SO WHAT HAPPENED NEXT? So, according to Aarons mother, Vickie, the clubhouse, which was located in the Blue Beacon Woods, was a spot where her son often went to play and any time he was late to come home it was because he was out playing in those woods. You have to keep in mind that the statements from Bennie Guy and Billy Stewart are considered hearsay and most likely would not stand up in a court of law alone. I believe that when LG asked to be dropped off at home Terry refused. And that is extremely significant. I believe that David did ask Terry where Stevie was when Terry showed up at 5:30 and that Terry told him the truth: Stevie was riding his bike and would be back by dark (8pm). RIDGE ALRIGHT, DID SHE KNOW WHERE HE HAD BEEN? Why didnt Terry search for Stevie at the Moores? When police told him they were going to polygraph him about Jessies alleged confession, Buddy immediately admitted that he had lied; Jessie never said anything to him about the murders. Ifvery conservativelyone in every 10-20 people is gay or bi, and the police force is made up of 20 people (just a fun number) one of those cops is gonna like dick. We know this because it appeared as though Stevie had struggled while he was restrained. HES NEVER SEEN THEMRIDGE: OH, OKAYAARON: CAUSE IT WAS ON A FRIDAY WHENEVER HE WENT DOWN THERE WITH USRIDGE: DID YOU EVER TELL ANYDODY ABOUT IT?AARON: HU-UH (NO)RIDGE: WHY? -3:30 Christopher shows up looking for the boys. After he allegedly hit back, he thenreally had a motive to kill. In fact, the very first place that he and Pam looked before Pam went to work was Michaels house. According to Bennies statement, Terry stopped for a moment to yell, Im going to teach your fucking ass! Mark on Stevies leg, possibly made by edge of the board found at crime scene. Whats equally puzzling is the fact that almost nothing about the two mens alibis is the same, yet they both claim to have been with each other. Mark took Chris home, spanked him for being in the middle of the street and not waiting at home, told him to clean the carport and left him there cleaning at 5:30. I wonder if Michael and Chris knew that one of the men was Stevies stepdad and that is the reason they never told Stevie what they saw in those woods. Personally? Again, If we believe Billy Stewarts statement, the murders were predicated by a sexual act which could further explain why so many seemingly unnecessary acts occurred. Expelled From Law School, Dad Convicted of Mom & Brothers Murder. Maybe because sheknewLG was involved and he told her that Damien did it. I recall a man was outside across the street working in his yard. In addition to the Ballard sighting, there is more evidence that supports the boys were with Terry around 5pm. Jamie Clark Ballard, who lived only three doors down from Terry and Pam Hobbs, has supplied a sworn affidavit, as have both her . Terry and Pam see Dawn Moore and tell her they are looking for Stevie. And the reason he was never questioned was because being a dude who was into dick in Arkansas in the 90s wasn't okayespecially among cops. I have a very strong suspicion that Narlene lied about dropping LG off at home and there is ample evidence to support this. Its been so long ago you know it may not be in the right order but I know he did come over around 5:30/6 oclock and we played the guitar for a while and then he said he had to go. AARON: NO, HES NEVER WE NEVER TOLD HIM ABOUT IT. But the deeper I dug, the more I realized that not only was there no evidence to discredit that these four men committed this murder, all the known evidence supports the notion that they actually did do it. I also believe that Stevie was punched by the teenage boys, mostly by LG, but for the most part, and according to the confessions they mostly restrained him. For one, LGs other aunt saw him at her work at approx. And then, twenty years later, a letter is found that had been sitting untouched in the prosecutions possession for a year. Terry Hobbs absolutely killed the boys and the neighbor girl said he had seen them right before the boys died. The West Memphis Three Trial: Who was the real killer or killers? What is most interesting, however, is that most of the public did not know that Chris was on a skateboard