1 00:00:00,640 --> 00:00:03,960 Speaker 1: Richard Wheeler, who we believe was the mastermind of the 2 00:00:04,040 --> 00:00:07,600 Speaker 1: robbery at Chicken Man's House, seemed to have gotten away 3 00:00:07,640 --> 00:00:11,680 Speaker 1: with the perfect heist, but then body started showing up 4 00:00:11,800 --> 00:00:16,320 Speaker 1: dead from Atlanta to New York, Houston. Hammonds was busted 5 00:00:16,320 --> 00:00:19,840 Speaker 1: on another charge, and fast Eddie Parker was nowhere to 6 00:00:19,840 --> 00:00:23,360 Speaker 1: be found, and who had all of the stolen cash 7 00:00:23,440 --> 00:00:27,560 Speaker 1: and jewelry? Had fast Eddie Parker connected with Wheeler and 8 00:00:27,640 --> 00:00:31,320 Speaker 1: split the rest of the take. One thing was certain 9 00:00:32,240 --> 00:00:37,320 Speaker 1: Frank Moten and the Council of Twelve would ultimately retaliate, 10 00:00:38,600 --> 00:00:43,000 Speaker 1: and about the boy's gonna kill him. I'm here, And 11 00:00:43,080 --> 00:00:46,879 Speaker 1: then they always did good. They were investigating, they were 12 00:00:46,880 --> 00:00:49,120 Speaker 1: watching him. You know, my dad was being investigating because 13 00:00:49,120 --> 00:00:55,280 Speaker 1: who's hot on the radar there? I don't app I 14 00:00:55,320 --> 00:01:01,120 Speaker 1: went to people, Now bring me the head of the man. 15 00:01:03,120 --> 00:01:04,800 Speaker 1: My dad said, no, I can't do it. I can't 16 00:01:04,840 --> 00:01:06,679 Speaker 1: do it. My dad didn't want to be involved in 17 00:01:06,720 --> 00:01:12,920 Speaker 1: the Pomasie size from my Heart and Radio and Doghouse Pictures. 18 00:01:12,920 --> 00:01:22,280 Speaker 1: This is fight Night. I'm Jeff Keaton. In the late 19 00:01:22,360 --> 00:01:25,720 Speaker 1: sixties and early seventies, there was a huge influx of 20 00:01:25,760 --> 00:01:30,520 Speaker 1: cocaine and heroin into black communities across the country. Drug 21 00:01:30,560 --> 00:01:33,319 Speaker 1: dealers had plenty of product and money in their possession. 22 00:01:34,319 --> 00:01:37,200 Speaker 1: This would have been a great opportunity for hustlers who 23 00:01:37,200 --> 00:01:40,280 Speaker 1: were stick up guys to rob them. One of those 24 00:01:40,319 --> 00:01:44,679 Speaker 1: stick up hustlers was Richard Wheeler. They called him Cadillac 25 00:01:44,800 --> 00:01:48,320 Speaker 1: Ritchie for his car of choice. We spoke with a 26 00:01:48,360 --> 00:01:52,520 Speaker 1: former girlfriend who wanted to remain anonymous and not be recorded. 27 00:01:53,720 --> 00:01:58,920 Speaker 1: After this story, you might understand why we'll call her 28 00:01:59,000 --> 00:02:03,120 Speaker 1: Easy Trigger. For the case of the story. Easy described 29 00:02:03,120 --> 00:02:06,600 Speaker 1: Wheeler as wildly handsome and that he moved with the 30 00:02:06,640 --> 00:02:09,920 Speaker 1: fluidity of a dancer. She said they met in the 31 00:02:09,960 --> 00:02:13,040 Speaker 1: mid sixties while he was in the Air Force stationed 32 00:02:13,040 --> 00:02:17,000 Speaker 1: in the Pacific Northwest. Wheeler and his friends would take 33 00:02:17,040 --> 00:02:21,639 Speaker 1: their weekend furloughs in Vancouver, Canada, where they met Easy Trigger. 34 00:02:22,600 --> 00:02:26,120 Speaker 1: They reconnected in Harlem a few years later, when Wheeler 35 00:02:26,240 --> 00:02:29,680 Speaker 1: was moving up the gangster ladder. He was into everything 36 00:02:29,720 --> 00:02:32,640 Speaker 1: from the numbers racket to drugs, but his crime of 37 00:02:32,720 --> 00:02:36,880 Speaker 1: choice was armed robbery. He was known simply as the 38 00:02:36,960 --> 00:02:40,919 Speaker 1: stick up man. He liked to hire Vietnam vets as 39 00:02:40,919 --> 00:02:44,960 Speaker 1: his gunners and bodyguards. He frequented high end clubs like 40 00:02:45,000 --> 00:02:48,359 Speaker 1: the Village Vanguard where John Coltrane used to play, as 41 00:02:48,360 --> 00:02:51,680 Speaker 1: well as the Plaza nine, which was in the Plaza Hotel. 42 00:02:53,720 --> 00:02:56,360 Speaker 1: Some of his early stick up jobs involved using a 43 00:02:56,440 --> 00:03:00,520 Speaker 1: young woman like Easy Trigger, posing as a prostitute so 44 00:03:00,600 --> 00:03:04,240 Speaker 1: they could gain access to the drug dealer's crib. When 45 00:03:04,280 --> 00:03:07,480 Speaker 1: the dealer would answer the door, Richard would rush in 46 00:03:07,520 --> 00:03:11,040 Speaker 1: the door with a pistol and robbed the place. Some 47 00:03:11,160 --> 00:03:14,960 Speaker 1: of the earlier jobs brought in about thirty thousand in cash, 48 00:03:15,000 --> 00:03:17,280 Speaker 1: but after they would split the take, and with the 49 00:03:17,280 --> 00:03:19,919 Speaker 1: way they would blow through the money, they would need 50 00:03:19,960 --> 00:03:24,000 Speaker 1: another job within a week or so. Cadillac Ritchie advanced 51 00:03:24,000 --> 00:03:27,320 Speaker 1: into larger crews and ran hold ups with this top enforcer, 52 00:03:27,720 --> 00:03:31,919 Speaker 1: fast Eddie Parker. Fast Eddie was a killer and kidnapper. 