Bobby from Boston // 144

This episode is available early and ad-free on Invisible Choir + through Apple Podcasts and Patreon, and is scheduled for free/regular release on Sunday, May 11th, 2025.

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While hunting wild turkey in a remote National Forest in Virginia, a man stumbled upon a human corpse. The victim was 52-year-old Michael Kent Jamerson—but the true terror began only after his killer and supposed friend, Robert Gleason, was caught. Because for the state of Virginia, this murder was just the beginning of a far more disturbing plot…

Written by Trevor Pason, edited and engineered by Scott Ecklein, and executive produced by Michael Ojibway.

Written/Sources: 

• Convicted murderer who asked for death electrocuted in Virginia  

• Covering a killer 

• Robert Gleason got death the way he wanted it 

• Robert Gleason (murderer) - Wikipedia 

• Reporter: Condemned Va. killer opened up to me 

• The electric chair 

• Robert Charles Gleason OBITUARY  

• Virginia inmate who asked for death penalty set to die in electric chair | Fox News 

• Governor, judge won't stop killer's execution 

• The Progress-Index  Fri, Jan 25, 2013 ·Page V1 

• The Progress-Index  Fri, Jan 25, 2013 ·Page V3 

• ‘I’m gonna do it again’ – Sentinel and Enterprise 

• Virginia inmate who asked for death penalty set to die in electric chair | Fox News 

• Governor, judge won't stop killer's execution  

• The News and Advance  Wed, May 16, 2007 ·Page 11 

• The News and Advance  Wed, May 16, 2007 ·Page 17 

• The News and Advance  Sun, Aug 05, 2007 ·Page 6 

• The News and Advance  Tue, Feb 26, 2008 ·Page 1 

• The News and Advance  Tue, Feb 26, 2008 ·Page 8 

• Robert Gleason got death the way he wanted it 

• Man gets life in Amherst murder  

• The News and Advance  Tue, Feb 26, 2008 ·Page 1 

• The News and Advance  Tue, Feb 26, 2008 ·Page 8 

• Man gets life in Amherst murder  

• The News and Advance  Fri, Aug 12, 1983 ·Page 1 

• The Daily Advance  Thu, Sep 05, 1985 ·Page 1

• Plea for the death penalty

• Convicted murderer who asked for death electrocuted in Virginia 

• Gleason v. Commonwealth, 726 S.E.2d 351 | Casetext Search + Citator 

• Virginia Prisoner Kills Cellmate, Requests Death Sentence 

• Virginia inmate: 'Only way to stop me' is death row - Grand Forks Herald 

• Virginia Prisoner Kills Cellmate, Requests Death Sentence 

• Harrowing Court Footage Shows Murderer Demand To Be Sentenced To Death - News - UNILAD 

• Kim Strickland Lawsuit Against Red Onion Transcript (14-6229-2015-08-19)

• Red Onion State Prison - Wikipedia 

• Prisoners at Virginia’s Red Onion State Prison on hunger strike

• Aaron Alexander Cooper Obituary - Waterville, ME 

• Inmate Befriended Latest Victim 

• Prisoner just keeps killing 

• The Progress-Index  Mon, Aug 02, 2010 ·Page A5 

• Murder interrogation 1

• Murder interrogation 2

• Gleason-v-virginia

• Robert Gleason - Murders Prisoner in Red Onion State Prison (GRAPHIC)

• Prisoner just keeps killing

• Kilroy was here - Wikipedia

• Robert Gleason Jr., Virginia inmate who asked for death penalty, due to be executed - CBS News 

• AP reporter: Condemned Va. killer opened up to me 

• First Inmate to be Executed in 2013 Asked for Death Penalty; Exhibited Severe Mental Illness 

• Virginia Inmate Who Begged for Death To Be Electrocuted

• Robert Gleason's  Jr. Electrocution Scheduled to Move Forward | Execution Completed 

• The Green Mile (film) - Wikipedia

• Johnny Cash & June Carter Cash – Jackson Lyrics | Genius Lyrics

• Eagles – Take It to the Limit Lyrics

• Families of executed prisoners want death penalty tapes made public 

Music & Sound Effect Sources

• Opening Track: “Deep Cellar” by Experia 

• Closing Track: “Lucidity” by Luella Gren; “Death Whistle OUTRO” by Michael Ojibway

Music & Sound Effect Sources

All music and sound effects used with express permission under unlimited blanket license authority from Epidemic Sound ® and SoundStripe ®.  Individual sources are available via request at [email protected]