If Echols is successful in court, the DNA testing process will likely take months. A bitemark on Stevies face would lend credibility to the statement that another bite occurred on Chris genital area. Sorry in advance to those of you who are tired of reading about this case! Terry and David are not the only ones with suspicions and allegations of homosexuality surrounding them, though. Why would she get in trouble for that? 2, 2019 at 4:53 PM PDT. For whatever reason, if this all is the truth, something went wrong, and that was the day that the boys tragically got caught spying. [2] Judge Brian S. Miller dismissed the case and subsequently ordered Hobbs to pay legal fees incurred by the singer in the amount of $17,590. The only person whose DNA would be in that ligature isthe person who tied the knots, Echols said. For one, LGs other aunt saw him at her work at approx. Then, in 2013, Jacoby was summoned to court over the alleged confessions of Buddy Lucas and LG Hollingsworth. Why was shesosure, in her mind, that Damiens mother was lying about being with him all night? JMB is a freaking nut but I think he loved Michelle so much that when Chris died, she did, too. Perhaps. In 1993 Bennie Guy and Billy Stewart were both very close with a mentally slow teenager named Buddy Lucas. All experts agreed that Perettis autopsy reports were written exquisitely. According to David Jacoby, he and Terry drove down Barton street searchingfour separate times, passing Michael Moores home each time. If dogs had been licking the spot where the crime occurred and the boys, still wet from the water, were then laid on that area, It is very likely that they would have picked up dog or animal hair. DO YOU KNOW WHERE THE CLUB HOUSE WAS? You may be the judge of the that. If Terry wanted things to turn sexual, his predatory mind would have thought of ways to lead things in that direction. The reason why Chriss skin was removed but his penis remained, i.e. 3 A. The three new witnesses were polygraphed about what . Thursday, Hobbs told Action News 5 he didn't do it. They believed something inappropriate may be going on between the two, who practically lived together. Right as this happened, Terry, who was their neighbor, called to Stevie to come home. Tragically, for all involved, no one seemed interested or would return their calls. I was almost 21, a new mom and lived just across the bridge, in Memphis when the murders happened. This could have given him ample time to clean the area. ~Stevie had bruises on the back of his hands, indicating he put up a fight. UNLESS YOU KNOW NOT GETTING UP THERE AND LOOKING AT IT ALL. was terry hobbs ever found. I believe the known evidence supports the notion that Terry said yes, but that Stevie went inside to eat dinner first. A certain kind of way. evil" when he loses his temper and "he doesn't get mad, he gets 'even'". Allegedly, the four men made it to a spot in the Blue Beacon Woods and Terry Hobbs asked the teens to wrestle each other. I think he knew it because he knew that Damien didnt really commit this murder and thats why he basically tells his aunt not to tell this lie. Or alone at night with people swarming the area. Meaning to me that he was the third one caught). That night and the next morning, families of the missing children with the help of neighbors and police, searched the Robin Hood Hill woods, the Blue Beacon woods and the surrounding areas. West Memphis Police Officer, Bryn Ridge found Michael Moore first, just south of the crooked tree that juts out from the ground in the photo on the far left. VICKIE: UM, WEST MEMPHIS POLICE HAD ALL OF THE AREA ROPED OFF, VICKIE: I WENT TO THE DEAD END IT WAS YOU KNOW. "It's my. In late 2008, Hobbs entered into litigation with Natalie Maines Pasdar over alleged libelous comments. Terry and Pam see Dawn Moore and tell her they are looking for Stevie. Then, I believe the men left around 5:45 and headed out of West Memphis towards Lakeshore trailerpark where Terrys alleged drug dealer lived. WHAT I THINK HAPPENED TO THEM. In Billy Stewarts statement, Terry had another drug dealer named Roy Taylor. If the theory of Terry and David leaving West Memphis and heading to Lakeshore trailer park at 5:45 is true, then Terry and David could have theoretically ran into Buddy Lucas and LG Hollingsworth sometime around 6pm, since both LG and Buddy were last seen at Lakeshore that afternoon. Before I continue, its important to bring up the alleged homosexuality of Terry Hobbs, which , in my opinion lends credence to the entire theory. Pam Hobbs, with husband, Terry, hopes people will remember the life . If the purpose in stripping the boys was to demean and humiliate them, then Terry would have wanted them to be conscious while he did it. It also would have allowed Terry to take things