[CR Note: Thomas Loudamy is an aspiring journalist who has written to hundreds of serial killers, female murderers, celebrities in prison. Thomas estimates he has received thousands of letters written by about 400 American and Canadian inmates since he started his unusual pen pal hobby in 2001. He shares letters from his files every Friday here on Crime Rant. In this one, he shares excerpts from Crime Rant's favorite tattooed con, Curtis Allgier.]

Guest blog by Thomas Loudamy

This week’s blog is about Curtis Allgier — crappy tattoo aficionado, onetime “Property of Jolene” and now it appears, killer…

Curtis Allgier (or Wood as he prefers), was serving a relatively short sentence for passing a bad check, when the good people at Crimerant and MSNBC gave us a look at the man who would become “Utah’s Public Enemy Number One.”

After an episode of “Lockup” aired on MSNBC, things started going downhill for Allgier.

“When I did that MSNBC back in ‘05 I was about to get out. They pulled my date for tattooing my own face and gave me 18 months in prison!”

Having served his time, Allgier was paroled, although not for long.

“I got out in October ‘06 for 24 days. My ex rat, snitch, sellout gained a grip of weight and decided meth would fix it. It fucked her mind off and she convinced herself I was going to leave her, so she brought her 9mm gun to where I was, then called the cops to say I stole it. So they gave me 9 years Federal and I still owe Utah up to 8 more, so i had alot of time.”

Faced with more time, and “Mrs. Property of Wood- Jolene” no longer by his side, Curtis Allgier was a desperate man.

“Freedom was made available two weeks later, and here I am.”

“Here” for Allgier these days, is facing a possible death sentence in Utah for shooting and killing a 60 year old (white) prison guard while out on a medical pass. This from the self-proclaimed “One True Aryan God.”

Really? Aryan God?

For the sake of argument, allow me to decode some of those notorious “Aryan God” tattoos that seem to have captured everyones attention…

Property of Jolene (forehead) — court records indicate she filed for divorce.

Two-tone Crucified Skinhead (right temple) – popular logo amongst Anti-Racist groups, such as S.H.A.R.P (skinheads against racial prejudice), and Anti-Racist Action.

5150 (right cheek) – also known as the “Lanterman-Pertis-Short Act”. Section 5150 of California’s Welfare and Institutions Code allows a qualified officer or clinician to involuntarily confine a person deemed a danger to his or her self, and/or others.

Perhaps Allgier is unaware that he has been living in Utah and not California??

SS Lightning Bolts (jawbones) – What’s interesting is, in a prison setting “bolts” must be earned by an act of violence or murder. Curtis Allgier was never accused of or charged with any type of violence – until after the tattoos.  Maybe they were on loan in case of future acts?

Hatebreed (upper lip) – Let me just say this: Hatebreed is NOT a white power or racist band.  Never heard of them? Try Hot Topic… Teen girls seem to love them.

FUN (chin) – What can you say really? I going to take a guess that if you’re looking at spending the rest of your life around murderers and rapists — maybe “FUN” isn’t the word to tattoo right by your mouth… (i.e. – party in my cell).

So, what have we learned? Twenty seven year old meth addict goes to prison for a bad check, tattoos himself with random symbols to survive prison, marries another meth addict – earning her a forehead tattoo, goes back to prison(on a weapons charge), forehead tattoo becomes null and void, can’t live with doing more time so he kills a 60-year-old…All of this from a man so “proud” to be white, that he almost tattoos himself black.

Curtis Allgier can rest easy at night knowing that he succeded in becoming just like his hero Adolph Hitler – a complete and utter failure.

[CR Note: Thomas Loudamy is an aspiring journalist who has written to hundreds of serial killers, female murderers, celebrities in prison. Thomas estimates he has received thousands of letters written by about 400 American and Canadian inmates since he started his unusual pen pal hobby in 2001. He shares letters from his files every Friday here on Crime Rant.]

Guest blog by Thomas Loudamy

This week’s blog is about sadistic child killer/ cannibal/ serial killer, Hadden Clark. Despite having a priviledged background(unlike most serial killers), Hadden Clark very well may be one of the worst killers to ever walk the earth – more on that later. 

Hadden Irving Clark was born in April of 1951 in Troy, New York. The product of two abusive alcoholics, it’s as though the “Clark” kids never had a chance.

With a sister who ran away the first chance she got, one brother arrested for domestic violence, and another brother convicted of murder and dismemberment, it really isn’t a suprise Hadden Clark turned out to be a violent murderer – the only suprise being, to what degree.   

“I’ve seen alot of the world, and I’m happy with the way I’ve lived my – well, I’m happy with how I’ve lived alot of my life and not happy with a few things I’ve done.  A few things I’ve done have been very bad, and maybe if I got the proper care or people hadn’t abused me, I might not have done what i did. I’ve been abused by society in lots of different ways.”

