ON 12/31/93 THIS REPORTING OFFICER TALKED WITH JIM ROBBINS OWNER/OPERATOR OF ROBBINS BOOK STORE -1985 WALMART RD C11, WEST MEMPHIS, ARKANSAS. JIM ROBBINS WAS ASKED BY THIS REPORTING OFFICER IF HE REMEMBERED IF ANY ONE OF THE THREE PERSONS WHO WERE ARRESTED FOR THE TRIPLE HOMICIDE HAD EVER BEEN IN HIS BOOK STORE. HE STATED THAT HE OPENED HIS BOOK STORE IN APRIL OF 1993, AND HE REMEMBERED THAT DAMIAN THE ONE WITH THE BLACK HAIR HAD BEEN IN NUMEROUS TIMES AND HE ALWAYS REMEMBER HIM COMING IN WITH HIS MOTHER A BLACK HAIRED LADY AND A TEENAGE BLOND HEADED GIRL. JIM ROBBINS STATED THAT HE REMEMBERED WHEN THE PICTURES CAME OUT IN THE PAPER OF THE ARREST OF THE THREE SUSPECTS IN REGARD TO THE TRIPLE HOMICIDE THAT, DAMIEN HAD BEEN IN THE STORE LIKE TWO OR THREE DAYS BEFORE. THIS REPORTING OFFICER ASKED JIM ROBBINS IF HE REMEMBERED ANY BOOK TITLES THAT DAMIEN MIGHT OF PURCHASED, JIM ROBBINS STATED THAT DAMIEN DID PURCHASE A HARD BACK BOOK, THE TITLE BEING (THE WITCHING HOUR) AND THE AUTHOR WAS ANN RICE, JIM ROBINS COULDN'T REMEMBER ANY OTHER PACIFIC TITLES BUT THAT HE BOUGHT ALOT OF STEVEN KING BOOKS AND BOOKS THAT HE WOULD CONSIDER A LITTLE ON THE DARK SIDE, AND SCIENCE FICTION BOOKS. JIM ROBBINS WAS ASKED ABOUT THE CARD PUNCH SYSTEM THAT IS USED AT HIS STORE AND IF THERE WERE ANY RECORDS KEPT AS TO TITLES OF BOOKS SOLD AND TO WHOM. JIM ROBBINS STATED THAT HE DIDN'T KEEP RECORDS BUT THAT WHEN A PERSON WOULD MAKE A TEN DOLLAR PURCHASE THAT HE WOULD PUNCH THE CARD ONCE. JIM ROBBINS WAS ASKED IF ANYONE ELSE WORKED IN THE STORE THAT MIGHT REMEMBER ANYTHING ABOUT DAMIEN COMING IN TO THE STORE AND HE STATED THAT HIS WIFE CHRISTY ROBBINS WORKED IN THE STORE AND THAT HE WOULD ASK HER IF SHE REMEMBERED ANYTHING AND GET BACK IN TOUCH WITH THIS REPORTING OFFICER
DET.SGT.MIKE ALLEN 12/31/93