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/s >> announcer: due to mature subject matter, viewer discretion is advised. >> really just comes from my imagination, just whatever i imagine i can't put on the paper. >> an inmate with incredible artistic abilities with charged with a terrible and tragic crime. while another inmate's seeming obsession with jail food causes problems. >> he's hungry so he doesn't see anything but the food. whatever is in his way, he'll try to get to it. >> and. >> we both kind of agreed on
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this open relationship type of deal. >> uh-huh. >> swinging. >> an unconventional marriage ends in a deadly act. >> when that bullet left that gun, it became reality. you smelled the gun powder, you see what you've actually done. >> wichita is the largest city in kansas. but many who live here see it not as a metropolitan center, but as a river town and on the banks of the arkansas river is the landmark. 44-foot tall keeper of the planes keeper by native american artist to honor the spirit of
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his people. but when there is trouble on the plains, it often gets sorted out downtown at the sedgwick county jail. >> stand up for me, please. >> most of the 1150 men and women incarcerated here are only charged with crimes and are awaiting trial at the resolution of their cases. while the inmate population is usually near or at capacity, the same cannot be said for the staff. >> we have a staff shortage here that we haven't seen before, and now everybody is having to work a ton of overtime. we're really trying to figure out how to combat that problem now. it's not a glamorous job. a lot of folks have no idea what you do in here and the only time that they do know something has occurred is because somebody got in trouble. they never know the good stuff that you do every day. >> sheriff jeff easter has dozens of job openings for deputy inside the jail. >> luckily we've graduated 25 recruits two weeks ago, but that was for 67 openings.
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67 openings is almost a whole shift. the deputies are strained beyond belief. i'm seeing them go to other jobs, sam's and wal-mart and those type of things because the pay is a little bit better, the benefits are a little bit better, that's when we go what do we have to do to retain folks? >> insurance benefits is an issue. i hear all the time. and, so, those are things from my end that i have got to start talking with commissioners and stuff so we can hopefully hire more people and retain them. >> sheriff easter is even expanded the range of jobs available to inmate workers who are trustees. >> sedgwick county jail. >> such as answering the phones. >> we do not have anybody by that last name in our facility. >> how do you spell the last name? >> the trustees have limited information about other inmates, but can look up pending charges. >> do you know what the first name was, p-i-e-r-r-e? okay. well, i do see on our system he
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still is down in booking. it shows on the computer that he was booked at 11:13 p.m. and that's when he first got here. alrighty. yep, you're welcome. you, too, bye. whoa. >> what? >> her son was booked on first degree murder, came in last night. >> and soon after, pierre washington was formally charged with first degree murder. he has pled not guilty, but acknowledges shooting his wife to death and then calling 911 to report it. >> i told them what occurred and accepted my fate. and i was arrested immediately. actually while i was on the phone making the call before the 911 call was finished, they were already there. dropped the phone, put my hands up, and dropped to my knees and they took me in.
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i've never been in trouble before, never been arrested. this is a first for me. i didn't picture me in this. i pictured a long happy marriage and just raising my family, taking care of my family and being there for them. >> washington says his wife's involvement with another man became too much to bear. >> she said, you know, i really like david. i feel like he's a person that's going to be in my life for a very long time. it crushed me because i knew what it meant immediately. you know, my eyes swelled up with tears and i felt like i had lost her. even before i physically took her, i felt like i had already lost her. >> washington's mother asked the private defense attorney sara swain to meet with her son. >> i have had contact with his family who has given me a very interesting version of events of what led up to the day when this allegedly happened where he
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killed his wife and then reported that to the police. >> though she has not yet been retained, swain agreed to meet with washington a few days after he was charged. >> i would like for you to tell me, if you feel comfortable doing that, tell me a little bit about right at the very end, and honestly i don't even know how much of that you remember. >> well, to begin, my wife and i had been married seven years, been together ten. we have two children together. we've been through a lot together. >> washington says the relationship began to decline so he and his wife decided to try something new. >> we both kind of agreed on this open relationship type of deal. swinging or -- yeah. this would just be for fun and it was supposed to actually help our marriage grow stronger in a sense. >> uh-huh. >> so, you know the basic rules where we are still a husband and wife, you know, we're going to put each other first.
