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Wilbert Rideau (born February 13, 1942) is an American convicted killer and former death row inmate from Lake Charles, Louisiana, who became an author and award-winning journalist while held for 44 years at Angola Prison.
Journalist & Editor. After his release from prison in 2005, Wilbert penned a memoir, In the Place of Justice. It chronicles his personal transformation during his four decades in Angola and the evolution of the prison during that time from the nation's bloodiest to one of the safest.
Apr 15, 2024 · Wilbert Rideau spent 44 years at Angola Prison, where he created The Lifer, a Black prison periodical. He was also editor of The Angolite, a magazine that exposed prison violence and won the George Polk Award in Journalism in 2023.
Wilbert Rideau, who became an unlikely civil rights figure in the Deep South although he never denied kidnapping three bank employees and stabbing one of them through the heart, walked out of a...
Feb 17, 2011 · In 1961, Louisiana-raised Wilbert Rideau was convicted of murder. He had kidnapped the manager of a bank along with two bank workers. He shot and wounded all three, before killing one of...
Apr 26, 2010 · Wilbert Rideau went to prison in 1961 at the age of 19 for killing a woman during a bungled bank robbery. Prison changed him. He became the editor of the award-winning prison magazine The...
Jan 17, 2005 · Wilbert Rideau, an acclaimed prison journalist and confessed killer, walked out of the Calcasieu Parish Courthouse in Lake Charles, La., a free man on Saturday night after serving 44...