53 00:03:32,560 --> 00:03:35,920 Speaker 1: As we said an episode seven, we think fast Eddie 54 00:03:35,960 --> 00:03:37,960 Speaker 1: was the muscle at the front door of the robbery, 55 00:03:38,280 --> 00:03:41,640 Speaker 1: holding the three fifty seven with a silencer, and we 56 00:03:41,760 --> 00:03:45,520 Speaker 1: imagine he was in charge during the heist. Frank Morten 57 00:03:45,640 --> 00:03:49,840 Speaker 1: said there was nothing Robin Hoodie about these cats. They 58 00:03:49,840 --> 00:03:53,160 Speaker 1: were rough, they took care of people who gave them trouble, 59 00:03:53,600 --> 00:03:58,560 Speaker 1: and there was quite a long list. Easy told me 60 00:03:58,600 --> 00:04:00,440 Speaker 1: about one of the bigger hold up that he and 61 00:04:00,440 --> 00:04:03,840 Speaker 1: his crew staged. They rented a house on Long Island 62 00:04:04,120 --> 00:04:07,480 Speaker 1: and spread the word about a big gambling party. They 63 00:04:07,480 --> 00:04:10,240 Speaker 1: picked up hustlers in New York with cabs and limousines 64 00:04:10,680 --> 00:04:15,320 Speaker 1: and dropped them off at the party house miles away. Unsuspecting, 65 00:04:15,800 --> 00:04:19,160 Speaker 1: these hustlers walked into a hold up. It took under 66 00:04:19,160 --> 00:04:23,560 Speaker 1: an hour to collect all the jewelry and cash Wheeler, Parker, 67 00:04:23,600 --> 00:04:27,280 Speaker 1: and the crew drove away. The hustlers were left stranded 68 00:04:27,400 --> 00:04:33,880 Speaker 1: because no one knew the address. A summer robbery up 69 00:04:35,279 --> 00:04:39,200 Speaker 1: and they prospected. Easy said he would just laugh and 70 00:04:39,279 --> 00:04:41,719 Speaker 1: laugh whenever he was counting all the money and jewelry 71 00:04:41,760 --> 00:04:44,839 Speaker 1: they stole. When Easy asked if he was scared that 72 00:04:44,880 --> 00:04:49,320 Speaker 1: they would retaliate, Richard would just scoff and say, what 73 00:04:49,360 --> 00:04:55,080 Speaker 1: are they gonna do. Richard Wheeler arrived in Atlanta for 74 00:04:55,120 --> 00:04:58,600 Speaker 1: the Aliquary fight with Fireball on the same day as 75 00:04:58,600 --> 00:05:02,599 Speaker 1: Frank Molten. In one interview, chicken Man says that he 76 00:05:02,680 --> 00:05:05,360 Speaker 1: was surprised to see that Richard had one of those 77 00:05:05,400 --> 00:05:09,680 Speaker 1: fancy invitations to the party at his house. My instructions 78 00:05:09,720 --> 00:05:12,719 Speaker 1: from from the people who did or used the house, 79 00:05:13,880 --> 00:05:16,280 Speaker 1: not for me, not to jail nobody that I did 80 00:05:16,320 --> 00:05:20,680 Speaker 1: invite nobody. Chicken Man was picking up Frank Molten from 81 00:05:20,680 --> 00:05:23,839 Speaker 1: the airport and as a favor, gave Fireball and Richard 82 00:05:23,839 --> 00:05:28,000 Speaker 1: a ride to the Biltmore Hotel along the way. According 83 00:05:28,040 --> 00:05:30,760 Speaker 1: to chicken Man, they stopped at the Varsity for some 84 00:05:30,880 --> 00:05:34,880 Speaker 1: hot dogs. While they were there, Richard noted that the 85 00:05:34,960 --> 00:05:38,480 Speaker 1: Varsity would be an easy target for a robbery. So 86 00:05:38,520 --> 00:05:40,960 Speaker 1: when we get to the advisor, du boy was with 87 00:05:41,120 --> 00:05:46,039 Speaker 1: five balls and man helm place to rob seems like 88 00:05:46,120 --> 00:05:49,320 Speaker 1: he had that in his blood in saying this about 89 00:05:49,360 --> 00:05:53,080 Speaker 1: their hometown, Richard piste off chicken Man and Frank Molten. 90 00:05:53,920 --> 00:05:57,640 Speaker 1: They must have said something to Richard about it. Chicken 91 00:05:57,680 --> 00:06:00,480 Speaker 1: Man reported that Richard flew back to New York City 92 00:06:00,720 --> 00:06:05,359 Speaker 1: the day of the fight the fellow that the dimitte 93 00:06:05,400 --> 00:06:10,200 Speaker 1: the apple with Fiba. He came to the house one time, 94 00:06:10,680 --> 00:06:14,080 Speaker 1: he came in, and then the fight he left, and 95 00:06:14,160 --> 00:06:16,279 Speaker 1: he went back to New York and told the people 96 00:06:16,360 --> 00:06:19,039 Speaker 1: even that I know that me and him and had 97 00:06:19,120 --> 00:06:26,919 Speaker 1: some words. Richard Wheeler was still unknown to Frank Molten 98 00:06:27,320 --> 00:06:31,080 Speaker 1: and the Council of Twelve. We tried to piece together 99 00:06:31,080 --> 00:06:34,120 Speaker 1: what happened to him. The night of the robbery. We 100 00:06:34,200 --> 00:06:37,039 Speaker 1: know he was with his girlfriend, Jackie, who we spoke 101 00:06:37,040 --> 00:06:41,640 Speaker 1: about an episode six. She said, after they watched the 102 00:06:41,680 --> 00:06:44,640 Speaker 1: closed circuit showing of the Ali Quarry fight at Madison 103 00:06:44,720 --> 00:06:48,200 Speaker 1: Square Garden, they went to a fancy party at the 104 00:06:48,240 --> 00:06:53,600 Speaker 1: Americana Hotel near Times Square in New York City. Jackie 105 00:06:53,680 --> 00:06:57,560 Speaker 1: remembered plain closed cops and Feds attending the party because 106 00:06:57,600 --> 00:07:00,520 Speaker 1: they got a tip that several mob members be there. 107 00:07:01,520 --> 00:07:04,200 Speaker 1: One of the Feds came up with a flash camera 108 00:07:04,560 --> 00:07:07,800 Speaker 1: trying to get a picture of everyone, and she remembered 109 00:07:07,800 --> 00:07:11,320 Speaker 1: Wheeler ducking down to tie his shoes right before the 110 00:07:11,320 --> 00:07:15,720 Speaker 1: flash went off. Jackie always wondered what the police thought 111 00:07:15,720 --> 00:07:18,600 Speaker 1: when they developed those photos, and it was just her 112 00:07:18,640 --> 00:07:23,760 Speaker 1: big smiling face in the picture. One night, a few 113 00:07:23,800 --> 00:07:26,720 Speaker 1: weeks after the heist, she heard his booming laugh in 114 00:07:26,720 --> 00:07:29,680 Speaker 1: the bedroom. She went to check it out and saw 115 00:07:29,720 --> 00:07:33,320 Speaker 1: a newspaper article about the hold up. Lying on his bed, 116 00:07:34,360 --> 00:07:38,800 Speaker 1: he kept laughing louder and louder, and Wheeler implied what 117 00:07:38,880 --> 00:07:42,320 Speaker 1: he had done. Jackie said it made him laugh the 118 00:07:42,360 --> 00:07:46,840 Speaker 1: loudest when he imagined everybody lying down there on the 119 00:07:46,840 --> 00:07:53,680 Speaker 