UNLESS YOU KNOW NOT GETTING UP THERE AND LOOKING AT IT ALL. And, it had to have been between 5:30 and 6:00 because Chris abandoned his skateboard by 6:00 and joined Stevie on his bicycle. AARON: I THINK THEY WAS WATCHING THEM MEN LIKE LIKE WE ALWAYS DID, AND THEY THEY GOT CAUGHT, AND THEN THEY NEVER TOLD THE MEN, AND THE MEN SORTA KILLED THEM. He did not tell me who he was calling, and he did not tell me that Stevie was missing, Pamela previously told investigators. Privacy Policy. What reasons could there possibly be for not being honest about the night a horrific murder of children took place? The fact that David Jacoby said that he saw all three boys and one was riding on a skateboard, means that Davidreally didsee the boys at some point that day. Buddy as well was involved in the investigation and was under suspicion from his family from the beginning. Her relay of the conversation seems to reveal that Narlene is talking to LG as if they both know that Damien is guilty. Why was he lying? VICKIE: HE STAYED. (1). thanks for the recommendation!! I believe that inhismind, the boys deserved what they got because they shouldnt have been spying. AARON: IT WAS, WHEN EVER WE GOT OUT OF SCHOOL WE WENT THERE ABOUT FOUR, AARON: AND THEY NEVER GOT THERE BEFORE WE DID. 5:30pm According to both Terry Hobbs and David Jacoby, Terry and Amanda show up at the Jacobys at approx. Several years back there was a rumor that one of TH nephews said he was in a room with TH, DJ and some others as they smoked weed and did some things to each other sexually. She drove him around that day to help him find a job. In order to have a deeper understanding of what happened, we must start at the beginning. This is the reason why David remembers the three playing; two on bicycles and one on a skateboard. He admits that they would go to the woods and hide either behind a tree or in their clubhouse, wait for a group of men to arrive, and then spy on them. 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. WAS IT LIKE EVERY DAY OR ONCE WEEK OR JUST FIVE DIFFERENT TIMES YOU SAW IT HAPPEN? And why would Jacoby publicly and openly admit that he lied under penalty of perjury and to police back in 2007? But what absolutely cannot happen is that 1 cop having his reputation, career, family, and future be staked on the guilt/innocence/fortitude/silence of that dick-lover Terry. If you're into dick as an adult, you're gonna find your community. When Stevie was pulled from the water, the left side of his face was terribly mangled. First of all, something led the perpetrators to get into the water. When Terry arrived at Pams work, he did something very peculiar. For one, LGs other aunt saw him at her work at approx. After an altercation with his wife, Pam Hobbs, wherein he reportedly hit her, he shot his brother-in-law. These two are pretty clear, I think, especially with one coming from his parents. Which is right in line with why this attack would have occurred. The group also stated that Echols submitted a FOIA request over 18 months ago, but the request went unanswered, which is a violation of Arkansas state law. Echols ultimately ended filing a lawsuit against the police department. After the murders occurred, rumors circulated that Buddy may have been involved. The four men see the young boys spying, one man in particular, the stepfather of one child, orders the others to grab them; he flies into a rage and hits the boys, and the attack leads to murder. (source) All of these interviews and statements show that not only did LG not have an alibi, but he lied about his alibi and asked other people to lie about being with him, too. Not only was he punishing and dominating him, but he was expressing his repressed anger and shame associated with being bisexual or homosexual. He later changed that story and claimed she told them they were at some apartments. DNA testing in 2007 has identified a hair fragment found on Michael Moore's bindings to be consistent with Hobbs. When police were searching for the boys on the fifth, they were not inspecting a crime scene, they were simply trying to find three boys. Before I go over the timeline of how the day of May 5th 1993 might have unfolded, there is available evidence that is extremely pertinent to understanding what happened that day. However, this was never corroborated by police. He was also a minister in the Apostolic Pentecost Church, a fundamentalist group. Allegedly, Terry Hobbs told the boys he was going to teach them a lesson. 