Bones: Angola’s Hearse Driver

Bloody Angola Podcast by Woody Overton & Jim Chapman

Envision Podcast Studios

Documentary, Society & Culture, True Crime

4.9 • 665 Ratings

🗓️ 9 May 2025

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

This episode of Bloody Angola examines Lloyd "Bones" Bone, the hearse driver at Angola prison, exploring his journey through violence, family estrangement, and the generational cycle of incarceration while navigating dignity amid despair.

Chapters
01:39 The Hearse
11:53 Lloyd Bone's Family Legacy
12:41 The Crimes of Eric Bone
30:24 Generational Shadows in Angola

Transcript

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0:00.0	I walk a straight line
0:17.3	shackle chain
0:20.6	oh gluesome gertie
0:24.6	is calling my name
0:27.6	there is no mercy
0:30.6	and it's been a tentury
0:33.6	just asked the hill string guy
0:38.2	Rangle 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 wild And when the wolf cries these walls inside the wire.
0:56.0	And when the world cries, I know it's over.
1:04.1	Oh, bloody Angola.
1:11.0	Oh, bloody Angola. Oh, bloody angola.
1:14.9	Oh, bloody angola.
1:39.4	Hey, everyone. and welcome back to Bloody Angola, a podcast 142 years in the making the complete story of America's bloodiest prison.
1:46.1	I'm Jim Chapman, and today I'm going to bring you what is probably one of the most requested stories that have ever gotten on this show.
1:50.0	And it's taken a little while to put this one together because there's just not a whole
1:54.6	lot of information out there, surprisingly, on this individual.
1:59.0	But I finally got enough to tell you the story of Lloyd
2:03.9	Bones, Bone, who is really globally known as the hearse driver of Louisiana State
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