There is no doubt that Hadden Clark suffered child abuse, One of his mother’s favorite games (while drunk) was to dress little Hadden up as a girl and refer to him as Kristen.

To this day, Hadden Clark says “Kristen Bluefin” is actually the child killing monster, not himself.  In the three plus years I have been corresponding with Clark, he has told me to address Kristen when asking about any of the murders. In my conversations with Hadden Clark he has vowed to help in the recovery of murdered children(in his words, angels), even so far as to offer to draw me a map.

In 2000, Hadden Clark went with FBI agents on a fruitless search around Cape Cod, a search he said would turn up bodies. One thing that did turn up was a bucket with some 200 pieces of jewelry he said belonged to victims. Atleast one piece was matched to one teenaged victim already recovered.

Always one for riddles, Clark wrote me and wanted me to ask Kristen: “Why the FBI never found anything on Cape Cod.”  When iIdid ask, this was his response:

“I loved Cape Cod, but i also love BLOCK ISLAND. Both great for salt water fishing, and I do love to fish.”  Another of Hadden’s common riddles involves “the woman with no hands (he) left in the sand.”

Truly the most horrific aspect of Hadden Clark (and the reason I ended our correspondence) is his unnerving commitment to pedophillia, which seems to go unchecked, even by prison officials:

“I love recieving cute greeting cards with photos of little girls on the front. Most all of my LOYAL penpals send me these cards almost everytime they write. And some of my penpals also enclose six or seven 3 X 5 glossy prints of little girls in dresses, skirts, jumpers, bathing suits, pajamas, their underwear, or in the bathtub. I collect these type of photos.”

Perhaps it might be a good idea to screen the incoming mail of the monster who stabbed a 6 year old little girl in the throat(causing her death), molested her, and then ate part of her body.

These days, besides sitting in a cell thinking of little girls, Hadden Clark lives in fear of being transferred to a “real” prison.

“It’s not where i want to go. This facility lied to me. I was told i could go to a Medium facility. I’m going to be transferred to a brand new Maximum facility up in the NorthWestern part of Maryland, called Cumberland.”

You(the reader) might be as angry as I am to learn that this walking parasite is only serving two 30 year sentences. That’s right, no death penalty case here.

I personally can think of atleast one warm place Hadden Clark might just feel more at home…

[CR Note: Thomas Loudamy is an aspiring journalist who has written to hundreds of serial killers, female murderers, celebrities in prison. Thomas estimates he has received thousands of letters written by about 400 American and Canadian inmates since he started his unusual pen pal hobby in 2001. He shares letters from his files every Friday here on Crime Rant.]

Guest blog by Thomas Loudamy

This week’s blog is about a “suspected” serial killer most people have never even heard of – Eric Mickelson.

Eric Mickelson is currently in county jail awaiting trial for the murder of 86-year-old Shreveport resident Charles Martin. While passing time in a cell, Mickelson admitted to the decade old murder of Kristi O’Pry, as well as his involvement in four other homicides.

If first impressions really are everything, Eric Mickelson very well may be someone we should all pay attention to. With an opening paragraph that would make Profilers perk up their ears,  I was more than happy to let Mickelson speak for himself…

“Be careful what you wish for, and twice as cautious what you reach out for. Because some wishes come true, even when you don’t want them too! Something could be reaching for you… but, maybe that’s a letter for later.”

Although I’m not one easily impressed by the (obvious) Nietzsche rip off, I hoped to gain more of an understanding of Mickelson by “his” own thoughts and not Ted Bundyesque tidbits.

“Who is this who, without death, can journey through the kingdom of the dead? Woe unto darkness, when one brings a candle to illuminate the cob-web filled corners!”

After letting Mickelson know that I have no desire to weed through “look I’m so smart” pseudo poetry, he responded with this appropriate line: 

“I’m really pretty simple, though at times I like to pretend I’m deep and complex.”

With a new found promise to not “candy-coat the world with a sugar filled eye”, I asked Mickelson directly about the murders he is accused of.

In yet another obscure moment, I received the following response:

“There are moments that change you forever. Wish all you’d like, but you can’t go back! Sorry my friend, this is a one way ride!”

Trying to reverse direction, Mickelson pointed to a pain-filled life going back to his childhood:

“When we seek to elude the past, it reaches out with fingers that can destroy all we know and love.” 

Despite my best efforts (to pinpoint the painful childhood cause), Mickelson dismissed it with the following:

“Like everyone, I have my own demons and i wrestle with them the best I know how.”

The single most telling thing about Eric Mickelson is his clear lack of concern for right and wrong:

“I at one time saw others lives as the benchmark by which things are measured. Then some time ago I reached a point where the compass that led me no longer functioned. Do I believe in sin? No, only poor choices, and only from a give perspective.”

