Matthew Cox | Inside True Crime Podcast
Inmate Sleeps With Officer, Escapes Jail & Steals Thousands! | Joe Baker
Thu, 27 Mar 2025
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Chapter 1: What happened during Joe's childhood?
I'm being held as a maximum security inmate. I'm sleeping with the officer. When I escaped from jail, ran to the house, I said, look, I gave her the number. He said, as soon as you say hello, they gonna run in there. By that time, it light up, it's blocked. I asked. He said, the warden told me to give you whatever you ask. You know what we want. I said, what do you want?
Well, I was born on Springfield, Tennessee, 1997. I'm 37. I be 38, December. Springfield, small town. You already know, most of them small town ain't nothing to do but get in trouble. Growing up, we did have a skate ring. They got rid of the skate ring. We had a bowling alley. They tore that down. Built another gas station. We didn't have nothing.
So it wasn't nothing to do but get in trouble in Springfield. My mom dated one of the biggest dope boys in the city. And that right there, I feel like, was the beginning of our problems. On top of my daddy already gone to prison, two life sentences, two murder charges, two robberies. him and my mom's brother, they ended up robbing a store and a lady got killed.
We still don't know to this day which one of them, because one say and the other say. And both of them end up with life sentences. And while they were fighting that life sentence, while they were fighting that case, Another case came up that was a cold case that they ended up getting hit with pretty much the same situation. It's just all bad. Went into a store, a struggle. Somebody died.
They both got two life sentences. Like I said, my mom was dating him. Biggest dope boy in the city. Sorry, real quick. Do you see your dad? Do you ever talk to him? I do. Yeah, I talk to him all the time. Okay. Yeah, yeah, he got a YouTube channel. Yeah, yeah, I help him. I help him do his thing. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
I talk to him all the time, you know, and we'll get to it later on, but, you know, we were sellers. We were sellers. That's my guy. That's my guy.
Wow.
Yeah, I talk to him all the time. But yeah, growing up as a kid, yeah, we went to see him all the time. GD, he's affiliated, which was why I went down that path too. But going back to my mama dating the Doughboy, man, that was kind of what intrigued me when it came to the streets. Because everything that we had, we had go-karts, we had the Jordans, we had you name it, we had it.
Christmas, we had all kind of gifts, and we always sit and wonder how we... We don't have normal lives, even though it looked like we in the struggle. Like, we close to the projects. All my homeboys is in the projects, but it seemed like we got decent lives. Right. And I remember coming home one day, getting off the bus, and I wanted to get some snacks, and I went in the pantry.
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Chapter 2: How did Joe's family background influence his life choices?
Chapter 3: What led to Joe's first robbery experience?
Okay.
That's what we called him at the time. Crime boss. Crime boss came to the house and he had told me it's around Christmas. And he was actually in foster care at the time. DC has custody, but he ain't in a group home. He living with somebody. And these people were white and they were wealthy. They had money. And he told me that he had some money over there. which it wasn't his money.
It was the money where he knew they'd be putting for Christmas, when they'd be putting money up for Christmas. So we get another guy. He done told us this plan, what we're going to do. We're going to go to the house. We're going to get the money, and we're going to split it and all this and that. So we end up going to the house. We try to go through the door. We couldn't go through the door.
The door was locked. He ends up breaking out the window. We climb in the window. I climb in behind him because in my mind, I'm already thinking, Even though I ain't all the way in the streets, I'm kinda already got some street sense. I'm thinking if he go in there and he get the money and put it in his pocket, he could say he never got it. So I jump in through the window with him.
The third guy, he stays to watch. We go up the steps, he grab the money. And he did exactly what I was thinking. He put it in his pocket. He turned back around. But I saw it. But by the time we go downstairs, I'm like, man, I seen the money. What we doing? So he gave me some of the money, put it back in his pocket. And I'm thinking, he ain't going to give him none.
So when we get out, I ended up giving the other guy some of the money. Two days went by. The police was at the door. I got up, went to the door. My mama's in the bedroom. I go to the door, answer the door, and see it's the police. And he was like, is your mom here, Joe? I'm like, no, she ain't here. She ain't here right now. He was like, well, you know why I'm here.
I was like, no, actually, I don't. Yeah, my cousin robbed that fucking place. That's what I should have did. But as soon as he said, oh, you know why I'm here, I got nervous because he said it loud enough. He knew my mom was right there. He said it loud enough like, this is a kid who's lying knowing that his parent is in the house. And I was like, no.
And he pulled out a picture of my cousin laid back. in the detective, in the interrogation room with his feet up on the counter. He got the- He's taken to it. He got a Wendy's meal. He was sitting there chilling. He was like, he already told us everything. And I was like, I don't know what you're talking about. And by that time, my mama- comes out of the back room. Who is that?
He said, I thought she wasn't. I thought your mom wasn't here. And she came around the corner seeing who it was, and I tried to slam the door on him, and it didn't work. And I'm trying to tell her not to talk to him, but to make a long story short on that, she ended up taking me to the police department.
