Abomination: Devil Worship and Deception in the West Memphis Three Murders (52 page)

MISSKELLEY: I went to my house, got my then went to Johnny's

DAVIS: Went wrestling. Was it dark when you left to go wrestling?

MISSKELLEY: Uhm.. (yes).

DAVIS: Ok.

MISSKELLEY: We usually leave about 8.

DAVIS: But on that night was it already dark when you got ready to leave?

MISSKELLEY: Uhm...(yes)

DAVIS: Ok.

MISSKELLEY: Usually he say we just sit there and sit there get ready go.

DAVIS: Is everything you told me true?

MISSKELLEY: Yes, sir.

DAVIS: Is there parts of what happened that night that are hard for you to remember?

MISSKELLEY: Parts, what do you mean?

DAVIS: I mean are there things that happened that night it is hard or difficult for you to remember? Let me see of I can make you understand. Are there events that took place that night, things that happened that you, that it is somewhat difficult to remember

MISSKELLEY: I can't remember.

DAVIS: Were you there when the three boys were killed?

MISSKELLEY: Yes, I was there.

DAVIS: I don't have any further.

CALVIN: When you turn that tape over, I'd like to ask a question if I might. Ah..when they threw them in the water were any of 'em kicking or screaming or anything or were they all unconscious or do you know?

MISSKELLEY: They weren't hollering, they was just, one of'm was just moving.

CALVIN: Moving. When you say moving, how was he moving?

MISSKELLEY: He was wiggling like a worm or something like that.

CALVIN: Is this the one that was castrated or do you remember?

MISSKELLEY: I don't remember, it's just one of'm all I remember.

CALVIN: Ok. Who through them in the water?

MISSKELLEY: Damien and Jason.

CALVIN: And did they push'm down, submerge'm, you know, weight them down or just throw'm in. Or do you know?

MISSKELLEY: I don't know.

CALVIN: But you stood, standing there watching 'em.

MISSKELLEY: I seen'm put them in the water but I don't know what they did after I left.

CALVIN: In other words you left before they did?

MISSKELLEY: Right.

CALVIN: And after it was over did you all have any conversations about it, the three of you?

MISSKELLEY: No. When I seen Damien and Jason on the 14th. They just looked at me they didn't say nothing.

CALVIN: But you all never did have any discussions about?

MISSKELLEY: Uhn.. (no) I didn't want to say nothing else to'm when they came around and seen me.

CALVIN: And that night you say that he used a switch blade knife.

MISSKELLEY: It was a lock.

CALVIN: A lock blade, the kind that you fold up.

MISSKELLEY: Yea and it's got a little button on it at the end of it.

CALVIN: How long was it, do you know?

MISSKELLEY: Pretty long I guess.

CALVIN: Have you seen it since?

MISSKELLEY: No.

CALVIN: But you know it belonged to ..ah..

MISSKELLEY: Jason.

CALVIN: Jason. Have you seen it before?

MISSKELLEY: Yea, at his house. He's got all kinds of knifes.

STIDHAM: Jessie, listen to me. For the purpose of the tape this is Dan Stidham. Ah.. prior to making this statement you refused to talk to Mr. Crow and I is that correct?

MISSKELLEY: Yes, I did.

STIDHAM: You didn't want to talk to us?

MISSKELLEY: Nope

STIDHAM: And again we advised you not to make this statement? Is that correct?

MISSKELLEY: Yes

STIDHAM: Uhm.....For the purpose of this tape I would like to find out..inaudible..Judge Burnett and everyone else thinks it's true. Misskelley is perjuring himself. Do you have an opinion Mr. Crow?

CROW: I have a very strong opinion that he is perjuring himself.

STIDHAM: We feel obligated to inform the court, as officers of the court, ethically we feel that..inaudible..make that for the record of this statement. inaudible

CALVIN: ...inaudible....agreed with him.

DAVIS: Jesse I asked you earlier about what you just told me about the events that took place the night of May 5. Is that, what you told me the truth?