9 Q. Despite this evidence, no charges have ever been brought against Hobbs, who still firmly believes that Echols, Baldwin, and Misskelley are guilty of the . David Jacoby claims that Terry showed up and the two played guitar for an hour, which also doesnt add up when you know all the details. Stevie also appeared to have a footwear impression on the back of his head; meaning that Stevie was likely kicked or stomped at the end of his attack. (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. SO WHAT HAPPENED NEXT? He actually worked in a slaughterhouse. YEA IT WAS BUT, I WOULD THINK SO, IN ORDER TO HOLD ALL 3 LITTLE 8 YEAR OLDS THAT IT WAS PRETTY STURDY, AARON: IN ROBIN HOOD UH, THE PLACE WHERE THE BOARDS ARE. I dont know what L. G. is capable of, and I am not saying that he would do it, and I am not saying that he wouldnt, but I know Damian. The figure eight knot is used in conjunction with the Packers Knot; a knot used by butchers when they bind meat. Aaron Hutchinson also stated that the clubhouse consisted of some old boards: AARON: IN ROBIN HOOD UH, THE PLACE WHERE THE BOARDS ARERIDGE: WAS IT THERE WHERE YOUR CLUB IS OR WAS IT SOME WHERE ELSE IN THOSE WOODS?AARON: IT WAS RIGHT BESIDE OUR UM, TREE HOUSE, And in 2011, pleadings for further DNA testing of the boards that were found next to the clubhouse:http://callahan.8k.com/pdf/de_dnamotion3_30_11.pdf. He dropped by the other parents home at the first chance he got, made an appearance and a statement that implied hed been out looking for the kids. In both Billy and Bennies statements, i.e. Also, the sister who caught Hobbs washing laundry in the middle of the fucking night! That makes sense to me. I also went back and caught Pam in 93 saying that TH didn't get mad, he got even. RIDGE: OKAY, UH, YOUR SAYING THEIR DOING THINGS LIKE MAN AND WOMEN WOULD BE DOING. What stands out to me, is that no one has ever suggested before that the injury to Chris began as a bite. However, is it simply a coincidence that the statements that Aaron told police in 1993 coincide so perfectly with the alleged confessions that Buddy and LG made in 1994 and were later retold in 2012? Lastly, even David Jacoby, friend to Terry Hobbs, testified that when Terry arrived at his home at 5:30, he asked Terry where Stevie was. AARON: ITS, ITS IN UH, ITS IN THOSE WOODS WHERE UH, WHERE THAT STOP SIGN IS AND ITS. In the second statement, Narlene describes to police a conversation she had with LG outside of the police station right before a police interview. RIDGE: WAS IT THERE WHERE YOUR CLUB IS OR WAS IT SOME WHERE ELSE IN THOSE WOODS? If LG had been dropped off at home at 4:30, surely he would have changed out of his shirt and tie by 9pm. -5:00 Terry Hobbs drops Pam off at work and returns home What happened next is a theory supported by evidence and interviews. RIDGE: WITH THEIR MOUTH, WHERE THEY HAVING SEX WITH THEIR MOUTH? I believe he intended to terrify and threaten them so they would never, ever speak of what they had seen. This gave the men 2 and a half hours to let off some steam and possibly drink and get high. After they wrestled for a bit, Terry told them to stop and called them over to drink and/or smoke more. Misskelly later recanted and claimed he was tired, ready to go home, and said what the detectives wanted him to say. VICKIE: UM, JUST SOME BOARDS, LOOKED LIKE SOME ONE HAD LIKE MADE A DEER STAND, A LONG TIME AGO OR SOMETHING AND JUST SOME BOARDS AND THEY KINDA HAD YOU KNOW LIKE A FORTRIDGE: OKAY, AND WERE THEY NAILED ONTO THE TREE OR COULD YOU TELL THAT? Dana Moore was there the entire time; she never left. I believe that after Terrys attack on Stevies face, and with Stevie still quite conscious, this is when the tying of the children began. David Jacoby is the key to this case. Then he changes his story again and said that Narlene did give him a ride home around this time. Now what did LG have to hide? Hobbs was calling loudly at the children and ordering them to return to his house. 3 A. He told police that he and his friends often played in the Blue Beacon Woods. Here is a timeline of how events may have unfolded that day. And why would Narlene have any need to lie for LG if he was innocent? According to Clemente, suspects who have something to hide, such as evidence, or signs of abuse at the home, will not want police to search their residence and will attempt to put distance between themselves and where the abuse took place. I hear you. What purpose would there be to strip the boys naked? Todd Moore, father of victim Michael Moore, found the evidence against Hobbs unpersuasive. Jacoby is adamant to anyone who listens that Hobbs is not his friend. For the latest true crime and justice news,subscribe to the Crime Stories with Nancy Grace podcast. 