1: basement floor. A few months after the robbery, Chicken Man 120 00:07:53,720 --> 00:07:56,680 Speaker 1: had cleared his name with Frank Moten and other high 121 00:07:56,800 --> 00:08:00,600 Speaker 1: level gangsters, but the heat from the press the police 122 00:08:01,080 --> 00:08:05,280 Speaker 1: did not go away. As a hustler, being in the 123 00:08:05,320 --> 00:08:09,800 Speaker 1: spotlight is just not good for business, and unfortunately he 124 00:08:09,920 --> 00:08:14,080 Speaker 1: paid a price for even hosting the party. Here's Gordon 125 00:08:14,120 --> 00:08:22,760 Speaker 1: Williams Jr. Talking about the consequences of that event. After 126 00:08:22,800 --> 00:08:25,800 Speaker 1: the fight, after he got cleared, after he convince everybody 127 00:08:25,800 --> 00:08:28,000 Speaker 1: it wasn't him, he went back to his business and 128 00:08:28,040 --> 00:08:31,000 Speaker 1: went back to the business of selling a cocaine and stuff. Well, 129 00:08:31,240 --> 00:08:33,520 Speaker 1: they were investigating, they were watching him. You know, my 130 00:08:33,600 --> 00:08:35,520 Speaker 1: dad was being investigated because he was hot on the 131 00:08:35,640 --> 00:08:38,560 Speaker 1: radar them. And this is Chicken Man talking about his 132 00:08:38,640 --> 00:08:43,079 Speaker 1: experience at the beginning of nineteen one. So it's the 133 00:08:43,200 --> 00:08:47,800 Speaker 1: months aldo by the January came up. That robbery took 134 00:08:47,800 --> 00:08:51,560 Speaker 1: a toll because I was bussed for cocaine. But the 135 00:08:51,600 --> 00:08:54,400 Speaker 1: funny thing how that happened. I had had a date 136 00:08:54,440 --> 00:08:57,800 Speaker 1: with a girl and I had went in a hotel 137 00:09:00,240 --> 00:09:03,199 Speaker 1: puoting the dust. But of uh, I kept a little 138 00:09:03,720 --> 00:09:06,959 Speaker 1: I said all that with whisky stuff to the hotel room. 139 00:09:07,080 --> 00:09:10,200 Speaker 1: But I got a little what they called a half 140 00:09:10,240 --> 00:09:15,600 Speaker 1: of a smoke marijuana and left it in the hotel 141 00:09:15,679 --> 00:09:19,120 Speaker 1: room in the astray some kind of way. I came 142 00:09:19,160 --> 00:09:21,240 Speaker 1: down read the room about ten o'clock in the morning. 143 00:09:21,360 --> 00:09:24,559 Speaker 1: I'm going to play god. So I go out in 144 00:09:24,640 --> 00:09:27,120 Speaker 1: my car park under the character right from the house 145 00:09:27,120 --> 00:09:29,880 Speaker 1: of the End where is our head told him about 146 00:09:29,920 --> 00:09:32,880 Speaker 1: the State troop pull in. And when the State two 147 00:09:33,000 --> 00:09:35,160 Speaker 1: put in, he was putting me get that cook in 148 00:09:35,240 --> 00:09:37,440 Speaker 1: that car. He whooped her out. So he come out. 149 00:09:37,960 --> 00:09:41,680 Speaker 1: Now this time I do have my congestion from drugs. 150 00:09:41,880 --> 00:09:45,840 Speaker 1: But I took and throw it out the window, and 151 00:09:45,880 --> 00:09:48,640 Speaker 1: they were trying to pull him over, and he took 152 00:09:48,679 --> 00:09:52,600 Speaker 1: the cocaine hole keyload to the cocaine and open it 153 00:09:52,800 --> 00:09:55,360 Speaker 1: and start throwing it and just started trying to empty 154 00:09:55,360 --> 00:09:59,120 Speaker 1: it out the window. The cocaine flew back into the 155 00:09:59,200 --> 00:10:03,720 Speaker 1: window on the back seat of the car. So after 156 00:10:03,760 --> 00:10:07,920 Speaker 1: my dad emptied out the hokey load out, he pulled 157 00:10:07,960 --> 00:10:11,080 Speaker 1: over and he asked me, what what's the problem, afsir, 158 00:10:11,160 --> 00:10:12,960 Speaker 1: And they said, well, you know, we need to step 159 00:10:12,960 --> 00:10:14,920 Speaker 1: out of the car. He said, for what, I haven't 160 00:10:14,920 --> 00:10:17,240 Speaker 1: done anything, And they talked to look at your back 161 00:10:17,280 --> 00:10:20,600 Speaker 1: seat and the back seat was covered with white powder. 162 00:10:20,800 --> 00:10:24,160 Speaker 1: So the police and the record garden shot. I thought 163 00:10:24,200 --> 00:10:27,040 Speaker 1: somebody's cocaine at the wood to look like a five 164 00:10:27,480 --> 00:10:30,800 Speaker 1: smoke or something. So that was that hard for the 165 00:10:30,880 --> 00:10:33,720 Speaker 1: dB I to believe because they thought I had I 166 00:10:33,800 --> 00:10:37,600 Speaker 1: was doing that kind of business. Newspaper came out and 167 00:10:37,640 --> 00:10:40,040 Speaker 1: they spoke about the cocaine, but the thought about the 168 00:10:40,120 --> 00:10:44,880 Speaker 1: driving cocaine they associated the bust, the publicity and all 169 00:10:45,000 --> 00:10:49,800 Speaker 1: this they associated with the driving. Several law enforcement agencies 170 00:10:50,120 --> 00:10:52,920 Speaker 1: had been keeping a close tab on chicken Man and 171 00:10:52,960 --> 00:10:56,920 Speaker 1: trying to catch him doing any illegal activities. When they 172 00:10:56,960 --> 00:11:00,520 Speaker 1: finally busted him, it didn't take long for the gavel 173 00:11:00,559 --> 00:11:05,760 Speaker 1: of justice to come down hard I can call it jayware. 174 00:11:06,240 --> 00:11:10,560 Speaker 1: I was about three weeks I'll try and went to Deen. 175 00:11:11,400 --> 00:11:14,120 Speaker 1: I mean that's that fair, Okay. They wouldn't give me 176 00:11:14,160 --> 00:11:17,400 Speaker 1: a pier bar. Chicken Man was sentenced to seven years 177 00:11:17,400 --> 00:11:20,880 Speaker 1: in the state penitentiary. He served most of that time 178 00:11:20,920 --> 00:11:25,439 Speaker 1: at Stone Mountain Correctional Institute just east of downtown Atlanta. 