explained in an interview, in order to heard them from the field to quote the rock the prison's central cell block, machine gun bullets, which he said were fired for sound effects struck to the prisoner. The scene were called for some in the state the kind of prison conditions that existed in other eras when force of arms was accepted technique to deal with unruly prisoners. There were those who had become convinced that Florida him managed to overcome that image. Mister Wainwright himself said he was surprised that he had to resort to force. Quote. I'd hope the day gone when we had to meet resistance with gunfire, he said. Despite attempts a reform in recent years, some

16:37 authorities believe the South's richest and most progressive state today has the most troubled penal system in the nation, Caught in an eye spiraling population trend that has placed severe strain on the state's resources as it struggled to provide for growth in all public sectors. Appropriations for prison development have received low priority. Quote. Anytime we try to make we're progress. We get shot down because the prisons were at the bottom of the list and there was never any money left to budget for them. And he's not lying there. Nobody wants to pay for prisons, right. Mister Wainewright conceded the prison over crowding had created other problems, such as sexual assaults and other forms of violence. Designed to hold twenty four hundred prisoners, it now has thirty six hundred sixty cells built for four inmates each or now maybe accommodate. Hundreds of men sleep on floors. Another serious problem is the prison security force, which is largely untrained in modern penal techniques. Prison guards received a starting salary of four hundred and sixty four dollars a month, unbelievable, and last year alone there was a forty percent turnover.

17:45 So that's just a little look at what Wayne Doty was dealing with and where he was going to spend the rest of his life. Now, Initially, Doty was housed in general population on what is known as the K Wing inside of the prison, which one of the benefits of being in the K Wing was that Doty's movements were not restricted or as restricted as those on the lockdown wings. Those people in the lockdown wings, they're only out of their cell one hour a day, twenty three hours a day inside their cell. So I'm going to fast forward a lot to two thousand eleven, and by this time Wayne Doty had been in prison for fourteen years, and he was what was known as a runner by this point in time in prison, which is considered a privileged status. Think of it as a trustee in other prisons.

18:37 His responsibilities would include distributing and picking up meal trays from the inmates, claiming common areas of the prison, running errands for prison staff throughout the prison, and by most accounts, officials inside the prison said he was a very good worker. It was, of course, inside this prison that he would cross pass with an inmate by the name of Xavier Rodriguez. Now a little bit about Xavier. He was very young, just twenty one years old when the incident I'm about to tell you about took place. At this time, Dody was thirty eight. Now, despite Xavier's young age, he had already been in prison for four years. He had been handed down a ten year sentence when he was just seventeen years old for robbery He was also housed at the K Wing inside of Florida State Prison. Now, Dody had kind of a business going on in the prison at this time. He would sell tobacco to other inmates, and the way he would get the tobacco to the other inmates was using runners on the K Wing to transport it. They would go down the cell block with that food tray like you see on the TV right when you're watching movies, and he would put some of this tobacco on there and they would deliver it. Xavier was one of those runners that would deliver this tobacco.

20:03 So in April of twenty eleven, Dody had Xavier run this tobacco to another area of the unit, and rather than deliver the product, Xavier kept it and he sells it to someone else. And that's a big deal inside a prison in regardless of whether it's right or wrong. There has to be a response to that, or you're going to be seen basically as a punk and everybody's going to start stealing your shit. Everybody is going to start taking advantage of you. Dody being a VET in that prison, right, he is an actual, an actual convict rather in the prison and there's a difference between inmates and convicts. Convicts just want to do their time right.

20:49 So Dody learns of this and for two weeks he plans a retaliation against Xavier. And Xavier was young, he probably didn't realize yet how serious this was. So Dody he enlists the help of another inmate, a guy by the name of William Wells. Now Wells probably the second most dangerous inmate in the state of Florida, and he is actually infamously known as the Monster of Mayport. In two thousand and three, this guy killed six people in one family. I must did an episode. I must did this episode on him. I may still do an episode on this guy. But regardless of that, Wayne Doty and less Wells to be a lookout for this plan. He then takes some tobacco and he trades that tobacco for a shank sharpened down from a piece of scripe metal.

