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Mysterious Circumstances

Interview w/ Terry Hobbs of the West Memphis 3 Case

Mysterious Circumstances

13 Stars Media

True Crime, Documentary, Personal Journals, Society & Culture

4.31.1K Ratings

🗓️ 5 August 2019

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

If you are into true crime, you're familiar with the West Memphis Three. Well, today I interviewed Terry Hobbs. We talk about him, some of his personal thoughts on the case, and his book that is out now called 'Boxful of Nightmares: Terry Hobbs' personal memoirs on the West Memphis Three Murders'.

Music is courtesy of Terry Hobbs

Link to Terry's book is here:
https://www.amazon.com/Boxful-Nightmares-personal-memoirs-Memphis/dp/0578490374
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0:00.0

Hello everybody this is Justin with mysterious circumstances

0:05.0

podcast and I have a very special guest with me today I have Mr Terry

0:09.8

Hobbs with me who is as a lot of you true crime geeks know is involved in the West

0:17.4

Memphis three case and I got to give a huge shout out for Allison who arranged this I appreciate it

0:24.6

Allison Terry how are you doing this evening? Well I'm doing pretty good I'm sitting in my

0:31.0

man cave that is something that I have built in my own home and I'm kind of enjoying it.

0:36.3

Just excited about this interview.

0:40.0

Yeah, and I'm excited too and you know me and you were talking a little bit before recording and stuff, and I'm eager to hear your side of the story and everything, but like I did did mention I want my listeners to get to know you a little better so if you wouldn't mind if you would like to talk about your childhood. How was your upbringing? Well I come out of a home with six. My dad was an

1:07.3

apostolic pink-coss preacher and he built home missions and pastored churches and we grew up in a preacher's home.

1:18.0

And he later ventured down into the business world where he opened grocery stores, slaughterhouses,

1:29.6

he ended up with 32 catfish restaurants and that's how we made our living growing up and

1:37.2

the wooden trade it for the world. Were you considered a troublemaker as a child?

1:43.4

Were you a pretty good kid?

1:45.4

Yeah, I was just one of four kids.

1:47.6

I had two brothers and a sister.

1:50.0

And no, we wasn't troublemakers.

1:52.4

We, you know, we wasn't troublemakers. We was churchgoers growing up and you know, you turn into your teens

1:59.2

and you decide to leave home and get out here and venture on your own.

2:05.0

So no, we wasn't labeled trouble makers.

2:07.8

Good deal.

2:09.0

So if you don't mind me asking,

2:11.2

when everything involving the case first started. I don't want to say, you know,

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