The Coffin Maker: Grasshopper

Bloody Angola Podcast by Woody Overton & Jim Chapman

Envision Podcast Studios

Documentary, Society & Culture, True Crime

4.9 • 665 Ratings

🗓️ 16 May 2025

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

In this episode of “Bloody Angola Podcast” Jim Chapman explores Lloyd Leggett's transformation from a 1971 murderer to a skilled coffin maker in Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola.

Chapters
01:56 The Horrific Crime of Lloyd Leggett
02:31 Investigation and Arrests
10:18 Indictments and Sentencing
13:34 The Escape Attempt
18:04 Richard Leggett's Transformation
24:12 The Coffin Maker of Angola
31:13 Legacy

Transcript

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0:00.0	I walk a straight line
0:17.3	shackled chain
0:20.6	Oh, gluesome gertie
0:24.6	He's calling my name
0:27.6	There is no mercy
0:30.6	And it's been a tentery
0:33.6	Just ask 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
0:51.5	Inside the wide And when the wolf cries these walls inside the wild
0:54.7	And when the wolf cries
0:58.6	I know it's over
1:01.6	Oh, bloody Angola
1:08.1	Oh, oh, bloody angola. Hey, everyone, and welcome back to Bloody Angola, a podcast 142 years in the making the complete story of America's bloodiest prison.
1:40.7	I'm Jim Chapman.
1:42.1	And today I'm going to tell you about an inmate at Angola, who
1:48.1	really became famous for his good deeds while he was incarcerated at Angola and his
1:54.8	amazing talent. And wait till we get into that. But what landed him inside the wire was just a horrible crime, and he was an inmate who had the nickname at Angola Grasshopper.
2:10.3	His name he was born with was Lloyd Leggett.
2:14.6	Now, I did a lot of research on this one, and I came across some newspaper articles
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