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Dec. 31st, 2007 07:36 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
wolfpangsIf you haven't heard, there's been pretty interesting developments in the West Memphis Three case recently. As the Guardian reported last month:
"Defense lawyers have tested two hairs found at the scene. One was found entangled in one of the ligatures tying up one of the boys. It has been matched with DNA samples from Terry Hobbs, a stepfather of one of the victims. Another hair, found on a tree stump, has been linked by DNA sampling to David Jacoby, a friend of Hobbs who was with him on the day of the murder and provided him with an alibi. No DNA evidence of any kind has been found at the scene to match any of the West Memphis Three."
By the way, if you're thinking "stepfather" and WM3, your first thought is probably of the guy who was featured so heavily in the Paradise Lost docs but this isn't him*. This is one of the other parents.
Damian Echols, one of the WM3, who has been on death row for 13 years, gave an interview to Larry King a couple of weeks ago. Here is part 1.
*And in fact, he states in the Larry King clips that he believes Terry Hobbs to be the true perpetrator.
"Defense lawyers have tested two hairs found at the scene. One was found entangled in one of the ligatures tying up one of the boys. It has been matched with DNA samples from Terry Hobbs, a stepfather of one of the victims. Another hair, found on a tree stump, has been linked by DNA sampling to David Jacoby, a friend of Hobbs who was with him on the day of the murder and provided him with an alibi. No DNA evidence of any kind has been found at the scene to match any of the West Memphis Three."
By the way, if you're thinking "stepfather" and WM3, your first thought is probably of the guy who was featured so heavily in the Paradise Lost docs but this isn't him*. This is one of the other parents.
Damian Echols, one of the WM3, who has been on death row for 13 years, gave an interview to Larry King a couple of weeks ago. Here is part 1.
*And in fact, he states in the Larry King clips that he believes Terry Hobbs to be the true perpetrator.
