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Jessie's 1st confession unplugged by Destini9:

Note: This is a transcription of the taped confession of Jessie Misskelley, Jr. regarding the murder of Chris Byers, Steve Branch and Michael Moore. Statement of Jessie L. Misskelley, Jr. 6/3/93
Date of Birth 7/10/7 5 sex/race M/Cau


RIDGE: This is Det. Bryn Ridge of the West Memphis Police Department, currently in the detective division of the West Memphis Police Department conducting an investigation of the Triple Homicide, Case File # 93-05-0666. Currently in the office with Jessie Lloyd Misskelly, Jr., DOB:7/10/75, education: 9th grade, the place: Detective Division, todays date is 06/03/93, the time is 2:44Pm. Present in the interview is Insp. Gary Gitchell and Jessie Misskelly. Jessie, in front of me I have a rights form, and it has your signature at the bottom of it, is that your signature?
JESSIE: Yes sir
RIDGE: okay, we are informing you that we are Det. Sgt. Mike Allen, and Det. Bryn Ridge, and Det. Sgt. Mike Allen is the one that read this form to you earlier, is that correct?
JESSIE: Yes sir
RIDGE: And I was here when he read it to you.
JESSIE: Yes sir
RIDGE: Alright, we are police officers of the West Memphis Police Department, we are conducting an investigation for the offense Capitol Felony Murder, which was committed on or about 05/05/93,

(((Um...I thought they'd have had that figured out by now...it's been a whole month...)))

before we ask you any questions, you must know and understand your legal rights, therefore, we warn and advise you, that you have the right to remain silent , do you understand that?
JESSIE: Yes
RIDGE: And those are your initials on the line in front of that statement?
JESSIE: Yes
RIDGE: Okay, anything you say can be used against you in court, do you understand that
JESSIE: Yes, I do
RIDGE: And those are your initials?
JESSIE: Yes, it is
RIDGE: Alright, you have the right to talk to a lawyer for advice before we ask you any questions, and to have him with you during questioning, do you understand that?
JESSIE: Yes, I do
RIDGE: And those are your initals?
JESSIE: Yes, it is
RIDGE: If you cannot afford a lawyer, one will be appointed for you before any questions, if you wish, at no cost to you, do you understand that?
JESSIE: Yes, I do
RIDGE: And those are your initials?
JESSIE: Yes, it is
RIDGE: If you decide to answer questions now without a lawyer present you will still have the right to stop answering at any time, do you understand?
JESSIE: Yes, I do
RIDGE: Those are your initials?
JESSIE: Yes, it is
RIDGE: You're up here on your own free will, you came up here to answer some questions, and basically we've found out some information during that questioning, is that correct?
JESSIE: Yes sir, I did
RIDGE: Okay, at the bottom of the form is a Waiver of Rights, it says that I've read this statement of my rights, and I understand what my rights are, I am willing to make a statement, and answer questions, I do not want a lawyer at this time, I understand and know what I am doing. No promises or threats have been made to me, and no pressure or force has been used against me, is all of that correct?
JESSIE: Yes
RIDGE: Okay, and you signed the bottom of the form?
JESSIE: Yes, I did
RIDGE: Witnessed by Michael Wayne Allen and myself, Det.Bryn Ridge. Okay, Jessie, let's go straight to that date,05/05/93, Wednesday, early in the morning.

((((Note how they manipulated this and slid by the obvious...as in DO YOU REQUEST TO HAVE YOUR ATTORNEY PRESENT AT THIS TIME? which is STANDARD ACROSS THE COUNTRY, to which if he'd have answered no, then we wouldn't be doing this...and if he'd have said yes, then THEY wouldn't have pulled this. Instead what they did was ask him a simple question. At the bottom of this waver it says so and so, is this correct? And he said yes, it's correct, as in yes that's what it says. And then they say and he signed the bottom right? And he answered yes, he signed at the bottom. Because he did. Then they slither on by a little step they left out and said it's witnessed by all...now let's hurry and get this rolling so nobody notices we gave him his rights but we left some of it out. Only in West Memphis, but it aint legal anywhere else in this country.
Excuse me, but where does answering a statement on what something says imply that he doesn't want an attorney?
Go back up there and check it out one more time...when they tell him they are INFORMING him...ie. making statements, and asking if he understands the statement. They were on a roll until it came to the issue of an attorney. To Jessie they're still informing him. But they failed to finish the MR warnings with ASKING HIM if he understands that and IF he wished to have an attorney present. Of course, as we know, the WMPD procedure is an entity unto itself. Compare it to your local juvenile miranda warning waiver. Your local police dept. will be glad to review their STANDARD procedure with you. Then you decide.
Crooked or inept...there IS nothing else. )))

You received a phone call is that correct?

(((Well, we see they've moved back into the Q&A mode.)))

JESSIE: Yes, I did
RIDGE: And who made that phone call?
JESSIE: Jason Baldwin
RIDGE: Alright, what occurred, what did he talk about?
JESSIE: He called me and asked me if I could go to West Memphis with him and I told him, no, I had to work and stuff.
He told me that he had to go to West Memphis so, him and Damien with and then I went with them.
RIDGE: Alright, when?
JESSIE: Wednesday
RIDGE: Alright, when did you go with them?
JESSIE: That morning
RIDGE: 9 o'clock in the morning?
JESSIE: Yes, I did. I went with them and then
GITCHELL: Now, where you in a car? Whose car where you all in?

((Who said anything about any car? Notice how he asks was he in a car and immediately MAKES THAT INTO AN ASSUMPTION with whos car? OBJECTION...leading the witness...Sustained. The next logical question in this process should have been why did they want you to go, or did they tell you why they wanted you to go...establishes motive on the part of the other two: Had to go to West Memphis WHY? )))


JESSIE: We walked
GITCHELL: You all walked?

(((He's surprised? I wonder why? Could it be because he didn't get the right answer to the car business?)))

JESSIE: Right, we walked and then uh,
RIDGE: Where did you go?
JESSIE: We went up to Robin Hood
RIDGE: You went to the Robin Hood, explain to me where those woods are.
JESSIE: By uh, Blue Beacon Truck Wash.
RIDGE: A little patch of woods

(((Even dumbo here knows it's a little patch of woods...but let's not go there just yet...)))

