West Memphis Three Case. Anyone still think they were guilty?

Not a good OT topic baw, needs more hookers and cocaine.

I think that someone else did it. Convienence of that truck stop makes it impossible to know who.

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Shocking level of police incompetence and public hysteria

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Not to mention perhaps one of the worst cases of judicial prejudice and misbehavior of all time.

I don't think they acted alone.

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I don't think they acted alone.

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THey didn't act at all. They were cleared by DNA evidence. There is no grey area here.

The state of Arkansas knew they had Zero case in a retrial. That's why they were released.

If you like this case - read up on these two.

Just saying.

Not a happy ending -

THIS IS LONG - Might want to print out or something -

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Happier ending -

At a Burger King on Maryland's Eastern Shore yesterday, Kirk Bloodsworth sat down with the prosecutor who helped send him to death row for the rape and murder of a 9-year-old girl. Nearly two decades later, Ann Brobst told him, DNA had identified the man who had really done it.

"We got a hit on a guy," he remembers hearing, in the immeasurable fraction of a moment before he began weeping, realizing the words' import, realizing that the state at last considered him a completely innocent man. Beside him, his wife, Brenda, broke down and wept, too.

"You know how long I've waited to hear you say that?" Bloodsworth asked Brobst, who twice persuaded a jury to convict him of Dawn Hamilton's brutal death -- and who yesterday apologized for how that shattered his life.

But there was more. The suspect, Brobst went on, is already in prison in Maryland, halfway through a 45-year sentence for burglary, attempted rape and assault with intent to murder. His name: Kimberly Shay Ruffner.

"My God," Bloodsworth said, "I know him."

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The truck stop certainly raises the possibility of drifters or truckers from anywhere being able to escape and have no ties to the area, but the nature of the crimes was pretty unique. Someone tied up all three of them from wrist to ankles. And would those boys have been passing through that area that late on their own to where a random psychotic trucker simply jumped on a crime of opportunity to brutalize 3 random boys? It's possible but I have my doubts that it's a likely explanation.

Damian was a weird frick. Not just in a Goth way either. Or because he listened to heavy metal. Some of his answers and behaviors from the initial Paradise Lost raise a serious red flag. I've also read some stuff online, though I didn't really go into a great deal of effort to verify it, about some psych evaluations on Damian from time he spent in a mental institution prior to the crimes. There was some pretty twisted stuff in there that suggested Damian was more messed up in the head than the Paradise Lost series led on.

The "Mr. Bojangles" ball was absolutely dropped.

No DNA = no conviction...but I highly doubt Terry Hobbs did it, either. Remember, everyone was just sure that it was that Byars animal who did it after #2.

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There was some pretty twisted stuff in there that suggested Damian was more messed up in the head than the Paradise Lost series led on.

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Of course. Paradise Lost crew ,however, were not about to take that slant.

Also, didn't Jesse Misskelly end up marrying the girl he dated before he went away? Talk about holding out!

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THey didn't act at all. They were cleared by DNA evidence. There is no grey area here.

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I was under the impression that the DNA evidence was not conclusive one way or another, merely consistent or inconsistent with such and such. And Hobbs was a weird character as was Byers. That whole area was littered with weird fricks.