What has not been noted in this thread is that Terry Hobbs, shortly after the murders, voluntarily gave fingerprints, blood, etc. Although there's not a formal report (or it's been lost) of what was discussed before or during this meeting, it's safe to say it wasn't conducted in silence.
Terry Hobbs was not "investigated" at all by the wmpd. They interrogated JMB, telling him that they would do the same to Hobbs and Moore.
They did not do what they said they would. If Hobbs gave samples, they were not sent to a lab for testing. The only samples from Hobbs that were ever tested were the ones collected by Ron Lax's associate, Rachel Geiss (?) which she obtained from a cigarette butt. If Hobbs is innocent, why not submit his samples to the defense? When JMB was a suspect, he did that
because he knew he was innocent.
The police go where the evidence leads them. In this case, it did not lead them in any way, shape, or form to a parent. Three unrelated children, murdered a distance from their homes, tied with different knots, etc., has a very low probability of being the work of a family member.
The police
should follow the evidence. However, in this case they simply didn't do that. Even Gary Gitchell said in his Pasdar deposition that the parents/friends of the family should be cleared first when a child (or children) murder is involved.
This was not done in this case.
If some of the theories of this case are the truth, the fact that the three children were unrelated is irrelevant
because two of them were collateral damage. I hate to be blunt, but it's
entirely possible that Hobbs accidentally killed Steven and then had to kill Christopher and Michael as they were witnesses to his crime. Why won't some people accept this possibility, which is much more probable than three crazed teenagers who were drunk killing the boys
without leaving one shred of evidence.
And, please don't get your panties in a twist about that whole "different knots" BS. The knots were all either one or a series of half-hitches or half-loops. We're not talking about a sheep shank knot on one victim, a hang man's noose on another and square knots on the third.
That might be something worth investigating, but the
fact that one victim was tied using half-hitches, one was tied with a square knot and one was tied with single loops is simply a non sequitur.
All the evidence has been twisted and turned to fit a parent...first John Mark Byers (and his teeth) and now Terry Hobbs (and his teeth). It's mind boggling how supporters are willing to go to any length, no matter how absurd, to blame anyone other than the three men who committed and pled guilty to this crime.
The wmpd are the ones who twisted evidence. IMO, once they realized that Teflon Terry was the culprit (which I think they knew when they found the bodies or very shortly thereafter), they began to fabricate a case against three trailer-trash kids who they thought no one cared about enough to pursue true justice. They were wrong, and they're just beginning to realize it!
What's really mind-boggling is how nons refuse to accept the truth - that Damien, Jason and Jessie are innocent of these murders and that the
real murderer has never been considered a suspect. What kind of policing is that? If Terry Hobbs is innocent, why not investigate him and prove his innocence, like they did with JMB? What is he afraid of anyway?!