JESSIE: A little patch of woods
RIDGE: Behind Blue Beacon?
JESSIE: Behind it, right there behind it.
RIDGE: okay, what occurred while you were there?
JESSIE: When I was there, I saw Damien hit these one boy real bad, and then uh, and he started screwing them and stuff and then uh,

(((Notice how short and sweet that delivery was. No nuances of legitimacy or of reasoning whatsoever. He thought it'd be quick and over with.)))

RIDGE: Alright, you got in front of you a picture, that was taken out of the newspaper I believe, it's got three boys and these are the three boys that were killed on that date in Robin Hood Woods, okay, which one of those three boys is it you say Damien hit? The third picture, which will be
JESSIE: Michael Moore

(((This little snippet pretty much clears up whether Jessie even knew who these kids were...apparently not.)))

GITCHELL: This boy right here,
JESSIE: Yeah,
GITCHELL: Alright, that's uh the Byers boy, that's who you are pointing at?
JESSIE: Yes
RIDGE: If you read the caption, the grizzly slain from left, 8 year old Michael Moore, Steven Branch and Christopher Byers. Okay, so you saw Damien strike Chris Byers in the head.

(((OBJECTION...leading the witness...sustained...Jessie never even mentions where Damien hit the boy. He said he started hitting this one boy real bad.)))

JESSIE: Right
RIDGE: What did he hit him with?
JESSIE: He hit him with his fist and bruised him all up real bad, and then Jason turned around and hit Steve Branch
RIDGE: Okay
JESSIE: And started doing the same thing, then the other one took off, Michael Moore took off running, so I chased him and grabbed him and hold him, until they got there and then I left.

(((Here is where Jessie's version veers off with the 'lowdown' from the keystone kops. He DOES say that he went to get him and held him until the others got there.)))

RIDGE: Alright, when you get the boys back together, where were you at from the creek?

(((Umm...problem...boys weren't back together, now were they? BACK TOGETHER and 25 feet apart are waaay different.)))


JESSIE: I was up there by the Service Road
RIDGE: Up by the Service Road?

(((Remember this please...for future reference. The service road is on the interstate side of the woods, not the neighborhood side where the pipe bridge is. And remember that he asked him where he was from the creek.)))

JESSIE: Yes
RIDGE: Okay, now when this, when he hit the first boy,

(((Now how would we presume he knew from anything so far that there would be others hit? It's a direct assumption and a subtle implanting of information. Jessie said he saw Damien hit this ONE boy real bad. Ridge asks him to clarify, which ONE did he say Damien hit. Jessie said it was Chris...yet here we are after a little distracting commentary and Ridge has concluded from the above that Damien also hit the others next. Pay attention...)))

where are they at when he hits him, are you in the woods, you're on the side of big bayou, you're out in the field, where were you at?

JESSIE: I was in the woods.
RIDGE: In the woods. Okay, you've been down there in those woods before, can you describe to me what in those woods, what's the location where you were?
JESSIE: Uh,
RIDGE: Is there a path that you go down?
JESSIE: Uh, down a little path
RIDGE: Alright, where does that path go too?
JESSIE: It leads out there close to the field, close to theinterstate.
RIDGE: Okay
JESSIE: Close to the interstate
RIDGE: When he hits the first boy and then Jason hits another boy, and one takes off running, where does he run too?
JESSIE: That one, he runs out, out the park and I chased him and grabbed him and brought him back.

(((What, pray tell, just happened to he chased him and held him until they got there? What just happened is that Ridge implanted that piece of information and Jessie fed it back. There is STILL the problem of how Michael Moore was 25 FEET away.)))


RIDGE: Which way does he go, I mean, does he go back towards where the houses are, he's going to Blue Beacon, is he going out towards the fields, where's he running too?
JESSIE: Towards the houses.

(((It would be extremely logical, would it not? Would it be logical to assume the child was running in fear of his life? And if so, that he was screaming? He took off running toward his safe zone.)))


RIDGE: Towards the houses?
GITCHELL: Where the pipe is that goes across the yards?
JESSIE: Yes, he run out there and I caught him and brought him back, and I took off.
RIDGE: Okay, and when you came back a little bit later, now are all three boys are tied?

(((Ridge is feeding Jessie the elements of the attack in a question: the fact they are now all three tied up. Where exactly did he deduce this scenario from what Jessie HAS told them so far? He has also returned Jessie to the assault. Jessie SAID HE TOOK OFF. RIDGE feeds back that Jessie returned later and that ALL boys are now tied.)))

JESSIE: Yes

(((Jessie simply agrees.)))


RIDGE: Is that right?
JESSIE: Yes, and I took off and run home.

(((And Jessie LEAVES AGAIN. Even tho he'd already left before. Ridge brings Jessie back.)))

RIDGE: Alright, have they got their clothes on when you saw them tied?

(((Ridge makes the assumption from all of this that Jessie sees the boys are tied, even though it was all concocted and fed to Jessie. He feeds more details of the crime.)))

JESSIE: No, they had them off.
RIDGE: They had already gotten them off. When he first hit the boy, when Damien first hit the first boy, did they have their clothes on then?

(((Again Ridge is making assumptions that Damien hit more than one child. Jessie answers what he 'saw' and that he left. Notice how this evolves and how much more details are passed to Jessie FROM RIDGE each time.Jessie does not SAY THIS on his own. It is spoon fed and he simply agrees.))


JESSIE: Yes
RIDGE: Alright, when did they take their clothes off?
JESSIE: Right after they beat up all three of them, beat them up real bad
RIDGE: Beat them up real bad, and then they took their clothes off?
JESSIE: Yes
RIDGE: And then they tied them

(((Again, this is Ridge's confession, NOT Jessie's.)))

