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i really want to believe in their innocence but...


some things don't add up, Damien's behaviour in court after they were arrested was not how an innocent person behaves
blowing kisses at the parents of the deceased children, smiling when someone asked him if he drank blood and responding by saying he only licked the blood of another patient whilst in a detention center.

he had previously described himself as homicidal and sociopathic to a therapist while sectioned in a mental health facility, he threatened to kill his parents and eat his father.

i come from a stance of truly wanting to believe they are innocent, there is a great deal of evidence that sways me in the direction of believing terry hobbs committed the murders, his history of violence against his wife for one, his DNA being found in the ropes that bound the children etc etc.

but Damien just doesn't seem innocent if you watch any videos or research any information about him during the time period just before and subsequent to his arrest.



an innocent man doesn't taunt people in a court room, doesn't daydream or comb his hair nonchalantly or smile as if he enjoys the attention whilst being accused of murdering children.

i try to put myself in his position and i don't imagine i or anyone else behaving like that if you were innocent.


also lets say he is guilty, eighteen years is a long time to think of how to appear convincingly innocent, if you look at his behaviour then to now it is one hundred percent different.

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