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Bloody Angola: A Podcast by Jim Chapman

Shallow Grave Part 3: The Crimes of Roy McLaughlin

Bloody Angola: A Podcast by Jim Chapman

Envision Podcast Productions

True Crime, Society & Culture, Documentary

4.8704 Ratings

🗓️ 14 August 2025

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

*Part 3 of 3 in this series*

Jim Chapman brings you the details of life post conviction inside Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola for Convict Roy McLaughlin Jr. Including a lawsuit filed by the inmate after 3 escape attempts would lead to an alleged beating inside the wire. 

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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 guy

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 wild

0:54.7

And when the world cries

0:58.4

I know it's over

1:01.6

Oh, bloody Angola

1:08.1

Oh, oh, bloody angola.

1:14.9

Hey, everyone. And today I'm continuing with the Shallow Grave series.

1:46.5

This is part three.

1:48.1

And the last time that I left you, Roy McLaughlin Jr. had sued several people in Bloody Angola

1:55.6

for an alleged beating incident that occurred after his third attempt at escape.

2:02.4

And when that dust settled, three correctional officers were found guilty, and Roy had won

2:09.0

what turned out to be an $8,000 settlement.

2:13.4

So I may mention that while I was researching this case, one of the correctional officers, Mark Sharp, this was not his first rodeo with getting in some legal trouble.

2:26.0

So in January of 2011, a 15-year-old girl who lived on the B-line, where the families live, right, unexpectedly gives birth.

2:38.0

And an investigation obviously gets started because of this. And following that investigation,

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