JESSIE: Then they tied them up, tied their hands up, they started screwing them and stuff, cutting them and stuff, and I saw it and turned around and looked, and then I took off running, I went home, then they called me and asked me, how come I didn't stay, I told them, I just couldn't.
RIDGE: Just couldn't stay
JESSIE: I couldn't stand it to see what they were doing to them.
RIDGE: okay, now when this is going on, when this is taking place, you saw somebody with a knife, who had a knife?
JESSIE: Jason
RIDGE: Jason had a knife, what did he cut with the knife. What did you see him cut or who did you see him cut?
JESSIE: I saw him cut one of the little boys
RIDGE: Alright, where did he cut him at?
JESSIE: He was cutting him in the face.
RIDGES: Cutting him in the face. Alright, another boy was cut I understand, where was he cut at?
JESSIE: At the bottom
RIDGE: On his bottom? Was he faced down and he was cutting on him, or
JESSIE: He was
GITCHELL: Now you're talking about bottom, do you mean right here?
JESSIE: Yes
GITCHELL: In his groin area?
JESSIE: Yes
GITCHELL: Okay
RIDGE: Do you know what his penis is?
JESSIE: Yeah, that's where he was cut at.
RIDGE: That's where he was cut.
GITCHELL: Which boy was that?
JESSIE: That one right there.
GITCHELL: You're talking about the Byers boy again?
JESSIE: Yes
GITCHELL: Okay
RIDGE: Are you sure that he was the one that was cut?
JESSIE: That's the one that I seen them cutting on.
RIDGE: Alright, you know what a penis is?
JESSIE: Yeah

(((I can't even go there...please.)))

RIDGE: Alright, is that where he was cutting?
JESSIE: That's where I seen them going down at, and he was on his back. I seen them going down right there real close to his penis and stuff and I saw some blood and that's when I took off.

(((So Ridge has successfully reinvented Jessie's confession. Jessie stated, short and sweet, he saw Damien hit one of the boys real bad, they started screwing them and stuff and he ran off. Ridge, however, has manipulated this statement into bringing Jessie back twice, Damien hits more than one boy, the boys are all tied up, their clothes have been removed, and now they're being cut, Jessie sees blood and leaves yet AGAIN.)))


GITCHELL: Was uh, where you all close to the creek at that point?
JESSIE: Yes sir
GITCHELL: Where was the little boy actually at?
JESSIE: He was close
RIDGE: Alright, now you know where the bayou is?
JESSIE: Right
RIDGE: Alright, and you know where the little Creek is that goes out to the express way, and it doesn't have a lot of water in it, but it's got some water in it, and it's flowing through the, which side of that creek were you on, were you on the Memphis side of the creek or the Blue Beacon side of the creek?
JESSIE: Blue Beacon.

(((North west side of the woods)))

RIDGE: On the Blue Beacon
JESSIE: Yes
RIDGE: So, there is like a tall bank, where were you at on that bank?
JESSIE: I was up there standing up there on the top.
RIDGE: Alright, where were they at?
JESSIE: They were at the bottom.
RIDGE: On which side?
JESSIE: Memphis side
RIDGE: They were on the Memphis side.
JESSIE: I was on
RIDGE: Alright, we're going to correct that even further, that's the east side, Memphis side is the east side and you were standing at the top of the bank on the west side, were you looking down at what was going on?
JESSIE: I was looking down, and after I seen all of that, I took off
RIDGE: Okay, and when you left, did you hear any more hollering or anything?

(((Of course they were hollering...although it's not mentioned anywhere, even the KKops made an accurate assumption...)))

JESSIE: No
RIDGE: Alright, you went home and about what time was it that all of this took place?
JESSIE: About
RIDGE: I'm not saying when they called you. I'm saying what time was it that you were actually there in the park?
JESSIE: About 12
RIDGE: About noon?
JESSIE: Yes

(((AT NOON JESSIE WITNESSED THIS KILLING. ACCORDING TO JESSIE.)))

RIDGE: Okay, was it after school had let out?

(((NO MORON...IT WAS NOON, ERGO, SCHOOL WOULD NOT BE OUT. But nice subtle manipulation of the time frame.)))

JESSIE: I didn't go to school
RIDGE: These little boys
JESSIE: They skipped school
RIDGE: They skipped school?

(((Well of course...noon. School. It would only be logical that they'd have had to have skipped school for this to have happened at noon, when school was still in session.)))

JESSIE: They were going to catch their bus and stuff, and they were on their bikes and so,
RIDGE: Alright, they were on their bikes, where were the bikes at?
JESSIE: They laid their bikes down when they come out to the, when they hollered for them to come out there
RIDGE: Where did they lay their bikes down at, that's what I'm asking you?
JESSIE: I don't know where they laid their bikes down at, cause I was behind Damien and nem, they were way behind them.
RIDGE: Okay
JESSIE: When they hollered, when they seen them boys
RIDGE: The little boys came on over?
JESSIE: Yes

(((So according to JESSIE'S 'confession', Jason called him that morning and asked him to go with them to WM for no specific reason, he did, they walked. D&J hollered at the boys who had been going to catch their bus even though they were on their bikes, around noon, because they skipped school, and then they laid their bikes down when D&J hollered at the boys to come out there. Only he doesn't know where they laid their bikes down because he was way behind Damien and nem. And then Damien hit one boy real bad and Jason hit the other one, and the third ran off and he ran and grabbed him and held him until the others got there, they started screwing them and stuff and he ran off. THAT is JESSIE MISKELLEY'S CONFESSION as of now.

Ridge brought Jessie back, he had Jessie bring the boy back to the others, at which time the boys are now all three tied up, brings Jessie back, now the boys's clothes are removed, brings Jessie back, there is screwing, brings Jessie back, there is cutting, and Ridge brings Jessie BACK.


OBVIOUS QUESTION: If they had skipped school, they why would they be waiting for the bus?)))


RIDGE: Had Damien seen these boys before?
JESSIE: Yes
RIDGE: Has he done things with them before? Or had he just been watching them,

(((ONJECTION...leading. Sustained.)))

JESSIE: He had been watching them.

(((See??)))

RIDGE: Has he ever had sex with them before?

(((OBJECTION...witness would have no way to know that. Sustained.)))

JESSIE: No, he's been watching them
RIDGE: He's been watching them. You mentioned earlier that,

(((Guess we weren't privy to this part. Since there was no record, this should remain questionable.)))

one of the meetings you went to with this cult thing, they had some pictures. Describe those pictures for me.
JESSIE: They had some houses, trees and stuff

(((Thanks, Jess...cleared that right up. Forgive his lack of details, it comes from his lack of experience in any sort of cult thing. Further, the next logical question would be for a description of the area and events taking place...this would've sure sealed the legitimacy or not of this confession.)))

