THIS IS DETECTIVE RIDGE OF WEST MEMPHIS POLICE DEPARTMENT, TODAY'S DATE 10-07 OF 93, THE TIME 4:04 P.M. IN THE OFFICE WITH ME IS TIFFANY DANIELLE ALLEN, FEMALE, WHITE, 13 YEARS OLD, HER MOTHER GAYLA ALLEN AND GRANDMOTHER VERA HILL. TIFFANY BASICALLY YOUR HERE BECAUSE YOUR NAME CAME UP DURING AN INTERVIEW WITH UH, ONE OF THE SUSPECTS IN THE TRIPLE HOMICIDE WHERE THE THREE EIGHT YEAR OLD BOYS WERE KILLED HERE IN WEST MEMPHIS. YOU HAD A CONFLICT I UNDERSTAND WITH JESSIE MISSKELLEY IS THAT CORRECT?
ALLEN: YES SIR
RIDGE: CAN YOU TELL ME ABOUT THE CIRCUMSTANCES THAT LEAD UP TO THAT CONFLICT?
ALLEN: WELL WHEN THEY WE HAD GOTTEN IN TO AN ARGUMENT AND HE HAD BEEN SPREADING A RUMOR AROUND THAT HE WAS HAVING SEXUAL INTERCOURSE WITH ME TO ALL THESE PEOPLE AND I CONFRONTED HIM WITH IT AND HE KEPT SAYING ALL THIS STUFF SO I SLAPPED HIM AND WHENEVER HE WENT AWAY AND EVERYTHING AND FOR A YEAR I DIDN'T HEAR ANYTHING FROM HIM AND TWO WEEKS SOMBODY CAME UP TO ME AND SAID THAT HE HAD BEEN LOOKING FOR ME AND SO I JUST DIDN'T WORRY ABOUT AND ONE DAY I WAS WALKING THROUGH THE PARK AND HE WAS AT THE ROAD AND
RIDGE: NOW THIS IS THE PARK CLOSE TO YOUR HOUSE IN LAKESHORE?
ALLEN: YES
RIDGE: OKAY
ALLEN: AND HE CAME UP TO ME HE STARTED RUNNING AT ME AND MY BOYFRIEND STEPPED IN FRONT OF ME AND HE HIT CARL.
RIDGE: CARL SMITH
ALLEN: HE HIT CARL AND THEN HE HIT ME AND WE STARTED TO WALK AWAY AND HE STARTED COMING AFTER US AGAIN, SO WE RAN AND HIS, A UNTIL ONE OF MY FRIENDS PARENTS CAME AND GOT US AND TOOK ME TO MY HOUSE
RIDGE: OKAY, I HAVE A DOCUMENT IN FRONT OF ME OF DATED 3-12 OF 93 IS THAT THE DAY THIS HAPPENED OR IS THAT DAY YOU WROTE THIS STATEMENT OUT?
ALLEN: THE DAY I WROTE THE STATEMENT OUT
RIDGE: OKAY, WHEN DO THAT ACTUALLY OCCUR, WHEN HE HAD ACTUALLY YOU AND CARL?
ALLEN: IT WAS THE DAY BEFORE
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RIDGE: WHICH WOULD OF BEEN ON THE 11TH OF THIS YEAR?
ALLEN: UH-HUH
RIDGE: OKAY, UM, SINCE THAT TIME HAS THERE BEEN ANY MORE THREATS FROM JESSIE OR ANYBODY ASSOCIATED WITH JESSIE?
ALLEN: NO SIR
RIDGE: OKAY, YOU MENTIONED EARLIER THAT SUSIE BREWER HAS MADE SOME THREATS?
ALLEN: OH YES SIR
RIDGE: WHAT WERE THOSE THREATS?
ALLEN: WELL
RIDGE: PERTAINING TO?
ALLEN: SHE JUST SAID THAT IF I PUT JESSIE IN COURT OR IN JAIL ARE ANYTHING LIKE THAT, I BETTER WATCH BACK BECAUSE THEY WERE ALL GOING TO BE AFTER ME, AND ALL THIS STUFF AND UM, HIS COUSINS CONFRONTED ME WITH IT, AND EVERYTHING AND I NEVER EVER, EVER HEARD NOTHING FROM JESSIE IT WAS ALWAYS SOMEBODY ELSE.
