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May 5, 1993 started out like any other day in West Memphis, Arkansas; by the end of the next day, three little boys would be found dead in a drainage ditch and a town would soon be gripped with a Satanic panic mentality. Timelines for most of the individuals involved in this horrid set of events on the day of May 5th can be readily established; however there are the timelines of a few individuals which are problematic/questionable. Conjectures are strictly a matter of personal opinion; please do not consider them as factual or more than speculation. The following paragraphs contain information gleaned from the various statements given by various individuals, including CJB, found in police records, alibi statements, and court documents. This in no way should be considered an official statement, although statements and facts are taken from official documents available at http://www.callahan.com associated with each individual noted. Any other sources used, such as http://www.jivepuppi.com and Mara Leveritts book Devils Knot, will also be noted. Please note that a number of websites (and books) are biased in one way or another, and therefore citations other than Callahans should be approached critically. I apologize for the length and constant citation, but I am attempting to compose a coherent and viable timeline for all individuals connected in any way to this horrendous event. Please bear with me, and if anyone has anything to suggest, add, delete, edit, correct, whatever
please let me know so it will be right! Thank you so much in advance for your help and patience, it is very much appreciated.
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PFs opening statement in CJBs trial portion was given February 28, 1994. After defining opening statement and trial as the picture on a box which shows what the puzzle pieces within should be when assembled, the attorney began to define CJB. CJB was a 16-year-old boy who helped his mother care for his younger brothers. On the day he finished 10th grade the WMPD arrested him as an accomplice in the murder of SB, CB, and MM. This flew in the face of the evidence that CJB was an average student, not known for making trouble. In fact, school officials were flummoxed that he had been accused of such a heinous crime. This was not the CJB they had come to know during his time at the high school (http://callahan.8k.com/wm3/ebtrial/fordope.html).
In closing his opening statement PF stated that the testimony the jury was about to hear contained evidence the WMPD chose to disregard: suspects, statements, and physical evidence. The puzzle pieces didnt fit the picture they wanted to make. The evidence therefore had to be distorted and manipulated to fit. Taken together, or independently, that evidence, coming from the prosecution witnesses, would display one overwhelming fact CJB was innocent. He then asked them to fulfill the oath they took as they began to serve as jurors, to listen carefully to what was presented. Thanking them for their attention, he brought his brief opening statement to a close (http://callahan.8k.com/wm3/ebtrial/fordope.html).
So what happened? What went so wrong that his optimistic opening statement was overlooked and a verdict of guilty was rendered? Justice went awry, was truly blinded in that awful moment. But what happened?
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Four days after the three second-graders disappeared, and three days after their gruesome discovery, BD and SG from WMPD spoke with DWE, DAT, and CJB in CJBs front yard at 245 West Lake Drive South, in the Lake Shore trailer park. All three shared they had gone to CJBs uncles house (however, they could not recall the time nor the address, only that it was off Dover behind the Blockbuster Video store), where CJB mowed his uncles lawn. Shortly before 6:00 pm, DWE telephoned his father and asked to be picked up at the laundromat on Missouri at North Worthington. DWEs father picked them up there at 6:00 pm, dropping off CJB and DAT at their respective trailers before taking DWE home (http://callahan.8k.com/wm3/bddjd.html, cf. Leveritt, Devils Knot, 59).
SG began reading the questionnaire, completing the entire sheet with DWE. He had almost finished the process with CJB when CJBs mother, AGG, arrived and put a stop to the questioning. She (AGG) was quite disturbed and accused the officials of harassing her son. She told the officials to leave; they tried to convince her of their reasons for their presence, but she refused to listen, whereupon they left the premises (http://callahan.8k.com/wm3/bddjd.html, cf. Leveritt, Devils Knot, 60).
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If I may, I would like to ask some questions of my own. First, JLM Jr. had not been questioned yet, and would not be until June 3, 1993. So why were these three teenagers being questioned? Could it have been the statements of SJ, a county juvenile probation officer, who mentioned the name of DWE to a WMPD officer, JS as the most likely occult suspect (http://www.jivepuppi.com/a_twilight_kill_part_two.html)? Second, how and why did SJ even determine that this was an occult murder? Surely it could not have been the fact that he and his boss, JD, spent full moon evenings driving around in the West Memphis area looking for cult meetings and ritual sacrifices, could it (Reel, et al., Blood of Innocents, 97)? Third, how did JS manage to put together this questionnaire so quickly? These and a few other questions should be answered. One, raised by another Websleuths member, zencompass, concerns SJ:
To be continued...
