Hello everyone, just a little note before we start to let you know that the following episode

is not for sensitive years.

We are going to talk about a crime against a child in a moment, and I'll use as few details

as possible, but thanks for understanding.

Today's episode needs a backstory, and it's a chilling backstory set in denim springs,

a rough town east of Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

After a 40-year-old man, Gerald Borderland, already a convicted rapist on the morning

of November 15th, 2002, abducted his step-daughter Courtney, a 12-year-old.

Took her by knife point to his car, drove her across the lines to Mississippi, forced her

to undress, and assaulted her in an unspeakable way.

He then led her to a riverbank, pushed her to the ground, strangled her to death, hid

her body under a brush pile, and drove away.

Borderland was caught a few days later and confessed.

It took less than an hour of deliberation for a jury to convict him of first-degree murder,

and it took less than an hour of deliberation for a jury to give him the death penalty.

Borderland waved his right to appeal, saying in court, quote, I would commit the same crime

again if ever given the chance, in quote.

A state Supreme Court opinion found his decision made with a clear mind and upheld Borderland's

right to waive all appeals, so arriving at the conclusion that he was a, quote, sexual

sadist, unquote, and that his criminal history showed escalating patterns of violence.

For his final days on Earth, he was sent to death row at a maximum security prison in

Louisiana called the Alcatraz of the South, or simply Angola.

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