Clearing up myths about the case...

Come on, you know how nons are, they lie about this all the time. Not to mention, you're all terribly slutty and immoral anyway. I mean you do it with like...everybody. I can't take you seriously.

1-Micheal Carson said he was high on drugs when he was testifying, and didn't know where he was half the time. He then looks at the camera and says "I'm sorry" to Jason Baldwin, what on earth do you suppose he could've been apologizing for? Talk about grasping at straws..

2-His confessions were all filled with errors, he was a slow as molasses hillbilly with an 8th grade education, and he has spent the last twenty years saying he was innocent. Again, if he had dropped dead ten seconds after the "bible' confession, that would be one thing, but if he has since 94 been insisting on his innocence, and that he was framed, why do you guys ignore that?

3-The DNA evidence does not match the WM3. which is more important than a supposed link to Terry Hobbs.

4-So what? that proves he murdered the kids? Maybe he knew they were trying to frame him, and he lied. Or maybe he was off his meds and making irrational comments.

5-An alleged lack of alibi doesn't prove he killed anyone. And what would be a good alibi for him anyway? If your a teen with no job, and out of school, how could you prove where you were a month ago on a specific day?

6-He has a history of mental illness, and some of that behavior is from when he was off his medications. None of that proves he had anything to do with the murders. And blood drinking is a fetish for some people. I'm a few years older than Damian, and I knew people into that stuff back in the 80s. I'm sure none of them killed anyone.

7-They were similar, but they were not exclusive. The bath robe was one that came from walmart (if i recall correctly) and was probably owned by many others.


It's not a docudrama, but a very well made documentary. The guys who made the first Paradise lost, said that they assumed the boys were guilty at first, but as the trial went on, they realized they were being framed. Apparently all this great evidence that was at the trial did not impress them at all.

If anyone is naive it's you, you think working in law enforcement makes you infallible? So no one has ever been wrongly convicted? Police corruption doesn't exist? Terry Hobbs was never even questioned in 93. And lack of DNA in a drunken, spontaneous, thrill kill does equal innocence. If they had committed that crime, they would've made so many mistakes, left so much behind, and taken so much with them, in terms of DNA, that no one would be debating their innocence today. As for Hobbs, the hair is one thing, but also his alibi, David Jacoby, saying he wasn't with him that night as claimed, the witnesses who saw him with the three kids (Hobbs claims he didn't see them that day) His bizarre behavior when he picked up his wife that night too. all those things are factors that need to be considered. Also the fact that a notorious pedophile (who should have been investigated more thoroughly in my opinion} named him as the killer back in 93. I don't favor one suspect over the other, but I have no doubt that the WM3 are 100% innocent. They would still be locked up if they weren't.

Jessie had an iron-clad alibi - many people testified to that. The jury ignored the alibi witnesses after his police-constructed confession was splashed across the front pages.

Once you know this is true, and how he was made to confess anyway, the rest is academic.

The crime scene waxy substance was not a match for the candle wax from Damien's book or Domini's residence or soap from Jason's trailer. According to the prosecution, the State Crime Lab couldn't match it to anything.

Not that that stopped them from bringing it up at the trial.

2. The number of times Jessie confessed doesn't make any of his confessions more accurate. He didn't know what happened, what time it happened, how it happened, or have any understanding of what the area of the crime scene was actually like. He described a lot of things that the autopsies show did not happen, like choking, extensive beating with fists, and sodomy.

3. It's weak evidence because Terry's hair could conceivably be there for innocent reasons. He knew the boys and his hair could have been transferred to the shoelace while Michael Moore was at his house. It is not weak evidence because it might not be his hair. It almost definitely is his hair (it's something like a 97% match and any other donor would have to share Terry's maternal ancestry and have been present in Robin Hood Hills at the time of the murders), it just doesn't prove he was involved. The defence only bring it up because it's physical evidence which points away from their clients and therefore creates doubt about their guilt; not to say 'Terry did it'.

4. I don't know about this interview or what he was talking about, but he did live in Marion at various points and did live half with his parents (in West Memphis) and half with his girlfriend (in Marion) at the time of the murders. His sworn testimony was that he was familiar with much of the area, but that he was not familiar with the Robin Hood woods.

5. He was definitely at the Sanders house at and after 7pm (his entire family and two additional, unrelated witnesses put him there, multiple witnesses were dead certain of the time frame because of what was on television, plus a note left by Damien's mother confirms they were at the house on that specific date). The fact that Damien himself couldn't remember the time and guessed it wrong in one of his initial statements to police is irrelevant; he was the only person who ever put this event in the early evening. One of the people who was dead certain of the time had no personal relationship with him, only gave one statement, and could not have been changing her story to cover the later time as the prosecutor alleged Damien was doing at trial.

Damien was also definitely on the phone with at least two girls at various approximate times (one of them testified recently, the first time she was actually called though she was prepared to testify in 93). Whether that covers when the children were murdered can't be known, because we don't actually know when the children died. The state medical examiner put time of death at between 1AM and 5AM on May 6th, but no one ever used that estimate in their theory of the crime. Liver temps were not taken and there is now no way to determine TOD with any reasonable degree of accuracy.

6. If you actually read Exhibit 500, you'll notice it's got some genuine information from credible sources and a truckload of cumulative misinformation, much of it obvious exaggeration of what happened in the credible sources or speculation being restated as fact. Actual incident reports and first hand statements tell a far less dramatic story than the second or third hand references. A huge amount of bullcrap got into the records by way of juvie probation officer Jerry Driver, who was obsessed with the occult and openly admitted that he tried to tie Damien to every crime in the state, including a train robbery hundreds of miles away.

There are also a lot of just plain mistakes. You can follow these threads through the documents and watch things get warped beyond recognition. Exhibit 500 proves that Damien was a troubled and suicidal kid who was deliberately antagonistic and tried to shock people in order to avoid being vulnerable; it does not prove anything else. He was ultimately diagnosed with, and treated for, depression. Other speculative diagnoses were ruled out. His treatment notes show he was always compliant with his treatment plan, his behaviour was described as normal by hospital and detention staff, and he was never considered out of touch with reality.

7. The fibres were always very weak evidence. Clothing from the defendants' families' belongings (not theirs) could not be excluded as the donor, and these were all common, cheap items with no link to the crime scene. The fibres were equally similar to fibres on a knife a kid gave to police which the kid said had no contact with the defendants and which was never purported to be the murder weapon. Furthermore, new tests demonstrated that the fibres weren't similar enough to prevent exclusion even by 1993 standards, and went on to conclusively exclude the known samples using two different forensic techniques. http://callahan.8k.com/pdf/c_bommarito_4_30_12.pdf

As I said, the blue wax was tested at the time and was not considered a possible match at any point. Hairs that were thought to be microscopically similar to the defendants in '93 have since been DNA tested and proved to belong to the victims.

There is no physical evidence tying the convicted men to the crime, the scene, or the victims. A barrage of new tests failed to turn any up after the fact (the state did even more testing after the defence was finally granted permission to test pretty much everything connected to the case which could be tested).

It's that kind of idiocy that I empathize with. ~David Bowie

Thank you, donitononaire!!!!