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PFs opening statement in CJBs trial portion was given February 28, 1994. After defining opening statement and trial as the picture on a box which shows what the puzzle pieces within should be when assembled, the attorney began to define CJB. CJB was a 16-year-old boy who helped his mother care for his younger brothers. On the day he finished 10th grade the WMPD arrested him as an accomplice in the murder of SB, CB, and MM. This flew in the face of the evidence that CJB was an average student, not known for making trouble. In fact, school officials were flummoxed that he had been accused of such a heinous crime. This was not the CJB they had come to know during his time at the high school (http://callahan.8k.com/wm3/ebtrial/fordope.html).
In closing his opening statement PF stated that the testimony the jury was about to hear contained evidence the WMPD chose to disregard: suspects, statements, and physical evidence. The puzzle pieces didnt fit the picture they wanted to make. The evidence therefore had to be distorted and manipulated to fit. Taken together, or independently, that evidence, coming from the prosecution witnesses, would display one overwhelming fact CJB was innocent. He then asked them to fulfill the oath they took as they began to serve as jurors, to listen carefully to what was presented. Thanking them for their attention, he brought his brief opening statement to a close (http://callahan.8k.com/wm3/ebtrial/fordope.html).
So what happened? What went so wrong that his optimistic opening statement was overlooked and a verdict of guilty was rendered? Justice went awry, was truly blinded in that awful moment. But what happened?
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Four days after the three second-graders disappeared, and three days after their gruesome discovery, BD and SG from WMPD spoke with DWE, DAT, and CJB in CJBs front yard at 245 West Lake Drive South, in the Lake Shore trailer park. All three shared they had gone to CJBs uncles house (however, they could not recall the time nor the address, only that it was off Dover behind the Blockbuster Video store), where CJB mowed his uncles lawn. Shortly before 6:00 pm, DWE telephoned his father and asked to be picked up at the laundromat on Missouri at North Worthington. DWEs father picked them up there at 6:00 pm, dropping off CJB and DAT at their respective trailers before taking DWE home (http://callahan.8k.com/wm3/bddjd.html, cf. Leveritt, Devils Knot, 59).
SG began reading the questionnaire, completing the entire sheet with DWE. He had almost finished the process with CJB when CJBs mother, AGG, arrived and put a stop to the questioning. She (AGG) was quite disturbed and accused the officials of harassing her son. She told the officials to leave; they tried to convince her of their reasons for their presence, but she refused to listen, whereupon they left the premises (http://callahan.8k.com/wm3/bddjd.html, cf. Leveritt, Devils Knot, 60).
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If I may, I would like to ask some questions of my own. First, JLM Jr. had not been questioned yet, and would not be until June 3, 1993. So why were these three teenagers being questioned? Could it have been the statements of SJ, a county juvenile probation officer, who mentioned the name of DWE to a WMPD officer, JS as the most likely occult suspect (http://www.jivepuppi.com/a_twilight_kill_part_two.html)? Second, how and why did SJ even determine that this was an occult murder? Surely it could not have been the fact that he and his boss, JD, spent full moon evenings driving around in the West Memphis area looking for cult meetings and ritual sacrifices, could it (Reel, et al., Blood of Innocents, 97)? Third, how did JS manage to put together this questionnaire so quickly? These and a few other questions should be answered. One, raised by another Websleuths member, zencompass, concerns SJ:
Just wanted to tell you that I reread your theory this morning. It got me to thinking that S.J. could have been there, especially after Compassionate Reader wondered why he was there searching and how at that exact second of discovery he started rambling about "satanic sacrifices". JMO
This is a very good question, and one that perhaps should have been asked more than two decades ago. Just why was it that SJ decided to go assist with the search? Just how was it that he happened to remain behind and stumble onto the first evidence of the floating shoe(s)? Why were his first comments concerning occult ritual killing and DWE as a suspect to the exclusion of any others? (See the references made above for this last question.)
To be continued...