According to many experts, this is a huge indicator that the perpetrator(s) knew the victims. During a special presentation at CrimeCon 2022 Las Vegas, former New York State prosecutor Jim Clemente joined Truth & Justice podcast host, Bob Ruff, and investigative journalist, George Jared, to take a deep dive into a conversation Jared previously had with Terry Hobbs. According to the ME, Chris did not drown like the others, he died before entering the water. Do you frequent gay clubs? This is when Terry and David would have allegedly arrived at Lakeshore, seen Buddy and LG walking together and asked them who was holding weed. AARON: MICHAEL AND CHRIS SAID NOT TO TELL NOBODY, RIDGE: UM, DO YOU THINK THOSE MEN WERE CRAZY? RIDGE: YOU WERE ALWAYS THERE FIRST. Upon the delivery, I saw Mr. Hobbs holding hands with the same man who he was at my house with on May 5, 1993. For instance: Terry says the two ran in to an older whiteman who told them the boys were heading towards the woods. 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. So although at least some experts said the boys were not punched, I dont believe thats true at all. In 1993 Bennie Guy and Billy Stewart were both very close with a mentally slow teenager named Buddy Lucas. I have questions. AND THAT WHITE TANK TOP MAN. There was evidence to suggest that Aaron was telling the truth about the clubhouse because wooden planks were in fact found and collected by police. I also believe this is why the boys got separated. -5:00 Terry Hobbs drops Pam off at work and returns home What happened next is a theory supported by evidence and interviews. AARON: IT WAS EVERY DAY BUT, IT WAS EVERY TIME, BUT IT EVERY TIME BUT UM, THE FRIDAY. However, this was never corroborated by police. 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? This lends credibilty to the theory that Stevie did in fact go home, and even ate some dinner. Is there any possible reason why they wouldnt have stopped? After doing so, they most likely would have walked down south in the ditch till the water was the deep enough and also not directly beside the crime scene. In John Douglas analysis, the tying up of the boys was another attempt from the perpetrator to humiliate and dominate the boys. Almost immediately after Terry would have hit Michael, I believe that is when David would have caught Chris. Facebook. They then went and dumped the boys bicycles into the bayou, cleaned up the area and left by dark. Pinterest. We know from multiple sightings, including Michaels mother, that the three boys were on two bikes riding on 14th, headed to Goodwin St. at 6pm. He ends up staying and watching TV with Amanda. You have to remember that during this time these two men were quite young, mid twenties/mid thirties and they had just gotten off of work, they had Davids wife Bobby to watch the kids, Pam was at work and Stevie was playing with his friends and wouldnt be back till 8pm. Press J to jump to the feed. The nude, bound and mutilated bodies of three eight-year-old Cub Scouts were found in a water-filled ditch in a forest near their West Memphis, Ark., homes, one day after they disappeared in May, 1993. VICKIE: YESYES I HAVERIDGE: AND WHEN WERE YOU THERE BEFORE? What people forget is that we dont knowwhosaid that Terry propositioned Jacoby. 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? And, allegedly, David was the one who caught Christopher, so I believe the first person who was attacked was Michael. Create an account to follow your favorite communities and start taking part in conversations. She was completely off in her description of the way they looked and the way they were dressed. http://callahan.8k.com/pdf/de_dnamotion3_30_11.pdf. Terry told me at that time (sometime after 9:00 p.m.), that he had called the police to report that Stevie was missing. In part 3, when suing Natalie Maines, he said he wanted The Dixie Chicks to be "humiliated" as punishment when asked what he really wanted out of the lawsuit. For me Hobbs did it. 