RIDGE: OKAY, NOW THIS GROUP, SHE'S SAYING THEY WOULD BE AFTER YOU, DO YOU KNOW OF A SATANIC GROUP THAT EXIST'S LAKESHORE?
ALLEN: NO SIR
RIDGE: YOU DON'T KNOW OF ONE AT ALL?
ALLEN: NO SIR
RIDGE: NOW THE TALK IS THAT ONE DOES EXIST AND THRE ARE THINGS THAT HAPPEN
ALLEN: YES SIR
RIDGE WHERE ARE THOSE THING HAPPENING?
ALLEN: IT SHOULD BE IN A FIELD BEHIND THE OLD UM, THE OLD SEWAGE PLANT BACK THERE
RIDGE: OKAY, UH DO YOU KNOW WHEN THAT WOULD OCCUR WAS DAYTIME, NIGHTTIME, HAVE YOU SEEN KIDS OUT THERE OR ANYTHING LIKE THAT?
ALLEN: NO SIR
RIDGE: YOU HAVEN'T
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ALLEN: IT SHOULD OCCUR IN THE NIGHT TIME
RIDGE: BUT
ALLEN: BUT I HAVEN'T NEVER SEEN ANYBODY OUT THERE
RIDGE: OKAY, AND YOU HEARD THAT A GROUP EXIST'S?
ALLEN: UH-HUH
RIDGE: SATANTIC GROUP?
ALLEN: YES SIR
RIDGE: AND YOU BELIEVE ONE EXIST'S, BUT YOU DON'T KNOW WHO THOSE MEMBERS ARE IS THAT CORRECT?
ALLEN: YES SIR
RIDGE: OKAY, UM YOU ALSO MENTIONED THAT YOU OBSERVED A FIGHT THAT JASON BALDWIN HAD ON ONE OCCASION?
ALLEN: YES SIR, WITH JOHN PERSCHKA
RIDGE: THAT'S WHO JASON WAS FIGHTING WITH?
ALLEN: UH-HUH
RIDGE: WHAT OCCURRED DURING THAT FIGHT?
ALLEN: WELL, JOHN HIT HIM HARD AND HE STARTED BLEEDING AND THEN AFTER THE FIGHT AND EVERYTHING DAMIEN BENDS DOWN PUT HIS FINGER IN, DIPS INTO THE BLOOD AND THEN STICKS IT IN HIS MOUTH
RIDGE: OKAY, YOU KNOW DAMIEN FROM SCHOOL OR WHERE DO YOU KNOW DAMIEN FROM?
ALLEN: JUST FROM WALKING AROUND
RIDGE: YOU'VE SEEN HIM IN THE TRAILER PARK?
ALLEN: UH-HUH
RIDGE: AND JASON HOW DID YOU KNOW HIM?
ALLEN: CAUSE HE RODE BY SCHOOL BUS AND WENT TO SCHOOL
RIDGE: OKAY, AND JESSIE DID HE EVER GO TO SCHOOL WITH YOU OR IS HE JUST SOMEBODY YOU MET?
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ALLEN: UH, I THINK HE DID GO TO SCHOOL ME, BECAUSE MY MOTHER TAUGHT HIM (INAUDIBLE) I NEVER REALLY KNEW HIM AT THAT TIME WHEN HE WAS IN SCHOOL, I MEANT, I DIDN'T KNOW HE WAS IN SCHOOL BUT HE WAS
RIDGE: OKAY
ALLEN: AND I DIDN'T ASSOCIATE WITH HIM (INAUDIBLE)
RIDGE: OKAY, THE ONLY TIME YOU REALLY KNEW JESSIE WAS JUST IN A PERIOD OF TIME WHEN YOU WOULD MEET HIM AND TALK WITH HIM, CLOSE TO YOUR TRAILER LIKE IN
ALLEN: YES SIR
RIDGE: THE PARK JUST AROUND THE CORNER FROM YOUR TRAILER
ALLEN: YES SIR
RIDGE: OKAY, AS FAR AS WHEN JESSIE SAYS THAT YOU AND HE WERE HAVING SEX, WAS ANY PART OF THAT TRUE?
