January 5, 2003
Aloha Lee,
I’m sorry I couldn’t get back to you sooner. I appreciate your concern
for us convicts. My case was kind of whacked as far as justice goes,
and if I hadn’t taken a deal I would still be fighting my case in a higher
level. I will explain to you briefly about myself and how I became
incarcerated.
I am now 38 years old and have been locked up 5 years now. I’ve always
been a rebel against bureaucracy and the lame ass laws they impose on use
that the forefathers that wrote our constitution are probably rolling in
their graves seeing what our so-called freedom country has become.
Originally from Vermont, I traveled westward as a teenager alone on an adventure?.
Somehow I ended up in Hawaii where I resided for about 20 years. As
a teenager I was a surf rat or beach bum. I was living in a tent growing
weed and collecting food stamps. I’ve always had a knowledge of cars
so I would fix up cars and sell them or build hot rods and race cars.
I am also a successful racer.
I worked several jobs from fishing to farming for a well known movie star
makeup artist. In the 90’s I opened up my own custom auto business
and continued racing and of course still growing weed. I grew some
of the best in the country. I built my house in 1995, oh yeah I had
my son in 1991. I was working on becoming a millionaire (almost).
I started a goat dairy in 1998. I took on a business partner in 1999.
He was an old friend from the 1980s who had returned to Hawaii. I provided
him with housing and food and half the profits. Everything was going
smooth until I found out he and his girlfriend were engaging in several acts
with my at the time 9 year old son. Meanwhile prior to that he was
becoming very aggressive and acting like he owned the place and would come
over and start snapping at me and my old’ lady, trying to tell us how to
live our life etc. Oh yeah, my property is split in half by a stream
and he lived on the other side in a cabin.
Meanwhile tensions were building over a few months until I found out about
his molestation and I decided to confront him about it. It turned into
a very heated argument we both had been drinking that day, also and it turned
into a fight. He is a big man, around 6 feet tall and 250 lbs.
I was only 5’8” and 150 at that time. Needless to say I got (I’m now
200 lbs after 3 years) the worst end--cracked ribs, dislocated jaw.
He tried to beat my head with a rock and shot at me with a pellet gun.
As I was scrambling to get away I warned him he better be gone when I return.
I had totally lost it and ran for one of my weapons which. by the way. I
collected guns.
When I returned he was sitting at the picnic table eating his lunch and I
approached him locked and loaded. I told him “say your prayers motherfucker
cause I’m sending you to Hell” and started squeezing rounds into him.
Needless to say the idiot never died. He took 2 rounds in the head,
2 in the chest, one in the back and one in the hand. He ran to the
neighbors who phone paramedics and police.
The cops came and arrested me and got a search warrant and searched the property.
They came up with most of my gun collection and 36 ozs. of marijuana plants,
some dried weed and seeds. My charges were attempted murder, Class
A felony promotion of weed, several Class A firearms charges, reckless endangering,
terrorist threatening. I felt I had a good self defense case but in
Hawaii there is no such thing. I kept fighting and got the weed charges
dismissed because the police tampered with he evidence. They stole
a bunch of the high quality. But I was still facing at least 20 years
in the firearms violations and the attempted murder rap.
They never did find the weapon I used and I blew it by admitting that
I shot him and talked without my lawyer. My lawyer fought tooth and
nail but couldn’t deny the fact that there would be a conviction so we took
the best deal they threw at us which was the fourth deal and it was an open
10 with no mandatory minimum and the parole board gave me 5 out of the 10.
Meanwhile the other cocksucker runs free because it was my son’s word against
his and his girlfriend’s. My life has been devastated since.
I was denied bail even though I had the money, the judge told me I had sufficient
time to bail because I had waited 8 months until I wanted to make bail to
secure my things (business, tools, race cars, lumber?, etc.) before I go
to prison, well needless to say I lost all of that, now about 200,000 dollars
worth.
My old lady of 15 years became a drug addict and liquidated all of my hard
work, well maybe not all her work the neighborhood vultures had their stab
at some of it. My final charges was only 2 felonies, a Class B and
a C (run concurrent Assault) and terrorist threatening. It sure beats
the 13 felonies I had which was life and 94 years.
My old lady gave up all hope on life and my son became a ward of the state,
which is now living with his grandmother. I transferred my house and
property over to my mother-in-law in trust for my son because both of my
parents are dead. Now earlier this year I received a summons from an
Oklahoma sheriff. Can you believe that lame ass cocksucker is now trying
to sue me for $1.8 million? Now I don’t have a pot to piss in and he
pulls some shit like this. I’m going to try fight it he best way I
can.
I kind of wonder if there might be a way I can counter-sue him but now the
statues of limitations for filing have expired for me so that’s out.
There are times I wished I’d killed the fucker and I wouldn’t be here now.
On the other hand I’ve found a whole new meaning of life. I know now
who my true friends are and I only have about 30 of them and I found out
how solid my old lady was -- about as solid as alcohol. I have come
in touch with my inner self, I found religion, I got my A.S.E. Certification,
I learned to use a computer, read hundreds of books and have gotten over
50 certificates from classes, programs and Bible studies. I’m currently
in Toastmasters. I plan on writing an autobiography, a poem book and
a joke book and possibly a growers’ handbook or a hunter’s or fishing guide
book. I’m in Oklahoma because Hawaii prisons are full but I should
be transferred back for work furlough sometime this year. This may
have been a blessing in disguise. I’m not sure I want you to print
this and if you do I don’t want to be identified.
I would like to have a web page if you could hook me up. I’m in search
of a soul mate (female of course). I am looking for a solid lady who
would like to bear children and raise a family. I’m a highly skilled
individual and know how to make money. My house is waiting for me in
Hawaii, it’s still mine even though it’s in my son and mother-in-law’s name.
She feels for me the pain and losses I’ve endured in here. I would
like to hear your response to my situation and the web page. So long
friend or relative? Be blessed!
Palmer Gaylord
PS.: feel free to ask me any questions or details you wish to know and if
you need stamps to set up correspondence or for the web page I can send stamps
if it will help. Money is tight at 50 cents an hour and I live out
of the store because the food they feed here I wouldn’t even feed my dogs.
P.P.S: sorry about the chicken scratch handwriting or misspelled words.
© Copyright 2003
Palmer Gaylord
D6CF, FW-148
Rt 2 Box 336
Watonga, OK 73772
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