RIDGE: Okay, had somebody taken pictures of these boys?
JESSIE: Yes
RIDGE: Were they in the houses or were they in the trees when they took those pictures?
JESSIE: They were in the houses
RIDGE: At the houses? Did they take like one picture of one boy
JESSIE: They were in a group
RIDGE: All, these three
JESSIE: There was a group of pictures of all three of them.
RIDGE: All three of them would generally be together?
JESSIE: Yes
GITCHELL: How many pictures did you see, altogether?
JESSIE: I just saw one
GITCHELL: Okay, and it has these same three boys in it?
JESSIE: Yes
RIDGE: You're certain of that?
JESSIE: Yes
GITCHELL: Now, did you say that the boys skipped school that day,
these little boys did?

(((Here we have Gitchell acknowledging and clarifying that according to Jessie, these 3 boys skipped school that day. He's CLARIFYING IT so it isn't like he forgets. Plus it's on tape.)))


JESSIE: Yes, they were going to catch, they were going somewhere and like I said,

(((...mmm...perhaps Jessie realizes he wouldn't know what they would be doing there, skipping school or not? Or was he referring to D&J, and realized he still had no clue?)))

Damien and nem left before I did, I told them that I would meet them there and stuff, and it was early in the morning and so, they went ahead and met me, they went on up there and then I come up later on behind them.
GITCHELL: What time did you get there?
JESSIE: I got there about 9
GITCHELL: In the morning?
JESSIE: Yes
GITCHELL: Wednesday morning?
JESSIE: Yes

(((Sorry, Jessie...you stated above that Jason called you at 9 in the morning. Jessie must live very close by.)))

GITCHELL: And
RIDGE: What time is it right now?
JESSIE: Right now?
RIDGE: Yeah, you don't know what time it is?
GITCHELL: Do you not wear a watch?
JESSIE: It's at home
RIDGE: So
JESSIE: My dad woke me up this
RIDGE: so, your time period may not be exactly right in what you're saying?

(((OBJECTION. Jessie wasn't SAYING anything. They asked him what time it was. Jessie asked right now, to clarify when they're asking for time, to which KKop says YEAH and asks does he not know what time it is. Before he can even answer that, Gooberkop asks does he not wear a watch. Jessie answers it is at home. WHERE in that may he derive that Jessie's time period is off? would you like to see how they manipulate his words? Watch... )))

JESSIE: Right

(((makes sense...)))

RIDGE: It was like earlier in the day, but you don't know exactly what time, okay, cause I've gotten some real confusion with the times that you're telling me, but now, this 9 o'clock in the evening call that you got, explain that to me.

(((He obviously has some real hearing problems because Jessie never said the first thing about the 9PM call he got. NOWHERE. It's no wonder he's confused. The more likely answer here is another little twist on Jessie's statement...this time Ridge just fabricates it out of thin air. Ahhh, you mean AFTER all this, so he is now acknlowedging there was a call at 9PM, after the killings happened. )))


JESSIE: Well after, all of this stuff happened that night, that they done it, I went home about noon,

(((woah there buddy...you went HOME at noon? Previously Jessie stated he was getting there and spotting the kids at noon...which would just imply that there were attacks happening after noon, therefore in order for him to have witnessed whar Ridge fed him he witnessed, he couldn't possibly have been home at noon.)))


then they called me at 9 o'clock that night, they called me.
RIDGE: And what did they tell you on the telephone?
JESSIE: They asked me how come I left so early and stuff, and I told them that I couldn't stay there and watch that stuff no more, so I had to do something to get out of there.
RIDGE: okay, who called you?
JESSIE: Jason
RIDGE: And you mentioned that you heard some voice in thebackground?

(((Must have been during the conversations that nobody ever got to hear, that are not part of any record, and that remain entirely questionable.)))

JESSIE: I heard some dingling
RIDGE: And what else, I think you said that he made the call from his house?
JESSIE: He made the call from his house and Damien was hollering in the background saying, we done it, we done it, what are going to do if somebody saw us, what are we going to do?

(((Again, questionable. Extraodinarily questionable when you consider Jessie Miskelley had no telephone to begin with, much less Caller ID. Which means the 9am call that began this entire hole filled confession never took place. Nor did the 9pm call. Nor did anything else. But let's indulge Ridge some more, since he obviously isn't bright enough to have picked up on any of the obvious...or is too corrupt in his agenda to care...)))


RIDGE: Okay, the knives, was it one knife, two knives, was your knife there?
JESSIE: Ugh, ugh,
RIDGE: Now did somebody take it and used your knife, do you have a knife?
JESSIE: I got one knife
RIDGE: Where is it at?
JESSIE: It's at home
RIDGE: okay, the knife that you said Jason was using, where is it?
JESSIE: Uh, I don't know what he done with it, cause after I left then they, I don't know what they done with, after I left

(((How could you possibly?)))

RIDGE: He didn't tell you that he hid it somewhere?

(((ONJECTION...leading. Sustained. And if he did it is on no record anywhere that may be used, and therefore questionable. )))

GITCHELL: I've got a feeling here, you're not quite telling me everything, now you know that we're recording everything, so this is very, very important to tell us the entire
truth. If you were there the whole time, then tell us that you were there the whole time, don't leave anything out. This is very, very important, now just tell us the truth.

(((Gooberkop...if you don't remember, rewind the tape. He stated already. He TOLD YOU ALREADY and OBVIOUSLY you see it's full of holes. But at no time has Jessie HIMSELF implied he was there the whole time. Jessie LEAVES. It is and always was RIDGE who broght him back to witness more of the non-event. Here you are about to witness more manipulative twists and subtle feeding.)))

JESSIE: I was there until they tied them up and then that's when I left, after they tied them up, I left.

(((Jessie feeds back more.)))

GITCHELL: But, you saw them cutting on the boys,
JESSIE: I saw them cutting on them, and then

((((Jessie feeds back more.)))

