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Damien and Jason’s trial: closing argument
Mallett’s attack on
and payment
pretrial motions
role of money in trial

Probable cause

Prosecutors

altering story
Damien and Jason’s trial
Damien and Jason’s trial: lesser charges
Damien and Jason’s trial: meeting with Judge Burnett
Damien and Jason’s trial: sentencing phase
improper contact with Jessie
and motive
offered Jason a deal
vagueness of case

Public (the)

beliefs about the murders
at Rule 37 petition hearing

Publicity

Rainey, William “Pal,”

order sealing affidavits

Rape

Reasonable doubt

Rector, incident at

Religion

Reporters

on arrests
and victims’ families

Reward

V. Hutcheson and

Reward fund

Rice, Anne

Ridge, Bryn

and arrests
attempt to depose
cult focus
interviewing J. M. Byers
jury assessment of
Lax met with
questioning Damien
questioning families
questioning V. Hutcheson
questioning Jessie
return to crime site
searching ditch
techniques used by
testimony
testimony: second trial
on the case

Robin Hood

reports of devil workshop in
searching in

Rock and roll music

Rolex watches incident

Rule 37 petitions

denied

Rumors

of satanism

Sakevicius, Lisa

Salem witch trials

trial of West Memphis Three as modern-day version of

Satan

Satanic crime

Satanic cult, Jessie’s statement regarding

Satanic ritual abuse (SRA)

Satanism

Damien and
focus on
focus on murder as work of
Jason and
Jessie and
in media
as motive
music and

Sauls, Burk

Scheck, Barry

Search warrants

on library

Secrecy

Sentences/sentencing

Damien and Jason’s trial
Jessie

Severance (trials)

Sexual assault, possibility of

Sexual mutilation

in occult crime

Shakespeare, William

Shettles, Glori

visiting Damien in jail

Sinofsky, Bruce

and blood-stained knife
second film

Slone, Sandra

Social Security Administration

Social Security disability designation

Sodomy

Southern Baptist Convention

State

theory of motives
theory of the crime

Sticks

as evidence
false statements regarding

Stidham, Dan

in appeal
Damien and Jason’s trial
and DNA testing
and incident at Rector
interviewing V. Hutcheson
and Jessie’s decision not to testify
Jessie’s next statement
Jessie’s trial
Jessie’s trial:
in camera
hearings
Jessie’s trial: verdict
and payment
pretrial motions
and time of death question

Sudbury, James

fired for corruption
interviewing J. M. Byers
under investigation
suspects
on the case
“Summary Regarding the Investigation,”

Supersuckers

Suspects

J. M. Byers as
evidence about, barred
questioned without parents or attorney

Tape recording(s)

child’s disembodied voice
Jessie’s statements

Taylor, Andrew Gipson

Teer, Domini Alia

baby
baby shower film
pregnant
reaction to verdict
testimony

Teer, Seth Damien Azariah

Ten Mile Bayou Diversion Ditch

Thin Blue Line, The

Time of death

in appeal

Time of murder

Time problem

in Jessie’s statement

Tips and leads

Trials

bifurcated
efforts to separate Jason’s from
Damien’s
location of
verdicts
as witch trials
see also
Echols, Damien, and Jason Baldwin trial; Misskelley, Jessie, Jr., trial

Tucker, Jim Guy

Turvey, Brent

United Parcel Service (UPS) Urine in mouths

Urine in stomachs

Urine samples

U.S. Supreme Court

USA Today

Verdicts

Damien and
Jason’s trial
Jessie’s trial

Victims

A. Hutcheson as
pictures of
witnesses as
wounds

Victims’ families

and documentary
life after trials
media and
reaction to verdict
at Rule 37 petition hearing
search of homes
at trials

Village Voice

Voir dire, secret

Wadley, George Robin

Damien and Jason’s trial
pretrial motions

Web site

West Memphis (Arkansas)

West Memphis Evening Times

West Memphis police

conduct of
evidence collected by
evidence of cult involvement
Jessie’s confession to
questioning J. M. Byers about knife
reports of interviews with Damien
search warrant on library
second phase of investigation
see also
Police investigation

West Memphis Police Department

case number
how they investigated case
officers under investigation
Stidham’s visit to

West Memphis Three

artists supporting
supporters of

Wicca

Wilkins, William E.

Witch trials

West Memphis trials as

Witness list

Damien and Jason’s trial

Witnesses

credibility of
juvenile

Woods

A. Hutcheson in
devil worshiping in
search of
taking witnesses to

Writ of error
coram nobis

Christopher Byers, age eight.

Michael Moore, age eight.

Stevie Branch, age eight.

Detectives stand on a pipe across the ditch where the victims’ bodies were found submerged. The boys’ bicycles had also been pulled from the stream.

Detective Byrn Ridge holds one of the sticks that were used to pin the boys’ clothes underwater.

Chief Inspector Gary Gitchell announces the arrests.
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John Mark Byers, stepfather of Christopher Byers, sits in Robin Hood woods, near where Christopher’s body was discovered.
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