50 Shades of Evil: Georgia

Bloody Angola: A Podcast by Jim Chapman

Envision Podcast Productions

True Crime, Society & Culture, Documentary

4.8 • 704 Ratings

🗓️ 7 April 2026

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

On March 11, 2005, Brian Gene Nichols was sitting in a Fulton County Courthouse holding cell in Atlanta, Georgia, awaiting trial on SA charges. What happened next became one of the most shocking courthouse attacks in American history.

In a matter of minutes, Nichols overpowered his deputy escort, seized her weapon, and stormed the courtroom of Superior Court Judge Rowland Barnes. He murdered the judge and court reporter Julie Brandau in cold blood. As he fled the building, he gunned down Sheriff’s Deputy Hoyt Teasley. Hours later, during a desperate manhunt that shut down the city, Nichols killed a fourth victim—off-duty ICE Special Agent David Wilhelm—before carjacking his truck. A massive, 26-hour search gripped Atlanta. Then, in a quiet suburban apartment, Nichols took Ashley Smith hostage. What unfolded during their seven-hour ordeal would ultimately bring the rampage to an end in one of the most talked-about hostage encounters of the decade.

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Chapters
10:09 The Downward Spiral of a Relationship
10:49 The Night of Terror
16:17 The Trial Begins
19:44 The Escalation of Violence
21:25 The Courthouse Chaos
28:55 The Manhunt Begins
29:14 Hostage Situation
31:32 The Conviction and Sentencing

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Transcript

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0:00.0	I walk a straight line
0:17.3	shackled chain
0:20.6	oh glarsome gertie is calling my name there is no mercy in this penitentiary
0:33.6	just asked the hill string gang
0:38.2	Rangled of 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 wide And when the wolf cries these walls inside the wild
0:54.7	And when the wolf cries
0:58.4	I know it's over
1:01.6	Oh, bloody Angola
1:08.1	Oh, oh, bloody angola.
1:14.6	Hey, everyone. Welcome back to Bloody Angola. And this week we are continuing this 50 Shades of Eagle series. And today I'm going to bring you to Georgia. And I'm going to take you back to March 11th of 2005 because that's when Brian Nichols,
1:47.0	sitting in a Fulton County courthouse awaiting trial on rape charges, suddenly overpowered and hit his deputy escort storms into a courtroom, murders a judge and a court reporter, and a sheriff's deputy, and later that
2:03.5	day, an off-duty ice agent, a 26-hour manhunting sues before Brian Nichols is captured, and
2:12.2	that is only a small aspect of this story. So let's get into it. And we're going to start off in 1971 in
2:21.4	Baltimore, Maryland, where Brian was born to parents Clothier, who was an IRS employee in Gene
2:28.4	Nichols, a business owner and a restaurant entrepreneur. Now, he was the youngest of two sons in this family.
2:36.5	He had a brother, Mark, and Mark was four years older than him.
2:41.3	His family was very close net.
2:43.7	They were very large.
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