EXHIBIT A-IOI - West Memphis Three Case - Document Archive

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Case 4:09-cv-00008-BSM Document 30-5 Filed 07/17/2009 Page 196 of 297 Teens charged in boys' slayings, 11 chase you all the way to hell' The Houston l Jnicle June 5, 1993, Saturday, 2 STAR Edition the teen-agers brought before the judge. ""I'll chase you all the way to hell," shouted Branch, adding ""I'll see you dead" before he was restrained and led out ofthe courtroom. The teen-agers did not enter pleas and were ordered held without bond until the case is transferred to Circuit Court on Monday. To protect the teen-agers' safety, police would not reveal where they were taken. Rainey later granted a prosecution request to seal all police investigative files in the case. / Gitchell said Misskelley was arrested at the Police Department Thursday afternoon. Echols and Baldwin were arrested at Echols' home Thursday night. Detectives in West Memphis, just across the Mississippi River from Memphis, Tenn., had gone door to door in search ofleads. Gitchell said last month that a preliminary autopsy indicated that Christopher Byers, Michael Moore and Steve Edward Branch died ofblows to the head. The slayings ofthe three second-graders stunned the city of about 28,000, and many parents have not allowed their children to play outside unsupervised since the bodies were found. On Friday, about 200 people behind the courthouse shouted ""murderer," ""freak," ""baby killers" and ""shoot 'em" at the teen-agers as they were taken away. Although some West Memphis residents said they were relieved that there had been a break in the case, reactions ofthe families and friends ofthe victims dominated a day ofshock and rage. ""They're nothing but punks, punks, punks! " shouted Pam Hobbs, the mother ofSteve Edward Branch, as she stomped out ofthe courtroom where the families ofthe three young victims came face-to-face with their children's accused killers. ""I want them," she said. ""I want to beat their heads up against the wall and kick them -- the same stuffthey did to my son. " But Misskelley's father said his son is ""a good boy" and that he did not believe the charges. ""I love my son very much," said Gail Grinnell, Baldwin's mother. ""I'm just very upset about all ofthis. " Echols' father, Joe Hutchinson, said police are trying to frame his son. ""For the past month, they've been following him, they've been harassing him everywhere he went," he said Thursday as police searched the family's trailer home. '"'1 know without a doubt in my mind this boy didn't do it. " Classmates said Echols carried a cat's skull around with him at school and routinely dressed in black.
Case 4:09-cv-00008-BSM Document 30-5 Filed 07/17/2009 Page 197 of 297 Teens charged in boys' slaying!> 11 chase you all the way to hell' The Houston STAR Edition A couple ofyears ago, he took to calling himselfDamien, presumably after the anti-Christ character popularized in the film ""The Omen" and its sequels. When the 18-year-old Marion (Ark.) High School dropout was named Friday as one ofthe murder suspects, several classmates and others said they weren't surprised. Several acquaintances said Echols told them he was a devil worshiper and said he was a fan ofsuch heavy metal rock groups as Ozzy Osbourne, Metallica, Alice Cooper and Guns N' Roses. Jnicle June 5, 1993, Saturday, 2 GRAPHIC: Photo: 1. Slaying suspect Michael Wayne Echols is escorted to his arraignment Friday in West Memphis, Ark.; Mugs: 2. Gary Gitchell; 3.Charles Jason Baldwin (3-star edition); 4.Jessie Lloyd MisskeUey (3-star edition); 1. Associated Press LOAD-DATE: June 9, 1993
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