101. West Memphis Three – Part 2
The Consult: Real FBI Profilers
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🗓️ 10 September 2025
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, we look at the autopsies and victimologies of the three boys: Michael Moore, Steve Branch, and Christorpher Byers. We review what the medical examiner found, the condition of the bodies, and the significance of the injuries. We also examine the boys’ victimology to better understand who they were and what risk factors may have drawn the offender’s attention. Part 2 of 3.
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| 0:00.0 | In the consult, we discuss cases involving violence, sexual violence, abduction, and murder. Sometimes the cases we discuss involve children. Listener discretion is consult. I'm Julia Cowley, retired FBI agent and profiler, and I'm joined by my colleagues. |
| 0:38.9 | Angela Cursar. Susan Costler, Drew, and Bob Drew. Angela, Susan, and Bob are also retired FBI |
| 0:46.3 | profilers, and we work together in the FBI's Behavioral Analysis Unit. Today, we're on part |
| 0:52.3 | two of our three-part analysis of the West Memphis |
| 0:55.4 | 3 case. And while this case is named for the three teenagers, many believe were wrongly |
| 1:01.5 | convicted of this crime, it could just as easily refer to the victims, Michael Moore, |
| 1:07.0 | Stevie Branch, and Christopher Byers, three eight-year-old boys who were murdered on or about the evening of May 5th |
| 1:14.7 | Ninety three and discovered the following afternoon in an area known as Robin Hood Hills |
| 1:20.3 | Robin Hood Hills. Robin Hood Hills was roughly four acres bordering the boys neighborhood and could be accessed via a pipe bridge over the 10-mile bayou. |
| 1:30.2 | As we discussed in part one, the boys were seen by several people in the neighborhood |
| 1:34.7 | riding their bikes through the afternoon into the evening. |
| 1:38.4 | There had clearly been an effort to conceal the crime. |
| 1:41.3 | When the boys were discovered, each was submerged in about two and a half feet of water in a drainage ditch. |
| 1:47.0 | They were nude and bound with their own shoelaces. |
| 1:50.0 | Their clothes had been wrapped around sticks and pressed into the mud. |
| 1:54.0 | The two bikes, which belonged to Michael and Stevie, were found submerged in the 10-mile bayou. |
| 2:00.0 | The boys likely left the bikes at the pipe bridge as they entered into the woods. |
| 2:04.6 | In part one, we covered the timeline leading up to the boys' disappearance, |
| 2:08.6 | the discovery of the bodies, and our impressions of the crime scene, |
| 2:12.6 | including what some of the behaviors suggested. |
| 2:15.6 | Today, we're turning our focus to the autopsies. Before we dive in, |
| 2:20.1 | a quick reminder, if you'd like early and add free access to our episodes, you can join our |
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