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Truth & Justice with Bob Ruff

S5 Ep3: The Discovery

Truth & Justice with Bob Ruff

Bob Ruff

True Crime, Documentary, Society & Culture

4.67.2K Ratings

🗓️ 19 November 2017

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

This week, Bob continues on with the tragic story of the murders of Christopher Byers, Michael Moore and Stevie Branch. We pick up right where episode 502 left off . . . with Mike Allen entering the muddy waters of a shallow creek where he discovered the nude body of Michael Moore. We go through the evidence found on the crime scene, as well as the boys' injuries.

***The content of this episode is graphic and disturbing. Listener discretion is advised.


#wm3 #west #memphis #three #theforgotten3

Transcript

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0:00.0

The content of today's episode is disturbing and extremely graphic.

0:05.4

Listener discretion is advised.

0:10.0

Previously on Truth and Justice.

0:14.8

I observed what appeared to be two small tennis shoes floating in the spina creek.

0:24.1

I went, we were on top of a bank there.

0:32.5

I would say 10, 15 foot down to where the creek was.

0:40.0

I went to an area where I felt I could cross, which I have crossed and went around to the

0:50.8

area where these tennis shoes were in the water.

0:53.9

My intentions were to reach, get into the water and reach for the tennis shoe.

0:58.5

At which time when I got into the water I felt an object in the water.

1:07.1

I raised my right foot up in the body, floated to the surface of the water.

1:53.9

On May 6th of 1993, the small city of West Memphis was changed forever.

2:07.1

It was at this time when Detective Mike Allen was waiting through the narrow creek in the

2:11.5

Turtle Hill Woods in an attempt to recover a shoe that he had found floating when his

2:16.0

foot caught on something under the water.

2:18.9

As he raised up his right foot, up floated the nude body of an eight year old boy.

2:29.6

This body first identified as body number one, then later as Christopher Buyers, and then

2:35.3

later again corrected to the actual identity of Michael Moore.

2:40.7

All of the search efforts at this point completely shut down.

2:44.8

Time seemed tape was stretched across the dead end street at the end of West McCulley

2:48.3

by Mayfair apartments and all available investigators were dispatched to report to the small creek

2:53.8

in Turtle Hill.

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