When he found out his friends were missing, he immediately told his mom that they had to go the clubhouse in the woods. I think he knew it because he knew that Damien didnt really commit this murder and thats why he basically tells his aunt not to tell this lie. . RIDGE: THESE MEN. Right around 8:40, I believe that David would have walked or driven home, depending on who was driving that night and Terry and LG would have gotten into Pam and Terrys small, white Toyota. Not even Damien, Jason or Jessie had any of that happen to them, and they were the ones who were falsely arrested for the crime. OKAY WHAT WERE THESE MAN DOING? Have you had a drug dealer named Ray? If Terry had been spotted driving around with LG by either the Moores, Byers or any policemen who might have been in the vicinity, that could have raised some difficult questions for Terry to answer. (1, 2) According to Jamie and her family, the three boys were playing in her backyard and then flew out onto the sidewalk and headed towards the Hobbs home. Even if he maybe didn't intend to kill him, I'm sure he started to beat him and his rage just got the best of him and there was no turning back. My belief is that these items were used in the clean up. Would project a macho, heterosexual, in-control image. HES NEVER SEEN THEMRIDGE: OH, OKAYAARON: CAUSE IT WAS ON A FRIDAY WHENEVER HE WENT DOWN THERE WITH USRIDGE: DID YOU EVER TELL ANYDODY ABOUT IT?AARON: HU-UH (NO)RIDGE: WHY? For the latest true crime and justice news,subscribe to the Crime Stories with Nancy Grace podcast. What they discovered was a very organized, catalogued and intact body of evidence, a group working on the case previously wrote. Sometime around 2pm the day of the 6th, Stevie, Michael and Chris were found murdered in a drainage ditch filled with water in the Blue Beacon Woods. Additionally, his cousin, Charlotte claims that he was at Lakeshore before the murders, left and did not come back till the next day. Police Officer Regina Meeks had been called to Mark Byers home at 8:10 and filled out a police report for the missing children with both the Byers and Dana Moore. Michael, being the first one attacked, was hit so violently and with such anger, that he was almost immediately rendered unconscious. Additionally, why would LG go down to the Laundromat at approx. Due to this error in the judgement by police, the information revealed by Aaron has been largely ignored through the years. -3:30 Christopher shows up looking for the boys. I will support each theory with known public evidence. Was there anyone else who knew how to clean up blood better than Terry did? Terrys own daughter allegedly told family members, including her mother, grandmother, cousin and aunt that she had been abused by her dad and two family members even claimed to have walked in on Terry abusing his daughter. VICKIE: IN MIDDLE AFTERNOONRIDGE: OKAY, AND WHAT DID YOU FIND WHEN YOU CAME TO THE AREA? LG was actually a suspect from the very beginning, and its actually really shocking to me that he was not further investigated. When the police asked Aaron why he thought his friends were murdered, he told them that he believed his friends got caught spying on the men and that the man with the white tank top told the others to hold them while he killed them. As he leaned over Michael and removed his clothes, a hair from Terrys head or mustache fell onto Michaels body. I believe at this time, Terry directed his attention to Stevie and bit him repeatedly on this face. 6 Q. She tells police that LG said to her,dont tell police you saw Damien on the service road or you will get in trouble. On the night of the 5th LGs aunt Dixie told police and her sister, Narlene, that LG was dropped off at the Laundromat where she worked in a small, light colored car. However, there is no mention of animal prints at the scene, as far as I know, nor car tracks found in the field next to those woods. According to Michaels autopsy report, the injuries to his head support the belief that he was hit with something that had a relatively sharp edge that caused three lacerations to the left side of his head. Their affidavits can be read here and here. For one, Michael was tied up with a shoelace that had been cut. Is there any other reason why hed admit on national television that he lied? And the 90s. Rather than rush inside and tell Pam that Stevie was missing along with two of his friends, he walked right past Pam to the phone, called police and filed a missing person report. I remember when the news broke and sitting in my living room floor crying and holding my new daughter I have read, watched and researched as much as I could throughout the years. And why would Jacoby publicly and openly admit that he lied under penalty of perjury and to police back in 2007? VICKIE: HE STAYED. What stands out to me, is that no one has ever suggested before that the injury to Chris began as a bite. [3], Terry Hobbs was 24 years old when he broke into the home of a neighbor, Mildred French. Though the