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Chapter 4: How did Joe escape from jail?
He grabbed me and told me that I couldn't do that right there. He was like, man, you got to chill. He was like, you know, you just came home. You want to play basketball. He running all this stuff down. He take me out. He calm me down. And he was like, you good? I was like, yeah, I'm good. He was like, well, just stay right here to the bedroom and then go on back to your class.
As I'm sitting right here waiting for the bedroom, one of my cousins come out of his classroom and the guy's brother is walking down the hallway. So I told my cousin, I'm like, come on, we're going to get him. I can't go back in the cafeteria. I can't go back in the cafeteria, so we're going to get him. So we started walking behind him. When he turned around, I don't know if he knew or what.
I don't know if he felt it, but he ended up taking out running in the hallway. As he take out running, we chase him in the hallway. We bust a big U-turn. Then we got these portables outside. He run outside to the portables, I guess is where his class was at. And he runs in the classroom and I run in right behind him.
And when I run in behind him, when I bust through the door, he's already up by the teacher, like telling the teacher, like they chasing me, they chasing me. And the teacher like, what is going on? And I walk in, I'm cussing, I'm going off. And she was like, wait a minute, wait a minute. She get on her, she got a walkie talkie. She get on the walkie talkie.
Calling for the principal, assistant principal, and whoever else. And everybody in the classroom started standing up. And at this point, I'm trying to walk towards him. And he get behind the teacher, and I throw a desk out of the way. And at that point, they ran in and grabbed me, and they sit down with me, and I ended up in alternative school.
Yeah, you can't come back here.
You can't do that. You just can't do that. But I ended up going to alternative school, and while I was in alternative school, I hated it. And one of my best friends, one of my guys.
This is supposed to be a wonderful experience. I hate it. What did you expect?
What did you think was going to happen? Not that. But when I got there, bro, it was so boring. And me and my homeboy would sit outside on a little bench with the school back here. We would sit on the bench and we would just sit there and talk. And one day I was just like, man, you want to go steal some cars? And he was like, man, I'm with whatever. He was like, how are we going to do it?
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Chapter 5: What was the aftermath of Joe's robbery gone wrong?
Don't go in there. In front of his mama. His mama is saying, he going in there. My mama's in. You going too. I said, I'm not going in there. I'm down here to make sure he don't go in there.
Are you concerned that they're going to give him some Wendy's?
He got the Wendy's.
He got the Wendy's. He got something. You're going to get a photograph?
There's a photograph coming of him with some Wendy's. He went in. I ran again. I ran. I ain't doing no talking. He told him what happened. He told him what happened. After that happened, we still in alternative school. We still skipping and stealing cars.
Even after that happened. Right. So yeah, all this is happening while you're in the alternative school. Yeah. Okay.
Yeah. And after that, we still in alternative school. They gave us a, we got a court date for the car to go to court.
You didn't get arrested?
I got charged. I got charged. He told them everything that happened. Did the cops come and arrest you? No, because I was underage. So I just had to go down. I don't know if my mama had to sign for something, but they just called. I had to go down there. She had to sign. I had a court date because I was a minor. But they didn't put me in custody or nothing like that.
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Chapter 6: How did Joe's life change after prison?
Nobody will put us together if we just get across town.
Yeah, yeah. We drive all the way across town. And we're in the neighborhood. Houses were nice. The cars were luxury. We thinking, okay, this is where the money at. And it's my homeboy town, so I'm driving. We get to a four-way. It was a BMW. It's got that, I think they call it mirror tent, whatever it is. But we're at a four-way, and she's on the phone.
And she flashed for us to go ahead and go because we got the blinker to turn left because I'm going to turn and I'm going to stop right in front of her. He's going to get out. So I turn. And when I turn and hit that left, I hit on the brakes. He jumps out. By the time he jumped out and she see the gun, I hear her scream.
And her hands went up, and I'm guessing when her hands went up, she hit the car, the gear shift, and put it in reverse. So when the car go in reverse, if you ain't steering the wheel in reverse, it's going to turn. So she hit it, and the car started backing up, and my homeboy is running beside the car with the gun to the window. She goes down in this ditch, and all I hear is a boom.
It ain't a gunshot. It sounded like a wreck. She hit a tree. My homeboy runs back up the hill and comes to the car. He was like, man, she crazy. She got out running. I said, did she have a purse in her hand? He's like, nah, she ain't had nothing. I said, go back and get the purse. Right. So he ran back, got the purse, got in the truck. We pulled out. She had like $1,200, $1,300 in there. Whoa.
Yeah. She had like $1,300. Like $1,300. We went to the mall. You got to keep in mind, we ain't had a shower. We got no license. I'm 15, 16. We don't know nothing about Atlanta, Georgia, what they call the underground mall at the time. We at the underground mall. My homeboy, he had real on her at the time, but he ain't have it braided. He had two big puff balls.
