Jason Baldwin
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Search complete. 63 mentions across 10 episodes found for "Jason Baldwin".
Oct 2, 2026
Naomi RyanGUEST
He's just a, he's a kid, he's a goth.
Naomi RyanGUEST
They then, through him, they link him to his two friends, Jason Baldwin, Jessie Misskelley.
Naomi RyanGUEST
No evidence to link these boys to the murders in any way.
Naomi RyanGUEST
Um, but the police, indeed, uh, one of them, um, I, I think it's, um, James Baldwin, was definitely at a wrestling competition 45 miles away, but that doesn't matter.
Paul DayHOST
But also on that list was Damian Echols.
Paul DayHOST
Jason Baldwin, L.G. Hollingsworth.
Paul DayHOST
We're going to be talking a lot about L.G. Hollingsworth in a few episodes.
Paul DayHOST
Dominique Teer, who is the girlfriend of Damian Echols.
Paul DayHOST
And what is really intriguing is that Sudbury put an asterisk next to the names L.G. Hollingsworth and Murray Ferris because he deemed them capable of doing this crime.
Paul DayHOST
And the story really takes an interesting turn on May 9th.
Paul DayHOST
So remember, May 9th, James Sudbury is not there to question Jason Baldwin and Damien Echols.
Paul DayHOST
Instead, he sends his colleague from the Drug Task Force, Shane Griffin.
Thomas777GUEST
But ultimately, these three teenagers were arrested for the crime.
Thomas777GUEST
Damian Echols, Jesse Miss Kelly Jr., and Jason Baldwin.
Thomas777GUEST
And these three guys all kind of fit a rural stereotype.
Thomas777GUEST
Jesse Miss Kelly was this redneck with a mohawk who was known.
Thomas777GUEST
His dad was an ex-con.
Thomas777GUEST
He was into hot rods and getting drunk and brawling.
Thomas777GUEST
Jason Baldwin was this unassuming guy, and this becomes relevant, the fact that he's so unassuming.
Thomas777GUEST
But he kind of seemed like this soft-spoken, everyman kid with a mullet and a soft southern drawl.
Paul DayHOST
And it turns out Steve Jones went over to two places that morning looking for Damien Echols.
Paul DayHOST
The first place that he went to, it appears to have been Jason Baldwin's house.
Paul DayHOST
Jason Baldwin is somebody we have barely mentioned, but Jason Baldwin lives up in Marion, which is the sister city of West Memphis, and he is Damien Echols' best friend.
Paul DayHOST
He's also a neighbor of Damien Echols' girlfriend.
Paul DayHOST
So it's kind of a good place to start looking if you're looking for Damien Echols.
Paul DayHOST
He tends to hang out at his best friend's house and his girlfriend's house.
Paul DayHOST
In fact, there's a note from investigator Ron Lacks that shows that Steve Jones did, in fact, come to the home of Jason Baldwin on May 7th and that he was unable to locate Jason or Damien at that residence.
speaker_3SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
When he wasn't discovered over there, they
Mike AllenSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
newspaper here.
Mike AllenSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
It's got Jesse Miskelly and Jason Baldwin's picture here.
Mike AllenSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Is this the one they called Damien?
Albus Clem BlySOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
No, sir.
Albus Clem BlySOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
I'm pointing to Jason Baldwin.
Albus Clem BlySOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
That's not Damien.
Albus Clem BlySOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
The other boy was Damien.
Mike AllenSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Okay.
William RamseyHOST
There are websites, the most well-known being westmemphis3.org, which includes case information, document and evidence, archives and updates.
William RamseyHOST
For those who have not heard, West Memphis 3 is the media given name for Damien Echols, Jason Baldwin and Jesse Miskelly, the three teenagers that were convicted in 1993 E.V., for the horrific, quote, satanic ritualistic homicide, unquote, of three eight-year-old boys in West Memphis, Arkansas.
William RamseyHOST
Though there was no conclusive evidence of their involvement, motive, murder weapon, ritual, paraphernalia, or connection to any of the victims, all three were convicted based on Ms. Kelly's confession extracted after police held the mentally challenged 17-year-old with a documented IQ of just 72 for at least seven hours without parental or legal counsel.
