SID: Hello, Sid Roth your investigative reporter. This show is different than anything you’ve ever seen. You’re used to sitting back in an easy chair and being entertained. This show is interactive; you will participate in the supernatural. I’m Sid Roth, your investigative reporter of the supernatural, and I have Ricky and Jeannie Sinclair here. This should not happen to anyone, anywhere. Twenty-two years of age, coming from a good, middle class family, life imprisonment, he was facing a charge of life imprisonment, twenty-two years of age. Ricky in your wildest imagination as a kid growing up: could you ever picture yourself facing life imprisonment?
RICKY: Absolutely not, Sid. I came from a good family, middle class family, raised on Wakefield Plantation. Got caught up, hanging out with the wrong people at school. First of all, my mom and dad were both alcoholics. I watched them drink alcohol every day of my life and as a result of seeing them live that lifestyle, I took on that lifestyle myself. Here I was at school, hanging out with the wrong people, doing the wrong things
SID: But you were a pretty good athlete.
RICKY: Yes Sir, very good football player. Had a great opportunity to at least play for a small college, but because of drugs that I got involved with, it absolutely destroyed my life. 1982, busted with distribution of cocaine, marijuana, diazepam, while in High School senior year, busted. Again in 1986 busted again for distribution of marijuana, running from those charges again in 1987, busted one more time with possession with intent to distribute 14 pounds of marijuana and an ounce of ecstasy. So I’d just like to say to anybody that’s watching us today that drugs and alcohol will absolutely destroy your life.
SID: But there’s another power, that we will be talking about shortly, a greater power than drugs, a greater power than alcohol. Jeannie, I want to take you back to that day when the police team busted into your house, you are sitting there with your husband and little child. What was life like just before that happened?
JEANNIE: Well, actually it happened twice. The initial time put us on the run. We were at our home in Wakefield, just my son and myself and the police came in. Ricky saw them; that’s what got us going to begin with. He saw them coming in, knew that was not good, sent word to me; I packed a couple of bags, that put us on the run with our little toddler. We ended up in the New Orleans med area. While we were there, to make a long story short, we ended up renting a house with some fronted money that was given to us.
SID: That’s drug money.
JEANNIE: Drug money. And we set up shop, and within just a matter of a, really a couple of weeks, they came in and busted us. And they knocked the door down and we’re all sitting there. It’s just total shock, because you never think the party is going to end, you know; everything is fun for a season and then it ends.
RICKY: Sid, let me just say that drugs, it starts off in high school. It’s fun, it’s a big party. It’s exciting. You’re running with your friends, and you’re out Friday and Saturday night partying. It’s a lot of glamour, a lot of excitement. But what happens is it becomes a monster. It becomes an addiction. It becomes bondage. What it does is, it puts you in slavery. So what happens, you all of a sudden graduate high school; now you take on adulthood, you get married, maybe. You have to have responsibility where you go to work like a normal person, you pay your bills, you have responsibilities, but yet you have an addiction in your life; and now all of a sudden, because of an addiction in your life you are caught in bondage.
SID: Take me to that time you get booked, you are facing life imprisonment, and how in the world
RICKY: 22 years old, facing life in the Louisiana State Penitentiary, Angola; the largest state penitentiary in Louisiana. First of all, busted three times, the last time they’re talking about giving me a life sentence. I ended up escaping, actually. And as I escaped, they called the chase team on me and chased me in the woods for 56 days, eating raw armadillo and frogs and turtles and blackberries and thistles. Armadillo on the half shell…now
SID: But wait a second Ricky. Why in the world would they be chasing a 22 year old kid all of these days. From what I understand they had helicopters and bloodhounds. Why, why waste their time with you?
RICKY: Well, because I was known in the town as a drug dealer, and a drug smuggler. So, 22 years old, they had me under surveillance, numerous times chased me and ultimately had busted me once, a time before.
JEANNIE: So this wasn’t his first experience.
SID: But this happens only in the movies, it’s not supposed to happen in real life. We’ll be right back after this; you won’t believe what happened in the woods.
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