Hey everybody welcome back to episode 17 of cold case murder mysteries. I'm your host

Ryan Kraus bringing you a very special series, this time in the form of the infamous West Memphis 3 case.

Today's episode is part one, where we're going to cover the mysterious man at the Bojangles restaurant.

But first, two quick mentions. I'll be alternating this series with Amityville,

and I hate to do this every episode, but I'm a polarizing dude,

so I get some angry one-star reviews on Apple

podcasts from time to time. If you get a chance and like the show, please take a

moment to throw me a five-star rating. On that note though, I feel like it's more important for me to bring you an

authentic product than to cater to normalcy. So with that said, it's about to get weird. If you're

familiar with my show, you know we're going to look for missing evidence in the dark corners of the human psyche rather than the bottom of a lake.

But we might look there too.

Yet today we're going to be examining one mystery in particular, one aspect of this case that has remained a dark cloud hovering over a constantly shifting truth.

And that's the man at the Bochangels restaurant, whose identity remains unknown almost 25 years later.

So let's set the table for this crime, one that has produced numerous documentaries in the aftermath that have catapulted its legend into the stratosphere of America's most infamous

murders.

Now, first off, it has to be said that this series involves discussion

surrounding horrific acts committed against children, but in the interest of maximizing the effectiveness of my insight,

I'm not going to refrain from speaking about the brutality in a clinical manner

because I think the nature of the crime is what truly dictates

innocence or guilt.

So circling back to the start of this thing, it's the afternoon of May 5th, 1993 in West Memphis, Arkansas, a town of about 28,000 residents just west of, you

guessed it, Memphis, Tennessee.

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