Melissa was the biological mother of Chris Byers and Ryan Clark. They procured the domain WM3.org and made a website, updating it with whatever information they could track down. Stidham, who is preparing Misskelleys appeal, says that one of the points he will raise is that Misskelley denied any involvement in the murders until police told him he had failed a lie-detector test. Deputy Sheriff C.L. The boy he was fighting was injured seriously enough to require hospitalization. Our monthly magazine is free at over 500 locations in Central Arkansas. Berlinger and Sinofsky, the latter of whom died in 2015 at age 58, were able to gain incredible and immediate access to seemingly everyone the case had touched: the families of the victims and the accused, the judge, the lead investigator, members of the community. To authorities working in West Memphisa largely Southern Baptist communitysatanic activity seemed to be the most likely cause for the killings, in part because the boys bodies were bound and appeared to have been mutilated. While thats cooled from the days of concerts in the shadows of the Arkansas Supreme Court building, the documentaries still live on HBO Max, where they pull in new viewers to this day. Dan Stidham, the original attorney for Misskelley, who would also work on Baldwins and Echols appeals, says he has the answer. Byers stated that he would wait in the kitchen. He said, J.B., youre going home, man, youre going home.. Mojo, however, was considerably more fired up, believing the same thing many of Paradise Losts viewers did: that the movie showed an incredible miscarriage of justice, one that would surely be fixed. Melissa Byers was only 40 years old. [29], On April 1, 1996, the following individuals signed off on the examination and autopsy of Melissa Byers: Stephen Erickson, M.D. For the next two hours and 29 minutes, the two inmates sat in near silence watching Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills, the landmark documentary released on HBO 25 years ago this week that captured the trials of Baldwin, Jessie Misskelley Jr., and Damien Echols, the three teenagers convicted in 1994 of the crimes that ripped through the small, working-class community of West Memphis, Arkansas. The concept of citizen investigations intrigues Berlinger just as much as it did in the 1990s, though today hes often more concerned with the moral implications. A heavy metal test was conducted and none were found. Maines won the lawsuit; police have never named Hobbs a suspect or charged him in connection with the killings.). It is documented that the morning after his arrest, Shelby County authorities placed Byers in federal custody, in the hands of U.S. marshals. The Byerses, who did not respond to requests for an interview, have also sought a restraining order against the Kingsburys. Instead, on the reports final page, the word hydromorphone, or Dilaudid, appeared as hydrocodone, which is another drug entirely. It's . People would drive by and yell at us, Theyre going to burn in hell, Sauls says. Norm Metz stated that when the EMTs showed up "Ryan kept mumbling something and he did not seem coherent. I'd be interested in knowing whether or not he also died under suspicious circumstances. None of the three believed that, but Echolss healthand the possibility that even if he survived, he would still be on death row should the fight for retrials failmade it an imperative. But I had to. Lambert, the prosecutor, said he entered the plea agreement with Byers because a key witness in the burglary case was a minor whose mother was reluctant to have him testify, making a successful prosecution difficult. She did not respond. He declared he. There also were issues with other details he provided, including how the victims were bound and whether the boys were raped. (Associate Medical Examiner), Charles Kokes, M.D. The second time he requested a towel. Died on 29 Mar 1996. Carter, now retired, responded to the call. She died at . > > NightShade HDZ@prodigy.com>. Nico has put together an impressive list of tomato varieties for 2021. I dont know if they were questioning it, but they werent mistreating me and telling me that what I was telling them wasnt true., While Berlinger admits that he and Sinofsky may have tilted pro-prosecution in the early days of filming, that quickly changed after witnessing how the cases came together and spending time with the three teens during pretrial jailhouse interviewsparticularly Baldwin, who Berlinger describes as sweet and studious.. All of those factors combined to create a tipping point, says Leveritt. The mother of one of the three boys murdered in West Memphis died, but investigators have yet to figure out how. When it