Devil's Knot_ The True Story of the West Memphis Three - Mara Leveritt [226]
429. “Death Row’s Echols Ties the Knot in Prison Fete,” by Cathy Frye, December 7, 1999.
430. Though the handling of money was illegal in prison, and Jason had never had much of it to begin with, he was trying to understand finance. “I know to stay away from credit cards,” he said. “I know that mutual funds are a safer investment and offer a higher yield, but that right now is the best time to buy stocks. I wish I could get out right now and just buy a bunch of stocks while it’s low, and just keep buying stocks every month, every month…. I just don’t want my kids to live in a trailer park.”
Index
Allen, Mike
attempt to depose
questioning Jessie
on second documentary
testimony
on the case
America’s Most Wanted(television show)
Appeals
Damien
failed
Jason
Jessie
Arkansas
attitudes toward verdicts
bifurcated trials
DNA testing
in documentary
freedom of information law
maximum security unit
reaction to documentaries in,
Second Judicial District
Arkansas Crime Laboratory
Arkansas Democrat–Gazette
Arkansas law
Arkansas State Police
investigating officers in West Memphis Police Department
Arkansas Supreme Court
appeals to
arguments at
postconviction petitions before
Arkansas Times
Arrests
Atkinson, Michael
Autopsies
Autopsy reports
M. Byers
to defense lawyers
delayed
Bakken, Kathy
Baldwin, Jason
accused by A. Hutcheson
appeals
arrested
attempt to separate trial from
Damien’s
bite mark impressions
black T–shirts
bragged about murders (claim),
J. M. Byers blamed
case against
closing argument
criminal record
Damien’s link with
deal offered to
as defendant
in documentary
family questioned
fiber evidence
found guilty of capital murder
Jessie to testify against
Jessie’s accusatory statements about
Jessie’s decision not to testify against
jury assessment of
juvenile tried as adult
knife linked to
linked to crime
news reports on
and occult
presumption of guilt
pretrial concerns
pretrial motions
in prison
probable cause to arrest
questioned
reading
and satanism
sentence
severity of situation of
suspect
see alsoEchols, Damien, and Jason Baldwin trial
Baldwin, Matt
Beasley, Mandy
Berlinger, Joe
and blood-stained knife
second film
Bicycles
Black clothing
Black man, reports of
Black T–shirts
Bland, Danny
Blood
absence of,
on necklace
testing site for
on T–shirt
Blood samples
Bojangles rest room
Bojangles rest room: lost
Damien
Jason
Jessie
Blue Beacon Truck Wash
Bodies
discovery of
evidence found with
evidence analysis of site
location and condition of
marks on
photograghs of
position of
tied,
tied with rope (claim)
Bojangles restaurant
bloody man
Bouisson, Maurice
Branch, Steve
Branch, Stevie Edward
body found
cause of death
evidence analysis from photos of
family background
Jessie found guilty of murder of
marks on face
murder
reported missing
reports of sightings
testimony regarding injuries
tied
Bray, Donald
and A. Hutcheson
Lax met with
notes from interviews
stroke
and suspects
Burnett, David
Damien and Jason’s trial
Damien and Jason’s trial: gag order
Damien and Jason’s trial: meeting with prosecution
Damien and Jason’s trial: sentencing
Damien and Jason’s trial: Supreme Court upheld decisions of
errors
Jessie’s trial
Jessie’s trial:in camera hearings
Jessie’s trial: verdict
and lawyers’ payment
ordered Byers’s conviction expunged
pretrial motions
Rule 37 petitions
Byers, Christopher
belt whipping by father
biological father
blood on knife consistent with blood of
body found
J. M. Byers adopted
castration,
evidence analysis from photos of
cause of death
funeral
Jessie found guilty of murder of
medical records
mental health problems
missing
murder
“Negroid” hair in sheet around
reports of sightings
school problems
signs of sexual assault
testimony regarding injuries
tied