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we're not going to spend too much time with these other people. it will just be purely for entertainment, you know. >> it seems like a really terrible idea. >> yeah, i was told that, but i felt like -- i mean, we were together for, you know, we were ten years strong and i felt like we can make it work. >> so, what i'm trying to do in my own head is take what you're telling me and reconcile that with the fact that she's dead and you called 911 to report her being dead. >> washington says he and his late wife diana became involved with joe anna and david bean, but that the relationship between diana and david became more intense when david separated from joe anna. >> when she asked me if david could stay with us, i kind of envisioned this -- i didn't want it to come true, but i envisioned he was going to come
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to stay with us, but it was president going to temporary. he's going to try to move in on my wife. the woman i married, it wasn't her any more. she said she was falling for him. it was a shock to me because i didn't want to split up with her. >> washington says diana was on the phone with david bean when he shot her. as a result, bean might have been called to testify in the case, but just two days ago, only six days after diana's death, david bean died in a traffic accident. >> very, very interesting developments. >> from what i saw in the news and from what my mother told me, it was a semi on the shoulder that had broken down and he had his flashers on and the cones out, plowed right into it. died instantly. >> my job is to take all the information that you've given me and to start looking for all of the pieces of evidence that the police didn't bother looking at
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because this is certainly one of those cases where it may not be a question of who did it, but it's definitely going to be a question of why that person did it. and all of those factors will play into our defense, okay. there's a lot of work to be done. this is like step one of 10 million steps that we have. and this is mission impossible, right? we have nothing to lose. you have nothing to lose by us doing everything we can -- you know what you're looking at. if we get anything less than you convicted of premeditated first degree murder, that's a victory. >> coming up, pierre washington gets a visit from his mother. >> i think he temporarily went
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all right. gentlemen, at this time i'm going to ask you to have a seat at the tables. >> inmates at the central county jail in wichita are like inmates at most jails when it comes to their opinions of the food. >> they feed you the same amount of food they need a 9-year-old in elementary school that they feed grown men. it just doesn't work. >> she hates the chicken here. it's like gummy, chewy. >> nancy calls it fancy feast. [ laughter ] >> like the cat food, alpo. >> nine times out of ten it has beans in it. they bean us to death. they love giving us beans a. the
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deputy, however, holds a different opinion. to him the meals are a nice employment perk. >> it's one of the best trays. it's like chili or something. >> you don't know what you're eating? >> no. >> but it's good? >> yeah. i think they're good. a lot of other deputies would say no, but it's simple so, i like simple. it fills me up because i don't eat before i come to work and i eat here. it holds me over until after work. so, it's not that bad. >> while meal distribution is usually a routine procedure three times per day, it is t has turned into high drama for adrian zonker. they restrain him after he tries to grab food off the food chart. this isn't the first time he caused problems. >> possession of contraband, criminal threat, batteries. he then had a bowel movement on a breakfast trey and he went to styrofoam trays only. we ended up having to restrict the pencils in his room because
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he was drawing on the walls. he is on administrative segregation and that is because of his continuous behavioral issues. >> as an ad seg inmate he is confined 24 hours a day and has lost most of his privileges. >> a lot of his stuff stems around food. we know if there's child trays out or something out, he's going to act out. or it could be if something is wrong with his food or if he believes something is wrong with his food, a piece of bread isn't quite right or it took 15 minutes longer to get there than what he thought it should, he'll start to act out. when you go down and talk to him, he'll tell you it's for pay backs. it's just to -- that's what you get for -- because this is how i'm being treated, this is what you get. >> got any more, adrian? >> when somebody does something to me, i do it equally back to them. eye for an eye, tooth for a tooth. stupid, irrational, but to me
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it's adjust, you know, even though i know two wrongs don't make a right. >> zonkger has been in and out of jail in the past couple of years on a criminal use of weapon and various parole violations. he recently pled guilty to aggravated assault and battery and is awaiting sentencing. they review surveillance footage of him inside the jail. >> inmate is being served breakfast this morning and the deputy is about to open his door to serve him his styrofoam trey. he thinks it's all good and he comes out to get extra food. >> he's obviously going for the trays so he's going to try and stop him so he doesn't get hold of one as a weapon. >> and he's actually going to be taken to the floor by the deputy who also slips in the process. once the deputy gets up, zongker takes more food trays and goes in his cell. >> the sole deputy assigned to
