Matthew Cox | Inside True Crime Podcast
Jacob Gentry on Psychics, Exotic Dancers & Life in Prison
01 Dec 2025
Chapter 1: What significant event led Jacob Gentry to visit a psychic?
And I saw a sign and it said psychic. I went in there and I'll never forget this. She said, I hate to be the one to have to tell you this. He said, in the middle of August, something's going to happen to you. And you cannot fathom the severity of this. Life as you know it is about to be over with. Your whole world's about to get ripped apart.
As soon as I graduated high school, I went to Iowa and started working on a pipeline. I went to a pipeline job in Michigan. And, you know, I met a girl up there and I was with her for like eight years. I got into, you know, some, some not so good stuff. You know, I started messing, got doing drugs and getting into that lifestyle. Drug use or are you selling drugs? No, I was. Okay.
I was selling them. I was on my way back from Albuquerque, New Mexico with a trunk load of pot. And, uh, I got pulled over, ended up bailing out. I was, I was sick, man, over, over to that. And I thought, you know, I'm about to go to prison for this. And this was like before. It wasn't legal in Michigan yet, you know, but it was right, right around the time they were starting to legalize it.
But yeah, I got out and I was on my way going through Chicago and I saw a sign in this place and it said psychic. And I had been to a psychic in Michigan that knew things about me, like the things that were going on in my life. Like she just immediately started talking about it and it just blew my mind away. Like there's no way somebody could have known these things. So I believed in that.
So I saw the sign and I went in there. As soon as I walked through the door, the lady, she was like an old, she had like jet black hair and dark eyes.
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Chapter 2: How did drug use impact Jacob's life choices?
And she was like a gypsy, I guess. And she said, what's this terrible thing that's happened to you? And I said, well, I got, I got pulled over on interstate 94. It was something I wasn't supposed to have. And police took my truck. She said they took everything. And I said, yeah, pretty much. And she said, here, shuffle these cards.
So I sit down and shuffle these tarot cards and one card just flipped out and landed face down on the floor. And I didn't think anything of it. You know, I was 27 year old kid, young man, I guess you could say. And I reached down to pick the card up. And, you know, I guess she knew there was a reason why that card came out. And she yelled from across the table and said, don't touch it.
And she screamed, you know, like it caused me to jump in my seat a little bit. And she got up from their chair and she walked around and squatted down the floor and flipped that cart over. And when she did, she kind of gasped. She was like, and just looked at me crazy. And I said, why are you looking at me like that? She said, I'll never forget this.
She said, I hate to be the one to have to tell you this, but this terrible thing that's happened to you, the reason why you came here, this thing that you're so worried about. She said, you might as well forget about it. Because it's the least of your problems. He said, in the middle of August, something's going to happen to you. And you cannot fathom the severity of this.
He said, life as you know it is about to be over with.
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Chapter 3: What circumstances led to Jacob's arrest and subsequent prison time?
Your whole world's about to get ripped apart. It's going to look really bad at first. And you're going to think about giving up. But you're not going to give up. You're going to come back from it. And you're going to live a happy life and have three children. That's pretty specific. I mean, it's not 100% specific. That's pretty... That's more than a generality.
Well, I mean, as obviously that it changed my whole life, you know, meeting that lady and then what actually ended up happening to me, um, in the middle of August, just like she said, so in the middle of August, matter of fact, August has 31 days. I went out on August the 16th. I had gone to, so I was out on bail.
I told my lawyer, like, look, I got a, I got a job offer in Pine Island, New York to go work on a pipeline. He's like, well, as your attorney, I can't, I can't legally advise you to leave the state, but do what you got to do. So I said, all right, I'll be at all my court dates or whatever. So I went to Pine Island, New York to work on a pipeline job. And, uh, I had met this girl.
I mean, if you Google it, you know, they, they made a big deal about her, like being a dancer, uh,
know exotic dance or whatever you want to call it right and um i was out there matter of fact she bought me the bus ticket to go there because the police had taken my truck you know and um anyway i was there for five days and she called me was like crying and she's like i want to come out there with you and uh i was just like all right cool so i was living in this place it was called the legends hotel and resort
But it used to be the Playboy Club, like Hugh Hefner built that place. There was swimming pools and tennis courts, and it was like a ski. There was a ski slope, and it used to be a really popping place. But by the time I lived there, it was a little bit dilapidated, kind of run down. They called it The Shining. But anyways, it was full of pipeline workers.