family was well-to-do, Terry was having financial problems when the three children were murdered in 1993. VICKIE: SO THEN UM, II JUST GOT AARON OUT OF THERE BECAUSE YOU KNOW. According to Pams family, Stevie was terrified of Terry. AND THAT WHITE TANK TOP MAN. He noted that his son spent a lot of time in the home of Terry Hobbs and could easily have picked up the hair (with DNA matching that of Terry Hobbs) found in his shoelaces on one of those occasions. After the murders of the three boys, the general understanding by the public was that Chris had been emasculated and very meticulously had had the skin removed from his penis. Terry Hobbs was born in 1958 in Northern Arkansas, one of four children, son of Edith Raylean McLeod Hobbs and Joe Dean Hobbs, Sr. Hobbs, Sr. learned his trade as a butcher while in the military and went on to open thirty restaurants. I've no doubt he killed Stevie to "get even" with Pam. Furthermore, in the alleged confessions, Terry states: The bodies cant be found, at least not yet.. When you look at the evidence as a whole, it is quite clear and truly undeniable what really occurred that tragic day. He actually was able to get his friend and aunt to lie for him in order to protect him. Even more incriminating, is that Narlenes sister said that only Narlene and her husband picked her up from work. Anyway, some things the autopsy reports show us.. ~Chris was alive when he was being tied up. How could she be so off in her description of what they wore and what they looked like, if she truly did see them? RIDGE OKAY, NOW THE CONVERSATION YOU HAD WITH HIS AUNT WHAT IS HER NAME AGAIN? hobbs is high on my list, but with what we know (or lack thereof,) there's simply no way to say anyone is "for sure" guilty in this case. It is completely illogical to believe that LG would have driven nearly ten minutes away to get the phone number of someone who was in walking distance from him. It is clear to many experts that the left side of Stevies face had been bitten by turtles. There is no way that if this really occurred, Terry would have allowed those boys go home to tell their parents that, not only was Terry Hobbs in the woods having sex with men and teenagers, but he punched his stepsons friend in the head for catching him. The four men beat the boys, tied them up and threw them and their clothes into the ditch of water. YOUVE SEEN THE CLUB HOUSEVICKIE: UH-HUH (YES) I HAVE SEEN IT SEVERAL TIMESRIDGE: ALRIGHT, AND HES BEEN FOUND THERE BY YOU SEVERAL TIMES? [1]. Another indicator that points to Terrys guilt and the truth in the alleged Buddy/LG statements, lies with what was discovered on Michael Moores body. Additionally, they would have focused on someone who lived in West Memphis and knew the Blue Beacon Woods well. Two private investigators looking into the case on their behalf eventually turned their sights on Terry Hobbs, Steve's stepfather, because his story did not add up -- he had claimed that he had begun searching for the boys at 6 pm on the day they had disappeared when in reality, they had only been reported missing at 9 pm. Further, I have another theory why the crime scene appeared so clean. Within a week of that delivery, I also delivered marijuana, cocaine, and crystal meth to Mr. Hobbs in Memphis, Tennessee, on Madison Avenue at a gay bar called J-Wags. And, Ill tell you something, I would take up for my kids when Ive known that they have done something, cause aint no telling what they would do. RIDGE: ONE TIME, WERE THEY, WERE YOU ALL WATCHING THE FIVE MEN DOWN THERE THAT TIME WHEN HE WENT WITH YOU? The problem with this statement is this: for one, Jacoby claims he asked Terry where Stevie was. The fact that David Jacoby said that he saw all three boys and one was riding on a skateboard, means that Davidreally didsee the boys at some point that day. Both Guy and Stewart have tried since 1994, thirteen years before Terry and David were even suspects, to tell the authorities what they had been told. Most of the sightings of the boys were when the three were riding on two bicycles. VICKIE: THE DEAD END ON MCAULEYRIDGE: ON MCAULEY BYVICKIE: BY THE APARTMENTSRIDGE: OKAY, ALRIGHT. The dynamic between them must have been s fucked up and dark and tense. Ok, now kiss. RIDGE: ALRIGHT, YOUVE BEEN TO YOUR CLUB BEFORE WITH THEM? Peretti believed that and the Echols defense team, although claiming that Chris must have drowned, all admitted that Chris died while he was being tied up. I think we have the answer now; Stevie and Chris appeared to have been tortured because they were the ones who were conscious. I dont believe when Terry first saw them that he intended to kill them. The way that the boys were found undressed and tied up would have been humiliating! And since she couldnt have known this from a sighting, because the sighting never happened, then it must be from some other source. Who would have fed Stevie vegetables if not his own parents? Thats four hours. Apparently, there was a bank near the ditch that appeared to have