21:50 And you know what he's gonna do with that. He takes that shank and he hides it in the ac duck work of the third floor interview room. And before go any further, let me say this tobacco in prison is like freaking one hundred dollars. It's like the most expensive thing you could trade in prison. So he had a good thing going and he felt like this inmate, Xavier was stepping all over it. So he's continuing on with this plan. He starts noting when the guards were coming and going from that particular third floor wing, and he really planned this thing out to the most minute of details. He in Wells would then approach Xavier this is on May seventeenth of twenty eleven, and they would tell him that they want to play a game of Coastguard handcuffs. Now y'all may wonder what is Coastguard handcuffs.

22:46 This is a game that convicts play where basically a bet is placed that you can't get out of bindings tied behind your back. Usually they'll take like old T shirts or something, and you've got to get out of him. Doddy tells Xavier if he can get out of the bindings that Doddy would give him one hundred dollars in tobacco, and Xavier agrees how he couldn't see this coming after he stole this man shit, I have no idea, but he agrees to play this game, and Doddy and Wells tells Xavier. We're going to do this in the third floor interview room, which is obviously where Doddy had hid that shank. And once inside of that interview room, Wells positions himself against the door, so he's basically blocking that door so no one can go in er out. And this is a very cramped third floor interview room, right, very small space, dimly lit. There's nothing in there but a table. So with the door skeered by Wells, Doddy moves in behind Rodriguez and he just puts him in what's known as a rare naked choke, choking him from behind.

23:58 The choke last about a minus minute, and Dody said within seconds that Xavier starts pissing himself, which is obviously a sign you're in a bond. You can't breathe. Eventually Rodriguez would go unconscious and Dody would just drop him into the floor, but he wasn't dead yet, and that's exactly what Dody wanted. At that point, he retrieves a shank, which sharpened piece of metal that he had hidden in that duck work. It was about eight inches long, and he begins stabbing Rodriguez furiously twenty five times to his neck, his torso, and his chest. Now, even after that, even after this man was dead, Dody was not done yet.

24:45 As Xavier's body lay there, he takes the knife and he attempts to carve out Xavier's heart. However, that shank was dull. He just could not make it happen. Then, just to make sure this guy's dead, Xavier, he takes a shoelace and he ties it as tighty as he possibly can, almost popping the shoelace tying it around Robriguez's neck. After the assault, Xavier Robriguez laying on the floor twenty five times. He's been stabbed, his heart. They tried to cut his heart out. He's there's blood everywhere. And after that assault, dodium Wells sit down on the table inside of that interview room and guess what they do. They smoke a cigarette. They then calmly leave that room. Doddy takes a quick shower in the shower room, then goes to the first floor of K Wing and he tells the guard that, hey, someone's dead in the third floor interview room. As a matter of fact, he tells the guard quote, we just killed an inmate and there is a body in the interview room. He even tried to hide it. So guards rush to the scene. They find Rodriguez's body, blood everywhere in the room, and of course they take the two perpetrators and they put them in lockdown immediately in separate cells. They interview them and both

26:19 admit to everything that I just told you. So of course there's a trial on this one, and in the trial, Doddy pleads guilty and he gets the death penalty. This is on June fifth of twenty thirteen. Now, in twenty fifteen, Doddy does something kind of unheard of in the vast majority of cases when you get death penalties. He starts advocating for his own execution. But not only that, he starts advocating for his own execution via electric chair, and he wants it as soon as possible. At this time, they were giving you the drugs right to kill you.

