How do the Victims parents fell about the proceedings of the West Memphis 3 trial?
(CNN) — There was a time that Pamela Hobbs believed justice had been served for her young son’s murder. But 16 years after the mutilations and killings of three 8-year-old Cub Scouts, including her son, she has more doubts than ever. Tear-stricken and angry, Pamela Hobbs sat though the original trial of the three accused teens — Damien Echols, 18; Jessie Misskelley Jr., 17, and Jason Baldwin; 16. They were convicted of murdering her son, Stevie Branch, and two other neighborhood boys, Michael Moore and Christopher Byers. The second-graders’ bodies were found bruised and mutilated in a West Memphis, Arkansas ditch; their arms and legs were bound by shoe laces. The killers became dubbed the West Memphis 3. … But recent developments — including new eyewitness statements and DNA evidence from the defense — have uprooted her faith in those prosecutions. Once a staunch believer that the teens were guilty, now she says the teens accused of killing her son in the West Memphis 3 deserve a
Victims’ parents remain divided over West Memphis 3 case Pamela Hobbs hasn’t been the only parent of the victims to shift to the side of the West Memphis 3 supporters. Mark Byers, the father of Christopher, lives in Millington, Tennessee. He said he began to think the three men might be innocent, particularly after the 2007 DNA tests results were released. His wife, Melissa, passed away in 1996. Sources: http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/12/28/west.memphis.
