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Bloody Angola: A Podcast by Jim Chapman

50 Shades of Evil: Alabama

Bloody Angola: A Podcast by Jim Chapman

Envision Podcast Productions

True Crime, Society & Culture, Documentary

4.8704 Ratings

🗓️ 17 February 2026

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

“Westley Devone Harris” was convicted and sentenced to death for the murder of (6) members of his girlfriend’s family in rural Crenshaw County, Alabama. What started out as a romance with a 14 year old girl turned into a massacre at the Ball Family Farm when Harris was ran off of the farm after is constant abuse of his girlfriend led the fame members to take action. What happened next would solidify him as one of Alabama’s most dangerous and notorious inmates.

“50 Shades of Evil” is a podcast series brought to you by “Bloody Angola Podcast”.

Chapters
01:35 The Nightmare Begins
11:32 The Violent Confrontation
12:28 The Horrific Break-In
17:05 The Unthinkable Murders
19:35 The Manhunt for Wesley
20:49 The Trials of Justice
24:14 Life on Death Row

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Transcript

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0:00.0

I walk a straight line

0:17.3

shackle chain

0:20.6

oh glarsome gertie is calling my name there is no mercy and this penitentiary

0:33.6

just asked the hill string guy

0:38.2

Rangled three

0:40.7

I'm here for life

0:44.7

I'm here to die

0:47.8

Inside these walls

0:51.8

Inside the wild And when the wolf cries these walls inside the wire.

0:56.1

And when the wolf cries, I know it's over.

1:04.1

Oh, bloody Angola.

1:33.9

Oh, bloody andola. Imagine you're 16 years old.

1:35.5

You're a young mother.

1:47.6

You're tied to a bed at your grandmother's house while the man you once loved walks through your family home, executing them. One by one. Your baby is lying beside you. You hear shots. You hear bodies fall. And then he cut you loose. Hand you

1:56.2

your daughter and says, we're leaving. That nightmare was not a movie. It happened in Alabama in 2002. The man's

2:05.2

name is Wesley Harris. Today, more than 23 years later, he sits on Alabama's death row. This is

2:14.4

the story of a family he destroyed.

2:18.1

I'm Jim Chapman, host of Bloody Angola, and this is 50 Shades of Evil, Alabama.

2:25.1

Now, if you're a regular listener of Bloody Angola, you know that I love digging deep into the most dangerous of inmates that make up the 50 states.

2:35.5

Today, I'm bringing you into Alabama to tell you the story of Wesley Harris.

2:41.8

The case that shocked the state of Alabama when it occurred in 2002, and you're not going to

2:47.4

believe what I'm about to tell you.

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