Devil's Knot Page #3

- Okay, uh, you do me a favor?

- Sure.

- Could you re-interview him, please?

- Uh-huh.

- We're under a lot of pressure down here.

-Yeah, I bet.

You got your work cut out for you.

- Yeah.

- Let me go at him again.

All right. Thank you, Detective.

You should, like... You gotta do like album

covers and sh*t, Jason.

Yeah, maybe. Maybe someday.

(HEAVY METAL MUSIC PLAYING)

Heavy metal music. Ouija boards.

All these are gateways

to a dark world of violence and destruction.

Everything from vandalism, animal mutilation,

to the ritual sacrifice of children.

Thousands of them every year.

My boy, Aaron...

He's a close friend of them boys.

I mean, Michael Moore

and Chris Byers is his two best friends.

Did you ride your bike to Robin Hood Woods?

- Yes.

- Excuse me, Aaron.

When we ask you a question,

we want you to look in

the camera, if you don't mind.

- Okay?

- Okay.

Just look right in the lens. Okay.

Were you present

-when those boys were killed?

- Yes.

What did the hospital tell you, Damien?

At Charter Hospital,

I was diagnosed as manic depressive.

I'm in therapy now

and on imipramine for depression.

I'm just curious.

How do you think the killer felt?

They liked it. Happy.

It was a thrill kill.

How about you, Jason?

Did you know the three boys?

No, sir.

- Do you believe in God?

- Yes, I do.

How about you, Damien? You believe in God?

Or the devil?

I believe in a god. A female god.

And an evil force. Not a devil.

I used to be involved in the Wiccan religion.

White witchcraft.

When you would go out

to Robin Hood Woods,

-who would you go with?

- With Chris and Michael.

Did you ever see anything out there?

We saw, uh, men.

(HEAVY METAL MUSIC PLAYING)

I ran and Jessie caught me.

Um, he tied me up.

He tried to cut me on my side.

I kicked him.

Then he grabbed my hands

and made me cut Chris.

This is Detective Bryn Ridge

of the West Memphis Police Department,

currently in the office

with Jessie Lloyd Misskelley Junior.

Jessie, on Wednesday,

May 5, 1993, early in the morning,

you received a phone call. Is that correct?

Yeah, I did. Jason Baldwin called me

and he asked if I could go

to West Memphis with him,

and I told him no. I had to work and stuff.

And then he told me that he had to go.

So him and Damien, they went.

Then I went with them up to the...

Up to the Robin Hood.

Jessie and Damien

picked him up and put a bucket

where he was bleeding.

So you saw Damien strike

Chris Byers in the head?

- Right.

- What did he hit him With?

Well, he hit him with his fist

and bruised him all up real bad.

And then Jason, he turned,

and he hit Stevie Branch,

and that's when Michael Moore, he took off.

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