didnt, the praise heaped on Paradise Lost felt hollow. Bakken immediately showed her friends Burk Sauls and Grove Pashley, who were both equally gripped by what they had just watched. Brenner tells Joyce that six people in total have been taken by The . [34], The final cause of death for Melissa was listed as "undetermined". [20] Waser asked to take a statement from Ryan, but was told that he was out with friends. I think I introduced my dad to it because that was not his normal genre., Three Metallica songsOrion, Welcome Home (Sanitarium), and Call of Ktuluwould play throughout the documentary. But for every Your Own Backyard or Ill Be Gone in the Dark that has applied journalistic rigor to their research in the past two decades, theres an Up and Vanished, which has been at the center of ethical debates since the podcast debuted in 2016. A visual observation of Byers body revealed IV puncture marks on the top of her right and left foot, on the inside of her right wrist, and on the upper right thoracic area, Witt noted. While Echols was characterized as the group s ringleader and sentenced to death, Misskelley and Ba1dwin were sentenced to life in prison. Like Misskelley in the first trial, Baldwin received a life sentence. I thought that was *very* strange, his insistence on re-living the whole thing. Before she went to the hospital. John Griffm, of the Marion Police Department, wrote in his report that a concened neighboradvised that she heard a woman screaming [and that] there were two small kids outside by themselves, unattended.. If the state of Arkansas has a deep and abiding belief that the West Memphis Three are child murderers and did these terrible crimes, then shame on them for letting them out after 18 and a half years because a bunch of celebrities are whining about it, Berlinger says. At one point, Melissa looked into the camera declaring her hatred for the three accused teen-agers and the mothers that bore them. In another scene, John Mark and the father of one of the other murdered boys appeared shooting pumpkins which they pretended were the defendants. Byers himself was charged with contributing to the delinquency of a minor, a Class A misdemeanor. The news was devastating beyond just word of his friends suffering. They couldnt have been cooler, recalls Berlinger, who would go on to direct the 2004 documentary Metallica: Some Kind of Monster alongside Bruce Sinofsky. We know that Melissa A. ", >That same large number of people here feel that Mark Beyers is guilty of, >the 'Paradise Lost' murders because of skimpy evidence and the fact that. A former neighbor, who asked not to be identified, said she reported Byers about that time to child abuse authorities, because he was whipping Christopher [who was two at the time] so badly I was afraid for his life. The woman said she reported the incidents again during the investigations into the murders, but was never asked to testify. Hicks was hospitalized in critical condition. Then youd try to find it, and it didnt exist, because when we went out to discussion groups, no one knew about the case yet., After learning that the teens were still in prison, Bakken, Sauls, and Pashley decided to make full use of the budding technological revolution. He said that he and Melissa spent the afternoon in bed, beginning at 12pm. The origin of the other needle puncture woundsin the groin, arms, and feetwas undetermined. Her body showed no visible signs of trauma. They seized the marijuana as evidence, along with a glass on the night stand which contained an alcoholic beverage, believed to be peach schnapps. But the feud between neighbors is minor compared to two other incidents, both of which have resulted in the filing of charges against the couple. They told reporters they wanted to escape the publicity that had engulfed them and live peacefully, but police say, rather, that, since arriving, the couple has disturbed the peace. In the meantime, he has hired Larry Kissee, a lawyer in Ash Flat, to represent him in a lawsuit he is considering fling against the city of West Memphis. When police questioned Byers about the knife, in January of this year, nine months after the murders, they did not tell him at first that t.he blood had been discovered. I grabbed his arm and shoulder and guided his body to the floor. "She advised he told her a cigarette made a excellent fuse, that you could light it, and due to slow burning, it would give you time to get away. While police had focused on Echols and Baldwin in the intervening weeks because of their reputation, the arrests came largely because of a confession by Misskelley, which was leaked to the largest newspaper in the area, the Memphis Commercial Appeal, and ran under the banner