JESSIE: Close like army type, not quite, RIDGE:Okay, they are black, is that right, they lace up? (There is no way this phone call could have taken place. RIDGE: Okay, was it after school had let out? JESSIE: No, he wasnt wearing anything like that. RIDGE: Okay, Jessie, lets go straight to that date,05/05/93, Wednesday, early in the morning. He and a girlfriend had run off and later broken into a trailer during a rain storm; they were arrested, though only Echols was charged with burglary.[9]. Stidham overheard Judge Burnett discuss taking a lunch break with the jury foreman and heard the foreman reply that the jury was almost finished. JESSIE: He was wearing some blue jeans and boots, army boots like, RIDGE:Army boots? ", On March 23, 2016, Echols gave a presentation about his art processes at the, The transcript of Echols' spoken word performance in. Jason Baldwin, 16, Jessie Misskelley, 17, and Damien Echols, 18, were ultimately convicted in 1994. (Again ignores Jessies statement that he left and guides him into saying more happened). (Gitchell plainly sounds like he knows hes talking to someone with a childs mind). [59] The three entered into unusual Alford plea deals. [91], Echols' lawyers claimed that his condition worsened during the trial, when he developed a "psychotic euphoria that caused him to believe he would evolve into a superior entity" and eventually be transported to a different world. Uncertainty remained due to the small amount of blood[9] and because both John Mark Byers and Chris Byers had the same HLA-DQ genotype. Code Ann. "[93] Advanced DNA and other scientific evidence combined with additional evidence from several different witnesses and experts released in October 2007 had cast strong doubts on the original convictions. [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. The prosecution called Dale W. Griffis, a graduate of the unaccredited Columbia Pacific University, as an expert in the occult to testify the murders were a Satanic ritual. To call them disorderly would be putting it mildly. On September 17, 2011, 48 Hours re-aired the episode with the update of their release and interviews from Echols and his wife, and Baldwin. 1993).3 The jury was also instructed on accomplice liability as follows: In this case, the state does not contend that Jessie Lloyd Misskelley, Junior acted alone in the commission of the offense of three counts of capital murder. (She had . Echols, who had been tried as an adult, was sentenced to death. RIDGE:You said that they had their hands tied up, tied down, were they hands tied in a fashion that they couldnt have run, you tell me. RIDGE:Well, which one did he have? [88] He moved to New York City after his release. RIDGE:The boots that Damien had on, are they army type boots too, or what kind of boots were they? "You shouldn't be mad about it, you could do it too," said Boggan. [47] John Mark Byers had his teeth removed in 1997, after the first trial but before an imprint could be made. [16] Steve Edward Branch is buried in Mount Zion Cemetery in Steele, Missouri. The phone would have been in use at Jasons at the time Jessie says the call occurred. RIDGE: Okay. We don't have much information about He's past relationship and any previous engaged. RIDGE:okay, wearing blue jeans, he had on a metalica shirt, now this is a shirt thats got metalica across the front of it spelled out, and a mans name, or picture, is that right? GITCHELL:Have you ever seen them with a briefcase before? 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. JESSIE: He had been watching them. He was eight years old, 4ft. 2 tall, weighed 55lbs, and had brown hair. Copyright 2012 WMC-TV. [84] Baldwin said in a 2011 interview with Piers Morgan that he worked for a construction company and he was learning how to drive.[79]. 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. Judge Laser then sentenced them to time served, a total of 18 years and 78 days, and they were each given a suspended imposition of sentence for 10 years. . (Impossible time; the boys were in school. JESSIE: They were going to catch their bus and stuff, and they was on their bikes and so, (If the children were catching the bus, why would they be riding their bikes? "We were writing each other two years before he got out. John Mark Byers, the adoptive father of victim Christopher Byers, gave a knife to cameraman Doug Cooper, who was working with documentary makers Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky while filming the first Paradise Lost feature. JESSIE: He didnt know nothin about that. JESSIE: They asked me how come I left so early and stuff, and I told them that I couldnt stay there watching it no more, so I had to do something to get out of there. Jessie Misskelley Jr. (born July 10, 1975) is one of the three members of what has been called the West Memphis 3 (Misskelley, Damien Echols, and Jason Baldwin). JESSIE: Um-mm, they were going to catch, they were