MISSKELLEY: Yes, sir.

DAVIS: Ok. And if I asked you to testify to that in Court, would you and could you testify truthfully to those same things?

MISSKELLEY: Yes, sir

DAVIS: That would conclude this statement at 8:45 on February 17, 1994.
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

William Ramsey holds a B. A. in History from the University of California at Berkeley. He is a member of the State Bar of California. He lives in Los Angeles, California.

He is the author of
Prophet of Evil: Aleister Crowley, 9/11 and the New World Order.

He has written, produced, duct-taped and directed the following documentaries:
Occult Hollywood, vol.1

Prophet of Evil: Aleister Crowley, 9/11 and the New World Order

¹
Reel, Guy, Marc Perrusquia, and Bartholomew Sullivan.
Blood of Innocents: The True Story of Multiple Murder in West Memphis, Arkansas
. New York: Pinnacle, 1995. 27. Print.

²
Much like other people involved in the West Memphis saga, Aaron would tell differing stories about the evening of May 5th.

³
June 13, 1993,
Commercial Appeal

⁴
Blood of Innocents
, p. 59.

⁵
Commercial Appeal,
May 7th, 1993.

⁶
Blood of Innocents
, p. 73.

⁷
Ibid
. Hexagrams are commonly used in occult practice. Six sided, it represents the macrocosm, with the five-sided pentagram representing the microcosm. The unity of the two equates to the number eleven.

⁸
Ibid
.

⁹
Blood of Innocents
. The baby may have been a doll.

¹⁰
Ibid.
, p. 8

¹¹
http://callahan.8k.com/images/shelias.jpg

¹²
Blood of Innocents
, p 117.

¹³
Ibid
.

¹⁴
This is the most critical piece of evidence in this case upon which a determination of culpability can be made. Only someone at the scene of the crime could know about the urine in the bodies of the children. Damien referred specifically to urine and Steve Jones could not have known about it or been at the crime scene. See http://blinkoncrime.com/category/west-memphis-three/.

¹⁵
http://callahan.8k.com/wm3/dwe.html

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http://callahan.8k.com/wm3/depoly.html

¹⁷
http://callahan.8k.com/wm3/img/clnotes.html

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http://callahan.8k.com/wm3/img/narleneh.html

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http://callahan.8k.com/wm3/img/knight_questions_answers.html

²⁰
http://callahan.8k.com/wm3/img/d_holcomb_notes.html

²¹
http://callahan.8k.com/wm3/img/d_holcomb_polygraph.html

²²
http://callahan.8k.com/wm3/img/pamh.html

²³
http://callahan.8k.com/images/daniel_k_baxter01.jpg

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http://callahan.8k.com/wm3/l_maxwell_statement.html

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http://callahan.8k.com/wm3/tabh.html

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http://callahan.8k.com/wm3/dixieh.html

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http://callahan.8k.com/wm3/jbrown.html

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http://callahan.8k.com/wm3/img/wwj.html

²⁹
http://callahan.8k.com/wm3/s_peden_notes.html

³⁰
http://callahan.8k.com/wm3/img/clreport.html

³¹
Blood,
p. 87

³²
http://callahan.8k.com/images/500/020.jpg

³³
http://callahan.8k.com/wm3/damien1.html

³⁴
Exhibit 500,
p. 188.

³⁵
Exhibit 500, p. 175.

³⁶
Exhibit 500, 210-17 MAPI Report.

³⁷
Exhibit 500, p. 232-36.

³⁸
Exhibit 500,
p. 237.

³⁹
Ibid., p. 97.

⁴⁰
Exhibit 500, p. 233-4.

⁴¹
Ibid., p. 297.

⁴²
Blood of Innocents
, p.104.

⁴³
Exhibit 500, p. 301.

⁴⁴
Exhibit 500, p. 171-2.

⁴⁵
Exhibit 500,
p. 466-468.

⁴⁶
Ibid., p. 145.

⁴⁷
Exhibit 500, p. 104.

⁴⁸
Ibid., p. 165-8.

