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West of Memphis
REPORTER:
The investigators are now filingin and the reporters are getting ready
to cover this news conference.
Many parents in the community
will be breathing a sigh of relief
if this indeed is the break
that police have been waiting for.
Chief Inspector Gary Gitchell
is about to begin,
and he's also bringing in
some photographs.
Obviously these will probably be
photographs of the suspects.
Of course, suspects unofficially
at this point, although many believe
in this triple murder
of the three 8-year-old boys.
Arrested at 2:
44 p.m., Thursday,June the 3rd, 1993.
Jessie Lloyd Misskelley.
Jessie Misskelley is 17 years of age.
Charles Jason Baldwin.
He is 16 years of age.
Michael Wayne Echols.
Mr. Echols is 18 years of age.
He is charged with three counts
of capital murder.
REPORTER:
Were you surprisedwhen these guys were arrested?
because he's, like, the quiet one
of them all.
But I wasn't surprised about
Jessie Misskelley and Damien Echols,
because I just expected it out of them
sooner or later.
Killer!
PAM:
When the policewere asking for clothing
so they could give it to the dogs
to pick up scent,
the bandana here was the only thing
that I had in my household
that had Stevie's scent on it.
When I get the need to just want
to feel him again, um,
I'll grab it and I'll hug it,
and I'm so thankful
I feel an embrace back.
I was walking the route
to take Stevie to school,
and I checked him out,
I believe, at 2:
30.Stevie told me a hundred times,
probably a thousand, on the way home:
"I love you, mama." "I love you too, son."
And it was just constant.
We got home, first thing I asked him,
"Do you have any homework?"
He said, "I did, but I did it in school."
And he hung his homework
on the refrigerator.
and they started asking,
could Stevie go to Michael's house?
And I said, "No, I'm getting ready
for work, I'm cooking supper."
Both of them,
you know, begging:
"Please, please, please,
we'll be back," and all that.
I gave in and I said, "Okay." I said,
"But, boy, you better be home by 4:30.
If you're not, I'm gonna ground you
for two weeks from that bike."
I'm gonna say Christopher
probably arrived at the house
around 3:
35 maybe,and he asked me if Stevie was there.
I told him, I said, "I'm surprised you didn't run
into him because him and Michael just left."
He left and he was gonna go
searching for Stevie and Michael.
Uh, well, around 4:45, Stevie had...
Still hadn't arrived.
Terry came in. I told Terry,
"Well, let's go ahead and leave."
We went ahead,
and he took me to work.
My night at work was a normal night.
Terry walked in, to the phone,
didn't say hi, bye, nothing.
He just walked to the phone,
and I took two pieces of candy
to the car and Amanda was there,
and I asked her, "Where's Bubba?"
And she said, "Mama, we can't find him."
And I thought the worst,
that he was dead.
I got out of the car, went through
this door, got out of my uniform,
put sweats on and put a T-shirt on.
Because all I was trying to focus on
is where's Stevie, where's he at,
and I gotta get out there,
BYERS:
Last time we saw himwas about 6:
30 yesterday evening.What's...? Give me your name.
My name is Mark Byers.
Okay. Has your son...?
Has this ever happened before?
None of the boys have ever
gone off anywhere.
None of the three have ever been
missing or taken off ever before.
What's going through your mind
as a parent?
I'm scared to death.
That's, you know, plain and simple.
I'm scared for the safety
and welfare of all three boys.
JONES:
That particular day, I'dcalled the West Memphis P.D.
The dispatcher Lucy
answered the phone.
She said, "We've had three children
missing since last night."
I said, "Well, you know,
I'm gonna go help too."
I'm not seeing anything.
Not seeing no kids running around
on bicycles or nothing.
And then I thought
about Robin Hood Trails
as I was driving down Goodwyn,
and I said:
"Well I'll... I'm gonna go over there,
just get out and walk around."
I was looking around, you know,
just physically looking out and about.
And then I looked
into the small ditch.
That's where I saw the tennis shoe at.
I called
West Memphis Police Department
to have Mike Allen
meet me out here.
And so I showed him the area
of the tennis shoe.
And Mike had said
he was going to take it out.
Mike fell into the water.
I was looking down on him like this.
He looked up and I said, "What?"
And he said, "it feels like my leg
is caught on something."
Like a log or something."
And Mike fell backwards,
and when he fell backwards,
his leg came up...
and one of the little bodies
was on his leg.
PAM:
From the moment theytold me Stevie was dead,
I really lost it,
lost all touch with reality.
NEWSCASTER:
Pam Hobbs' son,Steve, and two of his friends
were found murdered
Thursday before last.
FOGLEMAN:
It's more a part of mylife than I would like it to be.
Because frankly I'd like to be able
to not have those three 8-year-old boys'
pictures in my mind.
What you found, you found three boys
that had been hog-tied
and thrown in the water.
It appeared
that they had been sexually mutilated.
That appears to be cult-related.
The West Memphis Police Department
a lot of times would ask me about
occult things as though I were the guru.
I probably was because there wasn't
anybody else that was doing it.
This program is designed to help
law enforcement officers
better understand Satanic cults.
I got some books and I spoke to police
organizations around the country
that had some experience with it.
Okay, we have a rope here.
If you look at it closely...
I don't know
if the camera can pick this up.
But there's blood on this noose.
The police department asked me
to put together a list of people
that we had on probation that might
be involved in that type of activity.
Well, the guy that I knew
that was involved the most in it
was Damien Echols.
The two guys he ran with,
Jessie and Jason...
Jessie would fight.
Jason was not very aggressive,
in that respect,
but I believe he would do anything
REPORTER:
Eight months have passedsince the three boys were killed.
Cameras are in place
in preparation for this
highly publicized murder trial.
DRIVER:
I guess they found that those threewere the most likely to have done it.
Move back.
DRIVER:
And then, of course, theyhad the confession from Jessie.
REPORTER:
The most compelling evidenceyet was introduced in open court.
Misskelley's taped confession
made to police.
JESSIE:
I saw Damien hitthis one... Hit this one boy real bad.
Then he start screwing him and stuff.
Jason turned around
and hit Steve Branch
and started doing the same thing.
Michael Moore took off running,
so I chased him
and grabbed him and held him
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