I want to say there were like 700 guys there. And I went to work and was like, hey, man, I met this stripper at the strip club, and she wants to come out here and live with me. And, you know, I was happy about it. Like, I was lonely, you know. Sure. But anyway, so that guy, I guess he went and told somebody, and then that guy went and told somebody.
And then, like, by the time the girl pulled up to that place, it was like that whole building was just waiting to see this girl that was coming to stay there. And I knew it wasn't going to go over well. And I told her, I said, look, I was working crazy hours. I worked on the environmental crew. And it was my job to contain erosion control and mud, mud getting on the roads and mud washing away.
And it rained. It torrentially poured the whole time we were there, it seemed. I was working like 90 hours a week. Like I would literally go to work at 6 AM and then work till like 3 AM and come home and pass out with like muddy ass clothes on for like two hours and then jump back away and run out the door, you know, with the same clothes on.
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Chapter 4: What was Jacob's experience like while working in New York?
And I was like, yeah, I'll do that. And then she goes, hey, stop at the bar and get us a drink. She said, get me a vodka and tonic and get you whatever you want. So I was like, all right. So I go up to the bar. I order her a vodka and tonic. I ordered me a double shot of Crown Royal and cherry Coke. And I'm sitting there waiting for the bartender to make the drinks.
And this guy came up to me and he's like, hey, man, I know you don't know me. but, uh, I just came over here to tell you like frog and his boys, they're, they're over there on some bullshit again. And they're fixing to jump you again. He's like, you, you, you ought to just go back to your room.
I said, well, I, I appreciate the heads up, man, but I don't care if Hulk Hogan and Rodney Macho Man Savage and the ultimate warrior down here. Like I'm not running for nobody, you know, they can just, if that's what they're going to do, they can do it. So the, uh, the bartender gave me the drinks. I walked outside the little double doors.
I'm walking down the sidewalk and I hear the same, that whistle and the dude, Hey, Hey, Hey. So I just think to myself, like, well, maybe if I just ignore him, you know what I mean? Maybe if I just pretend he ain't here, he'll just go away. Well, I just kept walking. I just didn't pay no attention to him. Well, he runs around me, around the sidewalk, off into the grass.
And then he stands in front of me and pokes his chest out, blocking my way. And I was just like, what, man? He said, you got my drinks. I was like, what? I was shocked. I didn't even know what to say to that. I said, I don't think so, man. He said, yeah, I think so. So I'm just like, all right, I know what it is. You know, he wants to fight, whatever.
So I turned around and set the drinks down on the sidewalk.
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Chapter 5: How did the relationship with Emily complicate Jacob's situation?
And, like, before I could even set the drinks down, like, the dude started, like, hooking off on me, like, punching me in the back. And I set the drinks down, and I turned around, and I beat his ass. And, like, during some – and I kept telling him, don't get up. Don't get up, man. I'm going to knock you back out again. And, like, I, you know, I said –
before like i like i'm mortal kombat of that dude like and that's what it was like you know he i was just it was crazy but he kept trying he kept getting up and i kept telling him don't get up but anyway at one at some point i got punched in the back of the head and i turned around and all his friends were there you know and i was just like look i knew i couldn't beat them all up you know i really wish i know you guys don't want to see your friend get beat up but you know i didn't i didn't ask for this i didn't want to fight nobody um
You know, if you don't want to see him get beat up, just take them and get them out of here, you know? And I guess I kind of like struck a chord with them because, you know, they were like, well, I guess it kind of got, kind of got a point. They, the, his friends were like, uh, yeah, he's got a point frog and he is, he's whooping your ass. And so frog was like, he threw his arms out to the side.
He's like, I don't care. Hit me, hit me, hit me. And I was like, I don't want to hit you, man. Just, just get out of my face. Just leave me alone, please. And about that time, Emily comes walking up out of the parking lot and, uh, you know, probably wondering where I was at.