to the next level; if he began with seemingly innocent orders he could have continued things that way, escalating events with each command. VICKIE: YESYES I HAVERIDGE: AND WHEN WERE YOU THERE BEFORE? RIDGE OKAY, WHEN HE LEFT DID HE TELL SOMEBODY WHERE HE WAS GOING? Misskelly later recanted and claimed he was tired, ready to go home, and said what the detectives wanted him to say. I thought, surely, if this is a lie, it will be discredited quickly by known facts and information. When police finally did ask Buddy where he was the night of the 5th, he claimed that he barbecued with his family and then brought over some barbecue chicken to Jessie who ended up not being there. Further, I have another theory why the crime scene appeared so clean. RIDGE DO YOU REMEMBER THAT DAY ON THE 5TH, DO YOU REMEMBER WHAT YOU DID THAT DAY? In 2007 it was discovered that a hair that had been found underneath a ligature on Michael Moores nude body, belonged to Terry Hobbs. HES NEVER SEEN THEM, AARON: CAUSE IT WAS ON A FRIDAY WHENEVER HE WENT DOWN THERE WITH US. They are also one of very few people,who hadfamily memberswho suspected that they were involved and actually contacted police as a result of those suspicions. Hobbs was the stepfather of Steven Branch, one of the boys found murdered in 1993, in West Memphis, Arkansas. It really wasnt too difficult to do, at least for some of it. According to Mark, Terry told him that the boys had been seen heading to the woods and that he was going to head down that way to look. According to Buddys confession, the men then drove him back to Lakeshore and dropped him off. And if he witnessed the beginning of sexual activity, Stevie, unlike the others, would have known that if the three of them got caught spying they all would have been killed. Cookie Notice Additionally, Michael Moore was tied on one side of his body using a somewhat complicated knot, called a Square Knot. Hobbs may be awful, but nothing accounts for the beating and drowning that took place. The question, however, is why wasChrisdegloved and not the other children? The use of hobbling helps to quickly control the animal as well as making transportation of the animal more easy. AARON: I THINK THEY WAS WATCHING THEM MEN LIKE LIKE WE ALWAYS DID, AND THEY THEY GOT CAUGHT, AND THEN THEY NEVER TOLD THE MEN, AND THE MEN SORTA KILLED THEM. It's sickening because I think everyone forgets the innocent boys that will never have justice. VICKIE: SO THEN UM, II JUST GOT AARON OUT OF THERE BECAUSE YOU KNOW. The question about Terry propositioning David Jacoby has lead some people to defend Jacoby, claiming that he would not have told people he was propositioned if he really had a secret gay relationship with Terry Hobbs. Those who didnt know the case that well simply believed that Chris entire penis and scrotum had been cut off with a knife. Anyway, some things the autopsy reports show us.. ~Chris was alive when he was being tied up. LG spent the day of the 5th with his aunt, Narlene. At first she claimed that this happened at 4:30 and at the murder trials, she claimed it was sometime after 5pm. ~It appears the boys *were* punched.. at least a little bit. If we believe these statements by Aaron, which I think are very plausible, we have not only a motive for murder but the very basis for what might have occurred in those woods on May 5th, 1993. I believe at this time, Terry directed his attention to Stevie and bit him repeatedly on this face. In addition to the Ballard sighting, there is more evidence that supports the boys were with Terry around 5pm. Not only did Terry whip Stevie for not listening, but Pam was strict as well. West Memphis Three. He died before he was finished being tied up. BLY HE WAS SUPPOSE TO GO MEET JESSIE MISSKELLEY OUT AT LAKESHORE. AND UH, HE SAID AFTER WE HAD LEFT THE MOORES COMING OUT OF THEIR DOOR HE TOLD ME MAMA LETS GO TO THE CLUB HOUSE. Who Is Terry Hobbs, Stepfather Of West Memphis Three Victim? | True Terry knew that Stevie was with Michael Moore. 5:30pm According to both Terry Hobbs and David Jacoby, Terry and Amanda show up at the Jacobys at approx. One of the mysteries of this crime is the location of the bodies in the drainage ditch. He allegedly admitted to Bennie that he had participated in the murders with three other men, LG Hollingsworth, Terry Hobbs and David Jacoby. Its important to note that the details of Aarons interview were not open to the public until 2006. transfer betterment to vanguard. I think David Jacoby made a mistake/ a slip when he claimed that he saw the three boys, two on bicycles and one on a skateboard on the street when Terry showed up. I allege that after Stevie and Chris had been stripped and attacked, Terry began to tie up Stevie. Unfortunately, the police had such tunnel vision about the reason