Shallow Grave: The Crimes of Roy McLaughlin

Bloody Angola Podcast by Woody Overton & Jim Chapman

Envision Podcast Studios

Documentary, Society & Culture, True Crime

4.9 • 665 Ratings

🗓️ 31 July 2025

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Jim Chapman brings you the horrific details surrounding Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola Convict Roy McLaughlin. In 2001 Roy McLaughlin was convicted in Baton Rouge in the death of his estranged wife Marianne Allison McLaughlin, who was last seen at her home in Baton Rouge on June 11, 1998.

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0:00.0	I walk a straight line
0:17.3	shackled chain
0:20.6	Oh, glist and girding line shackle chain oh gluesome gertie is calling my name there is no mercy and this penitentiary
0:33.6	just asked the hill string game
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
0:51.5	Inside the wide And when the wolf cry these walls inside the wild
0:54.7	And when the wolf 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 welcome back to Bloody Angola, a podcast of 142 years in the making the complete story of America's bloodiest prison.
1:40.3	I'm Jim Chapman, and today I'm bringing you the horrific story of one of the current
1:47.8	inhabitants, if you will, of Bloody Angola.
1:51.1	And the subject today is going to be Roy McLaughlin, who in August of 1999 was arrested
1:59.6	in charge with the murder of his wife, Marianne McLaughlin.
2:04.8	So let's get right into it.
2:07.2	Now, I'm going to take you back to June of 1998.
2:12.5	And Miss Mary Ann McLaughlin, she tells her 15-year-old son that she's going to go meet with her husband
2:20.6	Roy, who she was estranged from at this time, and she said she was going to discuss their divorce.
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