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President of M-Vac DNA Systems thinks advanced testing could provide clues in WM3 case
Posted on 6/21/22 at 8:11 pm
Posted on 6/21/22 at 8:11 pm
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M-Vac is now primarily used to collect DNA in criminal cases. A man who pleaded to an Alford Plea in the murders of three eight-year-old boys in West Memphis, Damien Echols, has petitioned the state of Arkansas to use M-Vac testing on the ligatures collected in the case.
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A hearing to determine if the advanced DNA testing will be done is slated for Thursday (June 23) in West Memphis. Prosecutors have fought the advanced DNA testing, and Bradley said he was puzzled by the motions filed.
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Echols, along with his legal cohorts, Jason Baldwin and Jessie Miskelley Jr., entered into Alford pleas Aug. 19, 2011, in connection with the deaths of three, 8-year-old boys from West Memphis – Stevie Branch, Christopher Byers and Michael Moore. The plea is a rarely used legal maneuver in which a defendant professes innocence while acknowledging the state may have enough evidence to charge them.
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The three men, known as The West Memphis Three, had been originally convicted of the murders after the boys were found in a rain-soaked ditch in West Memphis one day after they were reported missing while riding bikes in their neighborhood on May 5, 1993. The men spent 18 years in prison and have steadfastly maintained their innocence.
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Echols asked prosecutors to test the ligatures two years ago, and at first the state seemed ready to allow the testing to move forward. But after Prosecutor Scott Ellington was elected to a judge post, newly appointed Prosecuting Attorney Keith Crestman told Talk Business & Politics in April 2021 he would seek a judge’s order to destroy the evidence.
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Soon after, prosecutors claimed the evidence had been lost or destroyed in a fire, but these claims proved untrue when in December 2021 the evidence was found intact inside the West Memphis Police Department’s evidence locker room. Why it was claimed that the evidence was destroyed or lost has never been explained.
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Posted on 6/21/22 at 8:14 pm to pioneerbasketball
Nothing about this case has ever smelled right.
Posted on 6/21/22 at 8:18 pm to pioneerbasketball
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President of M-Vac DNA Systems thinks advanced testing in WM3 case could provide tremendous publicity for his company
This post was edited on 6/21/22 at 8:20 pm
Posted on 6/21/22 at 8:19 pm to CottonWasKing
They evidence needs to be seized and protected before those bums abuse it.
Posted on 6/21/22 at 8:20 pm to pioneerbasketball
Cliffs of the "West Memphis 3" case?
I've only read some, but I'm interested in reading more.
I've only read some, but I'm interested in reading more.
Posted on 6/21/22 at 8:23 pm to East Coast Band
Looks like we'll get another episode in the documentary.
Posted on 6/21/22 at 8:23 pm to East Coast Band
Kids go missing, turn up dead.
Three oddball teens (Goths?) end up getting blamed for it and convicted under questionable evidence.
Lotta shite that didn’t add up IIRC.
Three oddball teens (Goths?) end up getting blamed for it and convicted under questionable evidence.
Lotta shite that didn’t add up IIRC.
Posted on 6/21/22 at 8:23 pm to East Coast Band
quote:They've all been out of jail for 10 years
Cliffs of the "West Memphis 3" case?
I've only read some, but I'm interested in reading more.
Posted on 6/21/22 at 8:28 pm to CottonWasKing
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Nothing about this case has ever smelled right.
Satanic Panic, tunnel vision, complete incompetence, and a dash of CYA for all involved tends to do that to a case.
Posted on 6/21/22 at 8:45 pm to LegendInMyMind
Reminds me of latest season of Stranger things. I need to rewatch the HBO documentary. It was fascinating.
Posted on 6/21/22 at 8:53 pm to East Coast Band
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but I'm interested in reading more
Thats a lot of reading...
Posted on 6/21/22 at 9:04 pm to LegendInMyMind
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Satanic Panic, tunnel vision, complete incompetence, and a dash of CYA for all involved tends to do that to a case.
Don’t forget Metallica. They were dangerous because they listened to Metallica.
They also were also weird because they read books that weren’t required reading by their public schools, specify Stephen King novels.
Posted on 6/21/22 at 9:05 pm to LEASTBAY
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Reminds me of latest season of Stranger things.
I think the show has had inspiration from this since the beginning. I mean, the kid that went missing off his bicycle had the last name Byers…
This post was edited on 6/21/22 at 9:07 pm
Posted on 6/24/22 at 5:38 am to Sasquatch Smash
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The story of the "West Memphis Three," whose decades-long murder case was the source for a noted documentary trilogy, returned to court Thursday, with a judge denying one of the men access to evidence he wants tested for DNA, according to his defense team.
The hearing was requested by attorneys for Damien Echols, one of three teenagers convicted in 1994 of the brutal murder of three Cub Scouts in West Memphis, Arkansas. A year earlier, the bodies of 8-year-olds Steve Branch, Chris Byers and Michael Moore had been left in a ditch, hogtied with their own shoelaces.
Prosecutors argued that Echols, Jason Baldwin and Jessie Misskelley Jr. killed the boys as part of a satanic ritual and that Echols had been the ringleader
Posted on 6/24/22 at 6:32 am to teke184
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Kids go missing, turn up dead.
Three oddball teens (Goths?) end up getting blamed for it and convicted under questionable evidence.
Lotta shite that didn’t add up IIRC.
I wonder why the prosecutors want to block DNA testing now after lying about losing the evidence. Weird fricking story.
Posted on 6/24/22 at 7:22 am to pioneerbasketball
The wackos convicted are the murders. Case closed.
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