So we found somebody that can braid his hair. Then we ran into a guy that... I think he was renting scooters out or something. He had some kind of connection to like little motor scooters or something. And we kind of, oh, let me back up. That night after we hit the lick, before we go to the underground mall, we parked in a parking garage that you can go in. We're parking in a parking garage.
And as we're in the parking garage, I doze off and go to sleep. My homeboy's smoking. My homeboy's smoking. And I tell him, I was like, man, make sure you turn the truck out. So I go to sleep. I wake up. There's money all in the dashboard. I'm guessing he just been having a great old time. I go to start the truck up. Truck dead.
That's how we ended up getting out of the truck and walking to the underground mall and running into these people. Because the truck, the batteries dead. Which probably was a plus for us at the time.
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Chapter 7: What were the events leading to Joe's attempted murder charge?
He didn't get arrested. That's a good sign. Yeah, sure was. So we thought. But he come out. They come to the house. My mama had a red contour at the time. They pull in. I'm sitting in the swing, so they pull in front of me. My mama's on the passenger. His mama driving. He gets out of, no, his mama on the passenger, my mama driving. He gets out behind the passenger door.
So he right in front of me when he opened the door. And when he opened the door, I said, what you tell him? He was like, I ain't tell him nothing. I said, let's walk to the store. His mama said, all y'all going to jail? I pulled, I kind of, I said, I ain't going nowhere. I said, let's walk to the store. And she was like, he ain't going nowhere with you. I said, he ain't got no choice.
And my mom said, boo, I said, nah, I just want to go to the store and talk. So we walk across the street to the store, and I'm conflicted, just like you just said. That's a good sign. I'm thinking, he in here three and a half hours on a murder, kidnapping, and robbery.
If you said anything that incriminated you, if you said anything and you was there, you would, ain't no way you standing in front of me. Ain't no way. So I asked him, I said, what, I said, what, what did you tell him? What was you down there doing for three, three and a half hours? He said, and his first response was, I didn't tell him nothing about you.
And I believe him because the police ain't came and got me. And I was like, well, what did you tell him? Did you, he said, I blamed it all on the shooter. Right. And I said, so you say you was there? He was like, they said they ain't worried about me. They said they want the gunman. I said, so you told them. He said, because I didn't tell them nothing about you. The shooter's going to.
I said, I still, I was like, ain't no way you, you, you. He said, I'm telling you. He said, you need to go down there and do the same thing. He said, he said, he said they, all they were saying was they wanted to shoot. He said, they even called the D.A., I said, why are you using her? He said, they just want the shooter. I was like, all right. This was July 24th when it happened. July 27th.
Hold on. June 24th when it happened. July 27th is when they came to get me.
I'm thinking. You never went down?
No. Okay. Never got arrested. Never went and talked. Nothing. And the guy that I'm telling you about that went down there and talked first started going with my ex-girlfriend. So I'm driving down the street one day.
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Chapter 8: How did Joe end up in a youth detention center?
I said, what you?
What? I said, I need a ride. Somebody take me to New Medico, which is where my cousin, Jeffrey, I say his name. And she was like, I'll take him. She ended up taking me. And we went and picked up my little cousin, the little brother, and the brother that you asking me. We picked up both of them. And we were riding. They was asking me what I was going to do or whatever.
And I ended up going to Clarksville. And when I got to Clarksville, I'm sitting on the back patio with this girl I know. Her brother pulls up. He know me, too. Everybody knew we had been on the news, newspaper, everything. He pulled up. He walked up the stairs and he just jumped. He was like. I said, I made a bond. What he said, he said it was a half million dollar bond.
I said, I had a bond reduction here and they dropped mine. He was like, what about? I said, they ain't dropped yet. I said, they dropped mine. He was like, oh, okay. And he was like, you hungry? I'm thinking you ready to cook. I'm like, nah, I'm straight. I ain't got no appetite. He go in the house. He ain't in there 15, 20 seconds. I'm breaking news for the escape. He come right back out.
He said, boo. I looked. He said, I thought you.
I said, ah.
He was like, but you good, you good, you good, you good. And he was like, you sure you ain't home? I said, nah, I ain't home. I said, I'm going to get some sleep. I'm going to go to Virginia in the morning. He was like, all right, cool. He was like, you can go in there and lay down. I went in there, laid down. Next thing you know, the little brother shook me. By the time I raised up,
He was at the bedroom door. He said, boo, he said, I'm sorry. He said, they got the house around it. And he ran and he took out running. I'm already thinking, I said, they must knew he had, once he out of the house, anybody else is going to be an issue. So I got up and I'm sitting. As soon as I heard the door close, boom, the detective got on the bullhorn. He said, Baker.
We know you're in the house. We don't want you hurt. We don't want nobody else to get hurt. We just want you to come out of the house. The phone ringing at the time, I'm thinking it's got to be them. So I wait for it to stop ringing. I get on the phone. I call my family because I'm basically about to go ahead and make them do it to me. I'm like, this is life in prison.
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