West Memphis Three Part III: Jessie Misskelley & The Fantastical Findings of Fido The Family Dog

Cold Case Murder Mysteries

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3.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 3 October 2017

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Summary

On June 3, 1993, a 17-year-old boy with a low IQ named Jessie Misskelley confessed to the Robin Hood Hills murders at the West Memphis police department. The minor was not represented by an attorney, nor were his parents present. By the end of the interrogation, however, he'll have implicated Damien Echols, Jason Baldwin, and himself as the perpetrators of this horrific crime. But was he telling the truth?

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0:19.0	Hey, welcome back to episode 17 of Cold Case Murder Mysteries. This is the third installment covering the West Memphis Three Child Murders that occurred in Robin Hood Hills back in May of 1993. And today we're going to be discussing what is perhaps the most controversial aspect of the case, one that draws forth
0:24.4	hated arguments as though it was a political discussion involving Donald Trump.
0:28.7	That of course is the infamous confession Jesse Ms. Kelly provided West Memphis detectives during an interrogation on June 3rd 1993.
0:37.0	But before we jump into that, I just want to reel off a few quick notes here.
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1:14.0	And beyond that, there's one more thing I want to discuss before we descend into the darkness of this story.
1:19.0	I get a lot of feedback from listeners that suggests they find the show entertaining and fascinating, but often they... of and will do so in the context of these opinions getting created in the same manner as a podcast.
1:37.0	So imagine you're sitting in front of your computer with an open audio file for editing.
1:42.0	In this file you have two tracks displayed as
1:45.2	waveforms running horizontally across the screen. Now if you hit play on this file
1:50.8	it's going to play both tracks simultaneously at the same volume and instantly
1:55.7	negate the coherence of both. It simply becomes gibberish in a way that you can recognize many
2:01.0	of the elements within, but wouldn't be able to extract enough of it to understand
2:05.3	what was being said. However, had you been born listening to everything around you in this manner,
2:11.7	you would be able to extract a greater degree of truth
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