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the unit decides not to engage him any further and instead calls for back up. >> and at that point adrian goes back in his room and you can wait for additional people, wait for a little bit safer environment to go in and get the rest of the stuff. >> because the threat is no longer there. he's got the food trays, he's inside. so, once they come in, they can actually clean this mess up and take control from there. >> part of it is causing issues for us and part of it is he wants the food. you're in an environment where you don't have a whole lot of things, but food is one thing that he can do that with. and once he gets it, now he's already gone through the hassle so he's going to eat the food. >> once he knows they'll come into his door he's going to speed up and get a little bit faster. he thinks they're coming in to get the food. he's going to start licking and eating everything he can eat. >> he's dumping in everything in the one we can't take. we're more worried about the hard trays that will be used as a weapon. he dumps everything off those
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trays. >> he's giving the brown trays back. >> that's what we're after. >> he starts using the hands and the speed with which he's working. >> back up deputies arrive, but there is little they can do at this point other than collect the plastic trays from his cell. since he's already on administrative segregation, there are no further sanctions they can take against him. >> if he's doing something he can purt himself or has a weapon and is doing something, you can make that assessment of we need to go in right now. but in case all he's doing is sitting there eating trays and there's no need to rush in. >> right. >> they have the opportunity right now, you can see somebody is at his door and you can start talking to him and hopefully you can get him to just pass the stuff back out to the door to you without having to go in. >> there's no need to do anything else to him. he's already locked down. you can't get any more locked down than he's already locked down and that's it. >> [ bleep ]. this is like adult day care. >> adult day care is not how
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inmate pierre washington describes the jail. >> here i am this regular guy, no tatoos, it's ease toy see looking at me like this is a foreign land to me. >> this can be quite a shock. he's going to be surrounded by people that sadly, this is their lives. this is what they know. the term being institutionalized, that's not a made-up term. that's the truth. there are people that know literally nothing other than the criminal justice system. >> it is t has been two weeks since washington was charged with first degree murder in the shooting death of his wife. if convicted he faces a sentence of 25 to life. washington says the last two weeks are helping him prepare for the worst. >> just learning how to just get adjusted and, you know, making forks because it's hard to eat -- you ever try to eat noodles with a spoon or apples with a spoon. it's a little difficult if you can't stab it. so, forks, i'll save all that. cups, it's very important to
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stay hydrated. your body is 70% water and you lose a lot during the day. what i do is guesstimated, these are six-ounce cups. i drink about 120 ounces a day which is the equivalent to a one gallon jug. i calculated i have to fill up at least 20 of these six-ounce cups to equal that. so, every morning i'll fill them up, line them up and throughout the day, chug them. there is so much bravado and masculinity out here. i came out of the cell without my shirt on to let guys know i'm a man, too. anybody push me around, i ain't gonna look for trouble, but i can handle myself. i'm new to this world, but i can swing with the best of them. >> washington says it was a different kind of swinging that led him to kill his wife diana. they became involved with another couple, joe anna and david bean. washington says he feared his wife was going to leave him for david who died in a traffic accident a few days after washington's arrest.
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on the night of the shooting, washington drove his wife to a local park. >> we got into a heated argument. she pulled out her phone and she called david. i felt at that point she had lost any feeling for me and she was calling him to come confront me. i was angry, i couldn't believe she was doing this, and just everything just reached a point, you know? it was all very fast. i don't even know if i looked down that sight. i just pointed and pulled. >> according to police, diana was shot seven times. >> it was like a dream, you know? but when that bullet left that gun, it became reality. you smelled the gun powder. you see what you've actually done. my mind was racing. i didn't know what to do. got back in the car and just drove. >> diana's body was still in the vehicle when washington drove away. >> i've always kept the gun just for protection. the weapon that was supposed to
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protect my family, my wife and my children was used to kill my wife. it's funny in an instant how one decision can just affect so many lives. >> washington drove to a friend's house where he called 911 and reported the shooting. he then waited outside for police to arrest him. his mother recently sent him a memorial card from his wife's funeral service. >> i won't see that smiling face again. i do miss her. i still love her. i could never give anybody my heart like that. like, i don't know whatever happens to me from here on out, whoever i meet, if i meet somebody else or whatever, what have you, they'll never get my heart the way she got it, you know? i feel like i'm destined to be this cold shell of a human. >> coming up. >> with time i started, like, drawing what i'm dreaming or what i imagine.
