West of Memphis (2012) Soundboard Edit

A lot of times would ask me about occult things as though I were the guru.

About whether or not you were somehow involved in these crimes.

All simply means all.

Along with all other evidence, whether or not admitted at the first trial.

And an unnecessary act to throw the bicycles into the bayou.

And Daddy Terry would whip him

And expect to get away with it.

And here we are, grown up now.

And I gotta get out there, and I gotta start searching.

And I saw it at probably the second time it was screened.

And I'll go on with mine the best I can.

And judges have the right to say, We're not gonna accept it

And one time he had thrown him against the wall.

And pretty much, he wanted to kick me off his porch.

And said he would consider all this.

And say, I just had a hunch it was in the lake?

And screamed, 'Get out!' FRENCH: He said, Shh! Shh!

And so I showed him the area of the tennis shoe.

And someone recognizing me and get up and go call their friends,

And that is when the prosecutor got a hold of him.

And that's what time it is. Now

And that's when I took the cigarette butts out of the ashtray. Yeah.

And then say, Well, when will this actually lead to Damien being released?

And they started asking, could Stevie go to Michael's house?

And to sell that to a jury is unconscionable.

And try to freshly evaluate the evidence.

And we asked Rachael to start to investigate Terry.

And what he has done in the past, he's fed information to David,

And you look inside there and there's not a soul in there.

Answer still unknown but, of course, we will continue...

Anything even remotely connected to magic

As far as I remember, my dad never touched me sexually,

Because he knows I'm elected as a prosecutor

Because I was like, Wait a minute.

Because we were actually afraid that if she got caught, he'd kill her

Been a while. It has been a while

BRAGA: We knew what we really needed to make this deal, which is really only two points.

But I wasn't looking forward to having to go to trial in this case,

But it wasn't a holding pattern for Damien's chances of staying alive.

But it's a very, very rare and unique kind of guilty plea

But that no one ever in Arkansas

But what he needs, he needs time on his hands.

Byers once referred to himself as the giant red herring of this case,

BYERS: It was daily grind, fighting on the Internet with people, being in a place

BYERS: They take me back to the police station and said:

BYERS. It's almost more than I can believe, you know, what you just said to me.

D'LESLl: When we talk about emotional or other problems your daughter has had,

D'LESLl: You do not fly into rages? Correct.

Damien, Jason

DAMIEN: The cool, dark part of the year, it's my absolute favorite time of year.

Does that make it a Christian murder? It's a Bible? I mean, no, it's nuts.

Drawing, things like that.

Each time there's a delay. Let's get to it.

ELLINGTON: I'm... I guess I'm kind of a shoot from the hip guy to start with.

Especially in the month of May.

Even when Paradise Lost 2 comes out,

Every now and then, I turn around, make sure,

Everybody's smiling, everybody's happy.

Everything else, when they told me I was leaving,

Everywhere, hundreds of them.

FOGLEMAN: At some point did Damien invite you to some meeting?

From their wrists to their ankles.

FUDGE

GEISER: We started doing background on Terry.

Got a drink and were gonna go to the basement to play pool.

He sucked the blood from the penis and the scrotum

He was in blue jeans and flannel top shirt on.

He's a very quiet, to himself type of person.

He's not actually board certified.

Hidden behind Jason Baldwin's house?

His entire story was false? Jessie simply got confused. That's all

His medical testimony at the trial created a picture in the jury's mind

HUTCHESON: Damien looks down at those demon book things.

I ain't never felt the need to have to

I am pleading guilty under North Carolina v. Alford in the Arkansas rules.

I don't look at the political aspirations,

I had hair removed.

I had to fiddle with it for 18 years and get beaten over the head by folks

I just threw it all in the garbage and left it

I just... You know, he knows it happened, he knows he did it.

I know he's guilty, you know.

I know they pled guilty.

I mean, all murder is horrible.

I mean, I'm closer to Jason Baldwin than I am to many people

I mean, you win the lottery.

I never did like him, I mean...

I really lost it, lost all touch with reality.

I remember that we had talked that night.

I saw him in Stevie's room.

I still think that.

I think it would have been quite daunting.

I think they went out in the woods.

I told him, I said, I'm surprised you didn't run into him because him and Michael just left

I totally understand what you said, and why you said it,

I was not looking forward to that.

I'd turn around and do it all over again.

I'm aware of the involvement of the people in this case.

If I do an analysis like this, you may not like what I have to say. I'm not a hired gun.

If you put all of these statements together,

If you're a total... You know, total stranger.

In general, a case with a confession,

In her handwriting.

Into when we were writing to each other and I thought, That's not so bad.

Is that your story, or are you changing it? TERRY: No, we were.

It might have been the other brother.

It was a Buddhist ceremony, and we kind of wrote it ourselves and...

It was to raise money so they had money when they got out.

It's gonna be tough for someone like him to confess.

It's new evidence across the board that'll come?

It's usually on average of like 15 to 20 years.

JACKSON: And so getting Terry's DNA became a priority for us now,

JACKSON: If you disregard the state's Satanic ritual theory,

JACKSON: We were working with a private investigator, Rachael Geiser,

Jason and Jessie would spend their lives in prison.

Jerry Driver at the Marion Police Department.

Jessie, about what time was it

John Douglas said that this is most likely a personal cause killing.

Justice should be fair, it should be honorable,

Like you're trying to wring every second out of it that you can

Look, every time I turn around. It's great. It's a great feeling.