at one point that afternoon. Its also interesting that Narlene is claiming that Damiens mother is lying about Damien being with her. In part 3, when suing Natalie Maines, he said he wanted The Dixie Chicks to be "humiliated" as punishment when asked what he really wanted out of the lawsuit. The question about Terry propositioning David Jacoby has lead some people to defend Jacoby, claiming that he would not have told people he was propositioned if he really had a secret gay relationship with Terry Hobbs. This report http://callahan.8k.com/wm3/shadi.html details an incident where Damien got into a physical fight with another student and made numerous threats against him and his family. Steven Branch had lacerations on his penis which were probably self-inflicted indicating a sexualized child, usually associated with sexual abuse. According to Clemente, suspects who have something to hide, such as evidence, or signs of abuse at the home, will not want police to search their residence and will attempt to put distance between themselves and where the abuse took place. I actually believe there is a good possibility that at least LG already knew the two men. I've gone down this rabbit hole time and time again. The West Memphis Three are Damien Echols, Jessie Miskelley, and Jason Baldwin. Terry was born in Northern Arkansas and grew up in the Ozark Mountain region of the state. Terry Hobbs was basically unaccounted for from 5pm to approx. You will see that this theory is supported by many statements, interviews, affidavits and even includes the alleged confessions of Buddy Lucas and LG Hollingsworth. RIDGE: IT WAS EARLY IN THE MORNING OR LATE AT NIGHT OR LATE IN THE EVENING? I allege that all three men returned to Terrys home and cleaned themselves up, which most likely involved washing mud off their shoes. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Memphis_Three. David Jacoby claims that Terry showed up and the two played guitar for an hour, which also doesnt add up when you know all the details. After the murders of the three boys, the general understanding by the public was that Chris had been emasculated and very meticulously had had the skin removed from his penis. I agree that that was the intention, but I also believe there was another element behind it. I strongly feel that this was something that only the killer or someone who witnessed the killing, would have known. That he was still wearing the same clothes is very telling. The question is, why? DO YOU THINK THEY WERE CRAZYAARON: THEY WERE SMOKINGRIDGE: FOR DOING WHAT THEY WERE DOING?AARON: THEY WERE ROLLED UP UM, CIGARETTES THERE WAS ALL KIND OF WHITERIDGE: KINDA WHITE CIGARETTES?AARON: ALL WHITETHE KIND YOU ROUND UP YEA YOU PUT THAT GREEN STUFF IN THERE. It isnt difficult to assume that Terry was told by his parents for most of his life that homosexuals were sinners who were going to hell. : the alleged confessions of both Buddy and LG, Terry saw the boys spying and ordered the other three men to catch them. RIDGE OKAY, NOW THE CONVERSATION YOU HAD WITH HIS AUNT WHAT IS HER NAME AGAIN? Terry claims that he dropped Amanda off with Bobby, Davids wife and that he and David then scoured the neighborhood looking for Stevie, which makes no sense. AND HE SAID BECAUSE WE WERE SCARED, AND THEY WERE SCARED I GUESS OF GETTING CAUGHT THEN AND AH HE SAID MICHAEL KEPT TELLING ME THAT IT WAS AN INDIAN THING THEY WERE SUPPOSED TO DO AND CHRIS SAID NO THEIR GETTING READY TO HAVE SEX. LG never mentioned whether he was dropped off at home or not, but I have a theory about what happened next, which I will now describe. We have a man, by his own admittance, who was in the spot where they crime occurred all night long. ~What I couldnt tell from the autopsy report was if Stevie struggled in his ligatures or not. was terry hobbs ever found - wytprod.com Twitter. If anyone might know where the boys were going or what their plans had been for that day, it would most likely have been Aaron. (source) Additionally, a roommate of Richards also testified that LG was not at their home on the 5th but that he remembered LGs mother calling looking for him. As he jumped up from the fall, he grabbed Chris and apparently hit him with force as well. According to Billy Stewarts statement, he believes that at this time some sexual activity occurred between the men and two teens. The nude, bound and mutilated bodies of three eight-year-old Cub Scouts were found in a water-filled ditch in a forest near their West Memphis, Ark., homes, one day after they disappeared in May, 1993. Based on the reports made available to the public pertaining to Damien's mental health issues, this is a flat out lie. So why didnt Terry return to the Moores house in the four frantic hours he searched for Stevie in their tiny neighborhood? 