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that's when i started evolving. i just went to another level. >> an inmate artist is accused of murdering his twin brother. that help them save on their car insurance. any questions? -yeah. -how do you go to the bathroom? great. any insurance-related questions? -mm-hmm. -do you have a girlfriend? uh, i'm actually focusing on my career right now, saving people nearly $600 when they switch, so... where's your belly button? [ sighs ] i've got to start booking better gigs.
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the goal of the sedgwick county jail in wichita is to eliminate any item an inmate could possibly use to harm another. that even includes regular pencils. but the jail provides an alternative. >> flex pencil. it's not a real pencil. >> the whole point of a pencil is to sharpen it. kind of makes it an easy go to weapon. with the rubber pencil, no matter how sharp you can get t it's a rubber pencil. >> if i were to try to stab you, it's going to bend. >> some people who are artists can actually draw pretty well with these things. i don't understand how. i have a hard time just writing with them much less drawing anything, but yeah. >> the pencils have done nothing to deter luis afl radullvarado pursuing his passion. >> i ain't never seen anybody draw like him. >> he's professional. real detailed. he sits there with the pencil
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and just shades the little est stuff. >> what is this one you're working on now? >> this is a dream i had. i'm trying to sketch it out before >> before it kind of fades away? >> yeah. >> a lot of detail. be interesting to see if you had the color pencils what it would look like. >> man. >> alvarado's family mailed him some of his paintings from home. he says he's self-taught and began drawing at age two. >> i started drawing what i'm dreaming or what i imagine. that's when it started to evolving. i just went to another level. my inspiration is really just comes from my imagination, just whatever i magic put on the paper. it was weird, like i got eaten by this beast or something and i ended up becoming the beast. i could feel everything, like when the bones were crushing,
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the flesh was tearing. it was nasty, man. >> just how vivid it was. >> yeah. >> some of this stuff is kind of creepy. i've never seen anything like that. especially like he's thinking of it like this off the top of his head, it's not like something he's seen and then drew it. he's just coming up with it on his own. >> to be able to turn something from a rubber pen and i will turn something out like that is just phenomenal. he's probably one of the best i've seen. >> alvarado's art and quiet nature, seem in contrast to the crime he is accused of committing. he is charged with capital murder for allegedly shooting his twin brother manuel and manuel's wife. he has pled not guilty. >> well, it's something i don't really want to talk about. >> he had been living with his brother and sister-in-law at the apartment where their bodies were discovered by the twin's father. authorities determined 21 shots had been fired at close range from an ak-47 assault rifle left
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at the scene. if found guilty, he could face the death penalty. he says his art takes him to a better place. >> it's like a window i can escape through it, you know? the time passes by. i really escape this round. i'm happy. either way, life or whatever, i'm happy. >> you're happy? >> i'm happy in a way because there's so much more, like this is just the beginning. like the paintings i did was nothing, you know. i'm trying to work on paintings that are just as big as the wall because my imagination is so big. >> and the thing about it that i could add like, for example, let's say this is a big canvas. i could start adding real metal. if this is metal or feathers, i could add real feathers. >> get a lot more even finer detail into it. >> like i'll just, you know -- man, it would make it look so real like it's really coming out, like 3-d. >> while he won't talk about his
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case, he says if prison is in his future, he will most likely have access to better art supplies and that would be enough. >> i can't wait to get to prison because i'm ready to paint this and show the world, this is real, you know. and just, man, i just can't wait. i'm excited. >> coming up. >> put your knees up to your chest. >> new troubles for adrian zongker. and pierre gets a visit from his mother and the other woman in his life. >> thank you for coming to see me. >> i'll always be here. ...this is humira. this is humira helping to relieve my pain... ...and protect my joints from further damage. humira has been clinically studied for over 18 years. humira works by targeting and helping to... ...block a specific source... ...of inflammation that contributes to ra symptoms. it's proven to help relieve pain and...
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evacuate as a precaution. the dam is located about 65 miles north of sacramento. now back to "lockup." >> announcer: due to mature subject matter, viewer discretion is advised. each night the kansas river in wichita is illuminated by a dramatic ring of fire surrounding the city's iconic keeper of the plains sculpture. but it's a very different sort of drama inside the nearby sedgwick county jail. deputies rushing to a segregated unit is back up to an inmate disturbance. the inmate is one they're all familiar with. adrian zongker. >> adrian, put your knees up to your chest. stand up. >> jail surveillance footage captured the start of the
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incident. as zongker was being escorted to deputies for a court hearing, he lungs for food on a trey cart before he is restrained. >> unfortunately he went for a cart that has hard draz on it. in the past we've taken it away from him because we know he'll use it as a weapon. they have to take it as a real threat. any time he's within reach of all of those trays, those are all potential weapons. >> zongker who is awaiting sentencing on charges of aggravated assault and battery is taken to the jail's medical clinic to be checked for injuries. a standard procedure following any use of force. but zongker is a different concern. >> [ bleep ]. >> it's not even -- i kind of just -- this is stupid. [ bleep ]. i want some food. i'm hungry. i want some [ bleep ] food. >> he's rung and i that's his biggest thing. he doesn't see anything but the food. whatever is in his way he'll try to get to it.
