<![CDATA[Brad Evans]]>https://bradevans11.substack.comhttps://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!G1TH!,w_256,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbradevans11.substack.com%2Fimg%2Fsubstack.pngBrad Evanshttps://bradevans11.substack.comSubstackTue, 01 Sep 2026 19:09:32 GMT<![CDATA[A Conversation with Jimmy Barbee]]>https://bradevans11.substack.com/p/a-conversation-with-jimmy-barbeehttps://bradevans11.substack.com/p/a-conversation-with-jimmy-barbeeMon, 31 Aug 2026 11:01:55 GMTJimmy Barbee was nineteen years old the first night the missiles came in.

He rolled off a top bunk and hit the concrete floor, third in a pile of men who’d gotten there ahead of him. Boys, mostly. Most of them faster than they thought they were until the night proved otherwise.

He had graduated from Lanier High School and gone straight into the Army, stra…

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]]><![CDATA[Episode 6: Hair Like Freddy Fender]]>https://bradevans11.substack.com/p/episode-6-hair-like-freddy-fenderhttps://bradevans11.substack.com/p/episode-6-hair-like-freddy-fenderMon, 24 Aug 2026 11:03:29 GMTEd Flowers had a plan to escape prison disguised as a nun. Then a trip to the hospital changed everything.

With a homemade handcuff key hidden in his mouth, Ed found himself riding back from Montgomery in the rear of an ambulance. By the time it stopped on Interstate 65, he was covered in blood, and making another break for freedom.

And when they finally …

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]]><![CDATA[A Conversation with Frank Hogue]]>https://bradevans11.substack.com/p/a-conversation-with-frank-hoguehttps://bradevans11.substack.com/p/a-conversation-with-frank-hogueMon, 17 Aug 2026 11:03:33 GMTYou might know Frank Hogue’s name from standing next to some of the most notorious criminals Georgia’s produced in the last three decades. He was in the room for the Ahmaud Arbery case, representing Gregory McMichael. He defended Stephen McDaniel, the Mercer law student who murdered his neighbor Lauren Giddings. He sat with men on death row and kept eve…

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]]><![CDATA[A Conversation With Scott Stradley]]>https://bradevans11.substack.com/p/a-conversation-with-scott-stradleyhttps://bradevans11.substack.com/p/a-conversation-with-scott-stradleyMon, 10 Aug 2026 11:04:29 GMT There are men who carry visible wounds, and there are men like Scott Stradley, who walk in looking whole and shake your hand firm. And it isn’t until you sit across from him a while that you understand some of what he’s carrying went in through a door you can’t see.

He flew Kiowas, small, fast, next to no armor, into places nothing else could go. Iraq f…

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]]><![CDATA[Episode 5: A Hundred and Five Holes]]>https://bradevans11.substack.com/p/episode-5-a-hundred-and-five-holeshttps://bradevans11.substack.com/p/episode-5-a-hundred-and-five-holesMon, 03 Aug 2026 11:02:45 GMTThe Bradford robbery is over, but Teddy’s fight is just beginning.

In Episode 5, Teddy recounts the final hours of his escape through Alabama—a rolling gun battle with law enforcement that leaves the getaway van riddled with 105 bullet holes and Teddy wounded before the chase finally comes to an end.

Captured and sentenced to 114 years in prison, Teddy en…

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]]><![CDATA[A Conversation With Amy Hutsell]]>https://bradevans11.substack.com/p/a-conversation-with-amy-hutsellhttps://bradevans11.substack.com/p/a-conversation-with-amy-hutsellWed, 22 Jul 2026 22:58:34 GMT

There is a kind of work that doesn’t get talked about at dinner parties. Amy Hutsell does that kind of work.

She’s the Director of Special Projects and Partnerships for one of Georgia’s criminal justice agencies, which sounds like a desk job until you find out what’s on the desk. Her team has pulled in over $28 million in federal and foundation money — m…

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]]><![CDATA[Episode 4: Big Trouble in Little Alabama]]>https://bradevans11.substack.com/p/episode-4-big-trouble-in-little-alabamahttps://bradevans11.substack.com/p/episode-4-big-trouble-in-little-alabamaWed, 15 Jul 2026 11:02:08 GMTFresh off another prison escape, Teddy and his crew tear through the South in a violent crime spree that leads them to the doorstep of one of Alabama’s richest and most powerful men. John C. Bradford built an empire, a mountaintop mansion, and a fortress he believed no one could breach.

He was wrong.

What follows is a home invasion unlike anything Alabama…

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]]><![CDATA[A Conversation with Tee Smith]]>https://bradevans11.substack.com/p/a-conversation-with-tee-smithhttps://bradevans11.substack.com/p/a-conversation-with-tee-smithMon, 06 Jul 2026 11:01:49 GMTThere are cities that measure themselves by the buildings they raise, the restaurants they open, the festivals they throw, and the ribbon cuttings that make the evening news.

Then there’s everything else.

Every town has a second map. It isn’t printed anywhere. You won’t find it in the visitors guide or on the Chamber of Commerce website. It’s drawn in aba…

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]]><![CDATA[Episode 3: Partly Cloudy and Scattered Convicts]]>https://bradevans11.substack.com/p/episode-3-partly-cloudy-and-scatteredhttps://bradevans11.substack.com/p/episode-3-partly-cloudy-and-scatteredMon, 29 Jun 2026 11:03:03 GMTEd Flowers escapes from the Crawford County Jail with a handful of hacksaw blades and a plan. What follows is a journey through the Deep South as he drifts from New Orleans to Atlanta, chasing freedom, money, and the next good idea. Along the way, he becomes a fugitive, an addict, and one of Georgia's most wanted men—proving that escaping prison was the…

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]]><![CDATA[A Conversation with Willie Perkins]]>https://bradevans11.substack.com/p/a-conversation-with-willie-perkinshttps://bradevans11.substack.com/p/a-conversation-with-willie-perkinsMon, 22 Jun 2026 11:00:56 GMTWillie Perkins had a good job once. Bank auditor. Steady. The kind of work that doesn’t keep you up at night, doesn’t follow you home. In 1970 he walked away from it to carry a briefcase for a band of long-haired kids out of Macon who hadn’t made a dime yet.