been slicked down and cleaned off to the point that there was no grass or leaves at all in that one area. Privacy Policy. Jared: When they [the police] met you at the restaurant, was it just closer to meet you there as opposed to going to the neighborhood?, Hobbs: Thats where we called them from, so we knew they would be coming up somewhere near there.. Doesn't make sense how they disappeared, then got back in there without a soul seeing them. I allege that Terry came home right after 5pm and Stevie was headed to the house at this time. You really would need magic to pull it off. He systematically destroyed every member of his family, traumatizing them with years of extreme sexual abuse/grooming and beatings. Steven Branch had lacerations on his penis which were probably self-inflicted indicating a sexualized child, usually associated with sexual abuse. I rewatched the paradise lost docs and in the last one, just before the murders, Pam had "kissed a Mexican" and Terry said that years later when he brought on the lawsuit with Natalie Maines. At the same time, considering the trampled crime scene and shoddy police work, would the cops have even documented the sight of animal prints or tire tracks even if they did see it? (Charlotte Bly interview). The Blue Beacon Woods was connected to the Robin Hood Hills which was the last place the three boys had been spotted on the night of the 5th. The children never returned home. An attorney for one of the victim's mother dropped the bombshell in court today that she believes her ex-husband Terry Hobbs took part in the killings. I agree that that was the intention, but I also believe there was another element behind it. As Bennies statements suggest, as well the MEs position on Michaels injuries, there is good evidence to suggest that Michael was violently attacked first and then lay unconscious for the rest of the crime. For years, the stepfather of one of the three children killed in West Memphis, Arkansas, has maintained his innocence, despite public outcry to investigate him. The day after the boys went missing before they were even found, Michael Moore's parents asked Aaron's mother, Vickie Hutchinson, if Aaron could be removed from school to help find the boys. (source) LG had been job hunting that day and was likely wearing a shirt and tie for his interviews. Did he simply use Jessie as a scapegoat so that he could talk about the details of the murder and get it off his chest? Police suspected the murders of Michael Moore, Christopher Byers and Steve Branch, all second-graders, were the work of a satanic cult. This would have been the only way they could have crossed without falling into the water. Aaron, Michael and Chris had always gone without Stevie and the one time Stevie did go, the men did not show up. [5], In 2003, Hobbs was arrested for possession of marijuana and found guilty.[6]. RIDGE: OKAY, DID YOU SEE THEM THE DAY BEFORE THEY GOT KILLED ? When prosecutor John Fogelman interviewed Buddy later, Buddy repeatedly told him that he had an alibi for the 5th despite the fact that Fogelman never even brought it up himself. This is actually supported by various testimony, which I will bring up later. RIDGE: SO HOW ABOUT DO YOU KNOW STEVE, DID HE EVER GO DOWN THERE WITH YOU?AARON: UM, ONLY ONE TIMERIDGE: ONE TIME, WERE THEY, WERE YOU ALL WATCHING THE FIVE MEN DOWN THERE THAT TIME WHEN HE WENT WITH YOU?AARON: NO, HES NEVER WE NEVER TOLD HIM ABOUT IT. When police were searching for the boys on the fifth, they were not inspecting a crime scene, they were simply trying to find three boys. If a weapon had been used to create all the injuries then there would have been major cuts and lacerations with the contusions just like there was on the boys heads. In the south in the 90s, the community of dick-havers who are into dick will come from all walks of life and have all sorts of jobs. My only guess is that they already had their sights set on Damien at that time. As mentioned earlier, Terry Hobbs, like John Mark Byers before him, was fingered as a suspect in 2012's West of Memphis after a hair found at the crime scene was genetically matched to him. DO YOU THINK THEY WERE CRAZYAARON: THEY WERE SMOKINGRIDGE: FOR DOING WHAT THEY WERE DOING?AARON: THEY WERE ROLLED UP UM, CIGARETTES THERE WAS ALL KIND OF WHITERIDGE: KINDA WHITE CIGARETTES?AARON: ALL WHITETHE KIND YOU ROUND UP YEA YOU PUT THAT GREEN STUFF IN THERE. After his alleged attack on Chris, the beating of the boys continued. The three new witnesses were polygraphed about what . WHAT DID IT SMELL LIKE DID IT STINK?AARON: YEAH (YES) IT STUNKRIDGE: WHAT IT SMELL LIKE?AARON: IT SMELLED LIKE, IT SMELLED LIKE A CIGARETTE JUST GETTING LILT BUT IT WAS A DIFFERENT KINDAaron tells police why he believes his friends were killed: RIDGE: TELL ME WHAT YOU THINK HAPPENED?AARON: THEY UM, THEY WENT DOWN TO WATCH THOSE MEN AND. In addition to that, when the boys autopsies were performed, animal hair was discovered on them.
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