Arkansas Blog

i read the case on the wm3..perhaps before anyone begins to question the convictions of these 3 people who killed these bouys they should read jessie miskelly's statement telling exactly how echol's and baldwin killed the bots...miskelly even chases one boy who ran off down and brought him back to be murdered...facts..not emotions

dirtywirt,

That's one of the problems with how this case was handled. The police coerced Misskelley's confession after many hours of rough interogation. Misskelley is mildly retarded. Do a little more research before you fail to question these convictions. More info at the link on mt name.

i was at varner unit with miskelly...barracks one, construction... 1998...he's not retarded..he's fully capable of intellegent decisions....reading muscle magazine....and baking bread in the prison kitchen....it seems like an easy way to escape blame by labeling the snitch as a retard, huh?

Even high-functioning people can be coerced into confessing.

Reading muscle magazine? Hush my mouth! That proves he's not retarded, huh?

i think it's funny that natalie maines..the bush/texas disaster girl is a pawn of echols'...ha..just goes to show you..dummies keep company together..and i find it a little biased that larry king failed to let miskelly tell his side of the story..oh no, that would paint too much truth on the canvas of lies the public has been led to believe about the wm3...and i would just offer my humble opinion that living in a 54 man barracks with someone for 24 hrs a day..months at a time..i would have known if he was retarded...he wasn't...

Natalie Maines is a dummie (sic) and Jessie Misskelley is not retarded. I suppose you've got the credentials to make such diagnoses, so won't you tell us about them?

Your fondness for "pawn" is interesting, too.

wow, hugh is a fan of pbs and npr...no wonder...i know who hugh's voting for just by knowing his news outlets....hahahaha

dirtywirt, it's easy to see from your writing that you're anything but retarded. It's none of my bidness, yet I can't help being curious about how a fella like you winds up in a place like Varner. So, this question: how did the unfortunate circumstance of incarceration come about for you?

And what lessons have been learned that you might care to share? If you don't care to comment, no problem, I'll understand. I might as well disclose now that I have a friend who's been at Cummins for 17 years. He's in for life after murdering his wife. We still can't believe it. We loved her; loved him. Will never come to terms with it.

ARK. BLOG: Named Larry?

My admiration for Damien skyrocketed with every passing moment of his masterful performance in articulating his thoughts, presenting his humanity and somehow dealing with the egriegiously unprepared, idiotic, doddering fool that now obviously inhabits the mind and body of Larry King. In fact, King has now deteriorated so profoundly that it's painful to watch him. His pathetic attempts to constantly frame Damien as the same person he was when he was a 17 year-old boy tossed into a nightmare and then subjected to physical, psychological, sexual and spiritual torture/degradation none of us can even imagine for every waking moment the past 14 Years was as unconscionable as the choreographed demonization to which Damien has been subjected by the Arkansas political, correctional and judicial system. I was truly amazed by Damien's mature and artful composure throughout and in his ability to parry Larry King's total absence of empathy for his story! King's exhibiting blurbs of Damien's admittedly disturbing writings of a then 18-year-old
high school drop-out was absolutely egriegious, transparent sensationalism.

larry never told the true story..more than miskelly's statements convicted damien..and lack of dna is explainable when it rains on bodies..

as for how i ended up at varner..i was a 20 yr old kid with no idea where my future was headed. i thought that if i had enough money i could start a new life another place..i robbed a bank in springdale...got charged in state court..18 yrs..which is 4 1/2..i did 6 on it due to trouble in prison...i never was a mean person but prison will make you one. i was at varner with miskelly and with damien at tucker max, he was in 7 bks..the old death row. though i never spoke with damien. iunlike other people i used my time to better myself, there is no rehabilitation in prison..you make your own. i read encyclopedias..history..paid for college courses thru the mail..i did all i could to prepare for a new way of life..and now i am a self employed, tax paying republican..i wouldnt want 80% of the people in the adc to be free..i wouldnt want them around my family.....

"...and lack of dna is explainable when it rains on bodies...."

Ah, so in addition to being a certified forensic psychologist dirtywirt is also a genetic scientist! The rain just washed away the DNA. That explains everything!

(Maybe you should double-check the part of your curriculum which covers the "washing away" of DNA.)

lessons from prison: most inmates come from divorced parents, most gaurds are brutal, you can be fed 21 "alternative meals"(alpo substance) for assault on staff, rape is a myth mostly, education is a falsehood, medical care consists of asprin, violence is listened to by overseers, killers tend to be the dumbest inmates..anyone can pull a trigger..wardens have inmate house boys(domestics) who cook,clean, do dishes...the supermax is an 18 month solitary hell, summer time in the hole is harsh, alot of people with life are really good people..one of my friends had 17 life sentences and was a better man than some non violent inmates i knew, adversity breds strength, 97% of people in prison just survive, the other 3% thrive, i really dont know how i did 6 yrs there...but i am grateful for it..it made me who i am today..i cherish my life now and realise how much i have..and realise how little it takes to survive from being in there...i am glad for the experience...

hugh..you seem mad at the world..it's ok..become a republican..we're happier people :)

Thanks, dirtywirt. Yours is a story of an unfortunate turn at a crossroads, but it appears you've made the best of it and can look forward to a good life ahead. If only more in the nation's prisons could follow your example to the high road. Congrats and my heartfelt best wishes to you.

Max, my incarcerated friend's first name is Richard. He grew up in a privileged LR home with every advantage a guy could have; married the sweetest, prettiest girl you can imagine, and they had two great boys who, despire their scars, have turned into handsome, successful guys now with families of their own.

Saddest funeral I've ever attended. Not in a zillion years would anybody have guessed that such a thing could happen in our circle. We kept hoping to wake up and find it was all just a nightmare, but alas.

ARK. BLOG: Don't remember that case, but I recall another of similar vintage that I wrote about for the times about 16 years ago that sounded somewhat similar.

No, dirtywirt, I'm not mad at the world. But if I had been put through the wringer of this shoddy police investigation and media hysteria that accompanied it, and then found myself on death row for something I didn't do, I'd be more than mad. Becoming a republican would only exacerbate that agony.

I have my opinions about what happened to those three little boys and the three bigger boys and it's nothing like what the justice system came up with. I just hope the system will take another and closer look at the case, given the more sophisticated technology now available.

exactly hugh! did echols seem mad? nope.....all he could do is blame it on a retard..was he in town that day? yes..yet larry let him say he lived 10 miles away//did he have an alibi? nope...i agree the media played a part...and police too..yet that doesnt mean he isnt guilty...and laqck of dna or dna of another is easily explained..ever tie ur shoes at someone elses home? i did/./.suppose a hair got caught in the shoelace..hmm...and was that hair the killers? no..because the owner of that hair was at work that day of the murder...alibi.

was damiens journal satanic? yes...
was miskelly friends with damien? yes..yet larry let him say it was just an aquaintence...
there is a book on it...perhaps you should learn both sides of the story..not just the wm3's version..oh, wait...one of them even confessed....hmm....
and did you see the smiles on the faces on paradise lost..if i was a 17 yr old kid charged with a murder i didnt committ i dont think i'd be smiling...hmm?
was miskelly or jason on larry king? why not?hmm?.......