INVESTIGATIVE REPORT
TRIPLE HOMICIDE
BYERS, MOORE, BRANCH

ON 061493, I INTERVIEWED HUBERT B. BARTOUSH AT HIS RESIDENCE AT 1037 PARK IN WEST MEMPHIS, ARKANSAS. MR. BARTOUSH STATED THAT JASON BALDWIN WAS AT HIS RESIDENCE MOWING HIS YARD ON 050593. HE STATED THAT JASON WAS ALONE AT THAT TIME AND THAT HE GOT TO HIS RESIDENCE AT 4:30 PM AND LEFT AT 6:30 PM. HE STATED THAT ON THIS DATE THAT JASON WAS ALONE AND THAT HE WAS SURE OF THE TIMES BECAUSE OF T.V. PROGRAMS COMING ON.

HE STATED THAT JASON HAD GOTTEN OUT OF SCHOOL ON THAT DATE AND WALKED TO HIS HOME TO MOW THE YARD. HE STATED THAT JASON WAS A FEW DAYS LATE IN MOWING THE YARD AND THAT THE DATE STUCK OUT IN HIS MIND. JASON USED MR. BARTOUSH'S MOWER TO MOW THE YARD. MR. BARTOUSH STATED THAT JASON WAS GOING TO WALMART AFTER HE COMPLETED THE YARD AND THAT JASON LEFT ON FOOT. JASON WAS ON FOOT WHEN HE LEFT AND HE DID'T SEE WHERE HE WENT AFTER HE LEFT THE HOUSE.

HE FURHTER STATED THAT HE DIDN'T KNOW HOW JASON COULD HAVE KILLED THE BOYS AT 4:00 PM WHEN HE WAS SURE THAT HE ONLY HAD TIME TO GET TO HIS HOUSE AFTER SCHOOL AND THAT HE DIDN'T HAVE TIME TO HAVE GONE ANYWHERE ELSE.

MR. BARTOUSH STATED THAT ON ANOTHER OCCASION JASON HAD COME TO HIS HOUSE TO MOW HIS YARD AND THAT A BOY HE THOUGHT TO BE DAMIEN AND A GIRL WITH LONG RED HAIR HE BELIEVED TO BE DOMINI HAD COME WITH HIM. HE STATED THAT THIS WAS NOT ON THE 5TH OF MAY BUT SOME TIME LATER. HE STATED THAT ON THAT DATE THAT DAMIEN HAD BEEN WEARING A LONG BLACK TRENCH COAT.


DETECTIVE B. RIDGE
WEST MEMPHIS POLICE DEPARTMENT