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To everyone who still thinks they are guilty...

posted 9 years ago by FoldingStars
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I am relatively new to this case and I can't stop thinking about it. I've watched all of the documentaries and just finished reading 'Devil's Knot', so I am in no way an expert on the case, just interested in/haunted by it and wanting to learn more.

My main question to those who believe WM3 are guilty is, what do you think about the complete lack of DNA evidence at the crime scene? Surely the area and the bodies of those poor children would have been covered in it?

We don't need these happy endings.

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[–] johnm-dalton 9 years ago

Anyone who thinks they are guilty is a worthless piece of s hit.

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[–] freeboarder 9 years ago

There was dna/trace evidence, but it was very questionable.

different fibres were found on the victims clothes that matched fibres from clothes found at Damion's and Jason's houses. But they were common pieces of fibre.

On the necklace Damion was wearing when arrested there was blood the same type as one of the boys murdered which was also the same as Jason's and blood which matched his own type.

There was also blue candle wax on one of the boy's clothes which was similar to blue candle wax in Damion's house.

They should reinvestigate the case fully. Once and for all to find the real killer/killers.

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[–] flaiky 8 years ago

My main question to those who believe WM3 are guilty is, what do you think about the complete lack of DNA evidence at the crime scene? Surely the area and the bodies of those poor children would have been covered in it?

The circumstances of the crime scene certainly made it difficult for there to be much DNA. Also, if the children were killed by beatings and head injuries (this film suggests quite convincingly that the cuts and bites were all done by animals, not the killers) then there probably wouldn't have been much DNA anyway.

That said, I agree that it seems significant that none of the DNA found matches up with any of the WM3.

The key thing is: very little DNA evidence was found at all, either from the WM3 or not, so no conclusions based on it can be made. It's a real shame there wasn't more physical evidence, or that the West Memphis Police hadn't dealt with the case better, because that would have resolved this whole impossible mystery.

That is a masterpiece of understatement.