Abomination: Devil Worship and Deception in the West Memphis Three Murders (51 page)

MISSKELLEY: He grabbed one of'm by the ear, I don't know which one, he grabbed on of'm by the ear trying to pull his ear off or something. He grabbed 'em pretty tight. It turned kind of red.

DAVIS: Did the, were the kids, the three little boys were they saying anything, doing anything during this ?

MISSKELLEY: They were saying “Stop, Stop.”

DAVIS: Ok. And what about the boy that you were hitting, was he saying that?

MISSKELLEY: Yea, he was telling me stop and then I stopped and Damien told me, no, no don't stop. And I got on'm again.

DAVIS: Ok. Now did anybody, at what point, or at this point when your doing that did they have their clothes on?

MISSKELLEY: Even when we hitting.

DAVIS: Ok. Were they, at some point did they get hit with anything besides your fist?

MISSKELLEY: Stick.

DAVIS: Who hit'm with a stick?

MISSKELLEY: Damien, I hit, I hit one of'm with a stick and...

DAVIS: Now. When you say that, do you remember what kind of stick Damien had, you saw those sticks we had in Court.

MISSKELLEY: No, I didn't look at them. I know there's a stick carved something into it or something. You know part of the bark off of it.

DAVIS: Do you know how long it was? Was it as long as a baseball bat or longer or?

MISSKELLEY: It was longer than a baseball bat.

DAVIS: Ok. Describe for me what it looked like as far as, you say it looked like someone carved on it?

MISSKELLEY: Like a piece of the bark off of it.

DAVIS: Was that at the end or middle or bottom or do you remember?

MISSKELLEY: I can't remember.

DAVIS: Now.

CALVIN: Jessie in order to make sure that picks it up you need to talk up a little.

MISSKELLEY: Oh. I can't remember.

DAVIS: Ok. Now when you were hit, when, when you say that you were hitting 'em and Jason and Damien were hitting 'em. Were the boys still conscious at that point? The little boys.

MISSKELLEY: Yea.

DAVIS: Ok. At what point were you, did you notice or did you ever see them when they didn't appear to be conscious? Or they appeared to be knocked out?

MISSKELLEY: No.

DAVIS: Ok. Now at any point did you, were you there the whole time while this was going on?

MISSKELLEY: ..Uhm.. (yes).

DAVIS: Ok. How far were you from Damien and Jason?

MISSKELLEY: I was pre, pretty good ways from'm.

DAVIS: Ok. So it's been a, about say 10 yards or something?

MISSKELLEY: Something like that, maybe not even that far.

DAVIS: Ok. And could you see what they were doing ?

MISSKELLEY: I didn't pay any attention to them, I just kept on hitting that one.

DAVIS: Ok. And was that, was that the boy you had, the boy with the Cub Scout uniform on?

MISSKELLEY: Uhm.. (yes).

DAVIS: Ok. Now what did Jas, what did you see Jason and Damien do to the other two?

MISSKELLEY: Well...Damien was gonna screw one of 'em.

DAVIS: When your saying he going screw him, what did you see him do?

MISSKELLEY: Well he was gonna stick his penis in that little boys behind.

DAVIS: Ok. Alright.

MISSKELLEY: As far as I am concerned he did.

DAVIS: When you say he was going to, what did you see Damien do and what happened between him and that little boy as far as that goes?

MISSKELLEY: I don't understand what....

DAVIS: Ok. You said that he was going to screw the little or stick his penis in his behind. What did you see Damien do?

MISSKELLEY: They didn't do it, he was going to it, then they didn't.

DAVIS: Ok. What was it that Damien did that made you think he was gonna do that?

MISSKELLEY: Well, I seen that boys pants down.

DAVIS: How did his pants get down?

MISSKELLEY: He pulled'm.

DAVIS: Who pulled'm?

MISSKELLEY: Damien.

DAVIS: Ok. And did the boy, was the boy running when that happened or was he trying to get away or what was happening ?

MISSKELLEY: Well, he was kicking his feet.

DAVIS: Ok. And what else did Damien do besides pull his pants down, the little boys pants down. That made you think that he was gonna screw him?

MISSKELLEY: What, what'd you mean?

DAVIS: What, what did you see, you said that Damien pull his pants, the little boys pants down. Did you see Damien do anything else that indicated he was gonna screw him?

MISSKELLEY: ..um..

DAVIS: Ok. Did Damien have his clothes on or did he, at that point.

MISSKELLEY: He had his pants unbuttoned.

