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The Commercial Appeal
Echols forecast human sacrifice, newly released documents show
Date: May 11, 1994
Section: Metro
Page: b2
Illustration: photo
Source: The Commercial Appeal
Dateline: WEST MEMPHIS
Edition: Final
Damien Wayne Echols told Crittenden County juvenile authorities in May 1992 that the local cults had exhausted the uses of animal sacrifice and that "the next logical step would be the sacrifice of a human.'' Jerry B. Driver, the county's chief juvenile officer, told police in December that Echols had given him that warning after Echols's arrest on trespassing and sexual misconduct charges in May 1992.
Echols, Charles Jason Baldwin and Jessie Lloyd Misskelley Jr. were found guilty of murder this year in the May 5, 1993, murders of three West Memphis boys.
The Driver interview was reviewed Tuesday, the second day of the West Memphis Police Department's court-ordered release of more than 7,700 documents associated with the triple-murder case.
Also released was a report on Echols's June 9, 1993, suicide attempt at the Monroe County Detention Center at Clarendon, Ark., and his suicide note written on the back of a Marlboro cigarette carton.
"Just remember I am a Wiccan and will be reincarnated,'' Echols printed. "I promise.''
Another file included Baldwin's school journal seized by police. In one March 1993 entry, he wrote: "I am a very calm person and can take most of everything. But . . . when I do get angry, it is usually not a pretty site (sic).''
Caption: Damien Echols
Keywords: murder
The Commercial Appeal
Echols forecast human sacrifice, newly released documents show
Date: May 11, 1994
Section: Metro
Page: b2
Illustration: photo
Source: The Commercial Appeal
Dateline: WEST MEMPHIS
Edition: Final
Damien Wayne Echols told Crittenden County juvenile authorities in May 1992 that the local cults had exhausted the uses of animal sacrifice and that "the next logical step would be the sacrifice of a human.'' Jerry B. Driver, the county's chief juvenile officer, told police in December that Echols had given him that warning after Echols's arrest on trespassing and sexual misconduct charges in May 1992.
Echols, Charles Jason Baldwin and Jessie Lloyd Misskelley Jr. were found guilty of murder this year in the May 5, 1993, murders of three West Memphis boys.
The Driver interview was reviewed Tuesday, the second day of the West Memphis Police Department's court-ordered release of more than 7,700 documents associated with the triple-murder case.
Also released was a report on Echols's June 9, 1993, suicide attempt at the Monroe County Detention Center at Clarendon, Ark., and his suicide note written on the back of a Marlboro cigarette carton.
"Just remember I am a Wiccan and will be reincarnated,'' Echols printed. "I promise.''
Another file included Baldwin's school journal seized by police. In one March 1993 entry, he wrote: "I am a very calm person and can take most of everything. But . . . when I do get angry, it is usually not a pretty site (sic).''
Caption: Damien Echols
Keywords: murder
