ON 051593, ROBERT FELIX BURCH WAS INTERVIEWED IN THE WEST MEMPHIS POLICE DEPARTMENT BY DETECTIVE MIKE ALLEN AND DETECTIVE B. RIDGE. ROBERT WAS IN THE OFFICE OF HIS OWN FREE WILL AFTER HE WAS ASKED BY DETECTIVE ALLEN TO COME TO THE POLICE DEPARTMENT IN REFERENCE TO THE HOMICIDE OF THE THREE 8 YEAR OLD BOYS.
ROBERT STATED THAT HE USED TO RUN AROUND WITH; LITTLE AL THOMAS, MARLOW NEWTON, RICKEY CLIMMER, AND BILL CROUCH. ROBERT CLAIMED THAT HE USED TO GO TO THE MAYFAIR APARTMENTS WHEN HIS COUSIN RONNIE SHARP LIVED THERE ABOUT 7 YEARS AGO. HE STATED THAT HE WAS NOT GOOD FRIENDS WITH THE WRENS BUT THAT HE DOES KNOW THEM AND HAS SEEN THEM ON OCCASION. HE STATED THAT HE HAS TALKED TO THEM AT THE BOWLING ALLEY ON OCCASION.
ROBERT STATED THAT HE HAD HEARD THAT THE WRENS HAD DONE THE MURDERS. ROBERT FURTHER STATED THAT HE HEARD THAT FRANKIE KNIGHT HAS SAID THAT DAVID WREN IS THE PERSON WHO KILLED THE BOYS ALONG WITH SOME OF HIS FRIENDS BUT THAT THIS WAS ONLY A RUMOR THAT HE HAD HEARD. ROBERT ALSO STATED THAT HE THOUGHT THAT FRANKIE MAY HAVE WATCHED THE MURDERS BUT, AGAIN HE SAID THAT WAS ONLY A RUMOR.
ROBERT STATED THAT HE WAS AT THE SKATING RINK LAST NIGHT AND THAT HE SAID JASON BALDWIN WAS THERE. JASON BALDWIN STATED THAT SOME PRIVATE DETECTIVES HAD STATED THAT HE AND JASON WERE THE ONES WHO DID THE MURDERS. ROBERT SAID THAT HE KNEW JASON FROM WHEN HE USED TO LIVE AT HIGHLAND TRAILER PARK AND THAT HE ALSO KNOWS ANOTHER JASON BALDWIN WHO LIVES IN THE AREA OF STEWART STREET IN WEST MEMPHIS. THE JASON BALDWIN WHO MADE THE STATEMENT ABOUT THE MURDERS LIVES IN LAKESHORE TRAILER PARK AND IS A LOT SKINNIER.
ROBERT STATED THAT HE REALLY DIDN'T KNOW ANY OF JASON'S FRIENDS EXCEPT FOR A JESSIE MISKELLY JR. AND CHARLES ASHLEY JR. ROBERT ALSO STATED THAT THE WRENS HAVE BEEN SEEN ON DIFFERENT OCCASIONS WITH TIM HARBIN AND A ROGER CONLEY.
ROBERT STATED THAT ON THE DAY OF THE MURDERS THAT HE WAS WORKING AT THE PEABODY IN MEMPHIS WHERE HE IS EMPLOYED BY METRO CONSTRUCTION. HE GETS HOME AT ABOUT 4:10 PM AND HE COULD NOT REMEMBER IF HE MAY HAVE GONE OVER TO HIS NEIGHBOR'S HOUSE OR NOT BUT THAT HE DIDN'T REMEMBER GOING ANYWHERE. HIS NEIGHBORS ARE TOMMY FINNEY AND JAMES NELSON.