GITCHELL: So, what else left is there, after that?
JESSIE: They laid the knife down beside them and I saw them tying them up and then that's when I left,
RIDGE: Were the boys conscious or were they
JESSIE: They were unconscious then
RIDGE: Unconscious

(((OBJECTION...witness isn't qualified to make that assessment. Sustained. Furthermore, it is more feedback of the implanted information.)))

JESSIE: And after I left they done more.

(((OBVIOUS QUESTION: How could you know they done more if you left?)))
RIDGE: They done more
JESSIE: They started screwing them again

(((Jessie is telling them what he could not possibly know. He left. He's telling them more because he knows they want to hear more, so he's simply repeating something previous.)))

RIDGE: Okay, how were they screwing them when you saw them?

(((Did we catch this?? Excuse me? Obvious oversight of reality here. An impossible feat that belongs in the same archive with the 2 phone calls to a non existent phone.)))

JESSIE: They, Jason stuck his in one them's mouth and Damien was screwing one of them up the ass and stuff.

(((Jessie is doing nothing more but creating a sexual act for their appeasement.)))

RIDGE: Okay, and the one that they were cutting the penis off of, did any of them are cutting the penis or whatever was being done, did they have sex with them at all?
JESSIE: No

(((Amazing that Jessie seemd to understand what the hell exactly this question is supposed to be, but we'll assume it is the latter, were D&J having sex with the boy who was having his penis cut off...check those autopsy reports. And Jessie said NO.)))

RIDGE: Did either one of them?
JESSIE: Jason did

(((Well were they or not? Less than a second ago, none of them were. And now Jason is, only lest we forget, JESSIE was not there to see this because he LEFT. Unfortunately Ridge told him (subtly) that he was there still and saw it...)))

RIDGE: Jason did?
JESSIE: Jason was screwing him while Damien stuck his in his mouth

(((...and let's create some more sexual acts to colorize this already neon confession.)))

RIDGE: Okay, how did he have sex with that one?
JESSIE: He was holding him down like, and Jason had his legs up in the air and that little boy was kicking, saying, 'don't, no' like that.

(((Well of course he was.)))


RIDGE: Okay, he had his legs up in the air, alright, what was to keep the little boys from running off, but just their hands are tied, what's to keep them from running off?
JESSIE: They beat them up so bad so they can't hardly move, they had their hands tied down and he sit on them

(((Makes perfect sense, does it not? Only, remember now that it's already been acknowledged by all of them that one boy DID run off, therefore Ridge knows that this can't be possible because theie feet were bound...and Jessie, who wouldn't know what was happening because he was not there and could not have witnessed anything, explains they counldn't hardly move because they were beaten too bad. But just in case, their hands were tied, and they were sat upon.)))

RIDGE: You said that they had their hands tied up, tied down, were they hands tied in a fashion that they couldn't have run, you tell me.
JESSIE: They could run, they just had them tied, when they knocked them down and stuff, they could move their arms and stuff, and hold them down like, wake up and raise up and the other one just put his legs up.

(((Sorry Ridge...didn't get that feet tied business. Nice shot tho.)))

RIDGE: Okay, so they had them under control, you were there the whole time that was taking place?
JESSIE: I was there.

(((Of course he was...Ridge just TOLD HIM he was there. But JESSIE himself said otherwise.)))

RIDGE: Okay, none [note: this is not clear - it may be 'one'] of them were cut on the face real bad, is that what you said?
JESSIE: Yes
RIDGE: And one of them was being cut on his penis?
JESSIE: Yes sir
RIDGE: Alright,
GITCHELL: Did you ever use, did anyone use a stick and hit the boys with?
JESSIE: Damien had kinda of a big old stick when he hit that first one, after he hit him with his fist and knocked him down and got him a big old stick and hit him.
GITCHELL: What did the stick look like, I mean was it like a big log like that or is it a stick?
JESSIE: I would say it was about that big around, I would say about that long.
GITCHELL: Okay
RIDGE: About the size of a baseball bat, maybe just a little bit bigger round?
JESSIE: Yeah
RIDGE: That's what you're describing with your hands, right?
JESSIE: Right
RIDGE: Okay, how long was the knife that Jason was using?
JESSIE: About that long
RIDGE: Alright, you're describing a knife that would be about 6 inches long, is that right?
JESSIE: Yes
RIDGE: And, what kind of blade did it have on it?
JESSIE: Uh, like a regular knife blade
RIDGE: Was it a knife that you fold up, or was it like a hunting knife?
JESSIE: It was
RIDGE: Just one piece
JESSIE: Just a fold up knife
RIDGE: It was a folding knife?
JESSIE: Yes
RIDGE: okay, uh does Damien have a knife?

(((Uh oh...didn't get what he was looking for again...)))

JESSIE: No
RIDGE: He doesn't have one, he didn't have one that night?
JESSIE: He didn't have one that night
RIDGE: Did he borrow yours?
JESSIE: No, he didn't borrow mine.

(((It should be relatively obvious that Ridge and Gitchell want it to be Damien. Unfortunately Jessie is not telling them what they want to hear, which is that Damien had a knife, he had one with him, and he used it on the boys...or at the least, he borrowed one and used it. Jessie said NO.)))

GITCHELL: Did they have a briefcase with them?
JESSIE: No
GITCHELL: You didn't see a briefcase?
JESSIE: I didn't see a briefcase, not unless they left it there at that day before it happened, unless they left it there then but I didn't see one that day.

(((So they manufactured a briefcase. Unfortunately, Jessie is clueless.)))

GITCHELL: Have you ever seen them with a briefcase before?
JESSIE: I've seen them once that night, I seen them with it that night.

(((Jessie, again, tells them what they want to hear.)))

GITCHELL: Okay, what is kept inside of that briefcase?
JESSIE: They had some cocaine, and a little gun

(((Now Jessie knows what is kept inside the manufactured briefcase that he JUST said he never saw. Jessie is telling them what they want to hear.)))

