West Memphis 3

[tennessee]

Re the other two boys running off. Usually if you are a kid and you are with a friend who is in major trouble, you are told to stay right where you are because you are in just as deep. "I'm going to call your mom & dad", etc.

I really do not believe that these three young men committed these murders.

 

[missacorah]

This is the one case where I really cant make up my mind what I believe. I seem to chnage my mind frequently about this one!

 

[tezi]

I wish so, too.

There was a day when I would have said Echols couldn't be executed on such shoddy evidence. I was an idiot that day.

Nova, don't feel bad. The more I know about the state of AR, the more I know it's possible.

BTW, look for a PM from me either tonight or tomorrow, ok?

 

[tezi]

I found this today while looking up information about another case here in AR. I am stunned beyond belief that there was absolutely NO DNA linking Echols and Company to the murders!!!

http://www.kait8.com/Global/story.asp?S=6820082

WEST MEMPHIS-14 years ago a jury convicted Damien Echols, Jason Baldwin, and Jessie Misskelly of the murders of three 8 year old West Memphis boys.

Now, over a decade later defense attorneys are saying a piece of hair found in one of the victim's shoelaces could link the crimescene to Stevie Branch's stepfather, Terry Hobbs.

Friday we talked to Branch's mother and Hobb's ex-wife.
"Do you think honestly in your heart that he might have had something to do with this," I asked. "Honestly in my heart...I have to be honest. Possibly," replied Pam Hobbs.

~~~SNIP~~~

However, Pam Hobbs believes Echols, Baldwin, and Misskelley may have been wrongfully accused.

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See rest of story at link, I don't want to get in trouble for copyright infringement.

I am absolutely shocked that this woman stayed silent for a long time about the possibility of her ex-husband being involved.

 

[Nova]

Tez, my jaw is on the floor alongside yours!

Terry Hobb, Tom Moore, and Mark Myers? My memory is refreshed as to Terry Hobb. Can you remind who the other two men are? Is Tom Moore the father of Michael?

And what is "a piece of a hair" (as oppposed to a hair)? Does that mean it was missing the root?

I'm assuming it wasn't found on Hobb's stepson. If it were, that wouldn't be surprising. But I hope we get more info in future reports.

 

[Nova]

There are other articles on the DNA results here:

http://www.wm3.org/live/newsevents/newsitem.php?index=1&news_Id=131



In one article, Pam Hobbs says she still thinks the WM3 are guilty, but that they had help from others. Is she now imagining her ex-husband in some sort of satanic ritual with Echols & Co.?

 

[Jules]

Mark Myers? Could that be a typo and be Byers?

WOW... interesting info nonetheless.

I've always been a fence-sitter on this case. I've always thought Byers had something to do with this.

Please keep the info coming. I'd hate to find out Damien et al were wrongly convicted.

 

[tennessee]

I strongly believe that Byers had something to do with the murders of these three little boys. Off to read the link above.

 

[tezi]

Tez, my jaw is on the floor alongside yours!

Terry Hobb, Tom Moore, and Mark Myers? My memory is refreshed as to Terry Hobb. Can you remind who the other two men are? Is Tom Moore the father of Michael?

And what is "a piece of a hair" (as oppposed to a hair)? Does that mean it was missing the root?

I'm assuming it wasn't found on Hobb's stepson. If it were, that wouldn't be surprising. But I hope we get more info in future reports.

Tom Moore is Michael Moore's dad. Byers, well, we all know who he is. I am still trying to place Hobb.

I am not sure what the "piece of hair" is all about.

I certainly hope we get more reports. BTW, thanks for posting the link to the other reports. I need to read them. That's if Miss Kayli will allow me to do that today! LOL

 

[Nova]

Mark Myers? Could that be a typo and be Byers?

Could well be. But this one time, the typo isn't mine; the article does indeed mention a Mark Myers.

I've always been a fence-sitter on this case. I've always thought Byers had something to do with this.

Please keep the info coming. I'd hate to find out Damien et al were wrongly convicted.

I think you can bank on the latter. There was never any real evidence against them except rumor and the forced confession from Miskelly.

What strikes me is that Pam Hobbs seems to name 3 fathers/stepfathers as suspicious (assuming Mark Myers is actually Byers and Tom Moore is Michael's dad or stepdad). Were those three men searching together the night of the murders? Did they have opportunity together? I don't remember at this point...

 

[southcitymom]

This is pretty interesting - the DNA results. I followed this case very closely back in its "heyday." I am convinced that the wrong people are in jail - railroaded, IMHO, on the flimsiest of "evidence."

