DO YOU KNOW WHERE THE CLUB HOUSE WAS? A few pages prior, he writes "Damien and Jason had no indicative violence in their pasts, and while Jessie was known for a hot temper, he channeled his aggression into pursuits such as wrestling." However, like I said, he makes what I think is a pretty good case for Hobbs' guilt, too. If it wasnt for your choices, this never would have happened!And, the act of tying up the boys, especially the manner in which they were tied up, looked somewhat sexual in nature. Due to the fact that the three were so severely injured, a weapon had to have been used at some point. He told police that Jessie had confessed to him and that he said that he had just held the boys while the others killed them. And someone like that can lie and lie and lie and lie, rigfht to your fuckin' face,because narcissism is about protecting the self-myth. WE ALWAYS GOT A PLACE TO HIDE BEFORE THEY CAN GET THERERIDGE: WHERE DID YOU HIDE?AARON: WE HIDE ONE TIME WE HIDE BEHIND UM A TREE. I TOOK AARON TO TODD AND DANAS HOUSE AND UM, TODD ASKED AARON IF HE MIGHT KNOW DID CHRIS OR MICHAEL SAY ANYTHING TO HIM, TO THE EFFECT WHERE THEY MIGHT BE. When Jessie was fully investigated by police, it never once came up that Jessie was with Buddy that night. If they had focused on what the evidence at the crime scene really revealed, in addition to the details from Aarons interview, they would have been looking for a male or males who knew the victims well, were rumored or known homosexual or bisexual men approximately aged from 20-30 years old, and a person(s) who was free to frequent the woods in the afternoons from 5pm- 8pm at night, Monday -Thursday. When suspicion was surrounding Buddy and he was interviewed by police about allegedly having a pair of bloody shoes, Buddy turned the attention to Jessie Misskelley. Some details of this timeline are facts, corroborated by multiple sources, other details are merely theories of what may have taken place on the evening of May 5th, 1993. Hobbs, who had previously been under the police scanner for the murders because of inconsistencies in his story, had later been cleared of any wrongdoing but found himself being verbally abused by Byers in front of cameras outside a courtroom. I think David Jacoby made a mistake/ a slip when he claimed that he saw the three boys, two on bicycles and one on a skateboard on the street when Terry showed up. As Michael was carried back to Terry, he allegedly kicked him. Narlene interjected herself all over this case. This is a final note Id like to make. Not only did Billy Stewart allege to have seen David and Terry kiss two different times, but he also claims to have delivered drugs to both men at a gay bar called J-Wags. What this shows us is that Jacoby knows the truth. YEA IT WAS BUT, I WOULD THINK SO, IN ORDER TO HOLD ALL 3 LITTLE 8 YEAR OLDS THAT IT WAS PRETTY STURDY. He writes it right in the autopsy report. Dixie stated that she knew Richards car and that it was not his. When Narlene was interviewed she claimed to have dropped LG off at his home. Especially considering that they are remembering this event 18 years later for one, and for two, there were multiple sightings of the boys from 6pm-6:30 on the street beside the woods, quite a ways away from the Hobbs home, as well as the woods themselves. AARON: ITS, ITS IN UH, ITS IN THOSE WOODS WHERE UH, WHERE THAT STOP SIGN IS AND ITS. I truly believe the real killer(s) are still out there and it's not the WM3. Press J to jump to the feed. Twenty years later, in 2013, two parents of the murdered boys, Mark Byers and Pam Hicks, hired a lawyer to help them look at any evidence in the prosecutions possession. I dont believe when Terry first saw them that he intended to kill them. (Narlene Interview) Additionally, she lied about seeing Damien and her niece, Domini walking away from the crime scene sometime around 9:30 the night of the murders. If Echols is successful in court, the DNA testing process will likely take months. VICKIE: HE STAYED. I will support each theory with known public evidence. When I rewatched PL1, Pam and Terry had broken up when she did the interview outside when she put Stevie's scarf on her head (she was in a red dress). HE TOLD THE REST OF THE MEN TO HOLD THEM OR SOMETHING AND PROBABLY DID IT. When you look at the evidence as a whole, it is quite clear and truly undeniable what really occurred that tragic day. One mystery that has plagued people who have followed the case, is why it appeared that Stevie and Chris were tortured while Michael was not. When police asked Dixie if the car that LG was spotted in was Richards, she too, vehemently denied it, stating that she knew Richards yellow car well, and this wasnt it. Then for a time, I thought it was JMB. ! Retired FBI profiler, John Douglas, as well as profiler Brent Turvey both believed the entire attack was punitive in nature and that the perpetrator was teaching the boys a lesson for either a real or percieved transgression. I believe that certainly Buddy, and perhaps LG as well, participated in the crime because of The Bystander Effect; they partook in the crime out of fear and/or compliance, but they did not have intentions to murder. Biting and stabbing the groin of a male victim is a hallmark of a homosexual homicide. According to Billy Stewarts statement, he believes that at this time some sexual activity occurred between the men and two teens. Echols is one of three men found guilty in the brutal murders of three eight-year-old boys in West Memphis in 1993. (Charlotte Bly interview). It is completely illogical to believe that LG would have driven nearly ten minutes away to get the phone number of someone who was in walking distance from him. ALRIGHT DID CHRIS AND MICHAEL