it was his son, steven branch, who was murdered, and he s had to deal with this for the last 15 years. is there anything that you feel comfortable telling me? you live with this every day. and then to have your friends and neighbors look at you and think, is there something else there? that s that hurts. terry hobbs has never been named a suspect in this case. and authorities stand by their convictions. but his ex-wife, pam, stevie s mother, doesn t know what to believe anymore. do you believe that any of those three young men are guilty? at this point, no, i don t. you think three innocent men are behind bars? i do. do you believe your ex-husband could have done that? i don t want to believe that, no. i lived with the man another 14, 15 years after my son and if it came out that he was the one
but pam held little hope for her son, stevie branch. i told terry, i said, he s dead. i said, i ll never see him alive again, and i was crying. and he said, no, pam, don t say that. it s going to be all right. we re going to find him. terry hobbs was right. they did find stevie. but pam was right, too. she d never see her son alive again. a shoe. two bikes. and stevie branch with his two friends, christopher byers and michael moore. the boys were nude and bound with their own shoelaces. i run up there and one look at my ex-husband and i knew it was stevie. and i hit the ground screaming, god, no. almost immediately, word spread that these murders were the work of the devil. that was the first thing that everybody started saying, that it was a ritualistic killing,
every single time i ve done an interview i ve been asked that. damien lives in 24-hour lockdown. he s been convicted of murdering stevie branch, christopher byers and michael moore, all 8-year-olds, all found naked and bound in a gully on may 6th, 1993. it s hard. like i said, it doesn t get any easier, and you would think i d be used to this by now, but you don t get used to this. and it does continue to get worse as time goes by. but it s a question he s had to answer ever since that day in 1993, when 17-year-old jessie misskelley confessed to witnessing this most heinous of crimes.
intelligent and articulate man describes why he believes the justice system failed him. and why there s still one question he never gets used to hearing. i ll just ask you the question. did you kill those boys? west memphis, arkansas, 1993. a small town, blue collar, steeped in religion, crisscrossed with truck traffic and interstates. just across the mississippi from graceland and beale street in memphis, tennessee. it s a quiet place most people drive past. but it was home for three 8-year-old boys named stevie branch, christopher byers and michael moore. they were best buddies. christopher started coming in to be friends, i m going to say, about a month or so before they passed away. but it was always stevie and michael moore.
listening to our every word, i m allowed to talk to damien for almost two hours. through a thick glass window, i listen as this obviously intelligent and articulate man describes why he believes the justice system failed him. and why there s still one question he never gets used to hearing. i ll just ask you the question. did you kill those boys? west memphis, arkansas, 1993. a small town, blue collar, steeped in religion, crisscrossed with truck traffic and interstates. just across the mississippi from graceland and beale street in memphis, tennessee. it s a quiet place most people drive past. but it was home for three 8-year-old boys named stevie branch, christopher byers and michael moore. they were best buddies. christopher started coming in to