GITCHELL: Now, youre pointing to the Byers boy again? And Susie Brewer Boggan says she is now out of Jessie Misskelley's life. [10] During a polygraph examination, he denied any involvement. Dr. Peretti, the Medical Examiner, described half-lunar wounds that were caused by a blunt object which could have been the result of kicks or blows with something such as a flashlight, not fists. I could not believe it was in Terry's things. Their clothing was found in the creek, some of it twisted around sticks that had been thrust into the muddy ditch bed. [22], The day after the victims' bodies were found, Bojangles' manager Marty King, thinking there was a possible connection to the bleeding man found in the bathroom, reported the incident to police officers who then inspected the ladies' room. [65] Ellington said that, although he still considered the men guilty, the three would likely be acquitted if a new trial were held because of the powerful legal counsel representing them now, the loss of evidence over time, and the change of heart among some of the witnesses. RIDGE:You are not, so weve treated you well? JESSIE: You know Damien keeps asking me how come I left and stuff and hadnt anybody said anything to me about it. [1][2][3], Due to the dubious nature of the evidence as well as the suspected presence of emotional bias in court, the case generated widespread controversy and was the subject of several documentaries. If he had been, there would have been clear forensic evidence of it. RIDGE:They had already gotten them off. A hair identified as belonging to a black male was later recovered from a sheet wrapped around one of the victims. JESSIE: They had holes in them and the knees were cut. Okay, what was he choking him with? He was an honor student. Baldwin was initially resistant to agree to this deal, insisting as a matter of principle that he would not plead guilty to something he did not do. Stidham said the judge closed the door without answering. [10] The police interviewed Echols on May 7, two days after the bodies were discovered. "Jason sends him texts and stuff all the time asking him why don't he come to this. GITCHELL: Is that when you first saw the pictures of the boys? [32] The court sentenced him to life plus 40 years in prison. JESSIE: Close like army type, not quite, RIDGE:Okay, they are black, is that right, they lace up? The plea deal did not technically result in a full exoneration; some of the convictions would stand, but the men would not admit guilt. JESSIE:There was a group of pictures of all three of them. RIDGE:Okay, these initiations, you say that they eat part of the leg meat? [24] Misskelley quickly recanted his confession, citing intimidation, coercion, fatigue, and veiled threats from police. RIDGE:Okay, what were you wearing that day? JESSIE: He called me and asked me if I could go toWest Memphiswith him and I told him, no, I had to work and stuff. He is a producer, known for Devil's Knot (2013), Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills (1996) and West of Memphis (2012). : 82, of Marion, Arkansas, passed away on February 21, 2021 at his home. He is a member of famous Producer with the age 47 years old group. Police detective Bryn Ridge testified that he later lost those blood scrapings. Mr. Echols and his wife, Lorri Davis, in Arkansas . In 2013, written statements from two men, Billy Wayne Stewart and Bennie Guy, were introduced in the court. Stevie Branch's mother, the ex-wife of Terry Hobbs, and Mark Byers have publicly stated the WM3 were wrongly convicted. (Above Jessie has stated they met at 9 a.m., not 12 noon. JESSIE:We usually skin it, then make a bon fire and eat it and stuff. I had been shocked that the police did not find it with Stevie when they found his body. [49] She further asserted that the police had implied that if she did not cooperate with them they would take away her child. For the former Australian rules footballer, see, DNA testing and new physical evidence (2007). The man reportedly wore a "blue cast type brace on his arm that had white Velcro on it", which would have made it difficult to tie up and murder three young boys. their arms and stuff, and hold them down like, where they couldnt raise up and the other one stick his legs up. JESSIE: Behind it, right back there behind it. Directed by Atom Egoyan Writing Credits ( WGA) Cast (in credits order) Produced by Music by Mychael Danna Cinematography by Paul Sarossy . RIDGE:What kind of shirt were you wearing? RIDGE:And one of them was being cut on his penis? Also, my sister Jo Lynn