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if there is a deputy standing there, he'll go through you. >> after he is cleared by medical, zongker is returned to his cell. >> we're going to take you out of the cuffs. okay? >> i want my food. >> that's going to be a second. we're going to have to check on it. as far as i can tell, it looked like it was scattered all over the floor down there. what? adrian, i just told you i'd have to check on it >> am i still going to courts? >> yeah you're still going to court. >> he says he has asp erger syndrome. as an administrative segregation inmate, any time zongker is moved he muflt st be shackled ae anchors. they decided to add another layer of security. >> he is a constant management issue and now he is going to be handcuffed so he can't reach out and grab anything while he's walking.
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that is a new thing. as he evolves with what he's doing, we evolve with the restrictions to keep up with that. >> first-time inmate pierre washington has considerably more privileges within the jail. today he is in the law library preparing for a preliminary hearing on his upcoming murder trial. though he pled not guilty, he admits shooting his wife to death. >> just doing some research, just getting familiar with the laws and statutes of the state and seeing what options i may have. >> he and his family determined that they could not afford to retain private defense attorney sara swain. >> for a case such as mine, attorneys aren't cheap. so, i went ahead and just applied for a court-appointed attorney. people say bad things about court appointed attorneys, but i know that i have the best attorney and the best judge, the judge of us all. i let go and let god. >> washington says his mother, lisa mccottry, helps him maintain his faith and her
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visits keep him going. >> he's here every week like clock work. that gives me hope. it's good to see, hear news from the outside and just see how my mom is doing. >> how are you feeling about court tomorrow? are you feeling pretty good? >> i'm good, i'm confident. >> just a little nervous, confident? this means something but it doesn't mean anything. this is the preliminary where they charge you with your first offense and they have a trial. they don't go bam right into the thing. >> listen, i've been confident since day one. i'm nervous, but i know it's going to be all right. >> you know who has the final say, god got the final say. jesus christ, he has the final say about all this. i don't care what the prosecutor, the judge, nobody say. it's all up to him because he knows that you're a good person and you have a good heart. you just made a mistake. i personally think that his life spiralled out of control when he stopped going to church, stopped reading his bible, started affiliating with different type of people. who does craig's list to look
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for people to have sex with? you have something dark in your life which is the devil. that smis take doesn't have to follow you the rest of your life. you just have faith in the lord and god will pull you through this because he knows what type of person and kid you was. i know what type of person and kid you are, i know you don't belong in no place like this. i think he temporarily went insane. i do. from the possession of the devil taking over his whole body, mind and soul, and the hurt and the pain and the anger. you know, because he wanted her back. he wanted -- he told -- i want to come home. i want my family back. >> washington's mother hopes to take advantage of the jail program that allows computer visits from home so that washington's 8 and 6-year-old daughters can also see him. >> i want to see my daddy's face. that's what she said. with them little cheeks. >> that's what she said? >> yeah, she said she wants to see your face. >> i'm looking forward to seeing them. >> yeah, they want to see your face. anything you want me to tell
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everybody? >> tell everybody i miss them and i love them and keep praying for me. we're going to get through this. >> and i will see you tomorrow in court and i'm going to be praying for you, okay? >> yeah. >> washington never told his mother about the problems in his marriage or the decision to become involved with another couple. she found out from one of his wife's relatives after the shooting. >> i bet you if i would have known it would have never went down. my parenting skills were tough. i was on them all the time, all the time. that's why maybe he felt scared, threatened to tell me what was going on because he knew i was going to say, hill to the no. that's wrong, you shouldn't be doing that. it angers me, disgusts me, sick to my stomach because he knows in god's eyes that's wrong. keep praying every night, every day, and i got the daily bread on its way so you can read that. it has some good scriptures in there. that's all you can do, sweetheart. that's all you can do. you not only broke the law, but you broke the law with god. you shall not kill, covet a
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wife, adultery. man, you just went down the list of all the commandments. you not only got to prove your innocence to your peers, but you have to make it up to the man upstairs because he's got the final say where your destiny is going to be, you know, in life. >> washington says biblical stories convince him that he can be forgiven by god. >> he understood we're sinners, we're not perfect. jacob took multiple wives, you know. only supposed to be one man and one woman, yet god blessed him. he had two wives, two concubines and multiple children, but god still blessed him. >> i'll see you tomorrow. >> okay, sweetie, i love you. >> i love you, too. love you. >> coming up. >> man, he's like steph curry with the shot, but the artist, real clutch time, bro. as soon as you go up, you know it's going to be money. >> luis alvarado continues to settle in and possibly hears
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from the other side. >> i conclude some energy that came by. i feel like he was my twin brother and he said he was okay. >> and. >> we met for sexual purposes and became friends. their kids came to my house every weekend. we hung out together during the week. >> the other survivor of a tragic four some.