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. And finally, if Terry claims he never saw Stevie that day (despite statements from Jacoby, Jamie Ballard and her sister and mother) there is one extremely significant question Terry has to answer: why did Stevie have partially digested vegetables in his stomach? The day after the boys went missing before they were even found, Michael Moores parents asked Aarons mother, Vickie Hutchinson, if Aaron could be removed from school to help find the boys. RIDGE IRENE SHE TOLD YOU SOMETHING ABOUT THE DAY THE KIDS WERE MURDERED? These men had no reason to lie or even tell their story, if not for justice. That means that they may have punched Stevie, but may not have taken it farther than that. David Jacoby also claimed to have seen the three boys in the street at this time; one on a skateboard and the others on bikes. RIDGE: OKAY. hilton garden inn oshkosh; was terry hobbs ever found. The final sightings of the boys had them heading into Robin Hood Hills at 6:30.(source). What really stands out to me is that the guilt or innocence of the men known as the West Memphis Three has been wildly debated through the years. My theory is that Chris had tried to get into his home and failed and was heading back to Stevies house when he was picked up by his dad instead. I have a theory about what weapon it could have been. Its likely that Terry was already heading to Billy Stewarts home since, according to Billy, he was Terrys drug dealer at this time. Furthermore, it is highly unlikely that anyone other than Terry Hobbs and David Jacoby committed this crime and Ill briefly explain why. Why would she get in trouble for that? In LGs interviews of what he did that afternoon, he repeatedly contradicts himself. Echols specifically wants the shoestrings used to tie up the victims to be tested at a California lab that utilizes new technology to extract DNA from evidence. What they discovered was a very organized, catalogued and intact body of evidence, a group working on the case previously wrote. As noted earlier, the autopsies revealed that Michael was quickly incapacitated with a few defensive wounds to the hands, which implied to the Medical Examiner that Michaelwasin fact the first one to be attacked. Michael was almost immediately rendered unconscious ( I believe because he was attacked first). CAN YOU EXPLAIN TO ME WHERE THE CLUB IS?AARON: ITS, ITS IN UH, ITS IN THOSE WOODS WHERE UH, WHERE THAT STOP SIGN IS AND ITSRIDGE: IS THE WOODS HAVE THEY GOT A NAME THEY CALL THEM ROBIN HOOD IS THAT RIGHT?AARON: UH-HUH (YES)RIDGE: IT IS OKAY, YOUVE BEEN DOWN THERE BEFORE?AARON: YES SIRRIDGE: DO YOU GO DOWN THERE A LOT?AARON: (inaudible)RIDGE: OKAY, WHEN YOU WENT DOWN THERE WHO ALL WENT WITH YOU MOST THE TIME?AARON: MICHAEL AND CHRISRIDGE: OKAY, AND WHAT DID YOU DO WHEN YOU WENT DOWN THERE?AARON: WE PLAYEDRIDGE: OKAY, DID YOU EVERAARON: AND THEN SOMETIMES WE WATCHED THESE MENRIDGE: THESE MEN. I allege that Terry came home right after 5pm and Stevie was headed to the house at this time. : the alleged confessions of both Buddy and LG, Terry saw the boys spying and ordered the other three men to catch them. It appeared as though Christopher was tied up by one person, most likely David Jacoby, in my opinion, since his knots were all the same. The way that the boys were found undressed and tied up would have been humiliating! 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. After he removed his clothes, he ripped out one shoelace from Michaels shoe and cut it in half with his knife. VICKIE: YES I DO. When questioned later by police, he claims that on the day of the murders he was heading out to meet up with Jesse Misskelley at his Lakeshore trailer but never met up with him. (source). West Memphis Police Officer, Bryn Ridge found Michael Moore first, just south of the crooked tree that juts out from the ground in the photo on the far left. Sorry in advance to those of you who are tired of reading about this case! They believed something inappropriate may be going on between the two, who practically lived together. Instead, he must have gotten back in his car, driven to the Jacobys to pick up Amanda and then arrived at Pams work, which he did at 9:18pm. 9 Q. Though the family was well-to-do, Terry was having financial problems when the three children were murdered in 1993. VICKIE: UM, WEST MEMPHIS POLICE HAD ALL OF THE AREA ROPED OFF, VICKIE: I WENT TO THE DEAD END IT WAS YOU KNOW. According to Terrys ex wife, Terry Hobbs first wife had claimed in their divorce papers that he molested their son. JMB really did love them even though he had a temper and did admit to corporal punishment. In the first one, she is relaying to police a conversation she had with her sister in law about LG and his family and the way they all were behaving a few days after