>>>This is more with the cult and pictures and is questionable because there is no record of it taking place.<<<

GITCHELL: Is that when you first saw the pictures of the boys?
JESSIE: yes, out there in Lakeshore
GITCHELL: And you saw the pictures in the briefcase?
JESSIE: Yes, I think when we had that cult.
GITCHELL: okay, now you have participated in this cult, right?
JESSIE: Yes
GITCHELL: How long have you been involved in it?
JESSIE: I've been in it for about three months.
GITCHELL: Okay, what is, tell me some of the things that you all do typically in the woods, as being in this cult.
JESSIE: We go out kill dogs and stuff and then carry girls out there.
GITCHELL: What do you all do with the girls when you're out there?
JESSIE: We screw them and stuff
GITCHELL: Just everybody takes a turn
JESSIE: Everybody, and we have an orgee and stuff like that.
GITCHELL: okay
RIDGE: when you kill a dog, what do you do with that?
JESSIE: We usually skin it, then make a barn fire and eat it and stuff
RIDGE: okay, when you initiating somebody new come into a cult what actually is done to initiate that person into a cult?
JESSIE: We usually you know, kill an animals, you know, you have to know how to handle the meat and stuff, after we kill it to see if he knows, if he can't handle it, then he don't get in.
RIDGE: Okay, so he kills an animal, you mentioned earlier that he may have to eat part of that animal, what part of the animal would he eat?
JESSIE: Uh, the meat off of his leg.
RIDGE: The meat off of his leg.
JESSIE: If he can't eat it, then he don't get in.
RIDGE: Doesn't get into the cult?
JESSIE: No
RIDGE: Now these meetings, have they ever been violent, anybody gotten mad and got into a fight?
JESSIE: No

>>>Jessie creates a stereotypically, however eroneous account of what happens at cult ritual sacrifices, and alas, even the Cult Kop isn't bright enough to pick up that it's all in error in the first place. Notice, however, Jessie's response to them being violent. NO.<<<

RIDGE: Okay, the night you were in the woods, uh had you all been in the water?
JESSIE: Yeah, we've been in the water, we were in it that night, playing around in it.

(((Pardon me, but Ridge is at it again, and how subtle it was. He makes the accusation they were there in the woods at night, and the follows immediately with asking if they were in the water. And Jessie repeats it right back, verbatim...only problem is they have ALL ACKNOWLEDGED above that this all took place in the late morning hours and NOON. It is not JESSIE who confesses to this happening at night, it is IMPLANTED AND MANIPULATED BY RIDGE.
Jessie just missed it.)))


RIDGE: You were playing around in the water, alright, what were you doing in the water?
JESSIE: Just
RIDGE: Besides just playing, the little boys, had they been in the water? Did they get into the water with you all?

(((Isn't it nice how Ridge makes another sweeping assumption from all of this that the boys had somehow been in a position to get in the water with them, as in voluntarily, when it's been acknowledged already that when the boys got there, they were immediately attacked.)))

JESSIE: No, they didn't get into the water with us

(((Now, Ridge as them all in the water...they are playing in the water, hanging out. The boys didn't get into the water with them, though ACCORDING TO JESSIE. Even tho Jessie was supposed to have been long gone already.)))

RIDGE: Okay, what were you doing in the water?
JESSIE: We were just sitting there, throwing stuff at eachother,
RIDGE: were you all having sex?
JESSIE: No, I wasn't

(((A little backwoods Arkansas homophobic defense response)))

RIDGE: You weren't?
JESSIE: No
RIDGE: Damien and Jason having sex?
JESSIE: They took turns going up under the water
RIDGE: Going up under the water, what were they doing up under the water?

(((OBJECTION...More bull****...witness wouldn't know what was happening under water. Sustained.)))

JESSIE: They were sitting so far away, they were in the water, I would say about five to ten seconds, then come up and then the other one would go down
RIDGE: Okay, so they were just messing around in the water. They called for these boys to come over there?
JESSIE: Yeah, they seen them boys and then they hollered, Damien said, hey, the little boys come up there.

(((Biiig problem here folks. If Damien, Jason and Damien are IN the creek, IN the water, IN the woods, BELOW the hill, NEAR the interstate side, and messing around in the water, and the boys, who were skipping school at noon, waiting on the bus, with their bikes, laid them down, and only came over to the wm3 AFTER they hollered for them to come over to them, then it would stand to reason that not only are the wm3 ninja devil worshippers, but they have extraordinary eyesight, because the PIPE BRIDGE where the boys had been waiting for the bus with their bikes is NOT THE LEAST BIT VISIBLE FROM THE NORTHERN SIDE OF THOSE WOODS, FROM DOWN IN A CREEK. IF this were even remotely the case, then the search would've been over in less than a few minutes after people showed up at the pipe bridge because if the little boys could've seen the wm3 from the pipe bridge, on the north side of the woods, in the woods, down a hill, in a creek, in the water, then you can surely bet that an adult would've seen those bodies on the north side of the woods, in the woods, down a hill, in a creek, in the water, FROM the pipe bridge. And when Ridge was asking about D&J having sex in the water, Jessie's comment was they were so far away, implying of course, he wouldn't have been able to tell anyway. Yet they can see the boys.And now we know that not only is it possible to see the location where the bodies were found from the pipe bridge, it is also possible to hear someone calling out from that location to the pipe bridge.)))

GITCHELL: Did they call them by name?
JESSIE: No, they just hollered at them, they slowed up.

(((Yes, gooberkop..let's mosey on by that one. So the boys, who were skipping school waiting on the bus at noon, with their bikes heard and saw the wm3 in etc. and slowed up. They went right on over.)))

GITCHELL: Where did the boys put their bikes?
JESSIE: Close to right where there before you come in and they laid them down right there, and after I left I don't know what they done with the bikes.

(((Previously Jessie said they laid the bikes down, then that he didn't know because he was far behind D&J. Yet here, he is implying the bikes were across the bridge...and after he left, he had no idea. I'm sure Ridge would figure it all out and let us know.)))

