Audio Recording of Richard Boggs 1990 Execution 

A lot of people have been asking where they can find all of the audios. Most of them have been released by npr on their website. If you pop in “npr execution tapes” in a search engine, it should be the first or second to pop up. I just tried it. You just have to scroll to the bottom of the page to find the audios.

Hearing the actual electric surge lends a new level of creepiness to this recording 😮

Hey Jade really love your channel. I’m a retired correctional officer and as sad as it is to say, you get used to all kinds of deaths just because of the nature of the job. I particularly enjoy your breakdown of different autopsies because of how you breakdown and summarize what happened. Thank you and hope to see tons more of your content!

He killed an old lady while she served him a cup a tea!!!

As Chris Hanson would say “why don’t you take a seat right here”

I actually wish they recorded this more and made them public. Maybe if potential killers heard this it WOULD be a deterrent.

"Boggs was sentenced to death for the Jan. 25, 1984 robbery and slaying of his Portsmouth neighbor, Treeby M. Shaw, 87. She had just poured tea for Boggs when he beat her with a metal bar and stabbed her. Boggs told police he killed the widow he had known all his life because he needed money for drugs. He took diamond rings from her fingers and family silver from the house" The Roanoke Times

Being able to hear the first surge of electricity was eerie but fascinating at the same time. Fascinating in the sense that not everyone has ever or will ever hear that sound in their lives. It’s a sound you can’t explain and the only way to understand the sound is to hear it for yourself.

Judging by the sound of it I wouldn’t trust anyone on that audio recording to replace a toilet roll in a bathroom dispenser.

So much confusion over something as simple as a phone line. 🤦🏻‍♂️

Not to get off point. She has one of the nicest voices I have ever heard.

The southern accent changed so much in just 35 years. You don't hear many Virginia tidewater accents anymore.

That’s people can’t even answer a damn call but they’re responsible for an execution?!?!Wow!!

The 1st surge kills him, and the 2nd surge brings him back to life, just to make it interesting..

I’m from the U.K. and I must say they all have the most lovely accents. As they describe a man getting fried.

7:33 is the moment everyone is here for 💀 Thanks Jade for finding these and uploading them for us, they're always fascinating to listen to!

The sound you hear at 7:33 is from the transformers, especially the older ones. The newer ones are quieter even when straining to complete the circuit. We have long replaced the older transformers at my job but I still remember exactly what they sound like.

I had no idea you had a play by play announcer at an execution.

Wow, the sound of the first round of electricity, freaky

“The expiration of the inmate.” was scarier than the audio 😳😳

This has been the most unsettling of the audios I've heard. To actually hear the electrical squeal for the first time felt like something no one should be party to hearing.

Richard Boggs murdered his 87 year old neighbor in Portsmouth on January 25, 1984. After having struck and killed a pedestrian during a hit and run accident earlier that day, Boggs went to Shaw's house on the pretense of borrowing a book. After having the third cup of tea offered by Shaw, Boggs hit her over the head with a round hunk of steel. She was knocked unconscious by the blow, but continued to breathe. Boggs went into her kitchen, where he picked up a butcher knife and fatally stabbed her in the heart. Police questioned Boggs about the crime a month later, where they found silver stolen from Shaw's house in his vehicle when he was arrested for the hit and run accident committed earlier on the day of the murder.

I googled Richard Boggs and the wikipedia page brought me another murderer's page who shares the same name as this individual.

Addiction is a terrible disease that makes people do things they wouldn't normally do. So sad for everyone involved, particularly the innocent victim and their family. Poor lady, her kindness got her killed.😢

The victim seems to be forgotten too often. She was a elderly lady who did nothing but make him some tea. He murdered her in 1984 for drug money. We need to bring back those laws & punishments.

Y’all are witnessing the very first ASMR ever recorded

Bet he wished somebody had forgot to pay the electricity bill....

That scream after the first surge came straight from hell!!!!

Judging by some of these comments no wonder crime is out of control in the U.S.

Just something creepy about a person going to their death and hearing it.

2:33 Why is she SO ANNOYED about them asking to open the line for the governor?!😮😂😂😂 “Ugh, Gabby we’ve already strapped him in the chair!”😂😂😂

Thanks for downloading this

He caused his own death! I feel for his victim! Not him!