179 00:11:26,400 --> 00:11:30,400 Speaker 1: Here's Gordon Williams Jr. Talking about how tough the confinement 180 00:11:30,600 --> 00:11:33,480 Speaker 1: was for his father and my mom. We're going to 181 00:11:33,559 --> 00:11:36,760 Speaker 1: visit almost every weekend because he's crying for some attention. 182 00:11:37,160 --> 00:11:39,120 Speaker 1: He don't like being incarcerated because my dad is so 183 00:11:39,240 --> 00:11:40,760 Speaker 1: used to go on a time, so he didn't like 184 00:11:40,840 --> 00:11:44,360 Speaker 1: the idea of being incarcerated the way he was. When 185 00:11:44,400 --> 00:11:47,800 Speaker 1: he was sentenced, Chicken Man had large red o C 186 00:11:48,120 --> 00:11:52,240 Speaker 1: letters on his prison uniform. They stood for organized crime. 187 00:11:53,240 --> 00:11:55,800 Speaker 1: This confounded him because he never put himself in that 188 00:11:55,920 --> 00:12:00,600 Speaker 1: category of criminals. Chicken Man always thought of himself as 189 00:12:00,640 --> 00:12:06,920 Speaker 1: a hustler. After a few months, he received a surprise visitor, J. D. 190 00:12:07,040 --> 00:12:11,840 Speaker 1: Hudson's partner in the robbery investigation, Detective Joe Amos. I 191 00:12:11,840 --> 00:12:14,680 Speaker 1: am was coming to back and uh, he as, yeah, 192 00:12:14,679 --> 00:12:17,800 Speaker 1: I agree. There were three of them. That's listen, man, 193 00:12:17,840 --> 00:12:20,840 Speaker 1: I don't want to talk to the police period. Okay. 194 00:12:21,120 --> 00:12:22,800 Speaker 1: Then they told him say, oh, did you hear about 195 00:12:22,800 --> 00:12:25,760 Speaker 1: the boys getting killed in Brooklyn? As I was board, 196 00:12:26,440 --> 00:12:29,200 Speaker 1: so they showed me to cliply that happened, but they 197 00:12:29,280 --> 00:12:31,320 Speaker 1: showed it to me so as I always had than 198 00:12:31,360 --> 00:12:33,480 Speaker 1: the one to pull the trigger. But since I'm here 199 00:12:33,520 --> 00:12:37,160 Speaker 1: and then Dad, they already did good in all the 200 00:12:37,200 --> 00:12:40,800 Speaker 1: Nie crack. But I spy to suppose I had no 201 00:12:41,000 --> 00:12:43,920 Speaker 1: lot about I didn't talk to him about none of that. 202 00:12:44,080 --> 00:12:46,400 Speaker 1: But after they told me about the boys, I got killed, 203 00:12:46,440 --> 00:12:59,280 Speaker 1: I said bood. Richard Wheeler was one of the empty 204 00:12:59,320 --> 00:13:02,880 Speaker 1: seats at the night, along with Barbara Smith, who never 205 00:13:02,960 --> 00:13:06,840 Speaker 1: got to leave the house. Frank Moten reported at George 206 00:13:06,880 --> 00:13:10,200 Speaker 1: Plimpton that Richard made himself a little too visible at 207 00:13:10,240 --> 00:13:13,040 Speaker 1: a few clubs in New York City that night, even 208 00:13:13,120 --> 00:13:17,920 Speaker 1: attending that closed circuit screening at Madison Square Garden. For Frank, 209 00:13:18,200 --> 00:13:23,000 Speaker 1: this gave him reason to suspect Richard's involvement in the robbery. Furthermore, 210 00:13:23,480 --> 00:13:26,880 Speaker 1: as Plimpton relates in the story, the Black Mafia had 211 00:13:26,960 --> 00:13:30,000 Speaker 1: figured out who was the mastermind and put a hit 212 00:13:30,080 --> 00:13:33,880 Speaker 1: on Richard Wheeler and fast Eddie Parker. That hit fell 213 00:13:33,960 --> 00:13:36,280 Speaker 1: apart when the guy they hired to carry it out 214 00:13:36,720 --> 00:13:39,720 Speaker 1: was killed in a shootout with police in New York City. 215 00:13:43,200 --> 00:13:47,040 Speaker 1: The Black Mafia then approached fast Eddie Parker to carry 216 00:13:47,080 --> 00:13:51,240 Speaker 1: out the hit on his boss, Richard Wheeler. At the time, 217 00:13:52,080 --> 00:13:56,320 Speaker 1: Richard was living with his girlfriend Jackie. Here's how Jackie 218 00:13:56,400 --> 00:14:01,480 Speaker 1: tells it to George Plimpton. Fast Eddie and another guy 219 00:14:01,559 --> 00:14:03,760 Speaker 1: showed up at Richard's house to help him with an 220 00:14:03,920 --> 00:14:07,640 Speaker 1: errand one morning they all got into a car driven 221 00:14:07,679 --> 00:14:12,080 Speaker 1: by Richards chauffeur, a guy named Stephen. She thinks fast 222 00:14:12,200 --> 00:14:15,240 Speaker 1: Eddie Parker sat behind Richard and shot him in the 223 00:14:15,320 --> 00:14:17,720 Speaker 1: head as soon as the car started down the road, 224 00:14:18,640 --> 00:14:21,960 Speaker 1: and that his accomplice shot Stephen in the head as well. 225 00:14:23,040 --> 00:14:26,480 Speaker 1: Dead Stephan plowed the car into a storefront just down 226 00:14:26,560 --> 00:14:30,480 Speaker 1: the street from Richard's house. Fast Eddie Parker and his 227 00:14:30,560 --> 00:14:33,480 Speaker 1: accomplice jumped into a car they had parked around the corner, 228 00:14:34,280 --> 00:14:37,080 Speaker 1: the very same one that Richard had given fast Eddie 229 00:14:37,080 --> 00:14:44,160 Speaker 1: a week before. In early two police arrested fast Eddie 230 00:14:44,200 --> 00:14:47,000 Speaker 1: Parker and charged him with the whole string of crimes 231 00:14:47,040 --> 00:14:50,480 Speaker 1: from Georgia to New York. Jackie and Frank Moten reported 232 00:14:50,560 --> 00:14:52,920 Speaker 1: that he had several hand grenades in his black bag 233 00:14:53,280 --> 00:14:57,600 Speaker 1: at the time of his arrest. Early on during his 234 00:14:57,720 --> 00:15:00,840 Speaker 1: prison term, chicken Man was able to leave the prison 235 00:15:00,920 --> 00:15:05,520 Speaker 1: for work. Details sentencing and prison guidelines obviously hadn't yet 236 00:15:05,560 --> 00:15:08,800 Speaker 1: been pressured by the law and order swing that happened 237 00:15:08,840 --> 00:15:13,320 Speaker 1: through the Nixon, Reagan, Bush and Clinton years. Here's chicken 238 00:15:13,360 --> 00:15:16,040 Speaker 1: Man and j D in two thousand and three talking 239 00:15:16,080 --> 00:15:18,840 Speaker 1: about seeing each other on a public golf course at 240 00:15:18,840 --> 00:15:22,680 Speaker 1: Atlanta's Piedmont Park while Chicken Man was still serving time. 241 00:15:23,440 --> 00:15:28,560 Speaker 1: We almost played together one day, almost one and I 242 00:15:28,680 --> 00:15:31,360 Speaker 1: was at that playing garden and you were in prison. 