GITCHELL: You didn't do anything to the bikes at all?
JESSIE: No
GITCHELL: Are you sure
JESSIE: Positive
GITCHELL: You didn't touch the bikes?
JESSIE: I didn't touch them
RIDGE: You've been back to this place since that murder
JESSIE: Yes
RIDGE: Since it (unaudible) what did you do there? Be truthful.
JESSIE: I went down there and sit there, and after what they did to the boys, I just sit there.
RIDGE: And did what?
JESSIE: Just thought, what happened to them real bad, just thought.
RIDGE: Okay
JESSIE: And I left and stuff, and walked home.
GITCHELL: When did you go back there?
JESSIE: Two or three days after it happened, and I left.
RIDGE: You were there by yourself?
JESSIE: I was there by myself.
RIDGE: Didn't you go there with some more boys once?
JESSIE: Me. David
RIDGE: That particular place?
JESSIE: No, not to that place
RIDGE: Are you willing to go down there with us and us having a camcorder and show us where these things took place? Would you do that?
JESSIE: (Silent)
RIDGE: Wouldn't have any problem with that?
JESSIE: Not that I know of, I wouldn't
RIDGE: But you would be able to point out where these things took place?
JESSIE: Yes
RIDGE: Which way the boys came from and where you all were when he hollered for the boys and stuff like that, you wouldn't have a problem with that?

(((However, you would STILL have to 'holler' for someone, evidently between those two locations...)))

JESSIE: After the murder and stuff, I would say about two or three days later after it happened, I went down there and thought about it and I haven't been down there since.
RIDGE: Okay, let me ask you something, now this is real serious and I want you to be real truthful, and I want you to think about it before you answer it, don't just say yes or no, real quick. I want you to think about it. Did you actually hit any of these boys?
JESSIE: No
GITCHELL: Now, tell us the truth.
JESSIE: No
RIDGE: Did you actually rape any of these boys?
JESSIE: No
RIDGE: Did you actually kill any of these boys?
JESSIE: No

(((What, no leading and twisting this time??? Of course not...it's DAMIEN they wanted.)))

RIDGE: Did you see any of the boys actually killed?
JESSIE: Yes

(((OBJECTION...witness is not qualified to make that assessment. Sustained.)))

RIDGE: okay, which one did you see killed?
JESSIE: That one right there.
GITCHELL: Now, you're pointing to the Byers boy again?
JESSIE: Yes
RIDGE: How was he actually killed?
JESSIE: He choked him real bad and all
RIDGE: Choking him? Okay, what was he choking him with?
JESSIE: His hands, like a stick, he had a bit old stick, kinda holding it over his neck.
RIDGE: okay, so he was choking him to the point where he actually went unconscious, so at that point, you felt like he was dead?
JESSIE: Yeah

(((Point made...Chris Byers died from bleeding to death.)))


RIDGE: Okay, did any of the other two boys, were you there when they were actually killed?
JESSIE: I don't know
RIDGE: You say that you got sick, so that's what you were saying, did you throw up or anything?
JESSIE: Yes
RIDGE: Where did you throw up at?
JESSIE: I got a little bit ways out of there and got half a mile up the road, is when I threw up, and couldn't hardly run and I just threw up.

(((Let's see,,,they can go hunt for a broken whiskey bottle but never did they go and look for and even collect Jessie's lunch? That very well could've been much more damning "evidence")))

RIDGE: When you left from there, did you leave running?
JESSIE: Yes
RIDGE: Were you hiding?
JESSIE: No, I didn't hide.

(((Nope, we just go out and kill us some kiddos like it's an every day occurrance...why would he hide? He didn't do anything. )))

GITCHELL: Did you have some blood on your clothes?
JESSIE: I didn't have no blood, I didn't get close to them.

(((Yet Michael Moore wasn't bloody from being beaten by Damien.)))

GITCHELL: Were your clothes wet still?
JESSIE: Yes, they were damp
GITCHELL: Muddy
(((Speaking of which...these guys just high tailed it into a creek ditch fully clothed. Yep...Guess that's how they enjoy a little summer time dip up in hooterville, aint smart enough to take 'em off...shoes and everything, let's just dive on in.)))


RIDGE: Alright, Insp. Gitchell touched on a point, real close, now what clothes were Jason wearing that day? That night?
JESSIE: He was wearing some blue jeans and boots, army boots like,
RIDGE: Army boots? And what kind of a shirt, you know everybody wears a special shirt with different things

(((OBJECTION!!!!!! LEADING THE WITNESS. Talk about blatant. What would make Ridge presume 1. That Jason would be wearing anything "special" and 2. how Jessie would know what clothes Jason found 'special'...)))

JESSIE: He was wearing a mega death shirt
RIDGE: A mega death
JESSIE: Or maybe a metalica
RIDGE: Metalica shirt, alright, was he wearing a cap, anything like that?
JESSIE: No, he wasn't wearing anything like that
RIDGE: Alright, Damien, what was Damien wearing.
JESSIE: Damien had some black pants on, some boots and a blackt-shirt.
RIDGE: Was anything on his shirt?
JESSIE: No
RIDGE: No kind of design or anything?

(((Sorreee dumbass...no devils and sacrifices...gotta make due with Metallica. Be forewarned, you've just upped their 1993/94 sales another half a million bucks.)))

JESSIE: No, just black
RIDGE: These blue jeans that Jason was wearing, designer jeans, or were they old jeans, wore out, holes
JESSIE: They were wore out
RIDGE: What did they look like?
JESSIE: They had holes in them and the knees were cut
RIDGE: Holes in the knees. What color is Jason's hair?
JESSIE: Blonde
RIDGE: Light blonde, or like a sandy reddish type blonde, do you know the difference?
JESSIE: It's like
RIDGE: Sandy colored blonde
JESSIE: Sandy colored blonde
RIDGE: okay, wearing blue jeans, he had on a metalica shirt, now this is a shirt that's got metalica across the frontof it spelled out, and a man's name, or picture, is that
right? You tell me.

(((Oh NOW you need some answers to stuff you don't already know...can't lead and make up **** when it comes to this...Notice the tone of questioning has markedly changed. Now he's being asked questions and they're accepting his answers, instead of slipping in their own implicit information and manipulating and twisting what he said. Straight Q&A.)))