why they believe the murders had occurred and who they believed the perpetrators were, that they basically ignored what Aarons statements really revealed; they unwittingly lead Aaron away from helping them find the true killers. That leaves many years unaccounted for. No. http://www.myfoxmemphis.com/story/21810828/new-allegations-surface-in-the-west-memphis-3-murders. If they had focused on what the evidence at the crime scene really revealed, in addition to the details from Aarons interview, they would have been looking for a male or males who knew the victims well, were rumored or known homosexual or bisexual men approximately aged from 20-30 years old, and a person(s) who was free to frequent the woods in the afternoons from 5pm- 8pm at night, Monday -Thursday. First of all, something led the perpetrators to get into the water. Humiliation is a strong word and punishment for the situation. RIDGE: YOU WERE ALWAYS THERE FIRST. VICKIE: UM, JUST SOME BOARDS, LOOKED LIKE SOME ONE HAD LIKE MADE A DEER STAND, A LONG TIME AGO OR SOMETHING AND JUST SOME BOARDS AND THEY KINDA HAD YOU KNOW LIKE A FORT. I just can't get it out of my head. Id certainly like to know the back story to some of those questions. -5:00 Terry Hobbs drops Pam off at work and returns home What happened next is a theory supported by evidence and interviews. Jackie Jr. survived the shooting, but died years later as a result of complications pertaining to his injuries. The podcast Dark Dark World just released an episode (#23) with a narrative positing a theory about Terry Hobbs as the possible murderer. RIDGE: OKAY, AND WHAT DID YOU FIND WHEN YOU CAME TO THE AREA? However, I dont think it takes an expert to see that the mark above Stevies eye appears to truly be a bite mark. Due to the suspicion surrounding Buddy and because of his erratic behavior, Bennie Guy decided to confront Buddy and ask him if he truly was involved. After 18 months Echols was informed that the evidence was likely not available, but after a state court order, Echols team was invited to the West Memphis Police Department to review what evidence remained. On May 6, 1993, three boys are found hog-tied and murdered in a ditch in West Memphis, Arkansas. The Hobbses are the mother and stepfather of Steve Branch, who. And someone like that can lie and lie and lie and lie, rigfht to your fuckin' face,because narcissism is about protecting the self-myth. When the boys bodies were discovered, there were found in the Blue Beacon Woods right next to the alleged clubhouse where the boys played. No. By the time Buddy would have been dropped off at Lakeshore and the other three arrived in West Memphis, it could have been somewhere around 8:15-8:30. ALRIGHT DID CHRIS AND MICHAEL DID THEY TELL YOU THAT THEY THOUGHT THEY HAD GOT CAUGHT. In the second statement, Narlene describes to police a conversation she had with LG outside of the police station right before a police interview. "[4], In November of 1994, more than a year after the murders of the three children in West Memphis, Hobbs again experienced trouble with the law. The manner in which they were tied also tells us about the crime and the perpetrator(s). In other words, a bite on Stevies face would likely mean that his perpetrator was a parent or step-parent. Is it just a coincidence that Buddy mentions that the boys were hit on the back of the head, and that, unknown to the public, all three were in fact hit in the back of the head? If you're into dick as an adult, you're gonna find your community. I dont feel it was an actualclubhouse. Buddy allegedly confessed that when the four returned to the truck, Terry and David looked to the teens and promised to kill them if they ever spoke of the crime to anyone. Why else would *Chris* have patterned bruises on his thighs(could be finger marks)? Years later it was discovered by experts for the defense that a knife had not caused the injuries to Chris penis at all. Mark Byers claimed that Chris had attempted to break into the house sometime near 5pm but could not get in, when Mark arrived home at 5:20 and left shortly after to pick up his other son, he saw Chris riding his skateboard in the street. A year or so after Buddy admitted to Bennie of his involvement, he also allegedly confessed to Billy Stewart and described to him what happened. I think you're on to something here. Jacoby knows something. My theory is that Chris had tried to get into his home and failed and was heading back to Stevies house when he was picked up by his dad instead. If you read Jacobys interview and declaration, they both give Hobbs an alibi and they both make it impossible for Hobbs to have committed the crime without Jacoby having noticed something peculiar about Hobbs. I know there was a warning but the warning wasn't clear enough. Lastly, even