Devil's Knot_ The True Story of the West Memphis Three - Mara Leveritt [231]
Teer, Domini Alia
baby
baby shower film
pregnant
reaction to verdict
testimony
Teer, Seth Damien Azariah
Ten Mile Bayou Diversion Ditch
Thin Blue Line, The
Time of death
in appeal
Time of murder
Time problem
in Jessie’s statement
Tips and leads
Trials
bifurcated
efforts to separate Jason’s from
Damien’s
location of
verdicts
as witch trials
see alsoEchols, Damien, and Jason Baldwin trial; Misskelley, Jessie, Jr., trial
Tucker, Jim Guy
Turvey, Brent
United Parcel Service (UPS) Urine in mouths
Urine in stomachs
Urine samples
U.S. Supreme Court
USA Today
Verdicts
Damien and
Jason’s trial
Jessie’s trial
Victims
A. Hutcheson as
pictures of
witnesses as
wounds
Victims’ families
and documentary
life after trials
media and
reaction to verdict
at Rule 37 petition hearing
search of homes
at trials
Village Voice
Voir dire, secret
Wadley, George Robin
Damien and Jason’s trial
pretrial motions
Web site
West Memphis (Arkansas)
West Memphis Evening Times
West Memphis police
conduct of
evidence collected by
evidence of cult involvement
Jessie’s confession to
questioning J. M. Byers about knife
reports of interviews with Damien
search warrant on library
second phase of investigation
see alsoPolice investigation
West Memphis Police Department
case number
how they investigated case
officers under investigation
Stidham’s visit to
West Memphis Three
artists supporting
supporters of
Wicca
Wilkins, William E.
Witch trials
West Memphis trials as
Witness list
Damien and Jason’s trial
Witnesses
credibility of
juvenile
Woods
A. Hutcheson in
devil worshiping in
search of
taking witnesses to
Writ of errorcoram nobis
Christopher Byers, age eight.
Michael Moore, age eight.
Stevie Branch, age eight.
Detectives stand on a pipe across the ditch where the victims’ bodies were found submerged. The boys’ bicycles had also been pulled from the stream.
Detective Byrn Ridge holds one of the sticks that were used to pin the boys’ clothes underwater.
Chief Inspector Gary Gitchell announces the arrests.COURTESY OFTHECOMMERCIALAPPEAL
John Mark Byers, stepfather of Christopher Byers, sits in Robin Hood woods, near where Christopher’s body was discovered.PHOTO BY JOE BERLINGER, COURTESYCREATIVETHINKINGINTERNATIONAL, LTD.
Police surround Damien Echols, the alleged ringleader, after his arrest. PHOTO BYSTEVEJONES, COURTESY OFTHECOMMERCIALAPPEAL
Jason Baldwin, at his arraignment, June 5, 1993.
COURTESY OFTHECOMMERCIALAPPEAL
Jessie Misskelley Jr. is led into court for his 1994 trial. PHOTO BYMORRISRICHARDSON, COURTESY OFTHEARKANSASDEMOCRAT-GAZETTE
Private investigator Ron Lax.
Dan Stidham, Jessie’s defense attorney.
Prosecutor John Fogleman.
Circuit Judge David Burnett considers an objection by Stidham at Jessie’s trial. COURTESY OFTHEARKANSAS-DEMOCRATGAZETTE
Jason smiles briefly during his trial. Damien appears in the foreground, seated across the table from Jason. PHOTO BYDAVIDGOTTSCHALK, COURTESY OFTHEARKANSAS-DEMOCRATGAZETTE
Damien remains motionless as he hears himself sentenced to death. PHOTO BYLISAWADDELL, COURTESY OFTHECOMMERCIALAPPEAL
Defense attorney Edward Mallett talks to reporters following an appeal before the Arkansas Supreme Court. In the foreground, a critic of the trials holds part of a banner urging state officials to “Free the West Memphis Three.”
Californians Grove Pashley, Kathy Bakken, and Burk Sauls, founders of a website supporting the West Memphis Three, visit Arkansas in 1997 to meet Damien (shown here separated from them by glass) at the state’s Maximum Security Unit.
Filmmakers Bruce Sinofsky (left) and Joe Berlinger (right) visit with Damien in 1999. PHOTO BYALEXZAKRZEWSKI, COURTESY OFCREATIVETHINKINGINTERNATIONAL, LTD.
Damien in prison, March 2002.
Jessie in prison, February 2001.
Jason in prison, March 2001.
Table of Contents
Prologue
Part One
Chapter One The Murders AT7:41P.M. ON MAY5, 1993, a full moon rose behind the Memphis