LORRI: Damien and I probably have 5000 letters

LORRI: We were trying to figure out alternate ways to get in touch with him.

LORRI: When you first asked me about the letters, I got them out of storage,

Michael Hobbs Jr. Lives in a town called Mountain Home, Arkansas.

Might be the only teenager in Arkansas

MORIARTY: How did he get it? More important, when did he get it?

My reaction was, if it is a case about innocence,

No. Did you compete with Stevie

Not 10 years more.

Nothing wrong with that. You have an informant, they tell you:

Now eat that, drink that at the same time, isn't that crazy?

Now that was with police department's knowledge and consent.

Of the little boys that were killed.

Oh, the crime was committed and we know where the murder weapon is.

Okay, do you remember who went? Jessie, Freddy.

Okay. Has your son...? Has this ever happened before?

On the other hand, when you have DNA testing,

Or something and Lorri and I would have a long two hour phone call.

Pam says she knows Stevie Branch had it until he died. Terry Hobbs says...

PAM: I know Stevie asked me about two weeks before he was murdered

Pam's a speed bump. I'll put her that way

Passed these statutes out of, quote, In response to nationwide concerns

Pretty even keeled guy? Try to be.

Putting them together.

R For the times They are a changin' a'

RAUPP: The harm is in the finality of a criminal judgment

REPORTER 2: They say the DNA matches victim Stevie Branch's stepfather, Terry Hobbs.

REPORTER: The investigators are now filing in and the reporters are getting ready

REPORTER: The state is now trying to prove motive in this case,

RIORDAN: If you ask me, the single greatest offense

RIORDAN: We would submit that the court is to consider the DNA evidence,

See? I can't believe that this is still going on.

She didn't want to tell at first, but she finally told me.

She thinks I'm too wild.

So one of our positions was the state is not making an offer.

So that was news to me when I found out

So they kept leading him down the path from noon to 4:30, 5:30, 6:30.

So we thought all this time that they already knew.

Some old woman was.

Someone sent me the new Stephen King book.

Specifically to interview his ex wife. And it raised some flags at that point.

Stevie, quit. I'm gonna tell you one more time, Stevie.

STIDHAM: A lot of these folks, when we went back and visited with them,

STIDHAM: I read the confession on the front page of the Memphis Commercial Appeal

STIDHAM: Judge Burnett appointed Phillip Wells to interview Mr. Misskelley

Surely, they told him that they were down there.

Ten feet, ma'am. Back up. REPORTER 1: Okay.

Terry hated him.

Terry looked at me square in the eye and said calmly, 'It never happened

TERRY: I don't give a shit what happened 17 years ago.

Thank you. You too

That doesn't go into a holding pattern.

That he freaked out, and the other two boys being there, um..

That he's borderline mentally retarded.

That I just kind of got to hold myself here in this chair.

That I'm going crazy the way she did when Stevie died.

That make them look kind of like alligators.

That not only was Mr. Misskelley not in Robin Hood Hills

That right must prevail.

That they are granted peace.

That this is not just about a person

That was in the binding of one of the ligatures.

That we're then forwarding on to our DNA expert.

That you've relied on in the past

The animating purpose of this statute

The children were submerged in water, which is an unnecessary act

The first time I heard about my DNA, it was just shock therapy, I think.

The only thing I knew was what, you know... What I was told from another guy.

The only thing that's not true about paragraph number 1O

The reason is that John Fogleman had been told how it got in the lake.

There was a hair jammed in that knot

There was evidence of sexual mutilation to one of the victims.

There's no evidence that, as the medical examiner testified,

There's the baby killer. Talk to him

They don't have the right people in prison

They needed Mr. Misskelley to testify.

They were already heading that way, and he said, Get back down to the house.

They're trying to get Damien Echols off of death row

They've been a pawn in this the whole time.

This appeared to be what we call a lust murder.

This deal sucks, but we want their freedom.

Those jurors were scared to death

Time to vamp up your wardrobe. Fall is coming

To introduce me to Damien

Uh, I noticed that Damien,

Uh, would be your easier case

Until somebody recognizes I am 100 percent innocent

VEDDER: I remember thinking that if we could get involved,

We didn't want to show weakness in maintaining the judgment,

We have information that you are involved in this crime

We really didn't know a whole lot about Stevie

We started making our pitches.

We thought it was gonna be a plea.

We'd intersperse lots of, you know, bowing, then kissing and hugging.

We'd make a small breakthrough

Weren't these boys sexually assaulted? Then they know what story to tell back

What's the West Memphis Three case?

Whatever punishment they get, they deserve.

When are you gonna come to the house and say hi?

When I started to write Devil's Knot, my friends said, Mara, they did it.

When I was young, we were constantly on the move, constantly on the go.

When we learned the case,

When we were appointed by the court in 1993,

Where Baldwin lived. That search produced a knife.

Where's that guilt coming from? I don't know

Who are forced to perform oral sex.

Who knew these boys well enough to kill them?

Why doesn't it mean anything to you? It just don't.

Y'all come back down here, and they all went in that direction

Yeah, that's where he was cut at.

You have 90 seconds left on this call.

You know what I mean? He wasn't...

You know, asking me some questions. You know, about the kids.

You know, damn, is this really real?

You know, he had a mishap in his underwear

You know, you might get something like say a common cold,

You'd see an armadillo that fell in the water or got hit by a car,

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