David Jacoby, friend to Terry Hobbs, testified that when Terry arrived at his home at 5:30, he asked Terry where Stevie was. HE TOLD THE REST OF THE MEN TO HOLD THEM OR SOMETHING AND PROBABLY DID IT. VICKIE: THE DEAD END ON MCAULEYRIDGE: ON MCAULEY BYVICKIE: BY THE APARTMENTSRIDGE: OKAY, ALRIGHT. She yelled for him to get out of her home. RIDGE: ONE TIME, WERE THEY, WERE YOU ALL WATCHING THE FIVE MEN DOWN THERE THAT TIME WHEN HE WENT WITH YOU? These alleged confessions did not, and could not, comefrom intense online investigation. Peretti believed that and the Echols defense team, although claiming that Chris must have drowned, all admitted that Chris died while he was being tied up. When he was finished with that, I believe he then turned to Stevie. RIDGE: WHEN I SAY HAVING SEX IS THAT WHAT YOUR DESCRIBING? He was one of four children and came from a strict and religious family. As Brent Turvey wrote in his profile of the criminal, the man who perpetrated this act against Christopher is a closet homosexual who carries shame about his homosexual tendencies. According to Gary Gitchell, there was rainfall on at least one or two of those nights. Which is right in line with why this attack would have occurred. In FBI profiler John Douglass' book Law and Disorder, he makes a strong case for Hobbs. What was he doing for so many hours in that small patch of woods? He isn't going to sway me to their innocence because I've done my own research outside of his book. He was still wearing the same shirt and tie when he was spotted at approx. WE ALWAYS GOT A PLACE TO HIDE BEFORE THEY CAN GET THERE, AARON: WE HIDE ONE TIME WE HIDE BEHIND UM A TREE. WHAT DID IT SMELL LIKE DID IT STINK?AARON: YEAH (YES) IT STUNKRIDGE: WHAT IT SMELL LIKE?AARON: IT SMELLED LIKE, IT SMELLED LIKE A CIGARETTE JUST GETTING LILT BUT IT WAS A DIFFERENT KINDAaron tells police why he believes his friends were killed: RIDGE: TELL ME WHAT YOU THINK HAPPENED?AARON: THEY UM, THEY WENT DOWN TO WATCH THOSE MEN AND. For instance: Terry says the two ran in to an older whiteman who told them the boys were heading towards the woods. WE NEED TO GO TO THE CLUB HOUSE. He has dead eyes. 9pm at night, and according to her, he was wearing a white shirt and tie. That 1 cop will have bumped into everyone in that southern, 90s, dick-liking community. What the ME failed to mention, however, is that a one time act of oral sex on a child is not going to cause enough injury to a childs penis to be noticeable. Sound like way to describe some ritual, smoke signal, face paint stuff. Do you frequent gay clubs? After he removed his clothes, he ripped out one shoelace from Michaels shoe and cut it in half with his knife. In the beginning I thought it was TH. Stevies bite mark on the left and known bite marks on the right. I personally believe that this boy was Michael Moore. It breaks my heart and I thought about it for 3 weeks straight after I got into the case. What reasons could there possibly be for not being honest about the night a horrific murder of children took place? When the boys were found, along with their clothes the following day, there were two pairs of underwear and 5 socks missing from the crime scene. AND HE SAID BECAUSE WE WERE SCARED, AND THEY WERE SCARED I GUESS OF GETTING CAUGHT THEN AND AH HE SAID MICHAEL KEPT TELLING ME THAT IT WAS AN INDIAN THING THEY WERE SUPPOSED TO DO AND CHRIS SAID NO THEIR GETTING READY TO HAVE SEX. (Interestingly, Chris was referred to as the 3rd child in the alleged confessions. WHAT HAPPENED THAT DAY WHEN YOU GOT OUT OF SCHOOL WHAT WAS IT THEY WERE GOING TO DO THAT DAY? thanks for the recommendation!! RIDGE: IT IS OKAY, YOUVE BEEN DOWN THERE BEFORE? My theory is this: Stevie had never seen the men in the woods having sex before. in fact the first one to be attacked. The day after the boys went missing before they were even found, Michael Moore's parents asked Aaron's mother, Vickie Hutchinson, if Aaron could be removed from school to help find the boys. I allege that Terry came home right after 5pm and Stevie was headed to the house at this time. This too, may have further contributed to the injuries on the left side of his face. Terry did not tell me who he was calling until hed completed the phone call and came out to the car. Vicky Edwards, a writer and teacher, has announced the release of her first book, "Boxful of Nightmares, Terry Hobbs' Personal Memoirs on the West Memphis Three Murders." VICKIE: YES. If this is to be believed, it makes sense. It seems more likely that someonesawHobbs make a pass at Jacoby and then told Natalie Maines lawyers about it. On the north side of the pipe bridge, very close to the Blue Beacon woods, a woman on the service road saw the three boys riding their bicycles at approx. Terry's father became a skilled butcher while in the military and used this knowledge to open about thirty restaurants. He then told the others to Get them, fuckers! [5], In 2003, Hobbs was arrested for possession of marijuana and found guilty.