16: S1 Dead Man Talking: The Corrections Officer (BONUS EP)
Dead Man Talking
Audioboom Studios & Dead Man Talking™
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🗓️ 12 February 2019
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
In this special interview, Alex speaks to Dead Man Talking listener and former Corrections Officer, Bobby Blanton.
Bobby worked as a guard at the Polunsky Unit, which houses Texas’s death row, and got to know Angel Resendiz well while the serial killer was an inmate there. Bobby explains why he believes the confessions on the tape are true.
Presented by Alex Hannaford and produced by Peter Sale
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| 0:00.0 | Run for the fences Riley |
| 0:05.0 | the fences Riley |
| 0:07.0 | when their backs on turn. |
| 0:09.0 | Follow the railroad Riley |
| 0:12.0 | when their backs are turned |
| 0:15.0 | up over the mountains Riley |
| 0:18.0 | way in their backs are turned |
| 0:20.0 | you find the place you're promised when their backs are turned |
| 0:25.0 | Run, run, run with a railroad when their backs are turned. From DMT media and audio Boom, this is the Dead Man Talking Podcast with me Alex Haniford. |
| 0:48.0 | If you listen to last week's Q&A, you'll know that this is the final episode for now anyway. You'll also know that |
| 0:55.6 | we've got a special podcast today with someone who knew Angel Rosendis and |
| 1:00.1 | got in touch with me via email after listening to Dead Man talking. |
| 1:04.0 | Bobby Blanton worked as a corrections officer on death row and he happened to work at the |
| 1:08.8 | Polonsky unit at the same time that Angel Rosendis was housed there. In his email, Bobby told me some |
| 1:15.3 | things that I didn't previously know, like the fact that Rosendis would have periods |
| 1:19.6 | of pretty aggressive behavior where he'd cause injury to himself and rip up his belongings. |
| 1:25.0 | And Bobby also wrote that he would ask Rezendez if he was going to act up and that he was |
| 1:30.0 | always honest about whether he was or not. As you'll hear he's got a lot to say |
| 1:34.7 | about dealing with him and what's especially interesting to me is that he had some |
| 1:39.0 | strong views on the confessions Rosendies had made on that tape. So let's get into it. This is |
| 1:44.7 | Bobby Blanton talking to me a couple of days ago. |
| 1:50.4 | You'd listen to the podcast which is why you you dropped me an email and got in touch and you did it because you you |
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