William RamseyHOST
Less than an hour of the interrogation was actually recorded.
16 MINS LATER
William RamseyHOST
Joe Bartuch, who saw Eccles stomp a sick, to death, a sick dog.
William RamseyHOST
Douglas then adds that another potential area of inquiry would be to investigate the Mayfair apartments near the murder scene, seemingly oblivious to the fact that Eccles lived there within two years of the murders that occurred on May 5th, 1993.
William RamseyHOST
He finishes the chapter with stunning obtuseness, quote, in sum, I found not one shred of evidence and nothing in the behavioral backgrounds of Damien Eccles, Jason Baldwin, or Jesse Miskelly Jr. to suggest that anyone guilty of murder, unquote.
William RamseyHOST
My book, Abomination, Devil Worship, and Deception in the West Memphis Three Murders, provides ample amounts of evidence and specific facts about the behavior of the West Memphis Three that contradicts the preceding account of John Douglas.
Roberta GlassHOST
The three aforementioned eight-year-old boys were killed on May 5, 1993, in West Memphis, Arkansas.
Roberta GlassHOST
Their three killers, Damian Echols, Jason Baldwin, and Jesse Miskelly, were convicted in two separate trials in 1994, and after the release of the HBO documentary Paradise Lost and its sequels, a star-studded campaign to free the child killers.
Roberta GlassHOST
really caught steam.
Roberta GlassHOST
And the West Memphis Three asked and received an Alford plea in 2011 and were released.
35 MINS LATER
Roberta GlassHOST
Sometimes they say, we didn't know him at all.
Roberta GlassHOST
Sometimes they say, oh, yeah, we did know him.
Roberta GlassHOST
Did Jason Baldwin and Damien Eccles know Jesse Miss Kelly? Were they friends?
Jennifer CarlsonGUEST
Absolutely, they were.
speaker_4HOST
Yeah.
William RamseyGUEST
And after some questioning, Misskelley confessed, implicated Echols and another young boy by the name of Jason Baldwin, young at the time.
speaker_4HOST
Jason Baldwin.
William RamseyGUEST
Jason Baldwin.
William RamseyGUEST
So they were all arrested, and then the gathering of evidence, uh, kind of increased over time, and they were both tried.
William RamseyGUEST
Uh, Misskelley asked for a separate trial.
27 MINS LATER
William RamseyGUEST
And I think they said it could have been either his girlfriend at the time, Domini Teer-
speaker_4HOST
Yeah
Jacob MookHOST
So the other physical evidence we've got, let's see.
Jacob MookHOST
Okay, so we have a knife that was recovered from the lake behind Jason Baldwin's house.
Jacob MookHOST
And this was actually used in the crime.
Jacob MookHOST
Let's see here.
12 MINS LATER
Jacob MookHOST
Damien's trailer.
Jacob MookHOST
Um, fuck.
Jacob MookHOST
It doesn't look like I have a picture of it, but I mean, yeah, there's, so there's a lake directly behind Jason Baldwin's, uh, house.
Jacob MookHOST
Um, so I mean, why, why were they even like diving back there if it wasn't a thing, you know? Um, let's see here.
JacobGUEST
which is kind of related to set, which I thought was kind of interesting.
JacobGUEST
When forced under cross-examination to decode the document, Eccles admitted that he had ciphered his own name, his best friend, Jason Baldwin, his girlfriend, Dominique Teer, and his infant son, Seth, and the name of notorious occultist Alistair Crowley.
JacobGUEST
While imprisoned, Echols was confirmed to be an active, self-described Thelemite and a formal member of the OTO, an esoteric organization historically headed by Aleister Crowley.
JacobGUEST
Eccles was so deeply embedded in the organization that he established his own library within the Arkansas OTO chapter, donating his personal collection of occult books to the local branch from prison.
20 MINS LATER
JacobGUEST
As far as I know, everything I've read, he's still hanging out in West Memphis, living in a trailer park, drinking.
JacobGUEST
You know, the same fate that he was always going to have, in my opinion.
JacobGUEST
And Jason Baldwin, he doesn't have anything to do with the limelight.
JacobGUEST
Like, not really.