June 22nd. 2004

Dear Mrs. Floyd

Back in 2000 I as a person full of hate and the want of vengeance over a system that time and again covered over their dirty, sick and despicable deeds, while at the same time blowing out of proportion insignificant infractions that inmates were accused of violating( most often unjustifiably). As time passed from 1984 when I firsts entered the system I could see the tangible changes in the system that stole rights and privileges from the prisoners and gave every advantage to any sadistic officers of the Florida dept. of corrections………..

I have watched time and time again officers instigate inmates into violating other inmates, even to the point of rape and continual sexual entrapment with the victim being denied any form of treatment or protection! John Blackwelder was one of the latter- officers thinking it was fun to hear stories of degrading stuff he had to perform or was put through, and he befriended ‘A.B ”, my partner at the time in Columbia C.I. A.B asked me to look out for John because he felt sorry for him (they both knew what it was like to be molested as a child and bonded from it) and A.B. even told me if I had to kill someone to protect him he would appreciate it. I took time to talk to John, and after he told me he wanted to die, and refused my offer to kill him, (he said I was too violent and didn’t want to go out like that). I remembered that Raymond Wiggley was also living in the same quad so I called him to my cell and introduced the two. I told him that since they were both punks, they should hang out and support each other, and after they hugged and kissed they were on their way. I had told john that I knew a way he could make the state kill him. I wouldn’t tell him how. But I called Wiggley into the picture because back in 1992 he and some other inmates bonded together and wrote statements on me saying I had been extorting over fifty-six inmates (lies). But because of those written statements I was placed in Close Management and sent to Florida State Prison. Wiggley was terrified of me and would do anything I told him…anything!

With A.B always being at my side I had to wait to for a weekend where he was in the visiting park, to violate into johns quad and then to his cell, while every one went to lunch. I called wiggley over to Johns’ cell, had him go inside then made him undress. After putting him in a yoke hold (or sleepers hold) I laid him on john bunk. I ripped up a sheet John had on his bunk and tied the strips together and through the holes in the steel part of the bunk. Before tying Wiggley up I took one of johns big T- shirts and placed it under Wiggley (I have some light colored hairs on my body and cant see them on white sheets, but can see them on dull white t-shirt material.) then rolled him back in place, tied him with the sheets (one end of sheet per limb not too tight). Why did I do this? John Blackwelder wanted to die, he was tired of the life he had to exist in, I wanted to prove to the state of Florida that all that hype about DNA and forensic and scientific analyzes was just that. “HYPE”. If John played his role right (and he did, with Grammy winning acting) he would get what he wanted and I would be able to prove that the state makes the science say what they want it to say. little by little the DOC officers have beaten the spirit out of the prisoners to the point they are even afraid to half heartedly stand up for their rights to be treated humanely. Some prisoners attempt to write grievances now and then, but the DOC had even circumvented that process by making an already poor inmate have to pay litigate in court, and this just to get them to make the officials do what’s right. The fear is a living breathing stench that inmates smell on themselves, and in order to cover the smell they try to cover over it by doing violent or nasty things to each other. It is a sad sad environment.

But this voice wont be stifled I have suffered too long for too wrong, and yes, I deserve the death penalty for the premeditated murders of both Raymond Wiggley and Elton Ard, but I want to know who will have to pay for the murder of john Blackwelder.? I am sure you were aware that john was given a stay because a guy that works in the writ room here told some one that Blackwelder was innocent and that I was the one who killed Wiggley. Well, they came and asked me and I said: “what is the difference if I did it or not? You have a child molester who said he did it and he wants to die, so why are you talking to me?” ‘So you are not going to tell us you did it?”

“Why should I? All you want is some one to kill, he wants to die, so go on and kill him, and every one will be happy”
“You heard the stories he told about the children he molested and killed? Do you think it’s true?”
“Dude. John wouldn’t kill nothing; he doesn’t have what it takes!”
Before they left one said: “I like the way you think?”
I was thinking: “that’s what you think.”

Then Jeb Bush says an investigation was done and a quick 12 hour DNA test was done. And he is confident that John was guilty. And I am confident they are full of it! How much of a DNA test could have been done? It was John’s cell, his bunk, sheets, blanket, wash rag, so I guess his DNA would definitely be there…I even instructed him to take Wiggleys watch and to shake his head over wiggleys body and touch him. He wasn’t fond of the idea but he did it. I never made a secret that I killed Wiggley. Many other prisoners knew (except A.B because I didn’t know if he would have tried to put an end to it. That would have hurt John) Do you know R.C at Florida State Prison. On the row? I told him way back when.
If they would have done a real investigation John would have been a very sad man, but he would have been alive. I don’t know what you can do with this letter but I’d like for the truth to come out. Don’t be afraid to write.

Charles Globe.
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