Yes, I was surprised too. West Memphis seems to have been brimming with suspicious characters back in 93, and Martin is one of the most suspicious of all. Its ironic that his description of the crime is far more accurate than Jessie's, yet the WMPD dismissed him as "nuts", and then dismissed all Jessie's innaccuracies as "Jessie just got confused."
I don't think they dismissed all Jessie's inaccuracies as confusion. I think they dismissed them because they were lies.
Martin: Uh, this guy is, he's not going to admit, or he might later on eventually, but he's got his pants down and he's caught in the act, but he probably would start squabbling, but at this point and time, I doubt it.
I don't see how this is descriptive of any part of the crime, since all 3 children were together. 2 of them aren't going to stand around while the third is molested. (Forget the gun, it was in all probability, a backfire on the interstate.) Martin has morbid curiosity. He's been called in, and once there, he wants to see what info he can get out of the police, and is imagining himself in the molestation part of the crime so he can go home, and, well, I don't think I need to say what he would do when he got back home if he waited that long.
Ridge: He's not going to say anything.
Martin: This is why I'm saying, you're going on almost two or maybe three weeks of this murder, uh, if it was more than three people involved in this, uh, murder, you have too much confidence in people. If all three of us in this room, a week ago, I'll say, just killed three boys, one of us is going to be upset. One of us is going to be kinda nervous, uh one of us is going to be saying something and it's going, we're going to see it on the news, we gonne see it in the papers, it's going to drive us into saying something.
Jessie was upset. Jason was nervous, and Damien was a mouth.
Now Martin describes what happens when you involve 3 perps. Someone is going to start talking, and IMO, this is what happened. I don't think Damien gave a flying flip about either the crime or getting caught. I think Jessie was upset, but not so much that he was willing to take the blame himself. He ratted out Damien and Jason, and tried to tell a story that cast himself in a better light.
I feel strongly about the guilt of the WM3, and I know you supporters feel strongly about their innocence. I mean it seems like a crusade with y'all, and perhaps some of you to the point of absolutely excluding the possibility they could, under any circumstances be guilty of this crime. I can understand that perhaps, looking at it from the opposite side, but have I no stake in whether or not the 3 are guilty or innocent. I just happen to agree with the verdicts. It is also my belief if the 3 are ever set free, Jessie will turn up murdered. I just have that feeling.
Lastly, Child molesters are a different breed, and do not typically murder children. Typically the child molester wants the child to like him so he can have continued access. Certainly there are people who not only serially molest children, and also kill them, but like serial killers, their numbers are far fewer than the number molesting children.
