What I do know about LG, is that he had a rather inappropriate relationship with the much older Richard Simpson (almost 50), teacher, building inspector and some kind of non-denominational preacher who met LG, he said, through his ministry.
They had weekends away together, with Simpson buying alcohol for 17yo LG, and paying for motel rooms where LG could sleep with his 14yo girlfriend (an incident for which the police were called). Later, LG would move in with Richard.
Notes on the WMPD files allude to their suspicions over the nature of Richard Simpson and his relationship with his teenaged 'friend'.
http://callahan.8k.com/images2/r_simpson/r_simpson_report_2.JPG
We had a guy like this in our town too - same age group, participated in local theater, had all the teens over for movie nights and let us use his apartment when he was away on trips to SE Asia... Fortunately, our crowd were all good kids - nothing too untoward ever happened, and we took good care of the apartment. But a lot of parents were -really- concerned over us hanging out there, even though he was sort of a 'community leader'.
When I asked if anyone thought this man might be a pedo, the boys all said hell yes, but after a single incident that made one boy uncomfortable, they'd told him to back off that stuff and he'd never made advances again. I was never aware of or heard of him being interested in the girls..
Anyway. When I read the stuff on Simpson, I was immediately reminded of -that- guy.
So Simpson lied about LG's alibi, then backed up when when he failed the poly and admitted the lie, leaving LG with no alibi and a bunch of relatives and friends saying they thought he was involved in the murders.
While people like Buddy Lucas and Tim Cotten are hardly reliable witnesses, they too are on the fairly long list of people who chucked LG under a bus, along with Damien Echols. Seems to me he was almost as big a whipping-boy in public opinion as Echols himself, with whom he was -seen- on the evening of the 5th. As was Domini Teer, his cousin/whatever.
So why was he not arrested? Because he was never mentioned in the Misskellley confessions? Seems to me they had more to go on with LG than they ever had on Baldwin.. and he was much closer to Echols than Jesse was.
Makes me wonder a few things, that. Including whether LG would be alive and freshly off death row right now, if only Jesse had added him to the list.