Abomination: Devil Worship and Deception in the West Memphis Three Murders (50 page)

MISSKELLEY: Yes, I do.

STIDHAM: So you understand that my advice to you is that you not say anything. Do you understand that?

MISSKELLEY: Yes.

STIDHAM: And you’re 18 years old and you understand that I've asked for a Mental Evaluation.

MISSKELLEY: I don't know if you did or not.

STIDHAM: I asked the Court if I could have an opportunity to get you the Psychiatric help that you asked for when I was down in Pine Bluff on Tuesday. Do you remember asking for that?

MISSKELLEY: Yes, I do.

STIDHAM; You asked me to get you a Psychiatrist?

MISSKELLEY: Yes, I said I need help.

STIDHAM: And that's why I asked the Judge for the opportunity to get you that evaluation before you made any statement. Do you understand that?

MISSKELLEY: Yes.

STIDHAM: And you also understand that again it's my advice that you not talk or give any kind of statement here tonight ..ah.. until we have a chance to file a motion for a new trial and get your Psychiatric Evaluations complete. Do you understand that?

MISSKELLEY: Yes, I do.

STIDHAM: And it is your decision to go ahead and make this statement anyway?

MISSKELLEY: Yes.

STIDHAM: You still want to give a statement despite my advice and counsel?

MISSKELLEY: Yes, cause I want something done about it.

STIDHAM: Ok. So ..um.. is there any part of what I just told you that you don't understand?

MISSKELLEY: No.

STIDHAM: You understand everything?

MISSKELLEY: Yes.

STIDHAM: And you want to make my statement regardless of my advice against doing so?

MISSKELLEY: Yep.

STIDHAM: Do you want to have an opportunity to talk to anyone else, father or anyone before you make a statement.

MISSKELLEY: I might need to talk to my father. But I'm not for sure.

STIDHAM: It's your decision, your 18 years old.

MISSKELLEY: Yes, I am.

STIDHAM: Do you want to talk to your father or not?

MISSKELLEY: No I can go ahead and do it.

STIDHAM: Do you realize that once you make this statement there is no turning back?

MISSKELLEY: I know there's no turning back.

STIDHAM: Anything you want to add to that Greg.

CROW: Jessie. You realize that I don't always agree with everything that Dan says but this time I agree with him. I don't think you should say anything. Do you know that? Are you aware of the fact that I don't think you should say anything ?

MISSKELLEY: Yea, I understand what your saying.

CROW: Ok, along as you understand that. But you want to anyway, is that right ?

MISSKELLEY: Right, cause I want something done.

CROW: Ok.

CALVIN: Let me ask you a couple of questions before you get into it ..ah.. Jessie when you were brought here ..ah.. since you've been here with the Deputy Sheriff. I think you got here about 5:00, is that correct?

MISSKELLEY: Somewhere around 5:00.

CALVIN: Ok, now nobody has questioned you anything about what happened is that correct?

MISSKELLEY: Nope.

CALVIN: Ok, How have we treated you ?

MISSKELLEY: Nice.

CALVIN: Ok, has anybody been rude to you or anything?

MISSKELLEY: No.

CALVIN: Now we got you a Cheeseburger Sandwich and I asked Mr. Crow on the telephone if that was alright and he said that was perfectly alright. And I went and purchased you a Cheeseburger, is that correct?

MISSKELLEY: Yes, sir.

CALVIN: And you had a few, I think I gave you a couple of diet Cokes. I don't know if you drank'm all but you drank those, is that correct?

MISSKELLEY: Yes.

CALVIN: But you haven't been promised anything for your testimony and you want to give it free and voluntarily.

MISSKELLEY: Yes.

CALVIN : And nobody's mistreating you?

MISSKELLEY: Nope.

CALVIN: Ok.

DAVIS: Would you state your name please Jessie?

MISSKELLEY: Jessie Lloyd Misskelley, Jr.

DAVIS: And Jessie, how old are you?

MISSKELLEY: 18.

DAVIS: What's your birthday?

MISSKELLEY: July 10, 1975

DAVIS: Ok and where were you residing prior to the time you were arrested? Before you were arrested?

MISSKELLEY: Highland Trailer Park.

DAVIS: Ok. Now I want to draw your attention back to the date the three little boys were murdered. Ah.. if you would on that date did you go to Robin Hood Woods?

MISSKELLEY: Yes sir I did.

DAVIS: Ok and who did you go there with?

MISSKELLEY: Damien and Jason.

DAVIS: Ok. And when you went there, what happened when you got to the woods?

MISSKELLEY: We sit there for a while and then three little boys came up.

