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I Love You Buddy

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iHeartPodcasts

Society & Culture, Relationships

4.61.7K Ratings

🗓️ 24 October 2024

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Buddy Woodall is serving three life sentences for murder. In January he'll celebrate his 22nd wedding anniversary to his wife Kristy. When Buddy was sentenced he asked Kristy to divorce him, he begged her to divorce him. She refused. She says she will stay with him until the very end. This is their love story. It starts when they were 15 years old and Kristy hit Buddy in the head with a volleyball in gym class. It takes them through the difficult early days of their marriage when they were just trying to make ends meet and it follows them through Buddy's arrest, his trial, his sentencing and now his time in Telfair State Prison. Buddy and Kristy believe they have a love that transcends the prison walls. 

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0:00.0

Buddy Woodall is a husband and a father of three. In January, he'll celebrate his 22nd wedding

0:10.6

anniversary with his wife, Christy. Buddy is also serving three consecutive life sentences in

0:17.6

Georgia's Tel Faire State Prison for the murder of two men, one of them, his uncle.

0:24.4

The crime is known down in Georgia as the Labor Day murders. The victims were Lavelle Lynn,

0:30.6

that was buddy's uncle, and another man named Robert Van Allen, who worked with Lavelle.

0:36.9

Prosecutors described it as a violent ambush-style attack.

0:41.3

The motive, robbery.

0:43.7

$400.

0:45.9

Buddy Woodall was convicted of the crimes in 2005.

0:49.9

This is Buddy calling Christy and our production team from inside the prison.

0:54.9

We weren't allowed to record Intelfare, so we have to rely on phone calls.

0:59.5

Sometimes it's a little loud, it's a little distracting, but bear with us.

1:05.6

I have a minimum of like 52 years left before I've ever become eligible for parole.

1:13.1

If you couldn't hear, Buddy, he just said he has a minimum of 52 years left before he's eligible for parole.

1:20.4

I'm never going to make it.

1:22.4

You know, I would be 97 years old.

1:25.6

For years and years, I try to get Christie to leave leave me to divorce me, you know, and so forth

1:31.8

and all.

1:33.5

I don't want Christy to miss out on so much life.

1:37.3

My kids, I mean, there are just so much out there that they could do if they were to let go.

1:46.7

And I hate thinking about that because I know deep down in my heart that she's going to stay

1:55.9

with me no matter what.

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