DAVIS: Ok. And at that point, what was Jason doing at that time ?

MISSKELLEY: Yea, he pulled one of the boys pants down, got on top of 'em and started swinging.

DAVIS: Ok. when you say he started swinging, what do you mean?

MISSKELLEY: He started swinging his arm.

DAVIS: Ok. Around his, can you show me what you mean by that?

MISSKELLEY: He was coming like this.

DAVIS: Like hittin’ 'em?

MISSKELLEY: Yeah. Like, like, like he was swinging a swing blade.

DAVIS: Ok. Was the boy lying face down or face up?

MISSKELLEY: Face up.

DAVIS: Ok. And did Jason have anything in his hands at that point.

MISSKELLEY: He had a knife.

DAVIS: Ok. Where was, was he actually hitting 'em with the knife or with his fist ?

MISSKELLEY: The blade was open.

DAVIS: Ok. Could you see where he, was he cutting the boy?

MISSKELLEY: No, he was like this swinging the knife at his legs.

DAVIS: Ok. Could you see, did you ever see one of the boys get cut with the knife?

MISSKELLEY: After he got through with 'em then I noticed what'd he done.

DAVIS: What did you see?

MISSKELLEY: I saw that boy you know missing [the rest of him?]

DAVIS: If you worried when you saw that, describe to me what you saw Jason do and what you saw happened?

MISSKELLEY: Well when he was doing that I seen blood fly.

DAVIS: Ok. Well did he, where'd the blood go?

MISSKELLEY: Grass, I mean not grass but weeds, like <..inaudible> sling around.

DAVIS: What'd the boy do when that happened?

MISSKELLEY: He started hollering. And Jason put his shirt over his mouth.

DAVIS: What'd Jason do after that?

MISSKELLEY: Then he came over where I was at.

DAVIS: What'd he do then?

MISSKELLEY: He wanted to do that one I was hitting, he wanted to do him the same way and I wouldn't let 'em.

DAVIS: What'd you say to'm.

MISSKELLEY: I told'm naw, after I seen what happened he did to that other boy. I said naw you ain't doing this one like that.

DAVIS: What'd Jason do then?

MISSKELLEY: He looked at me real weird and showed me that knife and then just walked off.

DAVIS: Had you seen that knife before?

MISSKELLEY: Yes.

DAVIS: What, who, who's knife was it?

MISSKELLEY: Jason's.

DAVIS: What did it look like?

MISSKELLEY: I can't remember. He keeps all kinds of knives, I can't remember. All I know is it's a lock blade.

DAVIS: When you say a lock-blade, one that folds out and locks?

MISSKELLEY: Yea.

DAVIS: And were, what happened to the boys, did you stay, after you see Jason do that and he comes to you. What happens next.

MISSKELLEY: Well, he [inaudible], Damien was Jason went back to that one boy, started hitting him some more.

DAVIS: Now when you say the one boy, is that the one that had his penis cut.

MISSKELLEY: Uhm.. (yes).

DAVIS: So Jason goes back to him, what's he doing to him when he goes back to'm.

MISSKELLEY: He just started hitting in the face and head.

DAVIS: What are you doing at that point? You see him go back, he's hitting the boy in the face what are you doing?

MISSKELLEY: I never stopped what I was doing.

DAVIS: What about the boy that you'd been hitting on. What's he doing at that point?

MISSKELLEY: Nothing. He's unconscious.

DAVIS: Unconscious. Were you still holding on to him.

MISSKELLEY: Yea.

DAVIS: What did you, how did you have him held?

MISSKELLEY: By the hands.

DAVIS: And you see Jason go back to the other boy. What's, describe to me what Damien's doing at this point.

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DAVIS: Ok, Jessie tole me that Jason came over to you and then went back to the boy that had been castrated and start hitting him in the face. What was Damien doing at this point?

MISSKELLEY: He was still holding that, still messing with them boys, that boys penis.

DAVIS: Ok. And you said that you had, that your, the boy that you had was unconscious and then what happened next, what you remember happening next?

MISSKELLEY: I, I let him go, after that I let him go and Damien come and got him. So I kept on hanging on to 'em and start hitting him some more.

DAVIS: The, were the other two boys still conscious. You said the one you had was unconscious, were the other two boys still conscious at that point?

MISSKELLEY: Well the one who got castrated he wasn't moving that much no more. I figured you know he might be dead or whatever. I really didn't know.

DAVIS: What happens next you said you, Damien's still got the other one, Jason's got one and you got one. What happens next?

MISSKELLEY: Damien was messing the one little boy's penis.

