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95: Part 2: Kevin Holtry Is the Definition of a Survivor

Game of Crimes

Game of Crimes

True Crime

4.81.5K Ratings

🗓️ 25 April 2023

⏱️ 93 minutes

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Summary

In the dictionary under survivor, it says “See Kevin Holtry”. Shot six times, three bullets still in his body, a paraplegic and double amputee, Kevin survived being shot six times. But it wasn’t easy. There were dark days ahead, and he was within one second of ending it all. But he didn’t and his story of survival and purpose is one of the most emotional episodes we’ve ever told.

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0:00.0

The Idaho Department of Corrections came up with a really great idea called the Justice

0:16.8

Reinvestment Initiative in California has done it, other states have done it, where they

0:21.4

said, we need to save money.

0:23.9

How are we going to save money?

0:25.3

Well, we're going to, by releasing people out of prison early, that's exactly what

0:29.9

it is.

0:31.6

That California's called Rule 234 or something like that, where you would let people out

0:37.6

to save money.

0:38.6

That's what it is.

0:39.6

And they lied.

0:40.6

They said that whether we're going to use this money for better training for parole

0:42.6

officers, which they never did, the guy that shot me wasn't supposed to be out of prison

0:48.7

until 2026.

0:50.0

Geez.

0:51.0

Well, we wouldn't be doing this podcast if they just followed through on that.

0:55.4

You guys would go broke.

0:57.1

So on November 9th, his name is Marco Romero, Hispanic gay man, we refer to them as

1:06.8

pieces of shit.

1:07.8

Yeah, we don't, we don't give them any air time.

1:09.8

So the POS for long time, I wouldn't even say his name, but fuck that guy.

1:15.0

And he had gotten out of prison and they always, they only jack him up.

1:19.7

If you do something, they, they'll just put him back for 36 year, 90 days.

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