headline Teen describes cult torture of boys. At a press conference shortly after the arrests, the lead investigator was asked how confident he felt about the case on a scale of 1-10. She died on March 29, 1996 in Arkansas, USA. It's enough to provide plenty of tomatoes to keep the whole neighborhood supplied! That same year, Byers was arrested and charged with terroristic threatening for an assault on his former wife. It is perhaps the cause of SuddenAdult Death Syndrome, a little talked about cause of death. By subscribing or donating to the Arkansas Times, you'll not only have access to all of our articles, but you'll also be helping us hire more writers and expand our coverage. On March 29, 1996, at approximately 5:40 p.m, Sonny Powell, the sheriff of Sharp County, called Investigator Stan Witt of the Arkansas State Police to report a suspicious death. Byers surfaced periodically in the extensive coverage of the case, once supplying a knife to makers of an HBO documentary that was found to have blood from his adopted son on it. But none of the conditions the pathologists observed would normally prove fatal, either alone or in combination. What was strange was that, while the drug showed up in Melissa Byers urine, suggesting recent use, it was not found in her blood, which would be expected of a lethal agent. At the time of her youngest son's murder in May of 1993, Melissa was married to John Mark Byers. This is before considering the 2013 dramatized movie based on the events (and Leveritts book), Stidhams plans to release the book Harvest of Innocence, and how elements of the case made their way into True Detectives third season. The footage included raw jailhouse interviews with the defendants, strategy sessions held by legal teams on both sides, and extended monologues from Mark Byers, the tall, goateed stepfather of one of the victims, who spoke as though he were reciting the Book of Revelation and who, at one point in Paradise Lost, fired a handgun at a pumpkin while reciting the names of the accused. Theyve had several victories, including the case of Daniel Villegas, who was acquitted of capital murder in 2018 after a 25-year legal saga. Melissa Gilbert recently became the latest celebrity to fall prey to an online death hoax. At that time, I was a little naive that what you read in the paper must have some truth to it, and all the press reports coming out of Arkansas were saying that this was like a slam dunk, an open-and-shut case with a confession that was printed in the newspaper.. Byers said he called Norm Metz and asked him to call an ambulance. Melissa DeFir Byers was born on January 15, 1956. Accueil; Solution; Tarif; PRO; Mon compte; France; Accueil; Solution; Tarif; PRO; Mon compte The news came just one day after Jerry Lee Lewis fell victim to similar rumors. He advised that Byers did not clarify who they were.. The mutilation appeared to have been inflicted with a knife. It tested positive for marijuana and for hydromorphone, the synthetic narcotic more commonly known as Dilaudid. The districts current prosecuting attorney, Keith Chrestman, did not respond to requests for comment for this article, but his predecessor Scott Ellington, whose office negotiated the deals, told The New York Times in 2011 that while new trials would have likely resulted in acquittals, We dont think that there is anybody else. The Moore family has been outspoken about the end result, vehemently protesting the 2012 Oscar nomination for the third Paradise Lost installment. %PDF-1.5 That inability on the part of the doctors to determine the cause of Melissa Byers death was what prompted Sheriff Powell to telephone Witt. He went to the bedroom and saw Melissa on the floor, completely naked. Metz had been one of the last people to see Melissa Byers alive. [6] Metz had to go back to his own home to make the call because he did not have his glasses. It s not between you, its between them. And, Rose added, he does admit to saying that, too., The boys did back off, in part because Byers was holding what appeared to be a gun. Benjamin Byers was taken into custody and was facing charges of second-degree murder, armed criminal action, abandonment of a corpse and endangering the welfare of a child. As more people learned about the case from Paradise Lost and the work of people like Bakken and Sauls, the phrase Free the West Memphis Three caught on as a slogan for progressive musicians and actors in the 1990s, up there with Save the Rainforest and Free Tibet. Eddie Vedder became an early leading voice, soon followed by the likes of Peter Jackson, Johnny Depp, and Natalie Maines from the band then known as the Dixie Chicks. Like everyone else who was familiar with the case, they