ALLEN: NO SIR
RIDGE: OKAY, HE WAS LYING THEN?
ALLEN: YES
RIDGE: OKAY, IS WHEN JESSIE STARTS SPREADING THESE RUMORS AROUND YOU CONFRONTED HIM WITH THAT?
ALLEN: YES SIR
RIDGE: OKAY, AND YOU SLAPPED HIM?
ALLEN: UH-HUH
RIDGE: NOW IT'S A YEAR LATER AND YOU HEARD FROM DIFFERENT PEOPLE THAT JESSIE IS LOOKING FOR YOU?
ALLEN: YES
RIDGE: WHAT DID YOU HEAR FROM OTHER PEOPLE?
ALLEN: WELL, THEY JUST SAID UM, YOU KNOW, THEY WOULD BE TALKING AND THEY WOULD SAY TIFFANY ALLEN AND JESSIE IS LOOKING FOR HER AND ALL THIS STUFF, AND I HEARD IT ONW DAY AND I ASK WHAT DO I HAVE TO DO WITH JESSIE, AND THEY SAID WELL JESSIE BEEN LOOKING FOR YOU, AND THEN AFTER THAT, ALL THESE PEOPLE KEPT TELLING THAT HE WAS LOOKING FOR ME, PEOPLE AT SCHOOL AND EVERTHING THAT I GUESS KNEW
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RIDGE: OKAY, WE DID YOU, DID JESSIE KNOW WHERE YOU LIVED?
ALLEN: YES
RIDGE: OKAY, SO IF, UP TILL THAT POINT YOU JUST HEARD RUMORS THAT JESSIE WAS LOOKING FOR YOU?
ALLEN: YES
RIDGE: OKAY, AND THEN ON THE DAY THAT HE CAME RUNNING UP TO YOU, CARL STEPPED BETWEEN YOU AND JESSIE?
ALLEN: UH-HUH
RIDGE: JESSIE HIT CARL AND THEN WHEN CARL GETS OUT OF THE WAY HE HITS YOU?
ALLEN: UH-HUH
RIDGE: OKAY, AND BUSTED YOU LIP?
ALLEN: YES SIR
RIDGE: OKAY, UM, MRS MARLON, GAYLA YOU WENT TO UM JESSIE'S HOUSE AFTER THIS INCIDENT OCCURRED UM, YOU GOT INTO A CONVERSATION WITH JESSIE'S FATHER?
GAYLA: OKAY, THE FIRST TIME I WENT TO THE ONLY JESSIE WAS THERE, HE WENT OUT HE FRONT DOOR AND I WAS KNOCKING ON THE BACK
RIDGE: OKAY, WE'LL TALKING ABOUT LITTLE JESSIE?
GAYLA: RIGHT
RIDGE: OKAY
GAYLA: LITTLE JESSIE, NOW BIG JESSIE AFTER LITTLE JESSIE AND I HAD OUT ALTERCATION, I WENT BACK TO THE HOUSE AND WENT BACK LATER ON THAT EVENING SO I COULD GET JESSIE SR.
RIDGE: OKAY
GAYLA: OKAY, I KNOCK ON THE DOOR JESSIE SR. WAS SITTING IN THERE AND HE SAID THAT HE JUST COULD NOT DO ANYTHING WITH HIS SON
RIDGE: OKAY
GAYLA: BASICALLY AND SO I TOLD HIM I WAS GOING TO JUVENILE THE NEXT DAY, AND I SAID YOU'LL BE HEARING FROM THEM
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RIDGE: OKAY, THEN YOU WERE GOING TO HAVE JESSIE ARRESTED?
GAYLA: YES
RIDGE: ULTIMATELY YOU DID HAVE JESSIE ARRESTED?
GAYLA: I HAVE NO IDEA, I MADE THE COMPLAINT
RIDGE: OKAY
GAYLA: I DON'T KNOW WHAT HAPPENED TO IT AFTER THAT
RIDGE: OKAY, ALRIGHT, I'M GOING TO CONCLUDE THE INTERVIEW 4: P.M.