[6]. Whats peculiar is that Michael Moore was somewhat further away from Stevie and Chris, and that the location of the bodies was actually around 20 feet south of the suspected murder location. According to Billy Stewarts statement, he believes that at this time some sexual activity occurred between the men and two teens. There is an easy explanation for that, though, if its true. A and B represent Chris and Michaels home and the C on the map on the right represents Stevies home. YEA IT WAS BUT, I WOULD THINK SO, IN ORDER TO HOLD ALL 3 LITTLE 8 YEAR OLDS THAT IT WAS PRETTY STURDY. The crime scene, as well as the clubhouse were both located somewhat close to each other on the east side of the drainage ditch. Dana Moore was there the entire time; she never left. DNA consistent with Terry Hobbs, stepfather of victim Stevie Branch, was. She hasnt seen him or Michael by this point. The three little boys referenced in the declarations were found brutally murdered in West Memphis, Arkansas in 1993. Ok, pull down his pants, etc. 4:00 Chris leaves leaves Pams house to meet up with Stevie and Michael who are out riding their bikes in the neighborhood. Is it merely a coincidence that Terry Hobbs was a former butcher and that he grew up working on his familys pig farm? If the cop is a nobody, it's marginally tougher, but still doable. He told police that Jessie had confessed to him and that he said that he had just held the boys while the others killed them. They were so sure that the murders were part of a satanic ritual done by teenagers, and were so desperate to make sure that Aarons answers revealed that, that eventually Aarons statements began to get more and more fantastical and implausible. Crime scene footage of the pile of boards. The fact that the knots were not all the same, indicates as well that Terry was not the only person to tie up these children. Hobbs, who dropped Pamela off at work at around 4:30 p.m., picked her up at approximately 9 p.m. and walked straight to a payphone to report the boy missing. When prosecutor John Fogelman interviewed Buddy later, Buddy repeatedly told him that he had an alibi for the 5th despite the fact that Fogelman never even brought it up himself. 3:15 Michael Moore shows up and asks if he and Stevie can ride bikes together. Since Jacoby knew that Hobbs was with Pam at 9pm, he clearly meant that Hobbs had left for the two hours that Jacoby had previously claimed they were together. This case has just been trapped in my mind since I heard about it and it breaks my heart every single day. I believe the clubhouse was mainly a concealed spot where the boys played. Press J to jump to the feed. I believe it was because Stevie was hit repeatedly on the left side of the face by LG. He noted that his son spent a lot of time in the home of Terry Hobbs and could easily have picked up the hair (with DNA matching that of Terry Hobbs) found in his shoelaces on one of those occasions. Look what you made me do! Twitter. After the boys were attacked and stripped of their clothes, they were tied up. RIDGE: THE ONE IN THE WHITE SHIRT DOES HE LIKE TO BOSS? That could be why Stevie had wounds to the face, while the other boys had wounds to their head. Despite this evidence, no charges have ever been brought against Hobbs, who still firmly believes that Echols, Baldwin, and Misskelley are guilty of the . A month later three teens, Damien Echols, Jason Baldwin and Jessie Misskelley were arrested for the murders of the three eight year old boys. Ifvery conservativelyone in every 10-20 people is gay or bi, and the police force is made up of 20 people (just a fun number) one of those cops is gonna like dick. That leaves one very glaring, unexplainable question. 'Forgotten West Memphis Three' doc aims to give victims of notorious Terry Hobbs, however, was not without his defenders. And in another statement made a week later, Aaron again says he believes his friends got caught spying on the men and one of them ordered the others to hold the boys while he killed them: AARON: NOBODY EVEN KNOWS THAT.. THAT I KNOW WHAT REALLY HAPPENED. VICKIE: HE STAYED. 