the murder. ~What I couldnt tell from the autopsy report was if Stevie struggled in his ligatures or not. So, here is my theory of what happened. Echols is one of three men found guilty in the brutal murders of three eight-year-old boys in West Memphis in 1993. The use of hobbling helps to quickly control the animal as well as making transportation of the animal more easy. This testing, though not as conclusive as traditional DNA testing, can help to exclude suspects as potential donors of physical evidence. After some time, they pulled up beside the Blue Beacon Woods. What stands out to me, is that no one has ever suggested before that the injury to Chris began as a bite. And if Aaron's story is true, Terry Hobbs may have been involved in homosexual activities and smoking something in the woods with other men and the boys were possibly caught watching them as they'd done multiple times. AARON: IT WAS RIGHT BESIDE OUR UM, TREE HOUSE. Either way, either one or two of the perpetrators decided it was necessary to actually get into the water to submerge the boys. This statement proves- indisputably- that Jacoby lied. But the deeper I dug, the more I realized that not only was there no evidence to discredit that these four men committed this murder, all the known evidence supports the notion that they actually did do it. ! Retired FBI profiler, John Douglas, as well as profiler Brent Turvey both believed the entire attack was punitive in nature and that the perpetrator was teaching the boys a lesson for either a real or percieved transgression. The day when they finally made a grid to cover the entire woods and nearby field, was on either the 7th or 8th of May, a full two or three days after the murder. My theory is this: Stevie had never seen the men in the woods having sex before. My suspicion is that LGs parents knew he participated in this crime ( I will touch more on this later) and Narlene, being LGs aunt, probably had some limited knowledge of his participation, too. I have a very strong suspicion that Narlene lied about dropping LG off at home and there is ample evidence to support this. I'm a parent now and that's why this case has been glued in my mind. Jamie Clark Ballard, who lived only three doors down from Terry and Pam Hobbs, has supplied a sworn affidavit, as have both her . Aaron Hutchinson also stated that the clubhouse consisted of some old boards: AARON: IN ROBIN HOOD UH, THE PLACE WHERE THE BOARDS ARERIDGE: WAS IT THERE WHERE YOUR CLUB IS OR WAS IT SOME WHERE ELSE IN THOSE WOODS?AARON: IT WAS RIGHT BESIDE OUR UM, TREE HOUSE, And in 2011, pleadings for further DNA testing of the boards that were found next to the clubhouse:http://callahan.8k.com/pdf/de_dnamotion3_30_11.pdf. RIDGE: ABOUT TIME WAS IT YOU WENT TO TRY AND GO TO THE CLUB HOUSE? In order to have a deeper understanding of what happened, we must start at the beginning. I went back and read all the autopsy reports and attempted to interpret them. SIDEWAYS AND WE GOT IN OUR CLUB HOUSERIDGE: OKAYRIDGE: OKAY. What is equally disturbing, is that both Domini and Damien had solid alibis for that time period. VICKIE: ARRON TOLD ME THAT UM HE AND MICHAEL AND CHRIS VISITED THEIR CLUB HOUSE EVERYDAY AND THEY ROAD THEIR BIKES AND THEY WERE SPYING ON 5 MEN AND AH I ASKED HIM WHO THEY WERE AND HE SAID I DONT KNOW MOM WHO THEY WERE I JUST YOU KNOW WE JUST SPYING ON EM I SAID WHY WOULD YOU BE SPYING ON 5 MEN YOU KNOW AND HE SAID WELL THEY WERE THERE EVERYDAY SO WE WOULD WATCH THEM. AARON: MICHAEL AND CHRIS SAID NOT TO TELL NOBODY. Problem is, many of the things he says about him are also true for the WM3, at least Damien. Who fed Stevie if not Terry? A certain kind of way. 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. 4:50 Terry takes Pam to work but first drives by the Moores looking for Stevie who did not come home by 4:30. West Memphis Three: Who is the real killer behind the brutal - MEAWW The prosecution would mention a stick and Perreti kept saying, Or a 24. These statements have protected Hobbs for seven years. What Buddy said was shocking. Terry admitted himself that he whipped Stevie and by Amandas own account, Terry was a violent man who left welts and bruises on her when he hit her. He then told the others to Get them, fuckers! Why in the world were the two men (or Terry alone) searching for the boys when it was light out if Terry had already said that Stevie could stay out till 8:00 pm?