Just putting this here for those who might be interested...
Normally we would have swept and mopped, but you know, there was a
large amount of mud on his feet, and that was on the floor so we just washed it down the drain. There was some blood above the commode and on the wall. Maybe it looked like where he had leaned up against the wall cause it looked to be the impression of a forearm. There was some blood on the floor, commode, doorknob and in the hallway where he had left also. An off duty officer by the name of Billy Covington came in the next morning, a friend of mine, and I was telling him of the event that happened the night before and it kind of struck him in a strange way. He said, “Don’t clean that blood off the door handles or the wall or anything, and I will get back with you in a little while. Later that afternoon
DETECTIVES BRYN RIDGE AND MIKE ALLEN CAME OUT AND TOOK A REPORT... and then THEY TOOK BLOOD SCRAPINGS OFF THE WALL IN THE WOMEN’S RESTROOM, OFF THE MEN’S DOOR IN THE HALLWAY AND OFF THE WALL IN THE HALLWAY. I told them about the sunglasses and we fished them out and they took ‘em with them. I told them about the roll of toilet paper and they said ‘we don’t need that, JUST DISCARD IT.’
FACT: During the Echols trial, Detective Bryn Ridge is asked the following question by Val Price, “Detective Ridge, what is the date that you sent the blood scrapings off to the crime lab to be analyzed?” Ridge answers, “They were never sent.” Price asks “They were never sent?” Ridge responds, “
That’s correct.” Price asks, “Where are the blood samples at this time?” Ridge answers, “I don’t know sir, they’re lost.” Price asks, “They’re lost?” Ridge answers, “Yes sir, that’s my mistake. I lost a piece of evidence.” Detectives Bryn Ridge LOST THE BLOOD SCRAPINGS AND SUNGLASSES HE COLLECTED WITH DETECTIVE MIKE ALLEN AT THE BOJANGLES RESTAURANT.
FACT: John Mark Byers claims to have seen ‘a little skinny black guy’
on the night of the murders coming out of the Robin Hood Woods. These are the people that JMB claims to have said ‘if they come up here, we’ll hold on to ‘em for you.’ These statements come from John Mark Byers’ interview with the police on May 19th, 1993.
Sunnyone:
Actually it was two black men:
WELL, A LITTLE SKINNY BLACK GUY AND KIND OF A GREAT, BIG HEAVY BLACK GUY COME WALKING OUT THERE. AND YOU KNOW, SAID, WELL, WHAT'S GOING ON. WELL, I TOLD HIM. YOU KNOW, 3 BOYS ARE MISSING. AND HE SAID, WELL, IF THEY COME UP HERE, YOU KNOW, WE'LL HOLD ON TO 'EM FOR YOU.
(Link to the actual police transcript)
FACT: Detectives James Sudbury and Bryn Ridge
NEVER press John Mark Byers regarding the ‘little skinny black guy’ he mentions being in the area where the bodies were found even though BRYN RIDGE HIMSELF PERSONALLY KNEW ABOUT THE BOJANGLES MAN. This ‘little skinny black guy’ matches the description of the Bojangles man. Detective Bryn Ridge himself took the blood scrapings from the Bojangles restaurant and subsequently “lost” the evidence.
Sunnyone: Maybe because it was two black men, not one. If by thin and skinny is a matching description, then yes. Also per JMB statement he saw these men at 11pm, on Blue Beacon's property.
http://callahan.8k.com/wm3/jmb1.html
FACTS: Detective Bryn Ridge “lost” the blood scrapings and the sunglasses he took from the Bojangles Restaurant. Christopher Murray (also known as Christopher Byers) had the community looking in their direction. Neighbors were wondering why the police were friends with an unemployed jeweler whose son was out of control. Detective James Sudbury, who questioned Byers during his first interview was also in the “drug task force.”
Neighbors also wondered why certain members from the “drug task force” and the West Memphis Police Department would visit Byers at his home for barbecues during the weekends. Detective James Sudbury, along with two other officers, would later be fired in 2001 for falsifying evidence and missing drugs from evidence lockers. (More on this in the WMPD page)
http://www.midsouthjustice.com/Chronology7.htm
JMO