Justice was done in this case.

I'll update my original comment. I'm an amateur psychic, with an affinity for stories like these. Upon realizing that Boggs likely suffered more than the others during his electrocution, I did a little digging into his past. During his walk, he fainted and had to be carried to the chair, realizing that it was really happening. In his time, he was the kind of man who wandered the world in jackboots and leather, he was abusive and cruel, he never did anything productively, he used drugs to cover all the deficiencies of life that occurred due to his poor decisions, which led him to drugs. Prior to killing his neighbor, who he asked to borrow a book from and served him tea three times before he bludgeoned over the head and murdered her with a knife multiple times with, he committed a hit and run, killing some unnamed pedestrian, likely an unnamed because they were homeless. Nevertheless, it sent Boggs into a panic, as he sought to buy even more drugs to cover the stress of his previous hit-and-run homicide. In his desperation, he sought out his neighbor, Shaw. He sat with her and had tea three times, alluding to his need of money...but it was to buy more drugs. She denied his request for money, but gave him three cups of tea and offered all the friendship she had to offer Boggs. However, for Boggs and his desperate situation of having just killed someone with his car, he wanted drugs and he wanted them now.........Except Shaw was saying she didn't have it go give.........But Boggs, in his desperation, could see more than enough in her home to cover his needs............... Need I say more?

Until our State ended death sentence. Or right before. A inmate begged to be expedited in his execution. He got what he wanted. His codefendant got case turned to life instead of execution. He wasn't pleased. He's tried overdosing on his psyche meds several times. Now he's seemingly accepted his fate to die in prison. Refuses to talk about the teenagers & mom they torched with gasoline and strangled mom. She wrote a note to teller she was a hostage. They did nothing. Everyone would of been alive if the teller hit the button. 🤬🤬

Her voice is so soothing. You almost forget she's narrating the end of someone's life

They should should have shown this to the Shaw family and gave them a copy of this audio so they can Listen to his execution at least to help them remember that justice was served

The smell has to be nauseous

Why is it so important for the governor to get a clear line if he’s not giving the prisoner a stay?

I didn’t hear anything except voices and the lady breathing. Kinda glad I didn’t.

Why the damn hell is the whispering??

That has to be the most horrible heart pounding audio to ever hear

7:34 I bet he never knew watt hit him!

Sounds to me like that prison needs a competent secretary.

only thing missing here is......."the grim reaper has entered the execution chamber"

I can just picture the lady narrator on the phone while they are discussing which line they need open 😂😂😂 wonder if the inmate heard all this!? 😂

It's always described as "carrying the inmate to the execution chamber" he's not being physically carried he's walking. He stepped out of the cell and he was escorted to the execution chamber he wasn't carried. Inaccurate descriptive used.

What makes this one especially gruesome is when they first start the execution, at 7:34, you can hear the apparatus of the electric chair, straining as it struggled to rip the current through Bogg's body. Then you hear a faint click, click, click, as the transformer used generates more power to kill him. You can even see the transformer used in this video: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-XGQ6GpXInpE.html, at 7:34 also. The clicking noise was each of those bushing on top, firing lightening into his body. All of this happened because Boggs was a poor conductor of electricity, which also means he likely suffered more than the other executions.

Simple...DON'T COMMIT CRIMES

Ok so this is like my new favorite page! Subscribing now.

I can't find anything about this guy except this.

Typical government, nobody knows what is going on or how to contact one another.

The have to wait a few minutes for the body to cool down before checking... that's fucked up.

His last words were the last words he spoke. What do you mean there are NO last words?

7:29 POP *slight groan?* Jade was that a groan or…..??

As he entered the chamber, his fate was sealed. He was condemned to die that day

She has a calm voice. It’s almost like ASMR lol.

It’s weird how the lady talking has a northern accent when Virginia is a southern state. Must not be a local.

The sounds of the electric currents to me sounded like someone breathing through their nose into the phones mouth piece.

In Australia they don't do execution for inmates who have gone to prison for murder

The lady on the phone for sure has job security in the afterlife. She is gonna be a grim reaper 😳💀💀💀

Wow.....this was both shocking and electrifying 😮 I wonder watt his charges were?

Debbie must work full-time as a 911 operator.

