Wild Bill

from 2006 until 2010.

I was arrested in 2010.

I'm serving 46 years for quintuple homicide inside the most dangerous prison in the Western Hemisphere.

In that prison, I'm also the prison's chaplain.

I've been here for 13 years in prison.

I'm recording this from inside a super maximum security cell block in La Nueva Hoya prison in Panama.

So I grew up in the mountains of Western North Carolina in a very rural environment, very...

Good, wholesome, you know, country, Christian environment.

I had a really normal upbringing.

You know, a lot of people want to talk about how killers burn frogs and, you know, torture dogs.

I never did any of that stuff, you know, and I grew up a really normal existence as a kid.

And just like every other, you know, redneck kid from Western North Carolina, I grew up hunting and fishing.

And I remember my father teaching me how to drive a car when I was 10 years old.

I could drive a tractor and plow a field when I was 11 and was expected to do so.

By the time I was 13 or 14, I was managing hundreds of stands of bees.

That was my job on the farm, was managing the bees.

And so I was a beekeeper.

And so I grew up a very rural existence.

I grew up very athletic.

I played American football through the shot put and discus and track just to have something to do in the off season.