Jack Lawrence

Bill would kill this man and take his money, as well as the property that he owned.

This was in a remote part of Panama.

It would be here that Bill would set up his own bar.

One that would become infamous and in fact have a book written about it.

The Jolly Roger Social Club.

Authorities would say that Bill would use this bar in order to get close to people, close enough that he would be able to kill again and again, to consume their lives and taking their belongings as well as their property.

But of course it was, and Bill's crimes would come to an end in July of 2010 when he was captured and eventually found himself inside one of the Western Hemisphere's most dangerous prisons, which of course is where he is relaying this story from.

Now, with the podcast one minute remaining, I'm very used to having interviews with incarcerated men and women interrupted due to issues with the prisons.

Everything from storms knocking out phone systems, prisons going into lockdown because of gang fights and riots, and even one person I've spoken to being stabbed and being relocated to another facility.

And I'll be honest, because Bill has his own mobile phone, I figured we would probably be fine with our interview.

Until one morning, I woke up to a message.

It said that he, along with 13 others, had been taken from their cells and placed in a punishment wing, an area of the prison with four huge welded steel cages that are open to the elements.

He says within the punishment block he's unable to get much phone signal and is unsure at this stage when he might be moved again.

Up until this point, Bill has been recording his story and sending me audio files via WhatsApp.

With his lack of signal, unfortunately, we can't do this.

So at this point in the story, I'm going to have to jump back to Bill and I's first initial interview that was done over the phone.

So as a word of warning, the audio quality does take a slight downturn as Bill talks me through his last moments of freedom and his eventual capture.

Bill indeed made international and national headlines across the United States and South America.

Vision of him and his partner at the time shackled and surrounded by men with machine guns and balaclavas, loading him into the back of a pickup truck.

The scenes are quite chaotic.