Summary

THEY WERE BACK IN COURT AGAIN...THREE TEENAGERS ACCUSED OF KILLING AND SEXUAL MUTILATION OF THE THREE WEST MEMPHIS BOYS. THE COURT OFFICIALS ARE PREPARING FOR THE FIRST TRIAL IN JANUARY. AFTER THE LAST HEARING HELD IN JONESBORO, ONE OF THE TEENS TAUNTED FAMILY MEMBERS OF THE VICTIMS AS THEY WERE LEAVING THE COURTHOUSE...THAT MAY HAVE CAUSED WHAT HAPPENED YESTERDAY OUTSIDE A COURTROOM IN OSCEOLA...TOM RYAN WAS THERE.

Source CONUS Archive
Record ID 85223
Story Slug HEARING / BOYS KILLED (1993)
Location OSCEOLA, ARKANSAS
Format PKG
Date 11/17/1993
Archive Time 1:20
TRT 1:53
Supers Osceola, John Fogleman, Dep. Prosecuting Attorney Tom Ryan reporting
Video Description WALK SHOTS OF SUSPECTS, SPECTATORS, FAMILY, SOTS, REPORTER STANDUP
Description THEY WERE BACK IN COURT AGAIN...THREE TEENAGERS ACCUSED OF KILLING AND SEXUAL MUTILATION OF THE THREE WEST MEMPHIS BOYS. THE COURT OFFICIALS ARE PREPARING FOR THE FIRST TRIAL IN JANUARY. AFTER THE LAST HEARING HELD IN JONESBORO, ONE OF THE TEENS TAUNTED FAMILY MEMBERS OF THE VICTIMS AS THEY WERE LEAVING THE COURTHOUSE...THAT MAY HAVE CAUSED WHAT HAPPENED YESTERDAY OUTSIDE A COURTROOM IN OSCEOLA...TOM RYAN WAS THERE.
Script UNLIKE RECENT PRE-TRIAL HEARINGS, TUESDAY'S HELD IN MISSISSIPPI COUNTY BEGAN WITH FIREWORKS OUTSIDE THE COURTHOUSE AS THE FATHERS OF THE THREE SLAIN BOYS TAUNTED THE ACCUSED UPON ENTERING THE COURTROOM. DAMIAN WAYNE ECHOLS, THE ALLEGED RING LEADER OF THE GROUP RESPONDED BACK WITH OBSCENE LANGUAGE. INSIDE, JUDGE DAVID BURNETT HEARD A NUMBER OF PRE-TRIAL MOTIONS, BUT WAS FIRST ASKED BY THE DEFENSE WHY THEIR CLIENTS WERE HANDCUFFED AND SHACKLED AND PUT ON DISPLAY IN FRONT OF THE MEDIA. JUDGE BURNETT RESPONDED BY SAYING THE SHERIFF'S DEPARTMENT SIMPLY CARRIED OUT WHAT HE CALLED PROPER SECURITY. ONE OF THE MOTIONS ADDRESSED TUESDAY CENTERED AROUND JESSIE MISSKELLEY. HIS ATTORNEYS REQUESTED THAT THEIR CLIENT BE TRIED IN JUVENILE COURT, SEEING AS THOUGH HE WAS 17 YEAR OLD AT THE TIME OF THE OFFENSE. AFTER HEARING STATEMENTS FROM A PSYCHOLOGIST WHO EXAMINED THE SUSPECT AND AFTER REVIEWING HIS RATHER LENGTHY JUVENILE RECORD, THE JUDGE DENIED THE MOTION. THE DEFENSE FOR MISSKELLEY MAY ALSO TRY AND SHOW THAT THEIR CLIENT IS MENTALLY RETARDED, THUS AVOIDING THE DEATH PENALTY UNDER ARKANSAS LAW. JOHN FOGLEMAN, THE DEPUTY PROSECUTING ATTORNEY WAS ASKED IF THAT COULD HURT THE STATE'S CASE. (SOT) (STAND-UP---"WITH THIS ONSLAUGHT OF PRE-TRIAL MOTIONS, IT IS NOT CERTAIN WHETHER THIS WILL BE THE LAST SCHEDULED ALTHOUGH AT THIS POINT IT APPEARS HIGHLY UNLIKELY. BUT TWO THNGS ARE CERTAIN, THE FIRST TRIAL, JESSE MISSKELLEY WILL BEGIN JANUARY 18TH IN CORNING WHILE BALDWIN AND ECHOLS WILL BE TRIED FEBRUARY 21ST IN JONESBORO." TAG: THE JUDGE SHOULD RULE IN A FEW WEEKS WEHTER THE TAPED STATEMENT MADE TO P OLICE BY MISSKELLEY FOLLOWIN HIS ARREST WILL BE ALLOWED AT THE TRIAL.4
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Keywords

WEST MEMPHIS THREE
SATANIC PANIC
SATANIC RITUAL ABUSE
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