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Podcast: True Crime Reporter
Episode: Inside the Dark World of a Prison Hitman Where Radios Explode
Description: Programming was suddenly interrupted when an inmate's radio suddenly exploded. Little did he know that he was the target of a prison gang hit.
So how could such a thing happen behind the bars of a maximum security prison in Texas?
I spoke with the reputed prison gang hitman while he held a hoe weeding the warden's vegetable garden at a maximum security unit in East Texas.
He was never charged or convicted of carrying out hits, but he certainly had a reputation.
Although he claimed to be out of the gang -- there's no such thing. It's blood in...