And again:

“Enough of that, things are where they are, and as fate has willed, so shall they be fulfilled.  I drink the cup!”

Like a man defeated, Eric Mickelson sums up his life:

“Knowledge is a burden, it has a price.  Commencement de la Fin! (The beginning of the end.)”

With a day in court still looming, Eric Mickelson just might be right…

[CR Note: Thomas Loudamy is an aspiring journalist who has written to hundreds of serial killers, female murderers, celebrities in prison. Thomas estimates he has received thousands of letters written by about 400 American and Canadian inmates since he started his unusual pen pal hobby in 2001. He shares letters from his files every Friday here on Crime Rant. This week, he gives us a peek into the mind of a trio of men cooling their heels in prison -- including Crime Rant favorite, Bobby Cutts, Jr., the cop turned killer that broke our hearts by murdering Jessie Davis and her baby last year.]

Guest blog by Thomas Loudamy

A more fitting title for this week’s blog may very well be, “They Said That?”

It never fails to amaze me what exactly people have to say when you just allow them to do the talking…

So-called “Alpha Dog” Jesse James Hollywood, is a five foot four, twenty-something currently awaiting trial in California for the murder of Nicholas Markowitz, 15, over an “alleged” drug debt.  If you live in a world without movie theatres, the internet, television, and even radio, then you may have never heard about this case.  These days there is controversy over a film being released under the “Alpha Dog” title.  The Supreme Court recently heard arguments on the case.

In an attempt to oust Santa Barbara Senior Deputy District Attorney Ron Zonen, Jesse James Hollywood seems more than happy for a fight.

“The Notorious Alpha Dog Unit team recently had a showdown in L.A. to argue my case to seven Cali Supreme Court judges. (Ironically on April Fools day) The joke was on the S.B.D.A movie production company as we circle around hoping for the ousting of the entire office for Ron “The Wad” Zonen’s participation with Hollywood producers. (Basically wrote the fuckin’ script)”   

Not one to be bothered by death penalty court cases, Hollywood shines through as a proud papa:  

“My son John just won his first fight at school and continues the Fighting Irish tradition!!!  The kid is 2 and a half and already fighting out of his weight class – I guess he beat up a 4 year old.”  Truth be told, Jesse James Hollywood doesn’t have much to talk about other than, well, Jesse James Hollywood.  The self-styled “O.G.” states while it’s interesting that there is a “Hollywood film that happens to be a precise rendition”, he is content to let the Supreme Court’s decision to “speak for itself.” 

This will definitely be a case to watch.

Next up is Bobby Cutts Jr., ex-cop turned baby killer. Ohioan Cutts was convicted of the murders of Jessie Marie Davis and their unborn daughter Chloe.  Yet another victim of Cutts and his evil deeds was the two year old son of Jessie Davis (also fathered by Cutts) who was left to fend for himself — at the crime scene.

With crocodile tears flowing, Cutts pleaded with jurors to spare HIS life, which amazingly, they did. Now that the world doesn’t have to worry about Bobby Cutts for at least 30 years, there isn’t honestly much noteworthy about him. However, when it comes to love and Jessie Davis specifically, one has to wonder what exactly goes through his mind.

It should be no surprise that “love” is a mystery to Bobby Cutts. After wanting to discuss bad break ups, or just bad relationships, Cutts had this chilling gem for me: “Love doesn’t really work if you have to send out a search party.”

As bizarre as that statement was to me, the subject of Jessie Davis and baby Chloe doesn’t serve as a redeemer:  “I really try not to dwell on it. Hope that doesn’t sound cold but I have to move forward — so, tell me more about you. Your likes/dislikes, things you enjoy…”

It would appear (thanks at least in part to the jury) that Bobby Cutts is now able to get past his “bad breakup” and dry those tears. Somewhere out there is a little boy who I’m sure cannot stop HIS.

Last but not least is Bruce Mendenhall, an accused serial killer from Illinois.

Mendenhall has been implicated in the deaths of seven women in Alabama, Tennessee, Indiana, and Georgia, as well as suspect in several other states.

Probably the most shocking news was the mention of blood, from 10 different people, found in the cab of his truck.
It would be an understatement to say Bruce Mendenhall is odd. His interests, as he told them to me, are as follows: “Kennedy Assn., Waco Standoff, Oklahoma City bombing, and Ruby Ridge.”

This all from the man who once ran for mayor!

Besides reliving some of the worst times in American history, Mendenhall seems to be developing an appreciation for, well, art. 

“Make sure any drawings or pictures(you send) aren’t X-rated, it’s contraband I’ll never see UNLESS you know a way to sneak it by them (jail officials).”

After thanking me numerous times for writing, Mendenhall wanted me to know that if i decided to write him again we could discuss anything except, in his words, “My case, unless you’re going to HELP Alibi me!”

I think I’m starting to see why that bid for mayor didn’t work out…