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S3 Ep118: West Memphis Three: Allegations and Alibis (Part 4)

Crime Weekly

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🗓️ 31 March 2023

⏱️ 121 minutes

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Summary

West Memphis, Arkansas is located in Crittenden County and is directly across the Mississippi River from Memphis Tennessee, but in 1993, West Memphis and Memphis were worlds apart. Memphis boasted a healthy and growing population of over 620 thousand, while West Memphis had just over 28 thousand residents. But Memphis, TN struggled with high crime rates, with 1993 setting a record for the most homicides in one year, a record that wasn’t broken until 2016. West Memphis Arkansas had a more small town, laid back feel, and as cliche as it sounds, people felt safe leaving their doors unlocked and letting their young children play outside all day with no supervision. That was until May 5th, 1993, when three eight year old boys rode away on their bikes, eager to expel the energy they had built up all day while sitting in their second grade classrooms at Weaver Elementary School, but they never came home. It wouldn’t be long before the residents of West Memphis and then the world found out what happened to Stevie Branch, Michael Moore and Christopher Byers. Their battered and mutilated bodies were found the next day in a swampy wooded area known to locals as Robin Hood Hills, and the community of West Memphis felt a shockwave hit their community that they would not recover from for some time. Within a month three teenagers were arrested and charged with capital murder, and it wasn’t long before whispers of witchcraft, devil worship and occult killings rippled throught the homes and businesses of West Memphis, and those whispers eventually turned into a loud roar, a roar that might accompany an angry mob looking for someone to blame for an unimaginable tragedy, akin to the infamous witch hunts that are dotted throughout history. This is the story of six boys from West Memphis, Arkansas; three were brutally murdered and stolen from this world far before their time, the other three were marched to the proverbial gallows, guilty in the court of public opinion, and found guilty in an actual court of law. Six lives destroyed, six lives forever changed, six lives eternally tied together.

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0:00.0

Hello, everybody. Welcome back to Crime Weekly. I'm Stephanie Harlow.

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And I'm Derek Levasser.

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So today we're diving into the fourth part of the West Memphis 3 case before we get into it.

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Yes, and I'm actually still waiting on...

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Yeah, exactly. That's the point. Stephanie doesn't have her stuff yet. That's how... But I think for the most part, there's only about 15 pending orders right now.

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We've sold a ton, so everyone for the most part should have it. There was a couple people who didn't get their item or yet. I think even one person who had a hole in their sweatshirt, it was like on the sleeve, it's already been fixed.

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So just bear with us. We're getting up and running, but I think we're firing an all cylinders now.

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I only brought a carry on. I didn't pack real luggage because it was only there for a couple of days. I just threw everything in the box and I was like, ship this out. But I haven't gotten it yet.

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Yeah, I know. I wish I'd shoved a couple in my carry on.

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You will have it by net. You can wear that stuff by next episode. I personally guarantee it because it was sent out today.

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So you will, if she doesn't have it by next episode, crush me in the comments. You will have her criminal coffee merch next week. I personally guarantee it.

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If I don't, I'm writing a strongly worded letter to cost service of criminal coffee. You will have it. I have the tracking number. You will have it.

2:52.0

All right. So let's dive in because we have a lot to cover today. We're just going to get right back into it. And I'm going to kind of go back a little bit just to, I don't know, sort of get us back on track. But between May 7th and May 10th, the West Memphis police interviewed Damien Eccles about the Robin Hood Hill murders on three separate occasions twice at the trailer park where he lived and once at the police station.

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