The West Memphis Three’s Hidden DNA Results! Feat. Jennifer Carlson

Roberta Glass True Crime Report

Roberta Glass

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🗓️ 3 November 2023

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Jennifer Carlson returns to the podcast to discuss The West Memphis Three’s long history with DNA testing. Starting in 1993, the convicted killers of Stevie Branch, Michael Moore and Christopher Byers have fought to prove their innocence with DNA. After pleading guilty in 2011 via an Alford plea, the killers closed the case. Today, they are fighting to test the evidence for DNA. What is this DNA testing all about and what is the WM3’s ultimate aim?

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0:00.0	You are listening to the
0:15.0	You are listening to the Roberta Glass True Crime Report, putting the true back in true crime from New York City
0:26.8	Roberta Glass is now on the record in in 1994 Damien Echols, Jesse Ms. Kelly and Jason Baldwin were convicted of murdering three eight-year-old boys named Michael Moore, Christopher Byers, and Stevie Branch.
0:52.0	In 2011, the killers were freed after pleading guilty via an
0:59.0	Alfred plea, promising to fight to fully exonerate themselves from the outside. The killers
1:09.6	did little until 2021 when they began to petition the courts to test the DNA evidence.
1:17.7	Joining me to discuss the West Memphis 3's long history with DNA and public relations is friend to the show, Jennifer Carlson, and also an incredible expert on this case.
1:31.9	Welcome, Jennifer.
1:33.7	Hi, Roberta. Good to be here.
1:36.6	So what got you interested in the West Memphis three case?
1:41.2	When the Paradise Lost documentary came out, I remember watching particularly the opening scene, which is just jarring. And I've been obsessed with the case ever since. I mean, especially after their release, I really, it really upset me when they were released,
2:04.5	and I really had to dig in deep to make sure that my instincts weren't leading me the wrong way.
2:14.6	Yeah, so you're talking about that opening of Paradise Lost where mothers are feigning and it kind of goes through the town and the town's reaction.
2:24.8	It's the opening scene where they're at the crime scene and they show the boys on the ditch bank.
2:33.6	It's just jarring. You don't forget it when you see it.
2:38.5	I haven't seen it in quite quite some time. Yeah. It had such an impression of so many people,
2:46.9	and I think such a connection to the killers it creates.
2:51.4	What most people believe about the West Memphis Three is that they were exonerated by DNA evidence that matched a stepfather.
3:03.1	Up until then, they had been pointing the fingers at one stepfather, John Mark Byers,
3:08.8	but what they announced was that they had found exonerating DNA evidence that matched a new stepfather,
3:15.8	Terry Hobbs, and it was found in the laces of the shoes, and the state offered them the Alford plea,
3:22.4	which is guilty plea, and they took it.
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