told me that she saw Terry wash clothes, bed linens and curtains from Stevie's room at an odd time around the time of the Murders. Was he faced down and he was cutting on him, or. Gitchell touched on a point, real close, now what clothes were Jason wearing that day? [64] Prosecutor Scott Ellington said the Arkansas state crime laboratory would help seek other suspects by running searches on any DNA evidence produced in private laboratory tests during the defense team's investigation. (Aisde from conflicting with the five times he says and then I left, it also conflicts with the claim that he saw the boys pulled into the water). Damien Echols was sentenced to death, Jessie Misskelley Jr. to life imprisonment plus two 20-year sentences, and Jason Baldwin to life imprisonment. RIDGE:can you describe to me what in those woods, whats the location where you were? On May 15, 1993, Jessie Misskelley, and his older friend David Sims, who was 22-years-old at the time, and his younger friend, Dennis Carter, who was 15, had called the police from a bowling Alley stating they had seen three little boys, who were around 8 or 9 years old fleeing from a man near some train tracks. Jessie, in front of me I have a rights form, and it has your signature at the bottom of it, is that your signature? RIDGE: Okay, so he kills an animal, you mentioned earlier that he may have to eat part of that animal, what part of the animal would he eat? The judge said Hobbs had chosen to involve himself in public discussion over whether the convictions were just. [73], There have been a number of books about the case, also arguing that the suspects were wrongly convicted: Devil's Knot by Mara Leveritt; Blood of Innocents by Guy Reel; and The Last Pentacle of the Sun: Writings in Support of the West Memphis Three, edited by Brett Alexander Savory & M. W. Anderson, and featuring dark fiction and non-fiction by well-known writers of speculative fiction. Why would they ask a question such as this of a teenage boy, does he know what a penis is?, if it was not obvious that he was functioning at lower level of intelligence?). RIDGE:Okay, how long was the knife that Jason was using? Under the . The third picture, which will be. RIDGE:Damien and Jason having sex? Jessies times of arrival at the woods will change many times throughout the three statements), JESSIE: Yes, I did. ), RIDGE: Alright, you got in front of you a picture, that was taken out of the newspaper I believe, its got three boys and these are the three boys that were killed on that date in Robin Hood Woods, okay, which one of those three boys is it you say Damien hit? [9], On June 3, the police interrogated Jessie Misskelley, Jr. "[69] Byers has spoken to the media on behalf of the convicted, and has expressed his desire for justice for the families of both the victims and the three accused. But Jessie's life did not go the same direction as Echols and Baldwin. On April 28, 2011, the band Disturbed released a song entitled "3" as a download on their website. [50] The prosecutors, while conceding that no DNA evidence tied the accused to the crime scene, said: "The State stands behind its convictions of Echols and his codefendants. [29], During Misskelley's trial, Richard Ofshe, an expert on false confessions and police coercion, and Professor of Sociology at UC Berkeley, testified that the brief recording of Misskelley's interrogation was a "classic example" of police coercion. GITCHELL: And you saw the pictures in the briefcase? Searchers canvassed all of West Memphis but focused primarily on Robin Hood Hills, where the boys were reported last seen. After a reported 12 hours of interrogation by police, Misskelley, who has an IQ of 72, confessed to the murders, and implicated Baldwin and Echols. Alright, when you get the boys back together, where you at from the creek? Jessie Misskelley Wiki: Salary, Married, Wedding, Spouse, Family Jessie Misskelley was born on July 10, 1975 as Jessie Loyd Misskelly Jr. JESSIE: He was cutting him in the face. Even if they were notinthe park at 9 a.m. it would not take three hours to walk from their homesorLakeshore, which is where, JESSIE: No . RIDGE:Wouldnt have any problem with that? [69], In 2010, district Judge Brian S. Miller ordered Terry Hobbs, the stepfather of victim Stevie Branch, to pay $17,590 to Dixie Chicks singer Natalie Maines for legal costs stemming from a defamation lawsuit he filed against the band. RIDGE: In the woods. ????). [16] Steve Edward Branch is buried in Mount Zion Cemetery in Steele, Missouri. Misskelley was arrested in