going somewhere and like I said, Damien and nem left before I did, I told them that I would meet them there and stuff, and I had to get ready it was early in the morning and so, they went ahead and met me, they went on up there and then I come up later on behind them. Jessie Misskelley Wiki: Salary, Married, Wedding, Spouse, Family Jessie Misskelley was born on July 10, 1975 as Jessie Loyd Misskelly Jr. RIDGE: okay, what occurred while you were there? RIDGE:Doesnt get into the club? It is with great sadness that we announce the death of Jessie Misskelley Sr. of Marion, Arkansas, who passed away on February 21, 2021, at the age of 82, leaving to mourn family and friends. [75], Many songs were written about the case, and two albums released in support of the defendants. 19. JESSIE: He keeps on asking me what are we going to do next, I told him, I cant do nothing now cause I go to work with my daddy everyday. "Jason sends him texts and stuff all the time asking him why don't he come to this. Dating & Relationship status He is currently single. The song is about the West Memphis Three, with 100% of the proceeds going to their benefit foundation for their release. And, AGAIN, Jessie leaves #4 and again his statement that he left at that point is ignored.). [45] The petition failed when the original trial judge, Judge David Burnett, disallowed presentation of this information in his court. Steve Branch was the son of Steven and Pamela Branch, who divorced when he was an infant. RIDGE: Alright, they were on their bikes, where were the bikes at? 9:00 AM - Jessie Sr. wakes up Jessie Jr. to go to work with Ricky Deese and Josh Darby. [9], In October 2003, Vicki Hutcheson, who had played a part in the arrests of Misskelley, Echols, and Baldwin, gave an interview to the Arkansas Times in which she stated that every word she had given to the police was a fabrication. [34], Three weeks later, Echols and Baldwin went on trial. Additionally, after the Murders my sister Jo Lynn McCauhey and I found in Terry's nightstand a knife that Stevie carried with him constantly and which I had believed was with him when he died. Byers initially claimed the knife had never been used. In August 2011, White Light Productions announced that the West Memphis Three would be featured on their new program Wrongfully Convicted. (Uh, no he didnt. In 2002, Henry Rollins worked with other vocalists from various rock, hip hop, punk and metal groups and members of Black Flag and the Rollins Band on the compilation album Rise Above: 24 Black Flag Songs to Benefit the West Memphis Three. JESSIE:We go out kill dogs and stuff and then carry girls out there. He said they called me). RIDGE:Were they in the houses or were they in the trees when they took those pictures? RIDGE: Do you know what his penis is? GITCHELL: Did they call them by name? [9] Byers later stated that he may have cut his thumb. RIDGE:An hour after you got home? She was 13 when he was arrested, along with Damien Echols and Jason Baldwin, for the murders of three 8-year-old boys in West Memphis nearly two decades ago. [6], Factors cited by prosecutor Scott Ellington for agreeing to the plea deal included that two of the victims' families had joined the cause of the defense, that the mother of a witness who testified about Echols's confession had questioned her daughter's truthfulness, and that the State Crime Lab employee who collected fiber evidence at the Echols and Baldwin homes after their arrests had died. In May 2013, for the 20th anniversary of the slayings, Weaver Elementary School principal Sheila Grissom raised funds to refurbish the memorial. Ok. RIDGE:Okay, and Jasons black and lace up? RIDGE:Scared of Damien? JESSIE: Uh, like a regular knife blade. They did college in jail. [25], Though he was informed of his Miranda rights, Misskelley later claimed he did not fully understand them. [72], Three films, Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills, Paradise Lost 2: Revelations, and Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory, directed by Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky, have documented this case and are strongly critical of the verdict. [5] On August 19, 2011, they entered Alford pleas, which allowed them to assert their innocence while acknowledging that prosecutors have enough evidence to convict them. [49] She further asserted that the police had implied that if she did not cooperate with them they would take away her child. Even if they were notinthe park at 9 a.m. it would not take three hours to walk from their homesorLakeshore, which is where he will claim they met in alaterstatement.). Two other defendants await trial in Arkansas. 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RIDGE: Alright, when did you go with them? What did you do there? JESSIE: And after I left they done more. GITCHELL: You didnt do anything to the bikes at all?
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