This is creepy

12:31 for the ??? She said the "Proxy is required by law with no complications."

I'll never die like this,shows such weakness

This recording sounds older than 1990.

No last words…think about that.

Sounds more like a party line, than an executioner's phone line.

I can almost smell the flesh burning. Scary.

is it me or is there no screaming 😕 wouldn’t this hurt????

Imagine the electricity bill.

Why would they hide the recordings?

prisons in virginia don't have call waiting,even the govenor couldn't get through,go figure

Why do they always execute them at night time ? Is there a reason for that ?

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When Virginia reinstated the death penalty 113 prisoners were executed, 31 of them were in the electric chair whom were Frank Joseph Coppola, 38, in 1982, Linwood Earl Briley, 30, in 1984, James Dyral Briley, 28, and Morris Odell Mason, 32, in 1985, Michael Marnell Smith, 40, in 1986, Richard Lee Whitley, 41, in 1987, Earl Clanton Jr., 33, in 1988, Alton Waye, 34, in 1989, Richard Thomas Boggs, 27, Wilbert Lee Evans, 44, and Buddy Earl Justus, 38, in 1990, Albert Jay Clozza, 31, and Derick Lynn Peterson, 30, in 1991, Roger Keith Coleman, 33, Edward Benton Fitzgerald Sr., 34, Willie Leroy Jones, 34, and Timothy Dale Bunch, 33, in 1992, Charles Sylvester Stamper, 39, Syvasky Lafayette Poyner, 36, Andrew John Chabrol, 36, Joseph Louis Wise, 31, and David Mark Pruett, 44, in 1993, Johnny Watkins Jr., 32, and Timothy Wilson Spencer, 32, in 1994, Kenneth Manuel Stewart Jr., 44, in 1998, Michael David Clagett, 39, in 2000, Earl Conrad Bramblett, 61, in 2003, Brandon Wayne Hedrick, 27, in 2006, Larry Bill Elliott, 60, in 2009, Paul Warner Powell, 31, in 2010, and Robert Charles Gleason Jr., 42, in 2013.

Amazing that he went from conviction to death in only 6 years.

Thats lady's voice could put me to sleep.

I remember watching one happen on "Faces of Death", the guy killed an 80 year old woman like this guy did, they walked him to the chair he was white as a sheet, the guards casually taped cotton gauze over each eye, no one wearing gloves or anything, he was breathing real hard, chest surging, then he sat bolt upright with the first surge, the second surge the blood streamed down his face under each eye and spit was coming out of his mouth as he was cooked inside.

Those people need to get it together. No complications??? That woman's voice is just plain creepy. She enjoys her job too much. It didn't go quite as smooth as she said it was going. Not enough money to pay me to talk on the phone in that creepy voice.

Why don't yall show it

While listening to this…. At first my emotions go from curious to omg to wtf to sadness then terrifying and my hair started raising on my body…. Then I felt numb ….. that was fucking weird just …… I feel nothing

I don't understand why they would have to have made these in secret.What's the big deal?In fact you would think they would want to record them as part of the record

"Old sparky.. u gon' ride the lightning!" ~ green mile.

Why is she doing asmr for this

Clusterfuck with the phones. WTF 😮

The woman's voice sounds like the SAL 9000 computer from 2010, but fascinating stuff. Just wondering if that strange howling sound is the electricity going through the condemned mans body or is it coming from the Generator.

The united states had the worst prison work force in our history during the 80s and 90s.

Sounds like some one was trying to cause confusion with the phones on purpose.

I can't decide what is *metaphorically* a bigger turn on for me: imagining I'm Mrs. Execution ASMR narrating over the phone, or imagining I'm the inmate having Mrs. Execution ASMR narrate my electrocution. 🤦‍♀

Why is this necessary, I didn't feel a thing 🤔

Damn that guy whimped while getting shocked

Jesus, this team couldn't find their ass with both hands and a flashlight.

how many times did they have to tell that women she was on that line and to get off. studip peopke

Not meaning to be trivial about 'the process' but the voice of the telephone operator reminds me of Wilma Flintstone 🤔

lol nobody is saying how he might be potentially innocent on this case , I wonder what’s different 🤔

The woman reporting sounds like an extremely evil person.

I feel like they purposely didn't let the phone call go through