243 00:15:32,240 --> 00:15:34,880 Speaker 1: He was on the prison farm because that that chipping 244 00:15:34,920 --> 00:15:38,120 Speaker 1: golf balls around and we stopped and talked. He was 245 00:15:39,200 --> 00:15:44,360 Speaker 1: saving his prison time on the golf course, shipping and pladant. 246 00:15:47,840 --> 00:15:50,720 Speaker 1: See me this prison dad, Yeah, that's some kind of 247 00:15:50,800 --> 00:15:56,400 Speaker 1: story the world, Ways of the world. Billy McKinney was 248 00:15:56,440 --> 00:15:59,600 Speaker 1: elected to the Georgia State House of Representatives in nineteen 249 00:15:59,680 --> 00:16:03,040 Speaker 1: seven four. He was one of the first black police 250 00:16:03,080 --> 00:16:07,440 Speaker 1: officers in Atlanta in the late nineteen forties, along with J. D. Hudson. 251 00:16:08,440 --> 00:16:11,160 Speaker 1: Like j D, he knew Chicken Man from the streets. 252 00:16:11,960 --> 00:16:14,880 Speaker 1: He was always a law and order guy, a firebrand 253 00:16:14,960 --> 00:16:18,680 Speaker 1: public speaker. One day he saw Chicken Man driving a 254 00:16:18,760 --> 00:16:22,000 Speaker 1: truck around Stone Mountain, Georgia, and he called the prison 255 00:16:22,080 --> 00:16:27,440 Speaker 1: to get Chicken Man back inside the walls. Billy McKinney 256 00:16:27,520 --> 00:16:31,720 Speaker 1: saw my dad driving and called in and told him 257 00:16:31,760 --> 00:16:34,760 Speaker 1: that I just saw Chicken Man driving a truck in 258 00:16:34,840 --> 00:16:37,320 Speaker 1: Stone Mountain. He tried to get my dad to ship 259 00:16:37,440 --> 00:16:40,360 Speaker 1: to another prison way down south, because he don't think 260 00:16:40,400 --> 00:16:42,720 Speaker 1: that my dad should be out driving. He should be 261 00:16:42,800 --> 00:16:45,720 Speaker 1: doing some hard time. They changed my dad's job detail 262 00:16:45,760 --> 00:16:47,720 Speaker 1: so then let him drive out in They took the 263 00:16:47,760 --> 00:16:49,640 Speaker 1: privilege away from him, and then he locked him down, 264 00:16:49,720 --> 00:16:51,720 Speaker 1: and I think he started working in the kitchen or 265 00:16:51,760 --> 00:16:54,440 Speaker 1: something like that. That's where he met Doug Pierce and 266 00:16:54,520 --> 00:16:58,360 Speaker 1: they became good friends in prison and out. Even in prison, 267 00:16:58,560 --> 00:17:02,040 Speaker 1: Chicken Man still had to support his family. So while 268 00:17:02,080 --> 00:17:05,000 Speaker 1: he was in prison, my dad still wanted to make money. 269 00:17:05,040 --> 00:17:07,600 Speaker 1: He's still I still gotta make me some money. Always 270 00:17:07,640 --> 00:17:10,840 Speaker 1: a hustler, Chicken Man arranges for someone to bring him 271 00:17:10,840 --> 00:17:15,080 Speaker 1: a pound of marijuana week to prison. The guy dropped 272 00:17:15,080 --> 00:17:17,280 Speaker 1: it off in a trash can near the prison gates. 273 00:17:18,920 --> 00:17:21,639 Speaker 1: His new jail house friend, Doug Pierce, picked it up 274 00:17:21,680 --> 00:17:24,400 Speaker 1: while on garbage duty, and the two of them would 275 00:17:24,440 --> 00:17:27,720 Speaker 1: break it up, roll it into joints, and sell to 276 00:17:27,840 --> 00:17:32,760 Speaker 1: other prisoners for a dollar a joint inside prison. Just 277 00:17:32,920 --> 00:17:36,200 Speaker 1: as out, Chicken Man was always able to make it 278 00:17:36,280 --> 00:17:45,520 Speaker 1: as a hustler. In February nineteen seventy five, Frank Molten, 279 00:17:46,080 --> 00:17:49,280 Speaker 1: known as the Black Godfather, was arrested in New York 280 00:17:49,560 --> 00:17:52,840 Speaker 1: and charged with running a two million dollar gambling operation 281 00:17:52,920 --> 00:17:56,880 Speaker 1: in Atlanta. Such was the reach of the Black mafia. 282 00:17:58,000 --> 00:18:02,639 Speaker 1: In November ninety he was also convicted of conspiracy for 283 00:18:02,720 --> 00:18:06,119 Speaker 1: importing and selling a hundred and fifty pounds of cocaine 284 00:18:06,720 --> 00:18:10,239 Speaker 1: and twenty six pounds of heroin from nineteen sixty eight 285 00:18:10,320 --> 00:18:15,440 Speaker 1: to nineteen seventy five. In January nineteen seventy seven, Frank 286 00:18:15,480 --> 00:18:20,080 Speaker 1: Moten was sentenced to twenty five years in prison. At 287 00:18:20,160 --> 00:18:24,119 Speaker 1: the sentencing, according to The New York Times, judge Richard 288 00:18:24,200 --> 00:18:28,560 Speaker 1: Owen said Frank Moten had been and I quote the 289 00:18:28,720 --> 00:18:32,720 Speaker 1: leader of the Council of twelve and responsible for decision 290 00:18:32,800 --> 00:18:37,119 Speaker 1: making at the highest level for black organized crime end quote. 291 00:18:38,920 --> 00:18:41,840 Speaker 1: Frank Morten gave his interview to George Plimpton while in prison. 292 00:18:42,520 --> 00:18:44,639 Speaker 1: One of the last things they talked about was the 293 00:18:44,760 --> 00:18:49,199 Speaker 1: aftermath of the million dollar heist. Moten said people were 294 00:18:49,400 --> 00:18:53,840 Speaker 1: very upset, their egos were involved. They had been pushed around. 