we all, i think, breathed a sigh of relief that someone was in custody that was being accused of committing the crimes. pam hobbs is stevie branch s mother. based on what the police told you, they were 100% certain these were the guilty guys. uh-huh. and so believing in my justice system and believing that the police are to protect and serve, i really felt like they had the right ones and i wanted to do something to them. what did you want to do? i wanted to bash their head up against the wall, kick their face in. i was just so angry. if i could have got a hold of them i think i probably could have shredded them with my bare hands. you wanted to kill them. i did. but while jessie may have confessed, he soon took it back and steadfastly refused to testify against jason and damien.
three little boys missing in west memphis, arkansas. their families frantically searching a wooded area near their homes. pam hobbs and her husband, terry, among them. 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.
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. on may 5th, 1993, the three boys went to school, came home and went out to play. stevie branch s mother, pam hobbs, remembers it like it was yesterday. we wasn t home probably five or ten minutes when michael moore came over and asked if stevie could come and go ride bikes with him. and i was telling him, i said, not today, son, i m getting ready for work and i m cooking and all that, and he and michael just kept begging and begging, please, let me go. so like a lot of parents do, i gave in and i said okay. do you remember the last thing stevie said to you? i love you, mama. and rode off and just as happy as he could be. steve branch, christopher byers and michael moore were all last seen right here on this street. and they were doing what
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. damien hollered. said, hey, the little boys came up there. then they tied them up, tied their hands up, they started screwing them and stuff, cutting them and stuff. did you actually rape any of these boys? no. did you actually kill any of
but it was always stevie and michael moore. on may 5th, 1993, the three boys went to school, came home and went out to play. stevie branch s mother, pam hobbs, remembers it like it was yesterday. we wasn t home probably five or ten minutes when michael moore came over and asked if stevie could come and go ride bikes with him. and i was telling him, i said, not today, son, i m getting ready for work and i m cooking and all that, and he and michael just kept begging and begging, please, let me go. so like a lot of parents do, i gave in and i said okay. do you remember the last thing stevie said to you? i love you, mama. and rode off and just as happy as he could be. steve branch, christopher byers and michael moore were all last seen right here on this street. and they were doing what 8-year-old boys would normally do. they were playing, having fun,