DAVIS: Ok what was. Had you had anything to drink or had you done any drugs, anything like that prior to that time? Or during that time?

MISSKELLEY: I was drinking.

DAVIS: Ok what were you drinking ?

MISSKELLEY: Whiskey and...

DAVIS: And do you recall whether it was daylight or dark when you got to the woods?

MISSKELLEY: It was still daylight.

DAVIS: And do you know, do you have any idea what time it was about when you got to the woods?

MISSKELLEY: No I don't.

DAVIS: Ok, now where did you enter the woods from?

MISSKELLEY: Ah.. by a bridge.

DAVIS: Ok. What kind of bridge was it?

MISSKELLEY: It was on the serv, on the service road.

DAVIS: Ok. Ah.. you entered the woods by a bridge near the service road.

MISSKELLEY: ..Uhm.. (yes)

DAVIS: Ok. When you, who was with you at that point ?

MISSKELLEY: Jason and Damien.

DAVIS: When did you get with them?

MISSKELLEY: Lakeshore [trailer park].

DAVIS: And was there anybody else with you?

MISSKELLEY: Nope.

DAVIS: Ok. And when you entered the woods near that bridge, what happened next?

MISSKELLEY: We just sit out there and started drinking ..inaudible.., we heard some noise, me and Jason hid and ..ah.. Damien just sit there and then all of a sudden he hid and then three little boys come up and we jumped ‘em.

DAVIS: Now, when you say that, what, prior to the boys coming up what was Damien doing ?

MISSKELLEY: He was just sittin’ there, waiting for ‘em?

DAVIS: Ok. Was he drinking too?

MISSKELLEY: Uhm.. (yes).

DAVIS: What was he drinking ?

MISSKELLEY: He was drinking beer?

DAVIS: And what about Jason?

MISSKELLEY: Same thing.

DAVIS: Ok. Did they appear to be intoxicated?

MISSKELLEY: To me they was.

DAVIS: Ok what about you? Were you, did you drink to the point you were intoxicated?

MISSKELLEY: I drunk to a point I was sick.

DAVIS: Ok. And when you drank, drink anything with the Whiskey?

MISSKELLEY: No.

DAVIS: Ok. What brand was it?

DAVIS: Evan Williams.

DAVIS: Ok. Where did you get that from?

MISSKELLEY: Vicky Hutcheson.

DAVIS: Ok. Was there anybody with you when you got that?

MISSKELLEY: No.

DAVIS: Did, were you the only one there when you got Evan Williams from her?

MISSKELLEY: Yea.

DAVIS: Ok. And how much, when did you make arrangements for her to get that.

MISSKELLEY: During that day.

DAVIS: Ok.

MISSKELLEY: I don't know what time.

DAVIS: Where had you been right before hooking up or getting with Damien and Jason?

MISSKELLEY: Well that morning I went to West Memphis roofing.

DAVIS: Ok. And about what time did you get through roofing?

MISSKELLEY: Well, I got off at dinner time.

DAVIS: Ok. And after you got off at dinner time, where, what were you doing right before you met up with Jason and Damien, where had you been?

MISSKELLEY: Highland Trailer Park.

DAVIS: Ok. And had you seen anybody in Highland Trailer Park right before you left to meet up with those two?

MISSKELLEY: Yes.

DAVIS: Ok and who had you seen?

MISSKELLEY: Louie, Susie, Stephanie, Pat, Boomer ..um.. Cody, Stephanie, Bobbie, you know some cop and there was some more people I couldn't tell you.

DAVIS: Ok. So. And so it was after, was it---do you have any idea what time it was when you left the Trailer Park, approximately?

MISSKELLEY: I don't know what time it was. I didn't have my watch.

DAVIS: Ok. And where were you when, as far as between the Trailer Park and Robin Hood Woods when you ran into or came across Jason and Damien.

MISSKELLEY: I went to Lakeshore.

DAVIS: Ok. Is there where you met them?

MISSKELLEY: Uhm.. (yes)

DAVIS: Ok. Where were they when you met them.

MISSKELLEY: By the ..um.. by the Interstate.

DAVIS: Ok. Did you know ahead of time you were going to meet ‘em there ?

MISSKELLEY: Yea.

DAVIS: Ok. And how did you know that?

MISSKELLEY: It well Damien, I talked to him a couple times, and he wanted me to go West Memphis with him and Jason and find some girls. And I went.

DAVIS: Did you know what, did you know what you were going for or what was going to happen?

MISSKELLEY: No, I didn't.

DAVIS: Now, how did you get from Lakeshore to the woods? What route did you take?

MISSKELLEY: We walked by ..ah.. Walmart and went on the Service Road.

