they were just languishing. what can we do? we re in the entertainment industry. we can design things. and then you say what can you do with that? we can make a website. echols has his backers. a website is now online to raise money for the three men convicted of killing the west memphis 8-year-olds. we re not experts ourselves but we ve hired experts to look into the case for us because there was just so much doubt. one of the saddest things that i can remember about this whole thing and about our trims out here. i remember being in a rental car like this. heading out to the prison. and i remember saying kurk believe that these guys have been locked up in prison for three whole years? and here we are, 17 years later. heading to pine bluff to visit our friends again in 2011.
factors they considered in echols involvement. and no one has really asked what that might be. why was it crossed out? who crossed it out? one of the jurors had copied the facsimile of that list into her notebook. the crossed out item is the jessie misskelley testimony. what we now know is that, in fact, jessie misskelley s statements played a pretty major part in the way that the jury and the echols and baldwin case came to understand the case and came to have confidence in the notion that they should convict, which is wrong. [ crowd gasps ] the comeback trail. [ buzzer sounds ] it s easy to get lost here among life s false starts
life to a degree. you can say i sort of like died myself. because i shut out humanity. steve s death was so difficult for pam to accept that other problems resulted. she separated from her husband and moved here to her parents home. a crime of this nature will take a toll on anybody. and i have seen this happen to our home. tomorrow, 19-year-old damien echols attorneys will file with the court. the cancer crypts from he cannol trial, more than 4,000 pages of testimony. that will set into motion the appeals process that echols believes will lead to the overturning of his conviction and sentence. convicted murderer damien echols appeared in the county court for the latest hearing since the 1994 conviction. he represented him in the original trial said many questions remain unanswered.
counsel. good morning. may it please the court, mr. echols has been to this court several times in the last decade challenging his conviction directly and collaterally. and this statute does not call for a retrial. it s not about trying somebody again for the state to prove guilt twice. counselor, what harm is there in allowing him to present the evidence in the last 17 years? i m sorry? what harm is there in allowing him to present all evidence? well, the harm is in the finality of a criminal judgment that is not demonstrated to have any constitutional or procedural defect, and just to try it again. you re suggesting, it sounds to me as every 15 or 17 years or so, we really ought to try cases again to reestablish guilt. i think it s clear that the animating purpose here is not to retry. so the harm is to the criminal
damien echols quit talking to reporters after getting warnings from his attorneys. last week echols said mark byers committed the murders. does it come as a surprise, mark? we don t have any comment. he s got knowledge about the area. he knows when the search is over with. he is big enough that he can carry the boys there and throw them in. his son was the only one mutilated. the other two weren t mutilated. all of the pieces fit together with a person like byers. after the sentencing, the mother and stepfather of christopher byers moved out of west memphis. echols claims byers is the real killer. i think basically in a fit of anger he killed him. you ve got to be the biggest pathological liar. i hope he rots and burns in held for eternity. i hate his guts more than anything on the face of the earth. mark and melissa byers moved to cherokee village to get away from the memories of their son s murder in west memphis.