⁴⁹
Ibid., p. 146.

⁵⁰
Exhibit 500, p. 102

⁵¹
Ibid., p. 150

⁵²
This statement would be used against him during sentencing. Exhibit 500, p. 41-2.

⁵³
Ibid., p. 41-2.

⁵⁴
Ibid., p. 150.

⁵⁵
Exhibit 500, p. 484.

⁵⁶
Exhibit 500, p. 358.

⁵⁷
Exhibit 500, p. 357-65.

⁵⁸
Exhibit 500, p. 368-9.

⁵⁹
Exhibit 500, p. 374.

⁶⁰
Ibid.

⁶¹
Exhibit 500, p. 375

⁶²
Ibid.

⁶³
Exhibit 500, p. 412-58.

⁶⁴
Exhibit 500, p. 414

⁶⁵
Exhibit 500, p. 487.

⁶⁶
Exhibit 500, p. 48.

⁶⁷
Exhibit 500, p. 50.

⁶⁸
Exhibit 500, p. 51.

⁶⁹
Exhibit 500, p. 52.

⁷⁰
Exhibit 500, p. 54.

⁷¹
Ibid., p. 109-111.

⁷²
Exhibit 500,
p. 123-5.

⁷³
Ibid., p. 130.

⁷⁴
Ibid., p.
125.

⁷⁵
Echols court appointed attorney did not know of his Federal disability status until the penalty phase of the trial.

⁷⁶
Exhibit 500,
p. 212-3.

⁷⁷
Ibid.,
p. 487.

⁷⁸
Leveritt, Mara.
Devil's Knot: The True Story of the West Memphis Three
. New York: Atria, 2002. 40. Print.

⁷⁹
A variant of Aleister Crowley’s eleven word axiom: “
Do What Thou Wilt Shall Be The Whole Of The Law.”

⁸⁰
Blood of Innocents
, p. 95.

⁸¹
Ibid.
, p. 97.

⁸²
Ibid.
, p. 99.

⁸³
Ibid
.

