The Insanity of Michael Owen Perry

Bloody Angola: A Podcast by Jim Chapman

Envision Podcast Productions

True Crime, Society & Culture, Documentary

4.8 • 704 Ratings

🗓️ 9 October 2025

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

In 1983 Michael Owen Perry murdered five members of his own family in Lake Arthur, LA. Perry then set his sights on Washington D.C. where he planned to murder Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor and then travel to Beverly Hills, California to murder film actress Olivia Newton-John who he had been stalking for nearly 10 years.
Bloody Angola Podcast host Jim Chapman brings you inside the case from Michael’s teenage years through his arrest and conviction.

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Timestamps
01:36 Teenage years for Michael Owen Perry
13:12 A chilling return home.
13:54 Crime news interruption.
14:06 The horrific family murders.
21:41 The shocking arrest in D.C.
23:42 The trial and its oddities.
27:21 The complex insanity defense.
28:40 Life on death row.

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Sources
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0:00.0	I walk a straight line
0:17.3	shackled chain
0:20.6	Oh, gluesome 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 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 wide And when the wolf cries 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. Oh, bloody angola.
1:39.7	Hey, everyone, and welcome back to Bloody Angola, a podcast 142 years in the making the complete story of America's bloodiest prison.
1:46.7	I'm Jim Chapman, and today I am bringing you another suggested story from a listener,
1:53.3	and this is the story of Louisiana State Penitentiary Death Row inmate Owen Perry,
2:00.9	who in 1985 was convicted of the murder of five members of his own family.
2:02.6	So let's get into it.
2:06.6	And I'm going to start by giving you a little history on Michael Perry. He was born on December 3rd of 1954 in Lake Arthur, Louisiana, which Lake Arthur, y'all,
2:15.5	is located in West Louisiana, and it's part of what's known as Jefferson
2:21.0	Davis Parish. And it's not a very large town, even today. There are only about 3,000 people that
2:29.1	reside there, and most of the people that live there, or around that area, they work in the oil fields.
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