re: West Memphis 3

Please search the history of TD on this topic. It's been brought up numourous times. Check it out.

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This guy has been "dying from a brain tumor" for 20 years now....

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That's one screwed up guy. He certainly fits the bill and it wouldn't shock me if he had some serious drug problems at the time.

I think Hobbs may have done it, but we also have virtually no information on this Mr. Bojangeles character. A man covered in mud and blood was seen at a Mr. Bojangles restaurant near where the boys would be found hours later. That restaurant was along highway 77 west of the crime scene. Probably less than a mile in total distance.

I think the Echols kid was playing into the hysteria thinking that he'd never get convicted since he didn't actually do it. Clearly that wasn't the case. His defense team clearly wasn't up to the challenge.

I heard one theory that the murdered boys saw Hobbs doing something he shouldn't be doing behind the truck wash facility, and he and an accomplice killed them there. I suppose that's possible.

West Memphis is a really dumpy place. It's home to a lot of distribution centers, rail yards, truck stops, and businesses catering to trucks and travelers. A lot of products and raw materials shipped to and from the eastern US go through that area either by rail or truck even today. There were a lot of transients around then and probably now. The location the bodies were found was right next to a truck stop and truck wash....both of which have since been torn down. There was casino/race track across I-40 from the area. A lot of potential suspects could be running through town just for a day or two.

The bodies were submerged in a drainage canal, and a high flow of water had pretty much washed the whole crime scene up. It was a difficult case to investigate and the West Memphis authorities were horribly ill-equipped to even begin to collect evidence properly. It was near what was a working class neighborhood at the time and a lot of parents were demanding action. They were under a lot of pressure to make an arrest and choose the weirdest group of kids they found.

Also the Justice system is completely the most messed up thing in the world. Those boys would still be in prison, but along come filmmakers and Johnny Depp and Pearl Jam and their money and ability to show the negative sides of the "good/lawful" and all of a sudden, we have an Alford Plea.

Have a buddy from WM (within a year of Echols in school) - swears Echols was involved. Felt society was better off with him in jail.

Let the bitching begin

I've read

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Damien Echols threw off the whole investigation by kidding around saying he did the murder for shock value around his friends. He didnt think that you can convict someone without evidence so he just went along with the justice system, and he wrongfully was detained for 18 years

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this type of thought..

idk.. i guess i could see a young teen just messing around, but i can't imagine ever wanting to take credit for such a horrible thing.

Wow. I just read up on this.

Unbelievable that these people only wanted a conviction and didn't care about justice.