⁸⁴
http://callahan.8k.com/wm3/c_beshires_report.html

⁸⁵
http://callahan.8k.com/wm3/jmir.html

⁸⁶
http://callahan.8k.com/wm3/jmir.html

⁸⁷
http://callahan.8k.com/wm3/jmjune1.html

⁸⁸
http://callahan.8k.com/wm3/jmjune2.html

⁸⁹
http://callahan.8k.com/wm3/cdabbs.html

⁹⁰
http://callahan.8k.com/images/j_crosby/mjh_statement_06-04-93.jpg

⁹¹
http://callahan.8k.com/images2/echols_suicide_note.jpg

⁹²
http://callahan.8k.com/wm3/img/heatherc1.html

⁹³
http://callahan.8k.com/images2/gilbert_shari_2.jpg

⁹⁴
http://callahan.8k.com/wm3/jodeem1.html

⁹⁵
http://callahan.8k.com/wm3/donnam.html

⁹⁶
http://callahan.8k.com/images/j_crosby/report_06-08-93_01.jpg

⁹⁷
http://callahan.8k.com/wm3/mica.html

⁹⁸
http://callahan.8k.com/wm3/jdreport.html

⁹⁹
http://callahan.8k.com/wm3/d_carter_interview.html

¹⁰⁰
http://callahan.8k.com/wm3/karenmint.html

¹⁰¹
http://callahan.8k.com/wm3/img/jball.html

¹⁰²
http://callahan.8k.com/wm3/img/t_woodson_statement.html

¹⁰³
http://callahan.8k.com/wm3/img/j_blackmon_statement.html

¹⁰⁴
http://callahan.8k.com/wm3/amandal.html

¹⁰⁵
http://callahan.8k.com/wm3/katielafoyreport.html

¹⁰⁶
http://callahan.8k.com/wm3/j_frazier_interview.html

¹⁰⁷
http://callahan.8k.com/wm3/cvan.html

¹⁰⁸
http://callahan.8k.com/wm3/img/j_bryant.html

¹⁰⁹
http://callahan.8k.com/wm3/jackeem.html

¹¹⁰
http://callahan.8k.com/wm3/jesmed.html

¹¹¹
http://callahan.8k.com/wm3/karenmstatement.html

¹¹²
http://callahan.8k.com/wm3/joehb.html

¹¹³
http://callahan.8k.com/images/j_hood/hood_j_statement.jpg

¹¹⁴
http://callahan.8k.com/images2/detteart_b_report.jpg

¹¹⁵
http://callahan.8k.com/wm3/img/b_wilson_interview.html

¹¹⁶
This might be a euphemism for some type of paranormal or drug-induced vision.

¹¹⁷
http://callahan.8k.com/wm3/img/rickyclimerstatement.html

¹¹⁸
http://callahan.8k.com/wm3/img/shaned.html

¹¹⁹
http://callahan.8k.com/wm3/img/s_dollar.html

¹²⁰
http://callahan.8k.com/wm3/chaas.html

¹²¹
http://callahan.8k.com/wm3/j_bailey_statement.html

¹²²
http://callahan.8k.com/wm3/img/tonyh.html

¹²³
http://callahan.8k.com/wm3/ably.html

¹²⁴
http://callahan.8k.com/images2/j_perschke/perschke_statement.jpg

¹²⁵
http://callahan.8k.com/wm3/m_flesher_statement.html

¹²⁶
http://callahan.8k.com/images2/j_boals_statement.jpg

¹²⁷
http://callahan.8k.com/wm3/shabo.html

¹²⁸
http://callahan.8k.com/wm3/pamh2.html.

¹²⁹
http://callahan.8k.com/wm3/dianet.html.
Due to the outcome of the trial and pressure from other West Memphis residents, the Teer family would have to leave West Memphis.

¹³⁰
http://callahan.8k.com/wm3/kenw2.html

¹³¹
http://callahan.8k.com/wm3/chrdj.html

¹³²
http://callahan.8k.com/wm3/jmb3.html

¹³³
http://callahan.8k.com/wm3/tifda2.html

¹³⁴
http://callahan.8k.com/wm3/c_bly_interview.html

¹³⁵
http://callahan.8k.com/wm3/b_lucas_interview.html

¹³⁶
http://callahan.8k.com/wm3/b_lucas_fogleman_phone_call.html

¹³⁷
http://callahan.8k.com/wm3/jerry_driver_statement.html

¹³⁸
Ibid.

¹³⁹
http://callahan.8k.com/wm3/jimr.html

¹⁴⁰
http://callahan.8k.com/wm3/carson1.html

¹⁴¹
http://callahan.8k.com/wm3/griffis.html

¹⁴²
http://callahan.8k.com/wm3/fogope.html

¹⁴³
http://callahan.8k.com/wm3/stidope.html

¹⁴⁴
http://callahan.8k.com/wm3/jm_fogleman_closing.html. Copies of the pictures were supposed to be kept in a black briefcase.

¹⁴⁵
http://callahan.8k.com/wm3/davisclosingjm.html

¹⁴⁶
http://callahan.8k.com/wm3/davisclosingjm.html

¹⁴⁷
http://callahan.8k.com/wm3/img/jmfeb.html

¹⁴⁸
http://callahan.8k.com/wm3/gcomer.html

¹⁴⁹
http://callahan.8k.com/wm3/lg_3_8_94.html

¹⁵⁰
http://callahan.8k.com/wm3/ebtrial/bridge_march7.html

¹⁵¹
Bryn Ridge would mention the Misskelley confession at the Echols/Baldwin trial, and while forbidden to consider it, the jury did know of it and considered its relevance in their deliberations.

¹⁵²
http://callahan.8k.com/wm3/ebtrial/closeford.html

¹⁵³
Ibid.

¹⁵⁴
http://callahan.8k.com/wm3/ebtrial/bridge_march7.html

¹⁵⁵
Ibid.

¹⁵⁶
Ibid.