"There's no security footage as to what actually happened"

The Daily Crime

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True Crime

4.3 • 627 Ratings

🗓️ 8 September 2021

⏱️ 8 minutes

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A trial is underway in Georgia for an inmate accused of killing two corrections officers during an escape in 2017. Kayla Solomon at 13 WMAZ News tells us about the case. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Coming up.
0:01.7	We have faith in the judicial system that justice will be served for the alleged parties who took his life on June 13th of 2017.
0:12.0	For Vault Studios, I'm Will Johnson. You're listening to The Daily Crime.
0:26.4	Sargent's Curtis Ballou and Christopher Monica were on a prison transport bus in June of 2017 when inmates Donny Rowe and Ricky DuBose escaped and allegedly killed them.
0:31.4	After days on the run, law enforcement tracked them to Tennessee and sent them back to Putnam County.
0:36.9	Trial's going to be difficult.
0:39.2	We know that.
0:40.4	Four years is too long.
0:44.1	A trial is just getting underway in Georgia regarding the case of a man who is accused of killing
0:51.0	corrections officers and an escape attempt back in June of 2017.
0:56.0	I'm joined by Kayla Solomon, a reporter at 13 WMAZ News in Macon,
1:00.8	Kayla, thanks for being here with us.
1:02.4	Yeah, happy to be here.
1:03.6	So tell us about what happened.
1:05.3	As far as we know, back in June of 2017, I mean, this sounds all very dramatic and also really
1:10.8	tragic.
1:11.3	Two corrections officers were killed during this escape attempt, right?
1:15.2	Yes.
1:15.5	So basically, sergeants Curtis Ballou and Christopher Monica were corrections officers with the Georgia
1:22.4	Department of Corrections.
1:24.7	And there was an instance where they were transporting prisoners on a bus, and as it was passing through Putnam County, which is a rural county in central Georgia, two inmates on the bus actually were able to get a hold of their one or both of their firearms. Those details are
1:47.3	a little hazy and shot and killed, allegedly, both of the corrections officers. And they were
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