Echols was the ringleader. Without him there would have been no crime. He and Baldwin used to skin snakes. When you're a psychopath it's not far removed from skinning humans. Misskelley threatened a girl with a knife. All three had no alibis. I ruled out Mr. Bojangles when I realized it would take more than one person to control three boys. The knots used to tie the boys were different, suggesting more than one person. You'd also need to be familiar with the area of Robin Hood Hills.
Nothing what you have posted Steve proves anything, it was Suspicion without evidence, they were convicted by a witch hunt by the the State of Arkansas, in the throes of Satanic Panic. If we talk about Psychopaths, well Hobbs certainly fit the bill, Hobbs's history of abuse. He has admitted to assaulting his wife, and he has been accused of beating his kids. A neighbor once accused him of attacking her. A different neighbor recalled seeing Hobbs with the three boys soon before they disappeared on the night of the murders, even though Hobbs denies it, Jo Lynn McAughey, Stevie's aunt, said she saw Hobbs doing laundry that night. Left out of the film was what Judy Sadler said, another of Stevie's aunts, says of Hobbs: "There's always been something that creeped me out about him." Sadler is then allowed to claim that Hobbs would make Stevie watch him masturbate, and that he also molested Stevie's sister.
The boys had been harrased for two years by the cops, mainly for the way they dressed and the type of music they listened to, prosecutors distorted facts and unfairly used the boys lifestyle and demeanour against them at the trial. Doesnt it say something Steve, the three are out of Jail, most agree that they were a miscarriage of justice, Echols still even this year will not let it rest, he still fights to clear his name. he still wants to test evidence found at the scene, a guilty man would just be thankful and go quitely, what if the DNA evidence found and it tests that it is Echols, he goes back to jail, would a free guilty man take that risk? Ask yourself why the Courts wont allow this enhanced DNA testing.
Damien Echols said, “Although I was released from death row, and Jason and Jesse were freed from their life sentences, we have never been free. We are convicted of murdering three children and, although we were allowed to maintain our innocence in the Alford Plea deal, we were never truly free, never declared innocent by the court, and the real killer (s) have never been brought to justice. I ask the Judges on the Arkansas Supreme Court, allow us to conduct state of the art DNA testing that might help identify those responsible for this heinous act, and hopefully exonerate the West Memphis 3.”
