Brad Yule

Everything I found ended up being through the newspaper.

I was able to piece together his crime, his eventual conviction.

I actually found a picture of the man he killed wrapped in a sheet laying on the side of the road.

While I did all this research, I was really okay with the story.

It was a weird story to have, but as long as I didn't personalize it for myself, that was fine.

It was just a funny story to tell people.

All that changed when newscaster Lester Holt decided to do a 48 hour special on Angola State Penitentiary.

He spent three nights there, recorded everything, met a bunch of people, recorded everywhere in the prison.

And when I watched that, everything suddenly became personal.

Where I had made my dad a very, or my biological father,

concept in my life all of a sudden he was a real person in a real place that I had now seen and I couldn't stop thinking about it.

That led to therapy and therapy led to a pretty quick conclusion of I have to meet my biological father once to put that part of my story to bed just so I can have it done.

Going to Angola gave me a lot of time to think about what it was gonna be like to meet him.

It's an eight-hour drive out there

And this is probably a good time to tell you all that successful 25 year career I talked about at the first of the story has been as a police officer.

So I already had a vision of who I was going to meet.

I'm not saying everybody in prison and jail is like this, but I am saying the majority of the people I've dealt with are not responsible for anything that happened in their lives.

If the world was more fair, they wouldn't be there.

And at the end of the day, none of this was their fault.

Before I became a police officer, I worked in the jail.