About The Authors
The Sinclairs met for the first time in teh Death House at the Louisiana State Penitentiary on March 17, 1981.
She was a reporter for WAFB-TV, a CBS network affiliate in Baton Rouge, who was covering an impending execution at the prison. He was a national award-winning inmate editor of The Angolite, a prison magazine written for prisoners by prisoners.
They were married by proxy on June 9, 1982. She fought for his release from the Louisiana prison system for 25 years. Aided by the efforts of former Louisiana State Senator Charles Jones, a leader of the Black Legislative Caucus who represented Billy before the Louisiana Board of Parole, he was finally released on April 21, 2006.
They now reside in Houston Texas where he is the senior paralegal fro the law firm of John T. Flyod, a criminal defense attorney. She is the director of public relations for Jim S. Adler & Associates, a personal injury law firm in Houston.
Billy Wayne Sinclair - Kaye Marvins Photography
