EXHIBIT A-IOI - West Memphis Three Case - Document Archive
EXHIBIT A-IOI - West Memphis Three Case - Document Archive
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<strong>Case</strong> 4:09-cv-00008-BSM <strong>Document</strong> 30-5 Filed 07/17/2009 Page 199 of 297<br />
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SECTION: Part A; Page 2; Column 5; National Desk<br />
LENGTH: 287 words<br />
Copyright 1993 The Times Mirror Company; Los Angeles Times<br />
All Rights Reserved<br />
Los Angeles Times<br />
June 5, 1993, Saturday, Home Edition<br />
HEADLINE: FATHER OF SLAIN BOY THREATENS ACCUSED KILLER IN COURTROOM<br />
BYLINE: From Associated Press<br />
DATELINE: WEST MEMPHIS, Ark.<br />
BODY:<br />
A father's griefturned to rage Friday when he rushed at one ofthree teen-agers accused ofkilling his son and two<br />
playmates.<br />
"I'll chase you all the way to hell," Steven Branch yelled. Court officers subdued Branch before he reached the defendant.<br />
The teen-agers were arrested Thursday and charged with capital murder, but police Inspector Gary Gitchell would<br />
not discuss a motive or reveal what was found during a search oftheir homes.<br />
Jessie Lloyd Misskelley, 17, Michael Wayne Echols, 18, and Charles Jason Baldwin, 16, were charged in the slayings<br />
ofthree 8-year-olds who vanished May 5 while riding bicycles in their neighborhood.<br />
The next day, authorities discovered the boys' bodies in a drainage ditch in nearby woods.<br />
Municipal Judge Pal Rainey called a recess after Branch's outburst and warned that further disruptions would lead<br />
to contempt-of-court charges.<br />
The teen-agers did not enter pleas and were ordered held without bond until the case is transferred to Circuit Court<br />
on Monday. Police would not reveal where they were taken.<br />
Detectives in this city just across the Mississippi River from <strong>Memphis</strong>, Tenn., had gone door to door in search of<br />
leads.<br />
Gitchell said last month that a preliminary autopsy indicated that the slain boys -- Christopher Byers, Michael<br />
Moore and Steve Edward Branch -- died ofblows to the head.<br />
The slayings ofthe three second-graders stunned the city ofabout 28,000, and many parents have not allowed their<br />
children to play outside unsupervised since the bodies were found.<br />
On Friday, a crowd ofup to 200 people gathered behind the courthouse and shouted "murderer," "freak," "baby<br />
killers" and "shoot 'em" at the teen-agers as they were taken away.
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