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Bloody Angola: A Podcast by Jim Chapman

Envision Podcast Productions

True Crime, Society & Culture, Documentary

4.8 • 704 Ratings

🗓️ 17 November 2025

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

Jim Chapman recounts the story of Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola inmate Doulas “The Swede” Dennis who killed two people while he was incarcerated and then escaped LSP at Angola and remained on the lam for 10 years before being captured.

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Chapters
01:39 Douglas Dennis Early Life
07:40 The Life of Crime Begins
13:51 The Swede’s Arrival at Bloody Angola
18:20 Life Inside the Wire
22:25 A Turnaround in Prison
25:19 A 10 Year Escape
29:46 Return to Angola
30:56 The End of the Swede

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Transcript

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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 And when the wolf cries These walls inside the wire
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 142 years in the making, the complete story of America's bloodiest prison.
1:40.1	I'm Jim Chapman.
1:41.2	And today, I'm going to tell you the story of a man convicted of killing an
1:47.4	accountant in a Shreveport City Jail in 1957 and another inmate inside Angola during the
1:57.0	bloody years of the 1960s. His name was Douglas Dennis, and he went by the name
2:03.4	Swede inside of Bloody Angola. So Douglas Dennis was born in Chicago, Illinois, in
2:12.1	1935, but he was not there long. As a matter of fact, within six months of his birth, his family would move.
2:20.3	And this would be a continual thing throughout the life of Douglas Dennis early on in life in childhood.
2:28.6	He would live in New York. He would live in Oklahoma, Blocsie, Mississippi, Baltimore, and various other places.
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