From NBII Studios, this is Truth and Justice, a crowdsourced investigation in real time. I'm Bob Rock.

Ahoy, friends, you are listening to the Friday follow-up for Season 17, Episode 7,

in which Bob had a conversation with Tasha, Elizabeth Daly Ayers, one of the victims in this case is daughter.

And they had a very, very helpful, very compassionate conversation.

We had a lot of comments and questions from our listeners.

We are unfortunately songs Zach today, but we do have a lot to get to.

So before we dive into all of that, do we have any housekeeping?

The only rule of housekeeping I have is that I do have West Memphis 3 News.

I just got it last night.

Okay. The evidence is at the lab. Oh, I made it to the lab. It made it to the lab. Great. It was so... Oh, now I wish Zach were here for extra because that... He was so happy. Let's make sure we tell him. So I actually talked to Damien on the phone last night and it just like, he sounds so good. He's so, because, you know, he just, he's had the rug yanked out from under him so many. Of course. And the 10 days went by and we talked last time and it hadn't been sent and nobody really knew what was going on. And I think he was just feeling like it's just, it's not going to happen again. It's not going to happen again. Apparently all it was, remember I had told you guys at the hearing, there was discussion about how the evidence would be packaged.

Apparently all it was was the prosecutor had to like, you know, file orders and supplements and saying, okay, we're using this career and we're doing it this way. And it just delayed things a little bit.

But it got shipped out and we got word yesterday afternoon that the evidence has hit the lab and

testing is commencing. So my goodness. It was just, it was so good to hear Damien's voice yesterday

just sounding just so just excited. Like it was like the first time i've talked to him in a long time

through this process where he hasn't been just like that hesitant like they're going to screw me over

they're going to screw me over they're going to screw me over and i also just had one of those moments

too like as i was talking to him i still think of all the people because we're we're hopefully

going to get a real answer to this case god i hope so it's like this is it i think this is is really going to get a real answer to this case. God, I hope so. Real soon. It's like,

this is it. I think this is, this is really going to be it. And I think of all the people

that are out there that are still like insisting and just hating and saying horrible things

and insisting that Damien, Jason and Jesse are guilty despite all the evidence to the contrary.

And I just, and I just had this moment where I was like, I want, like, is there really, like,

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