27:01 He didn't want that. He wanted the electric chair because you couldn't get the drugs at the time, and he was ready to get executed. But he hits a roadblock on his own wishes because in twenty sixteen, his sentence actually gets vacated due to what's known as the Hearst ruling. See in his death penalty trial, his sentence, the death sentence itself was actually imposed by a judge. Well, the Hearst ruling stated that it was unconstitutional under the sixth Amendment for a judge to impose a death sentence. You had to have a jury do that. So his case gets thrown out and they have to retry him all over again, which they do, and in twenty eighteen he has found guilty again, this time by a jury, and that jury imposes the death penalty. May I add Wayne Doty's urging. So where's Wayne Doty today? Well, he's currently still awaiting execution. Even with all his advocating, he can't get executed. No date has been set as of this recording, and he's currently fifty two years old. Now I want to reference another quick article. This one lends some clarity to Doddy's mindset, I think at least. It was published on February twenty fifth, twenty twenty five by LADBible dot

28:34 com and a lady by the name of Lucy Devine, and it reads death row Inmate gives flabbergasting explanation for being first to choose electric chair over lethal injection. He goes on to read a death row inmate was the first to choose the electric chair of releethal injection, but his explanation is left people flabbergasted. Wayne Doty is currently an inmate at Florida State Prison. After he shot and killed Harvey Horn the Second in nineteen ninety six, he was sentenced to life in prison, but later ended up on death row after he killed a fellow inmate, Xavier Rodriguez in twenty eleven. In the US, the most common form of execution for prisoners on death row as a lethal injection. But back in twenty seventeen, Doby told Action News that he wanted to opt for the electric chair, and it was actually even before then that he was doing that quote. Not you, not anybody else. It's my life, it's my crime, it's my means of execution, Dody is quoted is saying speaking about Doddy's decision, Action News Serena Faison explained the flabbergasting choice, revealing that Dody doesn't like needles and believes electrocution is more humane method of execution. Well, A couple of problems I have with those quotes. First of all, you didn't give Xavier any choice of how he he was gonna die. Why should you get a choice.

30:03 And secondly, you're afraid of needles, too bad? Shouldn't have done what you did. Quote electricity two thousand of three thousand volts of electricity right through a person's brain will render you dead within seconds, said Dody. Although we are locked up in prison, we have our own rights. However, it's a decision that is shocked many, with Mark Elliott, executive director of Floridians for Alternatives, explaining, I don't understand. I don't know what his motives are. Although electrocution was once most widely used method, it is now rarely used at all. The method sees the inmates strapped to a chair and electrocuted with high voltage currents. It lasts about two minutes. Meanwhile, lethal injection is usually a trio of chemicals given in three stages. An anesthetic which puts the inmate to sleep, a second drug that causes paralysis, in a third drug that stops the heart. Florida stopped using the electric chair as its primary method of execution following the death of triple murderer Alan Lee Davis, whose execution was surrounded with controversy after he bled profusely from the news during electrocution. So he's been advocating for that forever.

31:17 That's how he wants it. Again. He doesn't get necessarily to choose. I don't know why he should get to choose how he's going to get executed when the person that he executed. Keep that in mind, he executed someone. They didn't get a choice. But you know, it's all about control for a lot of these guys. If they're going to kill me, I want to be able to control how they kill me. Well, fuck you, Wayne Doady. That's what I think about it again. He's now in his early fifties, still on death row, and incidentally, Florida has executed a record nineteen inmates just this past year in twenty twenty five under Governor Ron Desanna. But Daddy's case still remains in appeals as to how he's going to get executed. And I wonder, I really do. I wonder if this guy is so smart he has figured out if I try to change the method, I can actually stay alive longer, because had he just given in and let them give him the needle or however they're execute him now. They may be doing the gas now, but if he would have given in and just let them do that, hmm, I wonder if he would have already been executed. He may be smarter than people think, and this all may be just deployed. But that's something for all of us to wonder. Only he knows for sure.

32:44 Thank you so much for listening. I'll be back next week with another episode of Bloody and Gola in this special series fifty Shades of Evil. Where will I be going? You'll find out soon And until next time, I'm Jim Chapman with Bloody and goa Peace. M I walk street. Line, Shackle Chaine. Oh woesome girdie, it's calling my name.

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