DID THEY TELL YOU THAT THEY THOUGHT THEY HAD GOT CAUGHT. Shortly after this, Terry Hobbs noticed that the three boys were spying on the men. Although LG lived in West Memphis, just a few blocks from Terry Hobbs and David Jacoby, he spent a great deal of time at Lakeshore because various family members of his, including Narlene, lived there. VICKIE: ARRON TOLD ME THAT UM HE AND MICHAEL AND CHRIS VISITED THEIR CLUB HOUSE EVERYDAY AND THEY ROAD THEIR BIKES AND THEY WERE SPYING ON 5 MEN AND AH I ASKED HIM WHO THEY WERE AND HE SAID I DONT KNOW MOM WHO THEY WERE I JUST YOU KNOW WE JUST SPYING ON EM I SAID WHY WOULD YOU BE SPYING ON 5 MEN YOU KNOW AND HE SAID WELL THEY WERE THERE EVERYDAY SO WE WOULD WATCH THEM. RIDGE: ALRIGHT, AND HES BEEN FOUND THERE BY YOU SEVERAL TIMES? DO YOU THINK THEY WERE CRAZY, AARON: THEY WERE ROLLED UP UM, CIGARETTES THERE WAS ALL KIND OF WHITE. If that is true, then that is more evidence to support Billys statements as being factual. If the boys had their bicycles with them, which I believe is very likely, that means Stevie and Michael would have been quickly caught whereas Chris, who had no bicycle to push, would have gotten caught a bit farther away. With all that in mind, I allege that Terry and Amanda returned home a little after 5pm. If Terry had dropped LG off at 8:45, he could have arrived at the Byers by 8:47 pm, just about the time that Mark Byers testified he arrived. Terry is an absolute sadist, psychopath and was never properly investigated, and I know The Hobbs Family Secret is true, possibly The Puzzle. the tying up is part of what frames this as a punishment that crossed the line. Terry Hobbs was born in 1958 in Northern Arkansas, one of four children, son of Edith Raylean McLeod Hobbs and Joe Dean Hobbs, Sr. Hobbs, Sr. learned his trade as a butcher while in the military and went on to open thirty restaurants. RIDGE: ALRIGHT, WHEN YOU SAW THESE FIVE OUT THERE IN THE WOODS AND THEY WERE DOING THESE THINGS THAT WERE BAD OKAY WAS THIS AT DAYTIME OR WAS IT NIGHTTIME? Allegedly, the four men made it to a spot in the Blue Beacon Woods and Terry Hobbs asked the teens to wrestle each other. With what we know about Stevie and how much he feared Terry, it seems impossible that Stevie would have been the child who kicked Terry. Hobbs, with the help of an author, put all that journaling into a book about the 1993 murders of his stepson Stevie Branch, and Branch's friends Michael Moore and Chris Byers. My opinion is that Terry wanted to humiliate the boys becausehefelt humiliated when the boys caught him involved in a sex act with other men. I was almost 21, a new mom and lived just across the bridge, in Memphis when the murders happened. "[4], In November of 1994, more than a year after the murders of the three children in West Memphis, Hobbs again experienced trouble with the law. Not only ONE victim but THREE. The two teens jumped in the truck with the men, stopped by Billys home and bought the weed and then drove around the back streets of West Memphis, smoking and drinking whiskey. He most likely began to tie up one side of Stevie using a figure eight knot and then went to Michael and tied up one side of him with a square knot. When the police asked Aaron why he thought his friends were murdered, he told them that he believed his friends got caught spying on the men and that the man with the white tank top told the others to hold them while he killed them. What the ME failed to mention, however, is that a one time act of oral sex on a child is not going to cause enough injury to a childs penis to be noticeable. David Jacoby also claimed to have seen the three boys in the street at this time; one on a skateboard and the others on bikes. Three boys were seen riding their bikes around the neighborhood of West Memphis, last seen heading to the Robin Hood Hill woods at 6:30. Terry Hobbs grew up in a strict fundementalist pentecostal home, with his father actually being a pentecostal preacher. So, essentially, the boys were trapped unless they were able to get to the log. DNA consistent with Terry Hobbs, stepfather of victim Stevie Branch, was. The manner in which they were tied also tells us about the crime and the perpetrator(s). If anyone might know where the boys were going or what their plans had been for that day, it would most likely have been Aaron. Coincidence? When you realize that LG and Buddy were most likely above the ditch, handing the boys bodies to the two men, you can begin to see exactly what a difficult task this was if done alone. By rejecting non-essential cookies, Reddit may still use certain cookies to ensure the proper functionality of our platform. Just as the stripping of the clothes and the bites and stabs to groin; it all suggests a sexual element to this crime. Terry was born in Northern Arkansas and grew up in the Ozark Mountain region of the state. I think we have the answer now; Stevie and Chris appeared to have been tortured because they were the ones who were conscious. Twitter. A couple of months later, French contacted the police and her landlord after Hobbs reportedly came into her home and grabbed her breast. This could mean that Terry could have arrived sometime between 8:45 and 9:00pm. All experts agreed that Perettis autopsy reports were written exquisitely. VICKIE: IT WAS COPSRIDGE: WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT DEAD ON? And, allegedly, David was the one who caught Christopher, so I believe the first person who was attacked was Michael. RIDGE OKAY, DO YOU REMEMBER SPECIFICALLY WHETHER YOU MAY HAVE GONE OVER TO JESSIES ON THAT DATE? We know from multiple sightings, including Michaels mother, that the three boys were on two bikes riding on 14th, headed to Goodwin St. at 6pm.