wanted to know who committed the crimes, but their main goal was advocacy, not using the opportunity to play investigators. Help us deliver the latest daily reporting and analysis on news, politics, culture and food in Arkansas. But on the subject of Paradise Lost, he speaks emphatically: He understands how important the movies were in helping him, Echols, and Misskelley walk free 10 years ago this August. In August 2011, Jason Baldwin was pulled from his prison cell under confusing circumstances once again. Melissa Byers was only 40 years old. [19], The following day, Waser visited Byers' home and was informed of Melissa's recurring drug habit. ~~~~~ kind assistance of FindaGrave volunteer Carolyne Powles Darrell 49377409 ~~~~~Inscription: Melissa Byers 10 Aug 1837-6 Mar 1920; Also buried there: Thomas Byers d. 3 Jun 1887 88y 2m 15d; Mary Byers wf of Thomas d. 16 Nov 1878 75y 8m 24d. and talk normal, but then all of a sudden, he would get arrogant again, advising me that he was the father and he was going to take the kids. He told him the name of the drug. If convicted, each could receive a sentence of from three to 10 years and a fine of up to $10,000. Melissa Byers was born on January 16, 1956. And they used that visibility to help raise funds for the defense. This story was originally published April 26, 2019, 9:48 PM. The sheriffs is now investigating an explosion and subsequent fire that destroyed 1976 Dodge Travelmate motor home that was parked in Atwoods driveway.). When this was complete, Waser was asked to return to Byers' home because he had "seemed to gain John Mark's trust". At this point, Ryan said he couldn't "take it anymore" and so he and Amanda left, drove around, got gas, and bought a soda. Daniel Stidham of Paragould is the lawyer for Jessie Misskelley, who was accused, along with Echols and Jason Baldwin, of killing the three West Memphis children. The reason for the credit gets less curious when hes asked about it: He was a huge Metallica fan. In September, Mark and Melissa Byers, who live not far from the house, were charged with the residential burglary and theft. Misskelly and Baldwin were sentenced to life in prison, and Echols, who was identified as the ringleader, was sentenced to death by lethal injection. In 1996, a screener for Paradise Lost passed her desk. Its no surprise the juries found the prosecutions narrative compelling, Leveritt says: For them, the image of killer satanists headbanging to Metallica was more than plausible. Rose said that when he told Byers there could be charges, Byers seemed incredulous. He served three years probation. The sheer mountain moving amount of money it cost to prove the obvious innocence of Jessie, Jason, and Damien still staggers me. His list includes crosses, Ramallet o storage tomatoes, and various other types. )+B]{uApptJ'\`\R@=]%m=VWrZ$K" In fact, for the better part of 1993, it was nearly impossible to find anyone who believed they were innocent. Waser advised that it was unusual for a 40-year-old woman to pass away and an autopsy would be recommended to determine the cause. I don' think in Beyers' case it's the "creepy" factor as much as it is the evidence against him which wasn't looked at with more interest by the court. On August 19, 2011, all three accepted the deal and were immediately released from prison. And no one else should be convicted without evidence, either.. Ha had been beaten badly enough that he lost consciousness and later had to be hospitalized. He returned to the Byers' home on March 31st, 1996 to interview Ryan. After roughly 18 months of editing, Paradise Lost debuted at Sundance in January 1996 before heading out to other festivals. Debates still occur regularly onlinethe West Memphis Three subreddit is fairly active for one on a 28-year-old caseand podcasts have looked at the crime from all angles. [28] The coroner noted that rigor was not present, but checked "yes" on lividity. Now, he was being asked to consider something that he never dreamed he would: accepting a plea deal that would set the West Memphis Three free, but require them to give up their quest for exoneration. Byers drove into Hardy accompanied by a teen-aged boy. Although a glass of peach schnapps had been found at her bedside, she had apparently drunk very little, as no alcohol was detected in her system. Two murdered boys' stepfathers now face charges. Wherever it was screened, Berlinger says, it was followed by intense Q&As from audience members who couldnt believe what theyd just watched. That was more than the people deciding the case were able to hearthe presiding judge made the expert give most of his testimony without the jury in the courtroom because he questioned its relevance. The