I believe that Byers was involved and I think it is highly probable that he had help.

 

[Hope4Lost]

There has certainly been a great deal of information left out during the prosecution of this case. It's just too wierd. I ordered one of the books and look forward to learning more about the evidence, even though there have been new developments. This has creeped me out since it happened.

 

[Hope4Lost]

Tom Moore is Michael Moore's dad. Byers, well, we all know who he is. I am still trying to place Hobb.

I am not sure what the "piece of hair" is all about.

I certainly hope we get more reports. BTW, thanks for posting the link to the other reports. I need to read them. That's if Miss Kayli will allow me to do that today! LOL

Me too.

 

[Jules]

Could well be. But this one time, the typo isn't mine; the article does indeed mention a Mark Myers.

I think you can bank on the latter. There was never any real evidence against them except rumor and the forced confession from Miskelly.

What strikes me is that Pam Hobbs seems to name 3 fathers/stepfathers as suspicious (assuming Mark Myers is actually Byers and Tom Moore is Michael's dad or stepdad). Were those three men searching together the night of the murders? Did they have opportunity together? I don't remember at this point...

I know it wasn't your typo. I'd guess the paper made a typo when reporting Myers rather than Byers.

I wonder why if Pam Hobbs had thoughts of the 3 fathers/stepfathers being suspicious, she didn't come forward with that information 14 years ago. That's what strikes me odd. If there was something they did that made her stop and think, I'd have been running to the cops with my thoughts.

This whole case has had so many strange things surrounding it. Like Byers having his teeth fixed right after the murders. Some things just don't quite add up.

 

[Hope4Lost]

I wonder what kind of lifestyles these people were and are leading. I wonder if they were even investigated. With so many sets of parents and step parents involved, there is a possibility that at least one is "off." Also, the parents who were not the guardians that day...where were they? What about sex offenders in the area? Just a complex wierd case. The sheer number of people involved makes it even more complex than normal.

 

[Nova]

I know it wasn't your typo. I'd guess the paper made a typo when reporting Myers rather than Byers.

I am all too capable of making typos blushing, but I didn't think you were accusing me of this one. I just wanted to set the record straight for other readers.

I wonder why if Pam Hobbs had thoughts of the 3 fathers/stepfathers being suspicious, she didn't come forward with that information 14 years ago. That's what strikes me odd. If there was something they did that made her stop and think, I'd have been running to the cops with my thoughts.

From such a brief report, I'm not sure what exactly she thinks the fathers may have done. But I can understand it is difficult for anyone to accept that her spouse killed her child, particularly when LE is insisting otherwise. She may have just dismissed her own doubts. Or she may have first created those doubts after she and Hobbs were divorced.

This whole case has had so many strange things surrounding it. Like Byers having his teeth fixed right after the murders. Some things just don't quite add up.

Amen.

 

[Nova]

I wonder what kind of lifestyles these people were and are leading. I wonder if they were even investigated. With so many sets of parents and step parents involved, there is a possibility that at least one is "off." Also, the parents who were not the guardians that day...where were they? What about sex offenders in the area? Just a complex wierd case. The sheer number of people involved makes it even more complex than normal.

Good post. It certainly is complex and further complicated by the incompetent investigation following the murders.

 

[philamena]

Now what? Will there be a new trial?
I followed this case from the beginning and I don't for a minute think the boys committed the murders. They IMO shouldn't be in prison.

 

[missacorah]

So Stevies mother thinks it was her ex and the 3 already in jail who were involved?

Be interesting to know what circumstances her and Stevies step father spilt up in hence her sudden suspicions.

 

[Nova]

So Stevies mother thinks it was her ex and the 3 already in jail who were involved?

Be interesting to know what circumstances her and Stevies step father spilt up in hence her sudden suspicions.

Yes, it would. It's very odd that she suspects her ex and the WM3 worked together. Damien and Jason barely knew Jessie at the time of the murders, if they knew him at all. I don't believe there's ever been evidence the WM3 knew the parents of the victims.

Of course, these reports are very cursory. But if Ms. Hobbs did indeed mean to suggest her ex and the WM3 worked together, it makes her entire accusation suspect.