That briefcase turned out to be one of the more interesting vantage points in American music. Per…

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]]><![CDATA[Episode 2: The Slaughterhouse of the South]]>https://bradevans11.substack.com/p/episode-2-the-slaughterhouse-of-thehttps://bradevans11.substack.com/p/episode-2-the-slaughterhouse-of-theMon, 15 Jun 2026 11:02:28 GMTAt twenty years old, Ed Flowers boards a prison bus bound for Reidsville State Prison. His wife, Ruby Jean, is pregnant at home, his future hangs in the balance, and Georgia's most feared prison awaits at the end of the road. In Episode 2 of The Teddy Bear Tapes, Ed recounts his first night inside the "Slaughterhouse of the South," his time in the Hole,…

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]]><![CDATA[A Conversation with Matthew Morgan]]>https://bradevans11.substack.com/p/a-conversation-with-matthew-morganhttps://bradevans11.substack.com/p/a-conversation-with-matthew-morganMon, 08 Jun 2026 11:03:10 GMTMatthew Morgan has been a lot of things to a lot of people, and none of those things have ever been easy to explain to somebody who wasn’t already standing close enough to see. You could call him a skater. Same goes for fixie rider, vintage dealer, urban explorer, whatever word you want to reach for when you’re trying to pin a man down like a butterfly …

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]]><![CDATA[Episode 1: Stone Cold]]>https://bradevans11.substack.com/p/episode-1-youre-stone-cold-teddyhttps://bradevans11.substack.com/p/episode-1-youre-stone-cold-teddyFri, 05 Jun 2026 10:02:17 GMTIn the premiere episode of The Teddy Bear Tapes, Brad Evans introduces Ed “Teddy Bear” Flowers, a Macon, Georgia native whose life would eventually include 19 bank robberies, five prison escapes, and more than 40 years behind bars. Through recordings made shortly before his death, Teddy recounts his childhood, his first taste of crime, and the moment he earned the nickname that would follow him for the rest of his life.

]]><![CDATA[A Personal Note on The Teddy Bear Tapes]]>https://bradevans11.substack.com/p/a-personal-note-on-the-teddy-bearhttps://bradevans11.substack.com/p/a-personal-note-on-the-teddy-bearThu, 04 Jun 2026 14:03:26 GMTSubscribe now

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]]><![CDATA[TRAILER: The Teddy Bear Tapes]]>https://bradevans11.substack.com/p/trailer-the-teddy-bear-tapeshttps://bradevans11.substack.com/p/trailer-the-teddy-bear-tapesWed, 03 Jun 2026 14:44:49 GMTEpisode 1 drops Friday, June 5th.

]]><![CDATA[A Conversation with Jon Jackson]]>https://bradevans11.substack.com/p/a-conversation-with-jon-jacksonhttps://bradevans11.substack.com/p/a-conversation-with-jon-jacksonMon, 01 Jun 2026 13:03:46 GMTSome people arrive in your life as a name first. For years, Jon Jackson existed in my world purely as a recommendation — handed to me like a gift whenever I needed something no ordinary person could provide. When my butterfly-chasing brain convinced me, briefly and gloriously, that I might take up falconry, someone said call Jon Jackson. Need an heirloo…

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]]><![CDATA[The Teddy Bear Tapes: Episode 1 Preview]]>https://bradevans11.substack.com/p/the-teddy-bear-tapes-episode-1-previewhttps://bradevans11.substack.com/p/the-teddy-bear-tapes-episode-1-previewMon, 25 May 2026 15:26:24 GMTThese are the first 7 minutes of Episode 1 of The Teddy Bear Tapes.

For the first time, you’re hearing Ed Flowers in his own words — pulled from cassette tapes he recorded himself and handed over to me near the end of his life.

This is just the beginning of the story.

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]]><![CDATA[A Conversation with Paul Hornsby]]>https://bradevans11.substack.com/p/a-conversation-with-paul-hornsbyhttps://bradevans11.substack.com/p/a-conversation-with-paul-hornsbyMon, 18 May 2026 20:32:50 GMTPaul Hornsby helped build the sound of Southern Rock before anybody even had a name for it.

Long before Capricorn Records turned Macon into sacred ground for rock and roll, Paul was a kid in Alabama watching his father play fiddle, learning guitar and organ in Tuscaloosa R&B bands, and crossing paths with names that would become legends. He played alongs…

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]]><![CDATA[ A Coversation with Bibb County Sherriff David Davis]]>https://bradevans11.substack.com/p/a-coversation-with-bibb-county-sherriffhttps://bradevans11.substack.com/p/a-coversation-with-bibb-county-sherriffMon, 11 May 2026 16:44:01 GMT

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Sheriff David Davis has been keeping order in Bibb County while most of us were still draggin on our mamas titty. He started at the sheriff’s office in December of 1979, went to Central High right here in Macon, and has been re-elected to a fourth term as sheriff. That’s not a career. That’s a life’s work inside one place, which is either the mark of a …

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