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Case 4:09-cv-00008-BSM Document 30-5 Filed 07/17/2009 Page 220 of 297 .$!i ,.':" Ii: LexlsNexlls" SECTION: NEWS; Pg. 24; ZONE: C LENGTH: 618 words HEADLINE: Murders of3 boys taint Mother's Day Arkansas town scared - and angry BYLINE: Knight-Ridder/Tribune. DATELINE: WEST MEMPHIS, Ark. BODY: Copyright 1993 Chicago Tribune Company Chicago Tribune May 9, 1993, Sunday, FINAL EDITION For Virginia Collom, it will be a Mother's Day to remember - but for all the wrong reasons. Collom and her 16-year-old daughter, Charity, live behind Robin Hood Park, the boggy woods where three 8-yearold boys were found Thursday bound and beaten to death. "I was taking (Charity) to work the day they found the boys," Collom, 37, said Saturday. "Her face was white as a sheet. "She looked up at me and she said, 'Momma, now I know why you want to know where I am 24 hours a day.' " Collom and her neighbors in the modest housing addition just south ofInterstate Highway 40 aren't taking anything for granted these days when it comes to their children. What once was a bustling, carefree neighborhood where children could be seen everywhere had become a virtual ghost town Saturday as fearful parents kept their youngsters inside, and police searched outside, combing the wooded area along Ten Mile Bayou for more clues in the grisly case. The anxiety gripping the West Memphis neighborhood, several miles west ofthe Mississippi River, largely comes from the announcement by authorities Saturday that they still have no suspects in the murders. The fear also is mixed with sadness for the three boys, Steve Branch, Christopher Byers and Michael Moore, and their families and with rage that seems to be building toward the "madman" involved in the slayings. "Our guns are loaded and laid out in two bedrooms," said Pam Eskridge, 33. Christopher Byers' father, Mark, offered a similarly grave opinion ifhe caught the killer fIrst, "I hope God shows a little mercy on his soul, because I sure wouldn't." Police inspector Gary Gitchell, who is directing the investigation, said he was not concerned that enraged West Memphians might seek to take justice into their own hands. "I'm not that concerned about the vigilante part ofit," he said. "We've got a lot ofgood people in this town." Even though his offIce has fIelded hundreds ofcalls with tips, Gitchell said police had no solid suspects in the deaths ofthe second-graders. In a briefIng Saturday, he said police were pleased with the progress they were making but asked residents for patience. Unraveling such a crime, he said, may take time. He said police were considering every possible type ofsuspect. He confIrmed that several transients had been questioned, but no one had been arrested or detained.
Case 4:09-cv-00008-BSM Document 30-5 Filed 07/17/2009 Page 221 of 297 Murders of3 boys taint Mother's ;Arkansas town scared - and angry Chicago 1 me May 9, 1993, Sunday, FINAL EDITION The boys were last seen between about 5:30 and 6:15 p.m. Wednesday, riding their bikes into the wooded area that buffers their homes from a truck wash and other businesses along 1-40. Worried parents and neighbors began searching for the youngsters about 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, and Gitchell said police were notified oftheir disappearance at 8:10 p.m. Some parents complained that police were slow to respond and did not initiate a full-scale search until Thursday. Gitchell defended police actions, noting that many children are reported missing only to be found a short time later. He said questions about the police response were "a lot ofif, if, if." He then added, "I don't want to lay a guilt trip on anyone, but ifthe kids were not allowed to be down there, maybe this wouldn't have happened." Some neighbors said dozens ofchildren would ride their bikes and play in the woods every day. They also said many adults tended to frequent the woods - some walking to work at businesses on the interstate access road, others actually living in the woods. Collom said she knows in particular about one man, with a long beard, believed to be about 40, who lives in the woods. "The wooded area serves no purpose whatsoever," she said. "They need to get rid ofit, cement it in, something." LOAD-DATE: 05-10-93
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