295 00:18:54,560 --> 00:18:57,679 Speaker 1: The guy had even tumbled down the stairs when they 296 00:18:57,760 --> 00:19:02,560 Speaker 1: got together. It wasn't surprising, it turned out. Then Plimpton 297 00:19:02,640 --> 00:19:05,840 Speaker 1: asked him, do you suppose there were meetings to decide 298 00:19:05,880 --> 00:19:08,840 Speaker 1: what was going to happen? And how to coordinate things. 299 00:19:09,920 --> 00:19:12,680 Speaker 1: I don't know, Frank said, didn't mean much to me. 300 00:19:13,400 --> 00:19:22,560 Speaker 1: I just lost some credit cards. I'm just a Coco distributor. Ultimately, 301 00:19:23,040 --> 00:19:26,960 Speaker 1: the Fight Night Team concludes that Frank Molten and his 302 00:19:27,119 --> 00:19:30,240 Speaker 1: higher ups had called a guy named Fireball to plan 303 00:19:30,359 --> 00:19:34,160 Speaker 1: a party to celebrate Tobe's birthday after the Muhammad Ali 304 00:19:34,280 --> 00:19:39,679 Speaker 1: Jerry Corey fight on October nine, seventy in Atlanta. They 305 00:19:39,760 --> 00:19:44,439 Speaker 1: wanted a Vegas style gambling party. Fireball got Chicken Man 306 00:19:44,560 --> 00:19:47,360 Speaker 1: to host it since he had all these properties all 307 00:19:47,400 --> 00:19:50,600 Speaker 1: over town and they were all tight. They ran in 308 00:19:50,680 --> 00:19:54,840 Speaker 1: the same circles and even financed each other. There was 309 00:19:54,960 --> 00:19:58,320 Speaker 1: definitely hierarchy though, and Frank Moten was as high up 310 00:19:58,359 --> 00:20:02,800 Speaker 1: as you can go. Richard Wheeler, we believe, separately planned 311 00:20:02,840 --> 00:20:06,400 Speaker 1: to rob the party when he saw the invitations, having 312 00:20:06,480 --> 00:20:10,080 Speaker 1: pulled off similar robberies like this in New York. There's 313 00:20:10,119 --> 00:20:14,560 Speaker 1: a chance that Cadillac Ritchie connected with Emerson Dorsey to 314 00:20:14,720 --> 00:20:18,560 Speaker 1: recruit the local Atlanta area gangsters who pulled off the 315 00:20:18,680 --> 00:20:24,840 Speaker 1: robbery under fast Eddie Parker's guidance. Those people were McKinley, Rogers, 316 00:20:25,560 --> 00:20:31,320 Speaker 1: James Henry Hall, Houston Hammonds, Lillian Dabney, Baby, Ray Humphrey, 317 00:20:31,680 --> 00:20:36,320 Speaker 1: and Charles Lee. Most of those folks were dead by 318 00:20:36,480 --> 00:20:42,440 Speaker 1: nineteen seventy two, except for Houston. Hammond's final retribution came 319 00:20:42,480 --> 00:20:46,800 Speaker 1: early in nineteen seventy two when Richard Wheeler was assassinated 320 00:20:46,880 --> 00:20:50,159 Speaker 1: by fast Eddie Parker, who was then in jail by 321 00:20:50,160 --> 00:20:54,359 Speaker 1: the end of the year. It's possible that Frank Molten 322 00:20:54,840 --> 00:20:57,800 Speaker 1: and the other members of the Council of Twelve called 323 00:20:57,840 --> 00:21:01,240 Speaker 1: in that hit. Remember this is how it all started 324 00:21:01,320 --> 00:21:05,160 Speaker 1: back in episode one. So when did the investigation end? 325 00:21:06,160 --> 00:21:20,840 Speaker 1: You want the truth? What about dead Dad? After the 326 00:21:20,920 --> 00:21:25,800 Speaker 1: robbery investigation concluded, j D returned to his duties as 327 00:21:25,920 --> 00:21:29,240 Speaker 1: lieutenant in the ap D. He worked his way up 328 00:21:29,280 --> 00:21:33,240 Speaker 1: the ladder and eventually became a captain. Then, in the 329 00:21:33,359 --> 00:21:36,560 Speaker 1: mid to late seventies, he was offered a new career path. 330 00:21:37,160 --> 00:21:39,400 Speaker 1: Here he is telling chicken Man about it. In two 331 00:21:39,520 --> 00:21:43,160 Speaker 1: thousand and three, I went from captain to the head 332 00:21:43,200 --> 00:21:46,240 Speaker 1: of Department of Corrections. I was a captain and I 333 00:21:46,359 --> 00:21:49,000 Speaker 1: was reluctant to take the job, Nichols. I wanted to 334 00:21:49,000 --> 00:21:52,040 Speaker 1: be assistant Chief of Definite Chiefs. You know, that was 335 00:21:52,119 --> 00:21:54,080 Speaker 1: what I wanted to be At that time, you know, 336 00:21:54,119 --> 00:21:56,840 Speaker 1: because hell, I didn't know what this job meant. The 337 00:21:56,960 --> 00:21:58,440 Speaker 1: tile of that job, I beli at that time, I 338 00:21:58,520 --> 00:22:02,280 Speaker 1: supered under the prison and uh when the mayor and 339 00:22:03,160 --> 00:22:08,200 Speaker 1: Madonnall and he be Weaves say hey man, you will 340 00:22:08,240 --> 00:22:12,440 Speaker 1: be the same two corressions. The chief of police is 341 00:22:12,600 --> 00:22:18,600 Speaker 1: two police as give me the job. So it was 342 00:22:18,640 --> 00:22:21,520 Speaker 1: I was appointed four years alter she was full year appointment. 343 00:22:22,040 --> 00:22:25,040 Speaker 1: He had more problems getting reappointed out of it because 344 00:22:25,080 --> 00:22:29,639 Speaker 1: I got reappointed with without a new problems. Ingrid Wells 345 00:22:29,800 --> 00:22:31,840 Speaker 1: was a cop in De capp County in Atlanta for 346 00:22:31,880 --> 00:22:34,680 Speaker 1: a number of years and then work for J. D. 347 00:22:34,840 --> 00:22:37,240 Speaker 1: Hudson for much of the time he was in corrections. 348 00:22:38,160 --> 00:22:41,480 Speaker 1: Here she is talking about j D and his relationships 349 00:22:41,520 --> 00:22:46,480 Speaker 1: with the inmates. One of the things that I admired 350 00:22:46,480 --> 00:22:49,560 Speaker 1: about him all throughout the time I knew him as 351 00:22:49,600 --> 00:22:55,440 Speaker 1: an employer was he would not let you hurt harm 352 00:22:55,640 --> 00:22:58,080 Speaker 1: one of those inmates. He'd tell you in a minute. 