5:30. However, other experts who studied Chris wounds said that the injuries to his groin were post mortem and that there was no way a knife could have made those kinds of injuries. RIDGE: WHAT DID THE CLUB HOUSE CONSIST OF? He snapped and hit the boy. SO THIS FRIGHTENED ME, SO I GOT AARON OUT OF THERE AND WE WENT HOME. Which is right in line with why this attack would have occurred. In March 2022,Damien Echols said in a tweet that hell be back in court on June 23 with his law team as they try to get access to DNA, found in the case evidence, to a lab for testing. If Terry was truly involved in a homosexual act directly before this attack took place, it makes sense why he would carry out an attack of this nature on Chris genitals. Right around 8:40, I believe that David would have walked or driven home, depending on who was driving that night and Terry and LG would have gotten into Pam and Terrys small, white Toyota. Though the family was well-to-do, Terry was having financial problems when the three children were murdered in 1993. As noted earlier, the autopsies revealed that Michael was quickly incapacitated with a few defensive wounds to the hands, which implied to the Medical Examiner that Michaelwasin fact the first one to be attacked. Terry Hobbs was born in 1958 in Northern Arkansas, one of four children, son of Edith Raylean McLeod Hobbs and Joe Dean Hobbs, Sr. Hobbs, Sr. learned his trade as a butcher while in the military and went on to open thirty restaurants. The boards were a combination of boards that had been nailed together as well as a pile of loose boards on the ground. AH I SAID ARRON YOU KNOW THAT THEY TOOK THEIR CLOTHES OFF WHY DIDNT YOU LEAVE? Local author writes book on cousin's ordeal after West Memphis murders According to the ME, Chris did not drown like the others, he died before entering the water. Before I go over the timeline of how the day of May 5th 1993 might have unfolded, there is available evidence that is extremely pertinent to understanding what happened that day. Terry Hobbs | West Memphis 3 murders Wiki | Fandom However, since LG was wearing a tie that day and the alleged confessions state the teens wrestled, its my belief that LGs shirt and tie had been removed for the entire murder, which meant that it was clean. However,wehave the ability to read all the information and evidence that is available to the public, and its not difficult to see that itallsupports that this theory is more than just a theory. The truth of what really occurred on May 5th, 1993 has not been completely solved and no suspects have been arrested. RIDGE: WAS IT THERE WHERE YOUR CLUB IS OR WAS IT SOME WHERE ELSE IN THOSE WOODS? Is it just a coincidence that Buddy mentions that the boys were hit on the back of the head, and that, unknown to the public, all three were in fact hit in the back of the head? Ive thought about this in length and I think I understand what may have occurred. WE NEED TO GO TO THE CLUB HOUSE. Shortly after arriving home, Terry was out in his driveway with Amanda, saw the boys outside Jamie Ballards home and called them to come to the house. Additionally, approximately a month before the murders, a friend of Chris Byers brother claimed to have seen Michael and Chris with their pants down, simulating a sex act in the exact way that homosexual men preform sex; one boy was standing up and bent over and the other boy was standing behind him and they both had their pants down. I believe that after Terrys attack on Stevies face, and with Stevie still quite conscious, this is when the tying of the children began. Terry Hobbs was a violent man, this is proven and well documented, and the way Douglass pictures