two boys who had exchanged words, reportedly over a girl, now found themselves in a vicious fight, with Byers companion using the folded knife in his hand as what the boys called a fist pack. It was agreed that a search should be conducted and Byers was approached. Her body was sent for autopsy to the office of the medical examiner at the Arkansas Crime Laboratory in Little Rock. NO PEACE YET: Melissa and John Mark Byers, now facing criminal charges themselves, hold a picture of their murdered son Christopher in their new home at Cherokee Village. Bakken and Sauls say they tried to avoid offering theories about the case publicly, opting instead to try to work through official channels. Essentially, it allows the accused to assert their innocence while pleading guilty, conceding that the prosecution has an overwhelming amount of evidence to procure a conviction. Only her urine was abnormal. There he met with local law enforcement officers and with John Mark Byers, Melissas husband. The idea of the average citizen becoming embroiled in a criminal investigation isnt far-fetched in 2021, decades removed from the launch of WM3.org. Waser noted in his report that Byers was sitting outside of his home with a woman by the name of Mandy Beasley. Melissa Byers died at age 35 years old on July 2, 2010. . I spoke with one of the jurors, years later after the trials and convictions, and he said he had no doubt that people could throw their lot in with the devil and be commanded to do things that they wouldnt have done otherwisethat they have basically made the deal with the devil, Leveritt says. Melissa, the mother of Christopher Byers, the most brutalized of the West Memphis victims, was 40 years old. He was just taking in the enormity of the defining event of his life to that point, which had been committed to film and was now playing for him inside the cavernous, auditorium-style visitation room. I had a friend who was working on 20/20, and they had done a film about exorcism in one of the magazine pieces, Nevins says. (Despite Misskelleys statement, the coroners examination found no injuries on the victims consistent with sexual assault.) To Powell, her death looked like a possible homicide. She died on March 29, 1996 in Arkansas, USA. [11] He told Waser that he didn't know what to do. Email: melissa.byers@legacylawmissouri.com Phone Number: (636) 486-2669. He stated that when he touched her she did not feel right. However, he could not produce any papers showing that he had custody of the kids. The first and likely simplest gauge is continued interest in the case. Sauls says that the former Black Flag frontman was one of the few big names who dug deep into the evidence, wanting to learn as many details as he could about the case. Sheriff Powell is keeping his open. For Rollins, it was a moral imperative: Id find myself up at 3:30 a.m. thinking about Damien. Two of those, which were covered with bandages, were clearly the result of unsuccessful medical attempts at cardiopulmonary resuscitation, as were a couple of fractured ribs. Buried in Memphis, Tennessee, USA. He kept asking me, What is your opinion? He said, I think they ought to have fought it out, dont you?, I said, No, I dont. In May of that year, police discovered the bodies of Michael Moore, Stevie Branch, and Christopher Byers in the Robin Hood Hills, a small wooded area near the I-40/I-55 exchange. [33], No semen was found. Melissa gurgled up some fluid and Metz called for an ambulance. The consequences of that online campaign were ruinous: The person they targeted, a Mexican metal musician who worked under the name Morbid, was harassed into hiding. In 1996, Melissa Byers died. "She was a beautiful woman. In the joint trial of Baldwin and Echols, which took place separately from Misskelleys, Berlinger and Sinofsky filmed the surreal moments that juries were actually present for: a rundown of the books Echols checked out of the library, a parade of band T-shirts worn by the pair, a copy of a Blue Oyster Cult record found in Damiens girlfriends house that became evidence because of the word cult and song titles like Dont Fear the Reaper. What the cameras couldnt capture, however, was the introduction of physical evidencethe prosecution didnt offer much of that aside from a knife that was never directly linked to the crimes and fabric threads deemed microscopically similar to items found in Baldwins and Echolss homes, an assertion that has been questioned in the years since the trials. He responded proudly, 11.. Originally from Willard, Mo., she spent nearly three years reporting in Arkansas and Illinois before returning to Missouri and joining The Star in 2017. 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