the murders?
A: No, sir, I wasn’t involved in that per se.
Q: Is it fair to say on June third Mr. Echols was a suspect?
A: June third? Yes, sir.
Q: I want to be real careful about not putting words in your mouth but at the detective’s meeting in which Officer Durham was present, it was discussed that Damien was a suspect and that you heard Jessie was an associate of his. Is that correct?
A: Yes, sir.
Q: What was the nature of their association?
A: I’m - - I’m - - I was advised that they were associates. I don’t really know how tight they were if that’s what you’re asking me.
Q: I guess what I’m asking you is why - - what information did the detective bureau have that would put or link Jessie Misskelley to Damien Echols?
A: That they were all members of a satanic cult.
Q: At this point did you believe or did detectives in the West Memphis Police Department believe this was a satanic cult killing?
A: There was - - I don’t really know how to answer what you just asked. Do I believe this was a satanic cult killing? I didn’t know at that particular time. It had been brought up.
Q: I’m curious. You say that Damien and Jessie were allegedly members of this cult?
(p. 473)
his that lived in the Lakeshore area.
Q: Did you use the word “Damien” at all?
A: I don’t recall.
Q: You knew that a couple of weeks or maybe a week prior to June third that Jessie had given you some information about someone he thought might be involved in this?
A: I’m not sure of an exact date of it but he had made a statement about what he had heard.
Q: You’re talking about Mr. Laxton, Tracey Laxton?
A: About the incident, yes, sir.
Q: So you were the officer that Mr. Misskelley talked to prior to June third that he thought Mr. Laxton was involved?
A: No, sir. That was just someone that - - I’m not real sure exactly how that all occurred.
Q: I will just go on because I don’t want you to talk about something you’re not sure of.
Was there anyone else present at Jim’s Repair Shop when you got to the shop and asked to speak to Jessie Junior?
A: I would assume that another person that was there that was kind of trying to listen to what me and Jessie Senior were talking about would have been Jim but I don’t know him.
Q: Would that be Jim McNease?
A: I would assume that was Jim, the owner of the repair shop.
Q: You told Jessie Senior in the presence of Jim, the owner of the repair shop, that you wanted to talk to Jessie Junior about
(p. 479)
Q: Do you remember what was contained in your notes and what questions you asked him without looking at your notes?
A: The questions - - as far as different questions I would have asked him, I would say I would have a memory of some of the things he told me.
Q: But you don’t remember specifically what questions you asked him without referring to your notes?
A: I don’t think in my notes I have got particular questions. It is highlights of what he told me while I was talking to him.
Q: Do you have a copy of this?
A: Yes, sir, I do.
Q: Those are your notes of what you talked about?
A: This is some highlighted things that I jotted down while I was talking to him
Q: So you obviously asked him questions because how could he be telling you stuff if you didn’t ask him questions?
A: Yeah, we asked him - - the bulk of this was his knowledge of Damien Echols.
Q: In your notes it says - - said something about Damien said something about Jason Baldwin, said something about Damien’s girlfriend. In the middle of your notes what does he say about a Robert Burch?
A: It was about - - he had heard a rumor that - - he had heard a rumor that Damien and a subject by the name of Robert Burch had did it.
(p. 480)
Q: So obviously you asked him, “Do you know about what happened to the boys?”
A: That would be more in the line of, “What have you heard? What do you know?”
Q: You asked him what did he know about the homicides? Is that what you asked him?
A: As far as him being a suspect even at this time when I was doing this, no, sir. It wasn’t in the line of questioning, “Did you do it,” or anything of that nature.
Q: According to your handwritten notes when Jessie told you in response to your question, “Do you know anything about the homicides,” - - “I heard that Damien and Robert Burch did it.” At this point he’s not a suspect?
A: Something he heard is a rumor he had heard. There was a lot of people speculating and telling what they heard.
Q: He wasn’t a suspect at this particular time?
A: At this particular time, no, we were still - - we were trying to find out some information about Damien Echols from him.
Q: What is the next entry in your notes?
A: This is - - the next entry in my notes after that is I asked him where he was at - - if he can remember the day that this happened.
Q: “This” being the homicide?
A: Yes, uh-huh. That he - - if he - - that line of questioning (p. 481) would have more or less been if he can remember what day, if he had seen Damien that day or whatever.
Q: You were not accusing him of doing this because you asked him where he was that day. Is that what you are telling the Court?
A: We asked a lot of people where they were at that day to see if they remembered that day in regards to if they seen, heard or whatever.
Q: I am a little bit confused because you’re telling me you asked someone where they were on the day of the homicides, yet you didn’t consider them a suspect?
A: That was a question that I asked probably everybody I had talked to up to that point and the other people - - there were a lot of people that I had talked to that were not considered suspects and at this point in my opinion Jessie Misskelley was not a suspect up to this point.
Q: At 11:00 A.M. on 6-3-93 he was not a suspect?
A: At this point he was not - - at what time?
Q: It says in your notes 11:00 A.M. on 6-3-93.
A: This was written probably during the 10:30 time period. This - - these notes weren’t all jotted down at 11:00 A.M. This is the time I wrote out here to the side and at the completion of this interview. It started between ten and eleven.
Q: Are you trying to confuse everybody by putting the wrong time in your notes? I’m confused, officer. It says 6-3-93 at
