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Case 4:09-cv-00008-BSM Document 30-5 Filed 07/17/2009 Page 168 of 297 ,. LexisNexis" SECTION: NEWS; Pg. 4A LENGTH: 543 words Copyright 1994 Gannett Company, Inc. USA TODAY January 27, 1994, Thursday, FINAL EDITION HEADLINE: Trial begins in slayings ofthree Arkansas boys BYLINE: Gary Fields BODY: Dana Moore said Wednesday that the last time she saw her son and his two friends alive, they were on their bikes, riding down the street. She sent his sister to catch him because it was time for dinner. "I just said, 'Well I missed them,''' Moore said quietly. "I went back and waited for him to see ifhe'd come back. He didn't come back." Moore's comments came in Corning, Ark., during the fIrst day oftestimony in the trial ofJessie Lloyd Misskelley Jr., 18, accused in the deaths ofChris Byers, Steve Branch and Michael Moore, all 8. Police say Misskelley and two other defendants tortured and mutilated the boys in a Satanic rite. The boys' nude bodies were found in a drainage ditch less than a mile from their West Memphis, Ark., homes last May 6, their hands and feet bound with shoelaces. Deputy prosecutor John Fogleman said two ofthe boys drowned and one bled to death after his genitals were cut off. All three had fractured skulls, he said. At one point during testimony, the victims' families had to leave when pictures ofthe boys' bodies were shown to the jury. The crime has changed the way oflife ofresidents ofWest Memphis, a blue-collar city of28,000. Sarah Kirkley, principal ofWeaver Elementary, where the boys went to school, says anger is the prevailing emotion. "It's getting everything stirred back up because we're now hearing details ofwhat was actually done to these little boys," Kirkley says. "We know now they did suffer and they were alive when most ofthis was done to them." Kirkley sees other evidence. "At our school we've seen a big difference in parents picking up children now, rather than letting them walk even though we are a neighborhood school and no one lives more than a mile away." In opening statements, Fogleman said Misskelley told investigators things only a witness would know. Defense lawyer Dan Stidham told the jury that Misskelley is innocent, and that his client was coerced into implicating himself. Misskelley's father, Jessie Misskelley Sr., attended the trial. He said he spent a few minutes with his son before the proceedings began, and that he visited with him Sunday. "He was crying when we talked to him Sunday," the elder Misskelley said. "He's scared, afraid they're going to railroad him."
Case 4:09-cv-00008-BSM Document 30-5 Filed 07/17/2009 Page 169 of 297 Trial begins in slayings oftl ; Arkansas boys USA TODAY January 27, 1>. ) Thursday, FINAL EDITION Misskelley's trial was moved to Corning, 110 miles away, because ofpretrial publicity. West Memphis and Memphis, Tenn., are separated by the Mississippi River. The other defendants, Damien Echols, 19, and Charles Jason Baldwin, 16, are scheduled for trial Feb. 22 in Jonesboro, 65 miles northwest ofWest Memphis. They have pleaded innocent. All three could face death sentences ifconvicted. Thomas Blomberg, professor ofcriminology at the University ofFlorida, says West Memphis residents must not give in to hysteria. "I think the unusual nature ofthis case, with these three young children, really gets at the public's imagination," Blomberg says. He has seen the transformation before. "Tallahassee (Fla.) was ... a small, sleepy Southern town. People left their doors unlocked and walked around at all hours. It was welcomed into the real world with Ted Bundy. "It was a transition that occurred overnight, and it was a major transition." GRAPHIC: GRAPHIC, b/w, Elys A. McLean, USA TODAY (Map, Arkansas); PHOTOS, b/w, Danny Johnston, AP (2)
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