Dan Walker recalls terror at meeting death row inmate who knew him Source: ITV
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00:00In that moment, did you feel a little bit threatened when he was like,
00:02I've got pals in England, they told me you were on Strictly,
00:05they told me you were a gen... Like, what was that feeling in that moment?
00:08That was strange. There's a guy called Charles Thompson,
00:10who's a double murderer, and I went to see him in Death Row in Texas,
00:14and I sat down, I picked up the phone behind the glass,
00:17as you've seen in films and TV, and I said,
00:19Hi, Charles, I'm Dan Walker, and he said, Oh, yeah, I know all about you.
00:22And I was like, I tried not to react, you know what I mean?
00:25I think, Stay strong! And then he told me that he knew about,
00:28like you say, he knew about Strictly, he knew about previous jobs I'd had,
00:31he knew where I'd worked, and this is all through pen pals
00:33that he still speaks to in the UK,
00:36because he's only allowed out of his cell for two hours a week, that's it.