Cause I told her I was on my way out there and, uh, she looks and she sees me like out of breath and sees dude beat up and she realizes what's going on. And she's like, Oh no, not these guys again. And, uh, you know, she, she said something and frog said, Hey, Adelaide, I need to go in the house. I gotta, I gotta talk about stuff and kids are not supposed to hear this.
Um, so he, he was like, I'll slap the out of you. And, uh, you know, he, he, he started like charging over there to her, like advancing towards her. And, you know, I wasn't gonna, I wasn't gonna let him touch her. Right. I started, you know, I started beating him up again, you know? And, um, About that's when the time, like they all just like his little brother was there.
His little brother come running like 40 miles an hour and just Goldberg speared me in the side. And I remember for like probably three weeks after that, like from my rib cage down to my knee, like my whole side just turned black. Like it was bruised. Like, but, uh, so yeah. He like knocked me off of him. And then there was like one person had one arm and one person had this arm.
Another person had one leg. Another person had like there was like four guys like holding me down. And now all of a sudden, you know, frogs tough as hell. He comes over trying to like punch me in the face. And somehow like I got my arms freed and I got I grabbed him by the wrist, you know, and I'm holding his holding his wrist so he can't punch me in the face. And he said, I don't give a fuck.
I'll bite your nose off. And he comes in to try to bite my nose. And Emily come out with some pepper spray. Now, she told me that her boss at the Deja Vu in Lansing had given her that. But looking back, I almost feel like she got it because that lady beat her up and she was scared. But I don't know. I just know that she told me it was given to her by her boss back in Lansing.
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Chapter 6: What were the events leading up to the violent altercation?
Like, what is this? Like, it was like a dream. And the judge says, you're charged with knowingly, purposefully, willfully inflicting serious bodily injury on David Earl Hallmark, resulting in his death, charged with first degree murder. And I'm just like, looking behind. I knew the guy's name was Dave, you know? Right. But even though I heard that, like, I'm looking behind me like, who is?
Like, I'm just here for fighting. Not me. No, he ain't talking to me. And like, You know, they say, uh, denial is the first stage of grief and that's, I felt that because I heard what they said, but it just did not register in my mind. My mind refused to process it. And, uh, so yeah, they, they took me back in a cell.
I was, uh, they took me to the orange County jail in New York where I waved extradition and they didn't brought me to Sussex County, New Jersey, where it happened, which they're only like 15 minutes away. or so, uh, but man, maybe 30, 45, but, um, while I was in jail in New York, like all the, what that psychic told me all came back. It just all came back to me at once.
She said in the middle of August, like I'm sitting there on August the 17th, I went out the night of August the 16th dead ass in the middle of August. And my life was definitely ripped apart. It looked bad at first, you know what I mean? And I can remember telling that story before I ever even went to trial. And I was on the maximum security block. And I remember grown-ass men crying.
I'm like, but it's cool, though, man. She told me this was going to happen. But she also told me I was going to come home. And I remember this dude just crying. And he kept saying, I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm like, it's cool, bro. You cry if you need to. It's all good. But I think about that guy a lot. I wonder if he knows that. that I'm home and everything.
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So I sat in there for like three and a half years, uh, before my trial, I kept filing speedy trial motions and the judge kept like denying. I'm saying, Oh, three years is not a long time. Um, what did your lawyer say? Like they, did they give you a public defender? Yeah. I had a public defender. What'd he say? Uh, he, he did the best he could.
Like I, I, I'll never have nothing bad to say about him. Like he, uh, I remember him, he told, he told me that he told the prosecutor, he's like, you know, out of all the scumbag clients that I've had and all the people that I've represented him in my whole career as an attorney, he said, there's one person that I would take to my house and have around my children. You know who it is?
And it was me, you know, and I have, I did go to his house and meet his wife and his, his kids. And, you know, I spent the night at his house before. So, yeah, I didn't bail out. What happened at the trial? You went to trial. So, yeah, I couldn't believe like there's just no way in my mind. I was like, there's no way that 12 people are all going to say guilty.
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