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i tried hard to quit smoking. but when we brought our daughter home, that was it. now i have nicoderm cq. the nicoderm cq patch with unique extended release technology helps prevent your urge to smoke all day. it's the best thing that ever happened to me. every great why needs a great how. inside wichita sedgwick county jail, luis alvarado spends most of his time creating intricate works of art despite the most limited of resources. specifically, the bendable pencils the jail allows inmates to have, and the eraseers he buys from the commissary. >> they're kind of sharp, but i sharpen them more. i'll get them very harp so i
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could do like real, real thin lines. >> alvarado wraps his flexible pencils in magazine pages to make them sturdier. >> i can't wait till i get my hands again on a paint brush and paint and canvas because i'm ready to just, you know, go. >> alvarado knows he could be headed to prison, possibly for the rest of his life. or even to the execution chamber if he's found guilty of having murdered his twin brother and his brother's wife. he will not discuss the case, but says he has recently felt his brother's presence. >> i was in my cell. i was like kind of awake and sleep, but i felt like, you know, i don't know, i could feel some energy that came by and i felt like it was my twin brother and he said he was okay. i could feel it was him. i kind of -- because i woke up kind of crying and teary. but i felt his energy and stuff.
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>> that's a 30-second picasso. looks like malcolm x. >> as he awaits trial, alvarado has been able to make the equivalent of a living inside jail. by exchanging artwork for commissary snacks purchased by other inmates. >> he don't take sweets. he's more of a sweet type guy like honey bun and cookies and sneakers and stuff like that. >> today alvarado's working on a portrait of turrell parker. >> he's like steph curry with the shot, but the artist, real clutch time. bro, as soon as you go up you know it's going to be money, every time. does it help when you know bone structure? >> yeah, it's like geometry in it. everybody has a different shape, so, yeah, it helps. >> what was like the first thing you ever drew?
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>> i still remember. i used to watch the transformers back in the day. [ bleep ], what's his name, the main dude, he's like a truck. >> optimus. >> i drew him. >> have you ever done any portraits of females? >> yeah, yeah, i have. >> have you ever done a portrait of a female naked, though? like naked in front of you? >> no, man, i would like to do that, though. [ bleep ]. >> some titanic type [ bleep ] >> man. >> luis, i like how you get credit for your dreads. >> that happens. >> you know what's crazy, though? when he drew you, he had to downsize your head. >> is that right? [ laughter ] >> dude is funny. >> alvarado's portrait a parker appears to be more valuable to him than the few honey buns he paid for it. >> that's really priceless, for real, like i feel like i owe him
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more than i could give him on commissary, you know? because not a lot of people could actually paint, you know, get every angle. he killed it, like he deserves an award for that. >> alvarado is uncertain about what lies ahead for him, but he knows it boils down to three options. >> there's either freedom of this prison or there's death. i already -- i already, you know, got on which lane, like i already know how i'm going to take it if i do get convicted or not, you know what i'm saying? >> you're hoping for the best, but preparing for the worst. >> you know, this life is not forever. we're going to end up dying. we're all going to die, so what comes after that is going to be forever. and that's where i'm at right now. i come from that -- i come from the land of dreams, you know. that's where i'm going to go back. >> coming up. >> can't change the past, you know. >> just focus on the future, make it better. >> yeah, that's all i can do,
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>> adrian zonker was headed to court when he was lunged for a food trey and was taken to the ground by deputies. today, zonker is once again headed to court. but this time the deputies have a different plan. but they hold him into the cell before they start pushing food carts into the housing units. and before zonker leaves for court, they bring him his lunch. >> what time is it now? >> almost 12:00. 11:45. >> do you know when i'm going to court? >> everything matched. all right? >> i have a deal with adrian zonker when i work for him. i say if you're good for me, i respect you and do the favor.
