Safe for Now
This murder was Barrow's first kill, but another inmate offered to take the fall for the crime. He was already doing a lifetime sentence, so the kill wouldn't add any more time. Barrow accepted this offer, and the man saved Barrow from a life behind bars. There were other things inmates did to help Barrow out with returning to his one true love, but they weren't very pretty...
Chopped Toes
Hard labor is how many of the prisoners made their money or passed their time, but Barrow wanted no part of this work. He asked other inmates to chop his toes off so he could avoid the fields, and the prisoners obliged with his requests. Because of this, the killer would walk with a limp for the rest of his life, one of his most defining descriptions later in his criminal history...
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