it, he likely wanted to punish or humiliate one or all of the boys and it went too far, leading him to murder them so they wouldn't be able to tell anyone. It remains unsolved in the minds of those who feel the West Memphis Three defendants are innocent. Its my personal opinion that the evidence presented here should put all debates to rest because both sides have at least some truth in their corner. The manner in which they were tied also tells us about the crime and the perpetrator(s). The first most essential piece of evidence came from Stevie, Michael and Chris other best friend, Aaron Hutchinson. WE ALWAYS GOT A PLACE TO HIDE BEFORE THEY CAN GET THERE, AARON: WE HIDE ONE TIME WE HIDE BEHIND UM A TREE. You should see the other documentary WEST OF MEMPHIS There youll be more secure. Sometime after 5:00 Stevie then told his friends he really needed to go home and so they began to head back that way. With all that in mind, I allege that Terry and Amanda returned home a little after 5pm. This theory supportsbothsides of the debate. Terry did not tell me who he was calling until hed completed the phone call and came out to the car. Allegedly, some children who used to play in those woods have claimed that stray dogs lived there (source). RIDGE: OKAY, AND WERE THEY NAILED ONTO THE TREE OR COULD YOU TELL THAT? Buddy Lucas lived in Lakeshore Trailerpark in May, 1993. (1, 2,) He originally claims to have asked his aunt for a ride home, that she said no, and he left and began to walk home. Jackie Jr. survived the shooting, but died years later as a result of complications pertaining to his injuries. (1) Its possible that the by the time the men could have entered into the woods, the three eight year old boys were already there hiding. The murders still haunt me and I will ALWAYS want justice for Stevie, Michael & Christopher. Just finished the trilogy and West of Memphis and I noticed something that made THE lightbulb off about him. CAN YOU EXPLAIN TO ME WHERE THE CLUB IS?AARON: ITS, ITS IN UH, ITS IN THOSE WOODS WHERE UH, WHERE THAT STOP SIGN IS AND ITSRIDGE: IS THE WOODS HAVE THEY GOT A NAME THEY CALL THEM ROBIN HOOD IS THAT RIGHT?AARON: UH-HUH (YES)RIDGE: IT IS OKAY, YOUVE BEEN DOWN THERE BEFORE?AARON: YES SIRRIDGE: DO YOU GO DOWN THERE A LOT?AARON: (inaudible)RIDGE: OKAY, WHEN YOU WENT DOWN THERE WHO ALL WENT WITH YOU MOST THE TIME?AARON: MICHAEL AND CHRISRIDGE: OKAY, AND WHAT DID YOU DO WHEN YOU WENT DOWN THERE?AARON: WE PLAYEDRIDGE: OKAY, DID YOU EVERAARON: AND THEN SOMETIMES WE WATCHED THESE MENRIDGE: THESE MEN. : the alleged confessions of both Buddy and LG, Terry saw the boys spying and ordered the other three men to catch them. The group also stated that Echols submitted a FOIA request over 18 months ago, but the request went unanswered, which is a violation of Arkansas state law. Echols ultimately ended filing a lawsuit against the police department. He flipped flopped between being at home with his mother and being at his friend Richards house from 5:30-9pm. Essentially, the statements made by Dr. Perretti are not much different than if Pam took her son to a doctor, had him examined and was then told by the doctor that Stevie had injuries related to sexual abuse. Not until it was learned that Terry was using Jacoby as an alibi and that a hair that was found at the crime scene turned out to be consistent with Davids DNA. Theres no debate about that because there were steep inclines on the sides of the ditch where all three bodies were placed, making it impossible that they were just tossed in from either the east or west bank. Also, the sister who caught Hobbs washing laundry in the middle of the fucking night! At that time and also later, when Bennie sent his letter and Billy was contacted, both men were in prison, separately. Turtles would be most attracted to areas that were soft and already leeching blood, according to experts and that is why it appears as though Chris groin had both stab wounds before death and animal predation wounds after death. Apparently, Stevie had injuries to his penis that he believed were self inflicted. THE MEN SEEN THEM. RIDGE: OKAY, ALRIGHT. ALRIGHT DID CHRIS AND MICHAEL DID THEY TELL YOU THAT THEY THOUGHT THEY HAD GOT CAUGHT. VICKIE: ANY TIME MY CHILD