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i give him two drinks and match his trey with everybody else. i show him his trey and tell him it's exactly like everybody else's trey. i gave him two cups because he was extremely pleasant for me and we don't have any other issues. i don't think he's here to make his life any worse or make anyone else's life worse. but he's a person and when he's hungry, he's hungry. if you don't have money on your books and you can't go to commissary and you can't go to the cup board for snacks, three meals a day just doesn't cut it. >> pierre washington says when he and his wife diana chose to open their marriage and swap partners with another couple, it was supposed to only be for fun. but washington said when his wife became too close to the other husband, david bean, he feared he was losing her. following a heated argument, he says he snap and shot his wife to death. six days later, david bean died in a car accident, leaving behind his wife, joanna.
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five weeks after her husband's death, joanna bean says she is still mourning him and still cares for pierre washington. she visits him regularly. >> we all met for sexual purposes and became friends. their kids came to my house every weekend. we hung out together during the week. diane and i did stuff together. we were friends. he's an amazing guy. he loved his wife and his kids. that's all he wanted. >> hey. >> hey, how are you? >> i'm good. how are you? >> i'm great. even better now. just been 44 days now. >> it's been that long? >> it's been that long. >> man. >> joanne is saying she's still trying to understand what made washington snapped. >> he's not one to overreact. obviously he did it, but for what reason he snapped, that is what people had to realize.
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she had to do something or say something to push him over the edge. i told my husband, it was their fault. they pushed him. >> just the waiting game you know? >> the wait needs to be over. how are you really doing? >> i'm missing my kids. missing my family. missing you. >> i miss you, too. >> that's the hardest part, really. wishing i could go back and redo that day. you know? >> the day. the whole month. >> just dwelling on everything. >> joanna says the agreements the two couples made were not adhered to by diana and david. >> it was all supposed to be out in the open and nobody seeing each other without their spouse knowing. there was never supposed to be any secrets between any of us. they were infatuated with each other.
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it was obvious it was more than just what it was supposed to be. >> there were rules, you know? she just kind of lost of touch with it. got to the point where i don't even see her any more. >> i wish it never would have happened. because none of this would have been happening. if we would have never met, my husband could have never went in there and destroyed their marriage, then everything would be different today. but this is not, this is how it is and this is what we have to live with now. >> can't change the past, you know? >> just focus on the future. >> that's all we can do. >> i'm here. >> i made a promise to myself. >> what was that? >> that i wouldn't let this place change me. >> when you come out, i need you to be the same person. >> i'm going to be the same. i'm still the same. even around here smiling. >> somebody needs to smile. >> how are you holding up? >> most days i'm okay. i know it sounds weird. happy, sad, angry, relieved.
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confused. 100%. >> as shocked as she was about diana's death, joanna says hearing about her husband david's death six days later was nothing short of stunning. >> i was at home with his sister, watched tv, saw the news about an accident and think nothing of it. went to sleep. and at 2:40 in the morning, the state troopers came to my house. they said he was in an accident and he didn't make it. he was speeding and he was high. and the smell of alcohol. so that was it. >> i know, it's tough. >> well, enough of that. i don't want to cry. >> yeah. i don't want to see you cry. but thank you.
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>> you're welcome, babe. >> thank you for coming to see me. >> of course. i'll always be here. i mean, i love him, i care about him. he's my friend. i'm going to do everything i can to help him. >> this is real life, so. >> right. >> yes. >> i can almost touch you. >> almost. >> it's a friendship love. i care about him. i don't want to see him down or out. i want to make sure he's okay. >> love you, babe. >> love you, too. >> bye.
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ms. quevas, do you want to explain to me why i should not put you in prison? >> i'm tired of getting high. >> and you weren't tired when i gave you a five-year prison sentence before? >> a drug addicted mother asks a judge to keep her out of prison. >> could you call my dad and tell him to look for someone who has collateral? >> just brought in on drug charges, a young man attempts to make bail. >> just hung up.

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