JESSIE: They had picture
RIDGE: A picture of somebody
JESSIE: Different shirts, different types of shirts have different pictures
RIDGE: Well, which one did he have?
JESSIE: He had that uh, like a, skull like
RIDGE: A skull?
JESSIE: Yeah
RIDGE: Okay, what were you wearing that day?
JESSIE: I was just wearing regular blue jeans, my shoes
RIDGE: What kind of shoes were you wearing?
JESSIE: My uh, Adidas
RIDGE: Adidas tennis shoes?
JESSIE: Yes
RIDGE: What kind of shirt were you wearing?
JESSIE: I was just wearing a regular old greasy up t-shirt.
RIDGE: Okay, was it a designed shirt, like this bull type shirt, or was it just a plain white, old
JESSIE: Plain white
RIDGE: Old t-shirt, where are these shoes at now?
JESSIE: A friend of mine, he borrowed them
RIDGE: Who is that?
JESSIE: Buddy Lucas
RIDGE: Buddy Lucas?
JESSIE: He borrowed them from me
RIDGE: The boots that Damien had on, are they army type boots too, or what kind of boots were they?
JESSIE: Close like army type, not quite
RIDGE: Okay, they are black, is that right, they lace up?
JESSIE: Yes
RIDGE: Okay, and Jason's black and lace up?
JESSIE: Jason's were black up to, about knee
RIDGE: Oh, they come way up on him?
JESSIE: Yes
RIDGE: Okay, Damian's didn't come up that far?
JESSIE: No

RIDGE: Okay, they killed the boys,
(((Once again, a sweeping assumption. It is an accusation. Jessie would have no way of knowing if any of the boys were dead or not. Further, according to Jessie, he wouldn't have even been there. This should reinforce the fact that they WANTED it to be DAIMIEN, and so they simply MAKE IT Damien.)))

you decided to go, you went home, how long after you got home before you received the phone call? 30 minutes or an hour?
JESSIE: Uh, silent an hour
RIDGE: An hour after you got home, so they were there for a lot longer
JESSIE: Yes

(((OBJECTION...Witness would have no way of knowing the actions of the other two if he was at home. We will remind everone here that Jessie STILL HAD NO PHONE for those of you who have forgotten or landed in denial, so the recounting of the phone conversations on the invisible phone between Jessie and ANYBODY can only be fabrications for the benefit of the keystone goober kops.)))

RIDGE: When he called you on the phone, did he say that he had just got in?
JESSIE: When he first called me, he said, how come you left, and said, I couldn't stand it, I had to do something else
RIDGE: Okay, you couldn't stand it.
JESSIE: And then Damien, I heard Damien in the background saying we done it, we done it, what we gone do if somebody saw us
RIDGE: Did anybody see you leaving?
JESSIE: No
RIDGE: That you know of

(((Gee, Ridge...you got info you'd like to share???)))

JESSIE: That I know of
RIDGE: Did anybody see Damien and Jason?
JESSIE: I don't know, I left before them

(((But you know they 'done some more' screwing and cutting and stuff, and were there for an hour even though you weren't there because you left.)))

RIDGE: But have you heard anybody say that they saw Damien and Jason?

(((OBJECTION...)))

JESSIE: No
RIDGE: You haven't heard anybody?
JESSIE: No
RIDGE: Okay, these initiations, you say that they eat part of the leg meat?
JESSIE: Yeah
RIDGE oes that involve eating part of the penis of the animal?

(((You're a sick ****, Ridge. And what would that have to do with THIS case? )))

JESSIE: No

(((heheh...that one probably even grosse out Jessie.)))
RIDGE: Just the meat?
JESSIE: Just the meat
RIDGE: Okay, has Jason and Damien talked to you since this happened?
JESSIE: No
RIDGE: They haven't talked to you about this?
JESSIE: They hadn't said nothing around me, when I was over to my friend's house, they didn't say nothing.
RIDGE: When you've been by yourself, and I'm sure in the last three weeks you've been by yourself with them sometime

(((OBJECTION. You have no evidence to support that assumption. Witness already answered the question NO, anyway.)))

JESSIE: You know Damien keeps asking me how come I left and stuff and hadn't anybody said anything to me about it.

(((Notice how when Jessie is challeneged, he tells them what they want to hear. Had this been a real confession, there would be no need to manipulate answers, he'd have provided them and details, voluntarily, since this is apparently why he was there. They ask, he answers. If they don't like that answer, they challnge him again using informative details, at which time Jessie responds with their information. From here on they just make assumptions. )))

RIDGE:Okay, what did he say to you about it when you came to the police department, after seeing that boy in the woods? Up there behind the Goodyear place? What did he say about that?

(((ASSumption.)))

JESSIE: He didn't know anything about that.
RIDGE: He doesn't know that
JESSIE: No

(((Sorry pal...)))

RIDGE: Okay, what about when you get with Jason by himself?
JESSIE: He keeps on asking me what are we going to do next, I told him, I can't do nothing now cause I go to work with my daddy everyday

(((Let me see if I got this...they commit triple homicide in the most brutal fashion, enlisting the assistance of someone, for no apparent reason since he obviously did not take part in anything, that's merely an acquaintance, then don't talk to them after that EXCEPT to ask why he ran off, and what the will do next, and it's just peachy that Jessie bows out of it with the excuse he has to work. MAKES PERFECT SENSE.)))

RIDGE: So, they are scared, is that right,
JESSIE: They are scared cause after what they did, I told him that I was going to work with my daddy, I got to do something

(((That makes them scared NOW? And not scared before.)))

RIDGE: So, what do you think ought to be done to them for killing these boys?
JESSIE: They need to be put away for awhile,
RIDGE: Put away for a while. Do you think they are sick or just mean?
JESSIE: I think they are sick
RIDGE: They are sick okay. Is there anything else that you want to add to this statement?
JESSIE: No
RIDGE: Why did you not come forward with this information?
JESSIE: Cause I was scared
RIDGE: Scared of Damien? or scared of the police?
JESSIE: Scared of the police

(((hehehe...hysterical. He WAS NOT AFRAID of someone he KNOWS can butcher 3 innocent kids, but he WAS AFRAID of the police??? Our boy Jessie got it goin' on...)))

RIDGE: Are you scared of Damien now?
JESSIE: No
RIDGE: Are you scared of the police now?
JESSIE: No
RIDGE:You are not, so we've treated you well?
JESSIE: Yes
RIDGE: Alright, I am going to conclude this interview, the time is 3:18PM.
*
heheheh....my god. Anything IS possible in West Memphis. I can only IMAGINE why he would be afraid of the police above and beyond a vicous, sadistice, heartless, devil worshipping child killer...