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. According to Terrys ex wife, Terry Hobbs first wife had claimed in their divorce papers that he molested their son. RIDGE IRENE SHE TOLD YOU SOMETHING ABOUT THE DAY THE KIDS WERE MURDERED? She claimed to have seen the two walking as she was on her way to pick up her sister from work but there are serious problems with her statement. At the same time, she felt she must lie to protect her nephew, as she may have been told that his participation was very small. I will not claim that everything I write is certified fact, but I do believe that all the known evidence supports this theory as the truth of what happened in West Memphis, Arkansas in 1993. In the autopsy reports, it was concluded that Michael was swiftly and violently attacked and was likely unconscious for almost the entire assault on the boys. For more information, please see our Douglas believes the act was meant to dominate, control, humiliate and punish. In 2011, Jamie Ballard, her sister and her mother came forward when they discovered that Terry Hobbs claimed to have never seen the boys on the 5th. 4:50 Terry takes Pam to work but first drives by the Moores looking for Stevie who did not come home by 4:30. In part 3, when suing Natalie Maines, he said he wanted The Dixie Chicks to be "humiliated" as punishment when asked what he really wanted out of the lawsuit. that was a red flag to me, alright. Keep in mind as well, that the Flash Market/Landromat on Ingram was only a few minutes drive away from the Byers home on 14th. oh boy. THEY UM. This lends credibilty to the theory that Stevie did in fact go home, and even ate some dinner. By the time Buddy would have been dropped off at Lakeshore and the other three arrived in West Memphis, it could have been somewhere around 8:15-8:30. He was only 19 years old and this was a hot day in May. The photo on the left is Stevies bitemark and the photos on the right are other known bitemarks. On Nov. 6 police in Memphis responded to a call that someone had been shot at 4460 Kerwin St., the home of Pamela and Terry Hobbs. Echols lawyer, Patrick Benca, reviewed evidence earlier this year that was thought to have been lost. At the time of the murders, LG was only 19 and spent most of his time with an unmarried man who was in his 50s. Dixie came to work later and Linda Hollingsworth came in asking about where L.G. "He would have been a heart breaker if. Its possible that Terry realized these knots could come back to him so he finished tying Michael up with a more traditionally used knot. She claimed to have seen the three eight year old boys when she dropped LG off, but it was a very shaky sighting. Then, in 2013, Jacoby was summoned to court over the alleged confessions of Buddy Lucas and LG Hollingsworth. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Memphis_Three, http://callahan.8k.com/images/500/1/150.jpg. The hearing was to allow the victim's . Sometime around 2pm the day of the 6th, Stevie, Michael and Chris were found murdered in a drainage ditch filled with water in the Blue Beacon Woods. For some reason, unknown to the public at least, Terry Hobbs was never questioned. I still think about it regularly. This is supported by evidence as well. I believe Terry would have changed altogether since he was at home but neither Jacoby or LG had that luxury just yet. We know this because it takes 45 minutes to two hours to digest vegetables and we also know that the experts believe that the boys were murdered sometime around 7:00 pm. This is the time when, according to Billy Stewart, he believes something sexual might have taken place between all or some of the four men. WHAT HAPPENED THAT DAY WHEN YOU GOT OUT OF SCHOOL WHAT WAS IT THEY WERE GOING TO DO THAT DAY?AARON: BEFORE THEY DID ANYTHING THEY WENT UP TO MY MAMAS TRUCK AND THEY ASKED HER IF I COULD GO OVER TO MICHAELS HOUSE TO GO UH, GO, GO WITH, GO WITH THEM TO PLAY SOME WHERE THAT WAS WHERE OUR CLUB WASRIDGE: ALRIGHT, YOUVE BEEN TO YOUR CLUB BEFORE WITH THEM?AARON: (inaudible)RIDGE: ALRIGHT. 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. I theorize they then cleaned up the blood from Chris injuries by scraping up the mud, grass, leaves and blood and throwing it into the drainage ditch. Ive thought about this in length and I think I understand what may have occurred. It would take another 14 years before he was even interviewed about his whereabouts that night. I learned through my connection in the drug-trade that Mr. Hobbs preferred sexwith young boys. AARON: MICHAEL AND CHRIS SAID NOT TO TELL NOBODY. No. BLY BUDDY UM, LEFT A FEW MINUTES BEFORE THE KIDS GOT KILLED AND SHE SAID, HE DIDNT COME BACK UNTIL THE NEXT DAY. These statements have protected Hobbs for seven years. AND I TOLD AARON, ARRON DOESNT KNOW ABOUT SEX AND WE TALKED ABOUT IT AND ALL THE BOOKS THAT YOUVE SEEN UM HE SAID THAT