353 00:22:58,119 --> 00:23:00,400 Speaker 1: I've heard him tell so many people you are two 354 00:23:00,440 --> 00:23:04,120 Speaker 1: pages from being where he is, don't you ever say 355 00:23:04,119 --> 00:23:09,440 Speaker 1: anything over them? And so they all respected him. J. D. 356 00:23:09,600 --> 00:23:13,119 Speaker 1: Hudson remained the director of prisons in Atlanta for nineteen years, 357 00:23:13,920 --> 00:23:17,160 Speaker 1: and that's where he finished out his career. Chicken Man 358 00:23:17,280 --> 00:23:20,840 Speaker 1: made several deals while he was serving time, having someone 359 00:23:20,960 --> 00:23:22,960 Speaker 1: bring him in. Mayor wanted to the prison so he 360 00:23:23,040 --> 00:23:25,920 Speaker 1: could sell it. He saved up a nice little nest 361 00:23:26,000 --> 00:23:29,399 Speaker 1: egg before he was released. I guess by the time 362 00:23:29,480 --> 00:23:31,200 Speaker 1: he got out he had a buy six grand, so 363 00:23:31,320 --> 00:23:32,880 Speaker 1: he had him enough to get, you know, a start 364 00:23:32,960 --> 00:23:35,320 Speaker 1: and get on his feet. Chicken Man was sentenced to 365 00:23:35,440 --> 00:23:38,680 Speaker 1: seven years what Gordon Jr. Calls a five and two, 366 00:23:39,520 --> 00:23:42,760 Speaker 1: meaning a five year sentence for cocaine, concurrent with a 367 00:23:42,840 --> 00:23:45,520 Speaker 1: two year sentence for the half of the joint police 368 00:23:45,520 --> 00:23:49,000 Speaker 1: found in his hotel room. He ended up serving about 369 00:23:49,040 --> 00:23:52,040 Speaker 1: thirty six months as he was a model citizen in 370 00:23:52,160 --> 00:23:56,320 Speaker 1: prison with very little discipline. And what does a hustler 371 00:23:56,359 --> 00:23:59,440 Speaker 1: do when he gets out of prison. He goes back 372 00:23:59,480 --> 00:24:04,719 Speaker 1: to hustle. And when I got out, I was determined. 373 00:24:05,160 --> 00:24:07,720 Speaker 1: I don't know what I would do, but I started 374 00:24:07,720 --> 00:24:10,320 Speaker 1: back to us. I get out and I'll be the guy. 375 00:24:10,680 --> 00:24:15,000 Speaker 1: So he he beat the marijuana. You mean I started 376 00:24:15,040 --> 00:24:17,800 Speaker 1: working with the marijuana, and that mean the funk that 377 00:24:17,920 --> 00:24:21,120 Speaker 1: really liked me in mind, and I started getting trade 378 00:24:21,160 --> 00:24:26,320 Speaker 1: attle tough load five eight pound man one at the 379 00:24:26,400 --> 00:24:29,520 Speaker 1: same time. But he's real careful about what he does now, 380 00:24:29,640 --> 00:24:32,200 Speaker 1: so you know, like he never drives drugs, so he's 381 00:24:32,200 --> 00:24:36,320 Speaker 1: always employing somebody. And his big thing was, whenever you're 382 00:24:36,400 --> 00:24:39,040 Speaker 1: driving my drugs and a lot of people don't know 383 00:24:39,119 --> 00:24:41,879 Speaker 1: they're driving drugs. You don't drink and you don't smoke. 384 00:24:42,119 --> 00:24:44,680 Speaker 1: That's forbidden. You're gonna do the speed limit. He's paying 385 00:24:44,720 --> 00:24:46,720 Speaker 1: them good. I'm gonna give you five dollars to drive 386 00:24:46,920 --> 00:24:49,720 Speaker 1: his car from Florida. You drive that speed limit. You 387 00:24:49,800 --> 00:24:52,479 Speaker 1: don't smoke, you don't drink, you ain't got no key 388 00:24:52,520 --> 00:24:55,320 Speaker 1: to the trunk. You get the car to Atlanta and 389 00:24:55,440 --> 00:24:58,920 Speaker 1: you get your money. Chicken Man was right back into 390 00:24:59,000 --> 00:25:01,080 Speaker 1: hustling when he got out out and he used this 391 00:25:01,200 --> 00:25:05,800 Speaker 1: Miami connection as well. Doug Pierce, the guy met in prison, 392 00:25:06,200 --> 00:25:09,120 Speaker 1: had gotten out and apparently married a rich woman in Miami. 393 00:25:10,040 --> 00:25:13,960 Speaker 1: So Chicken Man kept that relationship going. And on one 394 00:25:14,000 --> 00:25:17,320 Speaker 1: particular trip that he made to Miami, he took his son, 395 00:25:17,680 --> 00:25:20,560 Speaker 1: Gordon Jr. With him. They had a car loaded with 396 00:25:20,720 --> 00:25:24,080 Speaker 1: marijuana ready to come back to Atlanta. They stayed in 397 00:25:24,160 --> 00:25:27,520 Speaker 1: Miami one extra night, leaving the parked car at Doug 398 00:25:27,600 --> 00:25:32,359 Speaker 1: Pierce's house. In the morning, Gordon Jr. Was ready to 399 00:25:32,400 --> 00:25:35,560 Speaker 1: get on the road because I was a driver. I said, Dad, 400 00:25:35,600 --> 00:25:37,760 Speaker 1: we're leaving. We went to doug house to pick to marijuana. 401 00:25:38,359 --> 00:25:42,480 Speaker 1: It was gone. It was gone. A thousand pounds of 402 00:25:42,600 --> 00:25:47,800 Speaker 1: marijuana was gone, vanished. So Doug said that somebody had 403 00:25:47,840 --> 00:25:51,200 Speaker 1: broke in stolen marijuana. The wife boy framed hit moved 404 00:25:51,359 --> 00:25:54,040 Speaker 1: for one place to another place to save keeper for 405 00:25:54,160 --> 00:25:58,040 Speaker 1: some reason. But it had told me. Chicken Man takes 406 00:25:58,080 --> 00:26:00,119 Speaker 1: a trip to Miami, as he's done a number of 407 00:26:00,240 --> 00:26:04,080 Speaker 1: times and gotten thousands of pound fronted to him. He 408 00:26:04,240 --> 00:26:08,480 Speaker 1: stored it overnight at Doug Pierce's house without telling Chicken Man. 409 00:26:09,160 --> 00:26:12,119 Speaker 1: Doug moved it to another location, then the next day 410 00:26:12,200 --> 00:26:16,560 Speaker 1: claimed it was stolen overnight. Now chicken men had to 411 00:26:16,600 --> 00:26:20,760 Speaker 1: go to the suppliers and tell them what happened. I 412 00:26:20,840 --> 00:26:24,399 Speaker 1: went to the people that one hand. Listen what I 413 00:26:24,520 --> 00:26:26,840 Speaker 1: don't want to hear the story, get the money, and 414 00:26:26,960 --> 00:26:28,680 Speaker 1: then tell me the story. I don't want you know 415 00:26:28,840 --> 00:26:31,920 Speaker 1: fucking story, But nobody do you know? This is what? 416 00:26:32,280 --> 00:26:34,320 Speaker 1: This is what the people we sold me to was. 417 00:26:34,800 --> 00:26:36,840 Speaker 1: So now we're on the chance to find the people 418 00:26:36,880 --> 00:26:43,240 Speaker 1: with there. My tail was five and thirty six thousand 419 00:26:43,760 --> 00:26:46,480 Speaker 1: about now I got to start paying a bit right. 