Anonymous ID: 5e5cb0 June 21, 2022, 10:26 p.m. No.16487047   🗄️.is đź”—kun   >>7078 >>7087 >>7092 >>7109

>>16487010

>Damian and two buddies MURDERED three eight-year-old boys: Chris Byers, Stevie Branch, and Michael Moore

 

The West Memphis Three are Damien Echols, Jason Baldwin, and Jessie Misskelley Jr., who—as teenagers—were convicted in 1994 of triple murder in West Memphis (Crittenden County). Echols, Baldwin, and Misskelley were accused of killing three eight-year-old boys: Chris Byers, Stevie Branch, and Michael Moore. Their trial, which included assertions that the killings were part of a cultic ritual, and subsequent conviction set off a firestorm around the nation and world, inspired books and movies, and led to a movement to re-try or free the three men, believed by many to have been wrongly convicted.

 

On May 6, 1993, Byers, Branch, and Moore were found in a water-filled ditch in the woods of the Robin Hood Hills subdivision less than twenty-four hours after their parents had reported them missing.The boys were naked, beaten, and hog-tied. Byers had been castrated.Despite the violence of the crime, there was little evidence at the scene of the crime. Police wondered at the peculiar lack of blood or fibers, and also noted that the area looked as though it had been swept clean. The police were faced with a case that immediately gained national attention but that yielded little information with which to find the person or people responsible.

 

The state of the boys’ bodies quickly inspired rumors that a satanic cult was responsible. The crime scene’s location in the woods, the nudity, the positioning of the boys’ bodies, and especially the castration caused concern about Satanism amongst the locals, and amongst the police as well. Within days of the murders, Gary Gitchell, the chief inspector, informed the public that the police were considering a number of possible explanations for the murders, one of which was cult activity. Throughout the investigation, the cult theory overshadowed more traditional theories, such as the speculation that the murders were committed by someone who knew the boys.

 

Jerry Driver was a juvenile probation officer for Crittenden County who believed that there was a satanic cult in the area. Much of that belief was a result of his dealings with Damien Echols, a teenager placed under his supervision until age eighteen after having been arrested for burglary and sexual misconduct. The more that Driver interacted with Echols, the more convinced he became that Echols was involved in a satanic cult. Echols denied any connection with Satanism but did admit to believing in and practicing magic. Driver shared his suspicions with the West Memphis police.

 

Jason Baldwin was friends with Echols, both of them being social outcasts. Baldwin did well in school and did not join in Echols’s experimentation with magic. Despite their many differences, they spent a great deal of time together. The third and final suspect, Jessie Misskelley Jr., had little connection to either Echols or Baldwin. However, he babysat for Vicki Hutcheson, a woman who volunteered to help the police investigate. Hutcheson began to ask Misskelley questions about the case, and he agreed to introduce her to Echols, well-known as a suspect by that point.

 

Hutcheson told police that she persuaded Echols to take her with him to a witches’ gathering and that Misskelley went with them. As a result, Misskelley was taken to the police station for several hours of questioning, of which just over thirty minutes were recorded. At the end of the questioning, Misskelley confessed, implicating himself, Echols, and Baldwin. Misskelley’s confession, however, was inconsistent with details of the crime of which the police were already aware. While confessing, Misskelley at times contradicted his own story as well. In spite of the potential problems with Misskelley’s confession, the police arrested him, Echols, and Baldwin on June 3, 1993.

 

Sauce/moar: https://encyclopediaofarkansas.net/entries/west-memphis-three-3039/

Anonymous ID: 5e5cb0 June 21, 2022, 10:50 p.m. No.16487111   🗄️.is đź”—kun   >>7150

>>16487092

>Don't know where i got the draining of blood at

From the details anon, good memory.

 

"Police wondered at the peculiar lack of blood"

 

Their "celebrity" supporters: [fellow Satanists]

 

Patti Smith, Eddie Vedder & Johnny Depp Play West Memphis 3 Benefit

August 30, 2010

 

"Vedder, Smith, and Depp were in Little Rock, Arkansas last night for a benefit for the West Memphis 3, the three now-adults convicted of killing three children in West Memphis, Arkansas in 1993, though most evidence (including recent DNA evidence) points elsewhere. Other performers included Dixie Chicks’ Natalie Maines, and Ben Harper. Depp and Vedder –both on guitar — joined Smith for “Dancing Barefoot,” from her 1979 album Wave. Vedder also did a solo cover of Springsteen’s “Open All Night.” Then Harper and Maines returned to the stage to do Smith’s “People Have The Power.”

 

Sauce/moar: https://www.stereogum.com/491671/patti-smith-eddie-vedder-johnny-depp-play-west-memphis-3-benefit/news/

Anonymous ID: 5e5cb0 June 21, 2022, 11:02 p.m. No.16487142   🗄️.is đź”—kun   >>7145 >>7186

>>16487103

She mentioned the Dollar Princesses. I watched a very informative video about them last night. The delivery is tough but the information is extremely enlightening. The Titanic might have had additional motivation, the Astor-Vanderbilt rivalry was intense and this video FOLLOWS the MONEY although that wasn't the intent.

I learned a lot, worth the half hour IMO.

Anonymous ID: 5e5cb0 June 21, 2022, 11:14 p.m. No.16487169   🗄️.is đź”—kun

>>16487109

I can't either. It's too hard to even ponder, so horrific and Hollyweird comes to little bum-fk AR. That in and of itself made no sense to most but it was obvious. They ARE all in that. Weinstein was barely an anomaly in a sea of freaks.

Anonymous ID: 5e5cb0 June 21, 2022, 11:46 p.m. No.16487241   🗄️.is đź”—kun   >>7250

>>16487216

Not even a little. Stories heard of having a picnic lunch at the gravesite, our ancestors did regularly. They kept honoring their/our dead. Then the descendants moved great distances and the tradition was lost along the way.

 

>>16487213

Anon lost family (everyone close) and somehow the weight just fell off. Anon weighs about the same as back in high school now. I think a lot of it was I never get fast food and haven't for about 2.5 years. Anon isn't the healthiest cook but anon will break out a pan now and then.

 

I think I'm spending more on food for NOT.MY.CAT than for myself. NOT.MY.CAT is here currently. So bizarre… still do not speak cat. Still need a doggo.

Anonymous ID: 5e5cb0 June 22, 2022, 12:02 a.m. No.16487272   🗄️.is đź”—kun   >>7284

>>16487250

KEK!

Cats are weird. Anon is having a tough go speaking cat. I have the battle scars to prove it. I learned to keep closet doors SHUT.

I learned about ears and up or down.

CAT (NOT.MY) is also a killer and brings poor dead ground squirrels etc and deposits them on the back step. CAT almost made it into the house but I caught SOMETHING hanging out of it's mouth.

Admittedly one of my birddogs did deposit a rather large BUNNY in my entry hall. But it was only that once…and I couldn't decide which of the suspects did it so I couldn't get mad about it.