West Memphis Three

They just think, "This is Satanic.

Let's go pick up the people we think are Satanists." And perhaps the most damning example of that is May 1993, um, the very famous case, the West Memphis Three.

So there's an area, the, um, West Memphis, Arkansas, three children, three young boys, Stevie Branch, Michael Moore, and Christopher Byers, were murdered.

They were found.

She might have been influenced by peers." I mean, and in the '90s, we also had the Satanic Panic.

That was the West Memphis Three.

You know, detectives in, I'm saying this with love, but te- detectives in the Bible Belt were so quick to call something Satanic Panic if they saw any instance of, or they would create Satanic Panic if they saw any instance of, um, something that wasn't Christian near the scene or on the scene or done to the victim.

And in your own time, you should look up Satanic Panic if you don't know what I'm talking about.

Reporters quickly named the case the Babes in the Wood Murders.

We see this with Delphi, West Memphis Three, other cases where... kids go missing and there's long periods of search.

And obviously, we'd love to narrow down the time of death, but that's just difficult to do.

But in all these cases, what law enforcement starts leaning on is the killer that we're looking for probably has extensive knowledge of not just the area, but of the park itself.

I know more about

the West Memphis Three than anybody else on Earth.

I know more than the prosecuting attorneys.

Right, right.

You can't talk about the phenomena online of late 20th century occultism in America.

And that whole... liminal tendency without dealing with the case of the West Memphis Three.

And for those who don't know, I assume most people do.

They've at least heard of it.

Where the boys were found was in this forest preserve behind a truck stop called Robin Hood Hills.

That was in West Memphis, technically.

Okay, so that's why the defendants were called the West Memphis Three.

This was on May 5th, 1993.

Just one little thing.

Damien did post this, but in case you didn't see it, a little update on the West Memphis 3 evidence testing.

So I feel like a broken record.

It's being tested right now, but we've been told multiple times that the testing is underway.

Hello, welcome to the No Way Jose podcast.

Today we're continuing our coverage of who the hell are the West Memphis Three with Jacob of the Rise of Liberty podcast.

We're on part five today.

We're taking a little bit of a detour from our normal coverage.

Um, and so, uh, in fact, just to address that stuff real quick, um, so this is coming out of, uh, William Ramsey's book, Abomination.

Uh, this is chapter 15, Pro and Conned.

Um, so it's a common misconception that the West Memphis Three were prosecuted because they wore black clothing and heavy metal T-shirts.

Echols, Misskelley, and Baldwin got persecuted because of their involvement with the crime, period.

Welcome to Crooked Tree, a West Memphis 3 podcast.

Steve Jones, who is a juvenile officer, was at the location that had observed the shoe, and I guess him and Denver were in that area at that time searching.

Now, when I found the first body, Steve Jones left in a rather hurry fashion sick.