1. As Michael was carried back to Terry, he allegedly kicked him. New Eyewitnesses: Three Boys Last Seen Alive with Terry Hobbs AARON: ITS, ITS IN UH, ITS IN THOSE WOODS WHERE UH, WHERE THAT STOP SIGN IS AND ITS. Additionally, why would LG go down to the Laundromat at approx. Furthermore, it is highly unlikely that anyone other than Terry Hobbs and David Jacoby committed this crime and Ill briefly explain why. CAN YOU EXPLAIN TO ME WHERE THE CLUB IS? He had a history of crime and domestic violence, and he shot his brother-in-law, allegedly in self-defense. Additionally, there is an ample amount of evidence, in my opinion, that Terry might have sexually abused all of his children. I learned through my connection in the drug-trade that Mr. Hobbs preferred sexwith young boys. Mark took Chris home, spanked him for being in the middle of the street and not waiting at home, told him to clean the carport and left him there cleaning at 5:30. I believe that David did ask Terry where Stevie was when Terry showed up at 5:30 and that Terry told him the truth: Stevie was riding his bike and would be back by dark (8pm). In the first one, she is relaying to police a conversation she had with her sister in law about LG and his family and the way they all were behaving a few days after the murder. I allege that he ordered the three to tie up the boys and explained that they should all be tied up in the same manner. Also, he may have searched for the boys in the woods around 5pm when he dropped Pam off at work, also when Terry was unaccounted for. A boy who is passed out does not need his clothes ripped off as quickly or roughly as one who is awake and struggling. The group also stated that Echols submitted a FOIA request over 18 months ago, but the request went unanswered, which is a violation of Arkansas state law. Echols ultimately ended filing a lawsuit against the police department. ! Retired FBI profiler, John Douglas, as well as profiler Brent Turvey both believed the entire attack was punitive in nature and that the perpetrator was teaching the boys a lesson for either a real or percieved transgression. While searching through the evidence, their lawyer and private investigator found a letter written to prosecutor, Scott Ellington in February 2012. I think Michelle died of a broken heart, possibly organ failure due to drug abuse. What would allegedly happen next is one of the greatest indicators that the statements made by Billy and Bennie are in fact true. And if Aaron's story is true, Terry Hobbs may have been involved in homosexual activities and smoking something in the woods with other men and the boys were possibly caught watching them as they'd done multiple times. Terry showed up at his good friend Davids house to drop off Amanda so he and David could go buy marijuana. I believe he intended to terrify and threaten them so they would never, ever speak of what they had seen. Douglas believes the act was meant to dominate, control, humiliate and punish. I dont know what L. G. is capable of, and I am not saying that he would do it, and I am not saying that he wouldnt, but I know Damian. He actually interfered in a police investigation and he admitted it publicly. He systematically destroyed every member of his family, traumatizing them with years of extreme sexual abuse/grooming and beatings. Another interesting bit of information that Aaron tells police is that not only did Stevie not ever join the others when they watched these man having sex in the woods, but that Chris and Michael told Aaron not to tell anyone what they had seen, including Stevie, who was one of their best friends. I dont believe when Terry first saw them that he intended to kill them. He actually worked in a slaughterhouse. LG also lied extensively about his whereabouts the night of the 5th. It is much more plausible that Stevie would have come home not much later than the time he was originally supposed to be there and that he made it home not much later than dinnertime. ~Also, during trial, Perreti said about ten times that the weapon was probably a 24. However, Richard vehemently denied lending LG his car that night. At 6:40 the men may have shown up in the BB woods, some wrestling may have occurred and some drinking and/or smoking and even the beginning of sexual activity. Theres no debate about that because there were steep inclines on the sides of the ditch where all three bodies were placed, making it impossible that they were just tossed in from either the east or west bank. It's haunting. The 3 were let out of jail on an Alford Plea, which means that they admit that there is enough evidence to find them guilty (and thus the case is considered closed) but still maintain that they are innocent. It puts all questions to rest. I admit that when I first read the alleged Buddy/LG confessions I was skeptical. Statement made by Anthony Hollingsowrth, cousin to LG, to police. Biting and stabbing the groin of a male victim is a hallmark of a homosexual homicide. Additionally, Stevie, by both Pam and Terrys accounts was a well behaved boy who did not disobey. The teens wouldnt have minded being asked to wrestle initially and its even likely they would have removed their shirts to do so (especially if LG was wearing a shirt and tie at this time).