DAVIS: Ok. Do you remember what Damien was wearing?

MISSKELLEY: [inaudible]

DAVIS: Ok.

CALVIN: You may need to speak up just a little bit more.

MISSKELLEY: I can't remember to this day.

DAVIS: Ok. Do you remember what Jason's wearing ?

MISSKELLEY: No I don't, I can remember what I was wearing.

DAVIS: What were you wearing?

MISSKELLEY: I was wearing a white shirt, had a basketball, something on the front of it and I had bluejeans, greasy, and white and blue Adidas.

DAVIS: Ok. Now, when you, after you got in the woods. Do you have any idea how long you were in the woods before the kids came up?

MISSKELLEY: Not very long.

DAVIS: Ok. Now, where were you in relation to the creek that runs through the woods. Do you know what I am talking about when I say there's a creek running through it?

MISSKELLEY: Yea, the creek that goes up under the bridge.

DAVIS: Ok, the one that, the creek that runs under the

MISSKELLEY: Bridge.

DAVIS: Service Road. Ok. Where were ya'll in the creek, out of the creek...

MISSKELLEY: Out of the creek.

DAVIS: Ok. Were all three of ya out of the creek?

MISSKELLEY: Yea.

DAVIS: Ok. And were you, were you on the Blue Beacon side or the Memphis side of the creek? Let me ask that again. The creek that runs under the Service Road and into Robin Hood Woods.

MISSKELLEY: Right.

DAVIS: Ok. One side of it's the Blue Beacon side and one side of it's closer to Memphis. One side's, were ya'll on the Blue Beacon side or on the Memphis side of that creek.

MISSKELLEY: Blue Beacon.

DAVIS: Ok. And which was, where did the boys come from? Or do you know?

MISSKELLEY: I don't know.

DAVIS: When did you first know they were in the woods?

MISSKELLEY: All I know is I heard these little kids holler.

DAVIS: Ok. And what happened at that point?

MISSKELLEY: And Damien started making some noises to get their attention and they come over where we was at.

DAVIS: When you say he made noises to get their attention, what, he do?

MISSKELLEY: Holler a little bit.

DAVIS: Ok. And when they came over what happened?

MISSKELLEY: And then Ja, Damien jumped on'm. And them other two started beating on Damien and me and Jason jumped on'm.

DAVIS: Do you know which was Damien jumped on?

MISSKELLEY: ..um.. one of 'em had blond hair. I don't know which one.

DAVIS: Ok. Which one's were they, which two was it that jumped on Damien when he jumped on the other one?

MISSKELLEY: I can't, I can't remember that.

DAVIS: What happened at that point? Damien jumps on one and the other two jump on him, what happens next?

MISSKELLEY: Me and Jason jump out and grabbed'm.

DAVIS: Alright. Who did you grab?

MISSKELLEY: ..um.. the one that had a, a blue Boy Scout.

DAVIS: Ok. Who did Jason grab, which, what did that boy looked like that Jason grabbed?

MISSKELLEY: I can't remember. I remember the one I grabbed.

DAVIS: Ok. What was that boy wearing.

MISSKELLEY: I can't remember, I was too messed up to remember that.

DAVIS: You said something about a blue or about a Boy Scout something. Was one of'm wearing a uniform?

MISSKELLEY: Something with the Boy Scouts on it.

DAVIS: Ok. Now when you grabbed one and Jason grabbed one what happened next?

MISSKELLEY: We started hitting'm.

DAVIS: With what ?

MISSKELLEY: Fist at first.

DAVIS: Ok. Where describe to me what Ja, what you saw Jason do?

MISSKELLEY: He first he cut one of'm on a face on his left side just a little bit like a scratch. Then ..ah.. he went to the other one and got on top of him, started hitting him and then pull one of'm pants down and get on top of'm and cut'm.

DAVIS: Ok. Now you said that he first hit somebody, hit one of'm and cut him on the left side of his face. Ok was that a different person then the one he jumped on a cut with the knife.

MISSKELLEY: To my knowledge, yea, a different person.

DAVIS: What were you doing at this time?

MISSKELLEY: I was still hitting that one.

DAVIS: Ok. What were you hitting him with?

MISSKELLEY: My fist.

DAVIS: Do you know how many time you might have hit'm?

MISSKELLEY: ..Um..

DAVIS: Where, what part of his body were you hitting him in ?

MISSKELLEY: Face.

DAVIS: Ok.

MISSKELLEY: Head.

DAVIS: What, what was Damien doing during this time?

MISSKELLEY: Well the one that got cut on his face, he stuck his finger on his cheek and licked the blood off of it.

DAVIS: That's what, saw Damien do. What else was he doing?