connection to the murders on June 3, 1993. Judge David Laser then sentenced them to 18 years and 78 days, the amount of time they had served, and also levied a suspended sentence of 10 years. What did you see him cut or who did you see him cut? Good! The film stars Reese Witherspoon and Colin Firth. Bryn Ridge of the West Memphis Police Department, currently in the detective division of the West Memphis Police Department conducting an investigation of the Triple Homicide, Case File # 93-05-0666. JESSIE: They need to be put away for awhile. RIDGE: Okay, so they were just messing around in the water. The audio file ishere(right click and Save As or Right click and Open in New Tab to play). Did you actually hit any of these boys? [57], In early December 2010, David Burnett was elected to the Arkansas State Senate. [9][28], On May 6, 1993 (before the victims were found later the same day), Hutcheson took a polygraph exam by Detective Don Bray at the Marion Police Department, to determine whether or not she had stolen money from her West Memphis employer. This is consistent with the language ofArk. Steve Branch was the son of Steven and Pamela Branch, who divorced when he was an infant. Aaron, a playmate of the murdered boys', mentioned to Bray that the boys had been killed at "the playhouse." (WMC-TV) - Jessie Misskelley is the lone member of the West Memphis 3, who shied away from the spotlight. Someone makes a brief coughing sound plainly as if to say youre wrong listen closely. Jason Baldwin, along with Damien Echols and Jessie Misskelley, Jr. are known as The West Memphis Three, who are three men convicted in 1994 of the murders of three 8 year old boys, in West Memphis, Arkansas, in 1993. JESSIE: I was up there standing up there on the top. Baldwin and Misskelley were sentenced to life in prison. I don't know, he just doesn't want to," she said. RIDGE:okay, when you initiating somebody new come into a cult what actually is done to initiate that person into a cult? GITCHELL: Where the pipe is that goes across the water? We recommend you to check the complete list of Famous People born on 10 July. GITCHELL: Was uh, where you all close to the creek at that point? RIDGE: And what else, I think you said that he made the call from his house? JESSIE:I didnt have no blood on me, I didnt get close to them. Since his release, he has published a non-fiction book about both his childhood and incarceration, He and Lorri Davis, a NYC landscape architect who initiated a correspondence with Echols in 1999 and ultimately became his wife, co-authored, Echols provided the voice of Darryl, a fish man (i.e., a fish situated on a robot body), in episode 3 of the animated, This page was last edited on 18 January 2023, at 02:32. RIDGE: Okay. RIDGE: Okay, the knives, was it one knife, two knives, was your knife there? According to our Database, He has no children. The memorial is located in the playground of Weaver Elementary School in West Memphis, where all three victims were second graders at the time of the crime. Misskelley was first questioned on June 3, 1993, a day after Hutcheson's purported confession. RIDGE:They are sick okay. Jessie Misskelley said in a short interview a few months ago that he is happy staying out of the limelight, as he lives and works in West Memphis. RIDGE:But you would be able to point out where these things took place? Byers was eight years old, 4ft. tall, weighed 52lbs, and had light brown hair. RIDGE:You went to the Robin Hood, explain to me where those woods are. JESSIE: Then they tied them up, tied their hands up, they started screwing them and stuff, cutting them and stuff, and I saw it and I turned around and looked, and then I took off running, I went home, then they called me and asked me, how come I didnt stay, I told them, I just couldnt. JESSIE: He had been watching them. The counsel representing the men said they would continue to pursue full exoneration. Byers agreed to and passed a polygraph test about the murders during the filming of Paradise Lost 2: Revelations, but the documentary indicated that Byers was under the influence of several psychoactive prescription medications that could have affected the test results. [26][43] In June 1996, Misskelley's lawyer, Dan Stidham, was preparing an appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court. [77], Investigative journalist Aphrodite Jones undertook an exploration of the case on her Discovery Network show True Crime with Aphrodite Jones following the DNA discoveries. 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