Meri
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74 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Apr 2025
last heard Apr 2025
Meri’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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He says he washes his own shirt and pants because if he turns them in, they never come back clean and they often just give you another pair and they don't always fit the same. So he washes them himself and that way he knows they are clean. Then he writes, I try to write a letter like most people do, but when I'm done and reread what I just wrote, it never sounds right.
I just don't want you to think that I ain't trying. He says he felt pretty good right now. It's not as hot and he's clean. He's going to clean his floor. And he said he takes off his blues and will lay right under his window. And the rain comes in just a little bit and hits him in the face and feels good and cool. He said, I did this last night and then went to sleep.
Hope everything is good and you are well and don't work so hard.
Okay. So, it's August... Well, shit. It's September 12th, but... My phone call with Jeremy, the last one I had, was August 15th of 2024. Anyway, so I was not expecting a call from Jeremy because I had not written him in a while. He said that he was fine, that he gets two times a week, he gets to go outside for an hour. But he said the cell was small.
It was about eight feet long and seven feet wide. And he said he is able to shake hands with the cellmates next door to him, but that right now he has no neighbors on either side of him, which sometimes he likes because it's quieter. But sometimes, you know, you miss the interaction. And the operator was saying, you know, our time was running out. So that's how we ended it.
Probably, but it might be a, I don't know, not everybody wants to be, you know, micromanaged by a mother. Do you ever feel that, like you're just... Yeah, I do. I worry about him. It's like a parental thing. I'll ask him, is he brushing his teeth and taking vitamins and all that, you know? You know, has he been to a dentist or does he need glasses?
Mr. King told me that Leo's parole hearing is next week and he is going to be there. I hope things turn out good for Leo.
You know, of his own accord, he said that he had heard that Leo had been married and he was sure hoping they would let him out soon and that he did everything he could think of to help him. But Polk County, it's just really bad. And he said it's hard to undo or right a wrong. And, you know, that's pretty profound coming from Jeremy, but also true. Life is so fucked up now. Look at Leo.
They really didn't want to even hear Leo's case. No matter how much we try, they just, they won't even listen. When will people just say, stop, let's look at this?
Oh, I guess this is from that call. He said he met Leo's former roommate, and he said he can't remember his name, but the man was coming around doing some kind of education thing with the prison, and he said he had been Leo's roommate for seven years, and he thought that was really cool, and he asked the guy to tell Leo that he... wished him well and all that.
And I, I feel like I'm getting chills as I even say this because he's a murderer, but, um, you know, I really think he cares about Leo and he seems very sincere when he says stuff like that. Like he was really, he was really impressed. He was talking to somebody who actually knew Leo. I just really get the feeling though. He cares about Leo and that's just, I don't know.
I'm not even stoned or drinking, but maybe I should be. Anyway. I hate the way this has turned out and wish it had never happened like this. I hope someday I will come face to face with Leo so I can look at him and say, I'm sorry for what I did. Yes, I still don't sleep good at night and have bad dreams, but not as bad as they were once. I have learned to deal with it.
I just wish none of this had ever happened.
He thanks me for writing, asks about my health, and I have to say that in my letters, I sound like my grandparents talking about my pneumonia and my bursitis and arthritis, and I really need to jazz up my topics just a little bit.
I must have had car trouble and mentioned it because he said something about, get your car fixed because you don't want to be driving down the road in the middle of anywhere and it not work. Get it fixed.
I didn't write him back right away, evidently, because he said, I'm glad to hear from you. I thought... You just stopped writing me. I should have known better than that. You ate like most people. I'm sorry for thinking that you would. What I did was wrong. I took a life and for that I will never get out. Almost 35 years in here. This is my home. I have to learn to live with it.
I just hope that you don't feel that way about me. I can't stop you or blame you for not wanting to write me. People really don't know me at all. I have tried to tell people about me, but they always look down at me as a killer. Would you please do me a favor? I'm not saying you will, but if you do stop writing, please
write and tell me one day I don't like talking about this kind of stuff though all these years people just up and stop writing even though they said they wouldn't I don't blame anyone my family or friends they all have their own life now out there and their own families I just wanted to say this It's been on my mind all week.
Dear Mary, Mr. King told me something that it about knocked me out.
Dear Mary, Mr. King told me something that it about knocked me out. He told me that he talked to my son, Justin, and he said that Justin listened to the podcast and he wants to write me. I have lived for this day to come. I haven't wrote him since he was 12 or 13. I never understand why or what happened. I really thought that I would never hear from him again. I can't wait to hear from him.
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