May 5th, 1993.
The day three little boys were last seen alive.
The day most in West Memphis will never forget.
The day -- that changed so many people forever.
WE'VE GOT THEM NOW!poem by ~OMH~ October, 18, 2006
Three little boys rode off to playOut in the woods one fateful dayNever knowing what was comingSomeone trapped them there with cunning
Three young men were enjoying lifeListening to music to lesson their strifeAll wearing black as mourners doThey'd regret that choice when the days were through
Town alerts went out that nightTo find those boys still out of sightRobin Hood Hills is where to lookWhy oh why couldn't they just be reading a book?
They looked and looked and finally foundThe place where it seemed they'd been boundBound and killed those three little boysYoung enough to have been home with their toys
Answers, we need answers came the shoutDemeanors worsened, that brought some aboutIt has to be those awful young menWho shun society and have nary a friend
Just look at them, they have to be guiltySee what they all wear? What music they play?Better lock 'em up quick now, throw 'way that keyWe've got 'em now! They're the West Memphis Three!
by OMH
Three young men's lives changed forever at that time as well just so that the community might go forward in their healing. BUT, did it do so rightfully? Justly?
Is one young member of the West Memphis Three (so they came to be referred to) on death row awaiting his execution wrongfully?
Do music styles condemn a person? Do clothing styles make a murderer?
If they do then a huge percentage of the population of our country's youth should be put away behind bars.
I think this matter begs attending, and quickly! Please go to our WM3 site and join now and continue to look into the information that is online so that people everywhere may become enlightened to the facts, the actual facts, of this bizarre case.
Come and help us to gain:
Justice for the victims of this horrible crime!
Shortly after three eight-year-old boys were found mutilated and murdered in West Memphis, Arkansas, local newspapers stated the killers had been caught. The police assured the public that the three teenagers in custody were definitely responsible for these horrible crimes.
Evidence?
The same police officers coerced an error-filled “confession†from Jessie Misskelley Jr., who is mentally handicapped. They subjected him to 12 hours of questioning without counsel or parental consent, audio-taping only two fragments totaling 46 minutes. Jessie recanted it that evening, but it was too late— Misskelley, Jason Baldwin and Damien Echols were all arrested on June 3, 1993, and convicted of murder in early 1994.
Although there was no physical evidence, murder weapon, motive, or connection to the victims, the prosecution pathetically resorted to presenting black hair and clothing, heavy metal t-shirts, and Stephen King novels as proof that the boys were sacrificed in a satanic cult ritual. Unfathomably, Echols was sentenced to death, Baldwin received life without parole, and Misskelley got life plus 40.
For over 13 years, The West Memphis Three have been imprisoned for crimes they didn’t commit. Echols waits in solitary confinement for the lethal injection our tax dollars will pay for. They were all condemned by their poverty, incompetent defense, satanic panic and a rush to judgment.
But there’s still hope for them, and you can help.
~~~~Quoted from wm3.org~~~~
CHRISTOPHER BYERS BIOLOGICAL FATHER SPEAKS OUT
(From May 2000)
Rick Murray, biological father of victim Christopher Byers, contacted WM3.org in the hopes of making his sentiments public knowledge.
Here are his views on the case:
My name is Rick Murray, and I am the biological father of Christopher, one of the three boys who were murdered in West Memphis, Arkansas, in 1993. I'm making this statement to say that I am not satisfied with the investigation of my son's murder. I am not satisfied with the verdicts of the trials, and I want everyone to know that I believe the wrong people are in prison for this crime.
I have many reasons for feeling this way. I know the people who are close to this thing, and I know that people were mad about it, and they were wanting it to be solved quick. It got to the point where they weren't thinking about the truth, they were only listening to what the police and the reporters were telling them.
There was no evidence to convict the three who are in prison and everybody knows this. They just don't want to see it this way, because it's easier to believe that the police got the right people. One of the reasons I feel the way I feel is because I don't think that Damien, Jason and Jessie are insane, but I feel that it would definitely take an insane person to do what was done to those children.
There are a lot of things that the police just didn't look into. Someone could have driven up along the tree line on the East side of the wooded area, Robin Hood Hills. That dirt field East of the woods. There's a culvert that goes from the service road up along the tree line. Anyone could have driven up there and dumped the bodies in the creek, but the police never tried to find out any more about it. They were too quick to say that the murders were committed by a devil worshipper cult.
I don't believe that anyone should be convicted of murder that they didn't do whether it's my son or not my son. I've talked to people who believe these boys are guilty, and they just don't have any evidence to support what they're saying. It seems to me that if they really cared about the truth they would listen to reason and see that there just wasn't enough to put these three in prison.
I want to know who murdered my son, and I want to know that they will be caught and punished for what they did. I don't want three innocent people to suffer for something they didn't do.
- Rick Murray, May 2000
~~Thanks to the WM3Helper site for this information!~~
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