DIDNT COME HOME ON TIME THATS WHERE I WOULD LOOK FOR HIMRIDGE: OKAY, YOU HAD BEEN THERE ON SEVERAL OCCASIONS? The interesting thing is that Terry had to pick up Pam from work at 9pm, so theres no way he would have had time to go check the woods at that time. UNLESS YOU KNOW NOT GETTING UP THERE AND LOOKING AT IT ALL. WHAT HAPPENED THAT DAY WHEN YOU GOT OUT OF SCHOOL WHAT WAS IT THEY WERE GOING TO DO THAT DAY? He also confirmed that one of the teens, Buddy Lucas, had admitted to his involvement in the murders with the other three men. LITTLE ROCK The defense team for the West Memphis Three says it's has new evidence against the step father for one of the three victims, Terry Hobbs. If this is to be believed, it makes sense. Upon the delivery, I saw Mr. Hobbs holding hands with the same man who he was at my house with on May 5, 1993. The question about Terry having a drug dealer name Ray could also possibly be significant. Join Nancy Grace for her new online video series designed to help you protect what you love most your children. He has dead eyes. By rejecting non-essential cookies, Reddit may still use certain cookies to ensure the proper functionality of our platform. She hasnt seen him or Michael by this point. However, like I said, he makes what I think is a pretty good case for Hobbs' guilt, too. I believe at this time, Terry directed his attention to Stevie and bit him repeatedly on this face. According to both Billy and Bennies statements, the four men pulled up to the trailer, bought a small amount of marijuana and left. Years later it was discovered by experts for the defense that a knife had not caused the injuries to Chris penis at all. LG also lied extensively about his whereabouts the night of the 5th. This is just more evidence to support the statements from Stevies family that he was being abused by Terry.). Keep in mind as well, that the Flash Market/Landromat on Ingram was only a few minutes drive away from the Byers home on 14th. AARON: UH-UH (NO), BECAUSE THEY NEVER SEEN US. Its possible that Terry realized these knots could come back to him so he finished tying Michael up with a more traditionally used knot. In Billy Stewarts statement, Terry had another drug dealer named Roy Taylor. West Memphis Police Officer, Bryn Ridge found Michael Moore first, just south of the crooked tree that juts out from the ground in the photo on the far left. Dixie came to work later and Linda Hollingsworth came in asking about where L.G. RIDGE IRENE SHE TOLD YOU SOMETHING ABOUT THE DAY THE KIDS WERE MURDERED? Even more damaging is the specifics of the way the three boys were tied up. A rather uncommon knot for a regular person but a very common knot for a former butcher or farmer. What is equally disturbing, is that both Domini and Damien had solid alibis for that time period. [5], In 2003, Hobbs was arrested for possession of marijuana and found guilty.[6]. That leaves many years unaccounted for. Also, according to LGs aunt, Dixie, LGs mother, Linda, came to her work the next day asking where he had been the night before. In addition to Billys statements and the similar questions asked in the 2009 deposition that both pointed to Terry Hobbs being an alleged homosexual or bisexual man, the criminal profiler Brent Turvey claimed in 1996 that whoever committed this murder was a closet homosexual who projected a macho image. The children never returned home. I agree with that assessment but believe there were additional reasons. Terry Hobbs grew up in a strict fundementalist pentecostal home, with his father actually being a pentecostal preacher. Its possible. My belief is that these items were used in the clean up. On May 6, 1993, three boys are found hog-tied and murdered in a ditch in West Memphis, Arkansas. 4:50 Terry takes Pam to work but first drives by the Moores looking for Stevie who did not come home by 4:30. Murders In West Memphis::: - Jivepuppi The two teens apparently complied with Terrys demands and ripped the clothes off of the children. If the purpose in stripping the boys was to demean and humiliate them, then Terry would have wanted them to be conscious while he did it. Terry Wayne Hobbs was born on May 21st, 1958. RIDGE: OKAY, AND WHAT DID YOU FIND WHEN YOU CAME TO THE AREA?