THEY HAD THEIR PETERS IN EACH OTHERS BUTTS AND SAID THEY WATCHED. Ifvery conservativelyone in every 10-20 people is gay or bi, and the police force is made up of 20 people (just a fun number) one of those cops is gonna like dick. Back to the timeline. He flipped flopped between being at home with his mother and being at his friend Richards house from 5:30-9pm. Not until it was learned that Terry was using Jacoby as an alibi and that a hair that was found at the crime scene turned out to be consistent with Davids DNA. You have to keep in mind that the statements from Bennie Guy and Billy Stewart are considered hearsay and most likely would not stand up in a court of law alone. However, I do believe that this was Terrys murder and he controlled it. According to both Billy and Bennies statements, the four men pulled up to the trailer, bought a small amount of marijuana and left. In John Douglas analysis, the tying up of the boys was another attempt from the perpetrator to humiliate and dominate the boys. I allege that one or all of them took the underwear and socks, wet them in the water and used them to wipe blood off themselves, off the board and any other weapons used in the murder, as well as to wipe up blood at the scene. And the 90s. It means its likely that he never went home. Additionally, why would LG go down to the Laundromat at approx. AND I SAID I DONT KNOW ILL BE GLAD TO GO GET HIM IF YOU THINK IT WILL HELP, IF YOU TALK TO HIM, AND HE SAID I WOULD REALLY APPRECIATE IT. But if Chris was merely bitten and stabbed, and did not actually have his penis or scrotum cut off, as was once believed, this would have provided an injury severe enough to have killed him (ie: bled out) while also allowing turtles and attracting turtles, in fact, to make the final injury after death. According to David Jacoby, he and Terry drove down Barton street searchingfour separate times, passing Michael Moores home each time. Due to this error in the judgement by police, the information revealed by Aaron has been largely ignored through the years. Terry and David are not the only ones with suspicions and allegations of homosexuality surrounding them, though. DO YOU THINK THEY WERE CRAZY, AARON: THEY WERE ROLLED UP UM, CIGARETTES THERE WAS ALL KIND OF WHITE. I would say its quite coincidental that when Aaron was told his friends were missing, he immediately asked his mom to go to the boys clubhouse in the Blue Beacon Woods and this also happened to be the place where the boys were later found murdered. When you realize that Michaels body was found by the tree and not by where he was placed on the bank, you conclude two things. NARLENE: He (Lg) said, if you start saying that about Damian, youre going to get in trouble, I said, well, the mommy is up there saying stating that he was, Damian was with her all the time. We know that the boys clubhouse was right next to a pile of 2x4s which again supports the notion that the boys were discovered right by their clubhouse.). I believe the known evidence supports the notion that Terry said yes, but that Stevie went inside to eat dinner first. SO WHAT HAPPENED NEXT? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Memphis_Three. Terry Hobbs, the stepfather of eight-year-old victim Stevie Branch, has been named in documents released in Marian, Arkansas by the attorneys for Pam Hobbs, Stevie's mother. This would have been the only way they could have crossed without falling into the water. I also believe the mutilations to Chris Byres was pure turtle predation, as well as Stevie's facial injuries. RIDGE: OKAY, AND WHAT DID YOU DO WHEN YOU WENT DOWN THERE? And, according to Buddys cousins, Rex Heath and Charlotte Bly, not only does Buddy not have an alibi for the night of the 5th, its a possibility he lied to police about what he did that night. Both Guy and Stewart have tried since 1994, thirteen years before Terry and David were even suspects, to tell the authorities what they had been told. "Yes I do have doubts. Memories of events are easy to remember, specific times when events occurred are much more difficult to pinpoint. No doubt. One of the most vital components of this theory is whether LG and Buddy had alibis for this night. Hobbs' was. Buddy Lucas lived in Lakeshore Trailerpark in May, 1993. Jamie Clark Ballard, who lived only three doors down from Terry and Pam Hobbs, has supplied a sworn affidavit, as have both her . Perhaps. Did he simply use Jessie as a scapegoat so that he could talk about the details of the murder and get it off his chest? But what we found over the years of investigating and in the process of creating the series people, their memories fade.
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