420 00:26:47,080 --> 00:26:51,359 Speaker 1: I got a better two foot boat, sleep eight and 421 00:26:51,480 --> 00:26:56,320 Speaker 1: everything in Florida. So the mass I don't want to 422 00:26:56,359 --> 00:26:59,440 Speaker 1: hear the story. Then they give me the other lay 423 00:27:00,040 --> 00:27:02,760 Speaker 1: bring me the head of the man who did it 424 00:27:02,840 --> 00:27:07,119 Speaker 1: in the paper back and it did Claire. The people 425 00:27:07,200 --> 00:27:10,160 Speaker 1: that my dad got the marri Wanta from. They said, 426 00:27:10,200 --> 00:27:12,520 Speaker 1: you don't have to pay it back. Just give us 427 00:27:12,600 --> 00:27:16,159 Speaker 1: Doug's name, give us his address, and we're settled just 428 00:27:16,320 --> 00:27:18,240 Speaker 1: like that. And these people say all we need is 429 00:27:18,480 --> 00:27:21,280 Speaker 1: his name, and well, you don't have to pay a penny. 430 00:27:22,119 --> 00:27:24,600 Speaker 1: My dad said, no, I can't do it. I can't 431 00:27:24,600 --> 00:27:26,440 Speaker 1: do it. My dad didn't want to be involved in 432 00:27:26,520 --> 00:27:33,399 Speaker 1: no homicide. And the people want the money now. They 433 00:27:33,560 --> 00:27:36,119 Speaker 1: want to give me that fifty kilos of cocaine and 434 00:27:36,200 --> 00:27:39,199 Speaker 1: something to make the money prepare. But I was always 435 00:27:39,240 --> 00:27:42,800 Speaker 1: I didn't want to be bothered for cam period. So 436 00:27:43,800 --> 00:27:46,880 Speaker 1: but what I did. A man come to me, Uh, 437 00:27:47,200 --> 00:27:51,600 Speaker 1: people got my son mar her daughter, which is cute girl. 438 00:27:52,720 --> 00:27:55,800 Speaker 1: He come to me one day we can have He 439 00:27:55,920 --> 00:27:57,720 Speaker 1: told me to go get a big truck on a 440 00:27:57,840 --> 00:28:00,400 Speaker 1: big we now and a man comes to He gave 441 00:28:00,440 --> 00:28:09,560 Speaker 1: me eight thousand lagership. So I had a bigger break 442 00:28:09,600 --> 00:28:13,000 Speaker 1: of my life. As the audio was breaking up their 443 00:28:13,119 --> 00:28:16,040 Speaker 1: chicken Man was telling the story about taking the marijuana 444 00:28:16,119 --> 00:28:18,960 Speaker 1: he'd been given as a lifeline to pay the debt 445 00:28:19,000 --> 00:28:22,159 Speaker 1: he owed the Colombians who gave him the marijuana that 446 00:28:22,280 --> 00:28:26,240 Speaker 1: was stolen from or by Doug Pierce. Chicken Man sold 447 00:28:26,320 --> 00:28:29,960 Speaker 1: the marijuana in Atlanta, got about four hundred thousand dollars 448 00:28:30,080 --> 00:28:31,879 Speaker 1: for it, and he had to give it all to 449 00:28:32,000 --> 00:28:35,520 Speaker 1: the Colombians to pay back the debt, including his thirty 450 00:28:35,600 --> 00:28:40,000 Speaker 1: eight foot boat. We got on a plane to Miami, 451 00:28:40,240 --> 00:28:44,640 Speaker 1: me my dad, and he had in a briefcase in 452 00:28:44,800 --> 00:28:48,640 Speaker 1: a briefcase almost five hundred thousand dollars. I gave a 453 00:28:49,080 --> 00:28:52,880 Speaker 1: thing right, but anyway, I paid the debt. The man 454 00:28:53,000 --> 00:28:55,720 Speaker 1: come along, gave me the eight thousands. Saved my life. 455 00:28:56,680 --> 00:29:00,360 Speaker 1: Once Chicken Man paid off this final debt, he got 456 00:29:00,440 --> 00:29:05,600 Speaker 1: out of the life for good. Over the years, Chicken 457 00:29:05,640 --> 00:29:08,240 Speaker 1: Man would remind me that he never carried a gun 458 00:29:09,280 --> 00:29:12,400 Speaker 1: because the last thing he wanted was to be involved 459 00:29:12,440 --> 00:29:16,160 Speaker 1: in a murder. When Doug Pierce, who he thought was 460 00:29:16,280 --> 00:29:19,560 Speaker 1: his friend, stole more than a half a million dollars 461 00:29:19,680 --> 00:29:23,720 Speaker 1: worth of drugs. Chicken Man was forced to decide between 462 00:29:23,840 --> 00:29:28,240 Speaker 1: his own life or the man who betrayed him. Through 463 00:29:28,320 --> 00:29:31,600 Speaker 1: a stroke of good luck, Chicken Man was able to 464 00:29:31,720 --> 00:29:36,120 Speaker 1: honor the code he lived by and somehow survive another 465 00:29:36,240 --> 00:29:41,040 Speaker 1: close call. But this final deal forced him to make 466 00:29:41,080 --> 00:29:46,040 Speaker 1: a decision that would transform him completely and in his mind, 467 00:29:46,840 --> 00:30:02,600 Speaker 1: finally bury the legend of Chicken Man Forever. Fight Night 468 00:30:02,720 --> 00:30:05,200 Speaker 1: is a joint production from I Heart Radio, Will Packer 469 00:30:05,320 --> 00:30:09,760 Speaker 1: Media and Doghouse Pictures in association with Psychopia Pictures. Produced 470 00:30:09,800 --> 00:30:13,200 Speaker 1: and hosted by Jeff Keating. Executive producers are Will Packer, 471 00:30:13,560 --> 00:30:18,320 Speaker 1: James Lopez, Kenny Burns, Dan Bush, Lars Jacobsen, and Noel Brown. 472 00:30:18,960 --> 00:30:23,120 Speaker 1: Supervising producer is Taylor Hickoyne. Story editors are Noel Brown 473 00:30:23,160 --> 00:30:26,520 Speaker 1: and Dan Bush. Written by Jeff Keating and Jim Roberts. 474 00:30:27,160 --> 00:30:30,520 Speaker 1: Edited by Matt Owen. 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