CALVIN: Jessie, you need to speak up a little bit.

DAVIS: When you say he was messing with one of the boy's penis' what do you mean? What was he doing?

MISSKELLEY: pulling on it.

DAVIS: Ok. Do you remember which boy that was?

MISSKELLEY: No

DAVIS: Ok. Now what happens next, you said that Damien was pullin on one of the boys penis'. What happens next?

MISSKELLEY: We tied'm up.

DAVIS: Ok. Now you said before when the police asked you in their statement and asked you what they were tied up with. And you said they were tied up with rope. Ah..

MISSKELLEY: I made that up.

DAVIS: Why?

MISSKELLEY: Tried to get off, you know get'm off track.

DAVIS: Who tied'm up?

MISSKELLEY: Damien and Jason.

DAVIS: Did you pull, did you pull the strings out of their shoes?

MISSKELLEY: In one, in one of'm.

DAVIS: Ok.

MISSKELLEY: But the rest I just, I just just whoever pulled'm out.

DAVIS: Were Damien and Jason taking the strings out of the shoes too or were you doing that?

MISSKELLEY: I was doing that.

DAVIS: Ok. And when you'd get the strings out you'd hand'm to the other two.

MISSKELLEY: Uhm... (yes)

DAVIS: Ok. And did you actually tie any of the knots as far as tying any of the boys up?

MISSKELLEY: No.

DAVIS: Ok. Were they, did they have their clothes on or did they have their clothes off when they got tied up?

MISSKELLEY: The had'm off.

DAVIS: And were they conscious when they were getting tied up?

MISSKELLEY: They wasn't moving no more.

DAVIS: Ok. What about could you tell if they were. Were they saying anything or were they?

MISSKELLEY: They weren't saying nothing. Then when they threw'n in the water, I don't remember what about. One of'm was moving.

DAVIS: You say moving. Do you remember which one it was that was moving when they were thrown in the water?

MISSKELLEY: No.

DAVIS: Ok. When you say moving, what do you mean?

MISSKELLEY: Moving around.

DAVIS: Ok. Who threw'm in the water?

MISSKELLEY: Damien and Jason.

DAVIS: Ok. Now were you there when that happened?

MISSKELLEY: I was getting ready to leave.

DAVIS: Ok. Why were you getting ready to leave?

MISSKELLEY: Cause I was going to wrestling.

DAVIS: And was there any other reason you were getting ready to leave?

MISSKELLEY: Well after what I seen Jason do to that one boy, I couldn't do nothing else.

DAVIS: Now, did you all leave together?

MISSKELLEY: No, I left before them.

DAVIS: Which was did you leave? How did you get out of the woods?

MISSKELLEY: I went up there by overpass went around.

DAVIS: When you left the woods did you head towards the Interstate or back towards the other direction?

MISSKELLEY: Toward the Interstate.

DAVIS: Ok. Did, did you have any, anything with you when you left the woods? Were you still carrying...

MISSKELLEY: The Whiskey bottle.

DAVIS: Was it empty or have any in it.

MISSKELLEY: It still had some in it.

DAVIS: You said earlier that you drank to the point that you were sick. Did you get sick that night?

MISSKELLEY: Going home.

DAVIS: Where?

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DAVIS: Ok. We turned the tape over at least one of the tapes over. Ah, Jessie you said that you got sick going home that night. Were you sick at your stomach?

MISSKELLEY: Uhm.. (yes).

DAVIS: Throwing up.

MISSKELLEY: Drunk till I get sick.

DAVIS: Ok. Remember where you were when you throw up?

MISSKELLEY: By the over pass.

DAVIS: Ok. What'd you do with your bottle?

MISSKELLEY: I busted it.

DAVIS: Ok. Where at?

MISSKELLEY: On the side of a ..ah.. like a slope going down over the overpass.

_______: Where you been?

DAVIS: Where goes over one of the Interstate.

MISSKELLEY: Yea, like coming from, ah.. I think its from Little Rock that goes under the, you know, there's a bridge goes toward Memphis.

DAVIS: And that would've been Evan Williams?

MISSKELLEY: Uhm.. (yes).

DAVIS: Ok. When you left the woods and went back were Damien and Jason are still in the woods when you left ?

MISSKELLEY: There were still there when I left.

DAVIS: Ok. Now, what was it as far as daylight or dark. What was it when you left the woods.

MISSKELLEY: I bout dark, close to dark. It was still light outside

DAVIS: Ok. It was getting dark? And what did you do then?