MISSKELLEY: Yes, sir, I did.
STIDHAM: How'd you carry it?
MISSKELLEY: Carried in the front of my pants.
STIDHAM: Did you meet anybody, I assume you walked?
MISSKELLEY: Yes, sir.
STIDHAM: What time did you get to Lakeshore?
MISSKELLEY: About 6:30.
STIDHAM: You know how to tell time, don't you?
MISSKELLEY: Yeah.
STIDHAM: Did you carry anything else? Just this bottle of whiskey?
MISSKELLEY: Just the bottle of whiskey.
STIDHAM: Was it in a paper sack?
MISSKELLEY: It was in a paper sack.
STIDHAM: Do you know where Vickie got that for you?
MISSKELLEY: No, sir, I don't.
STIDHAM: How much money did you give her?
MISSKELLEY: I gave her a twenty and Dennis gave her a ten.
STIDHAM: Did you get any change back?
MISSKELLEY: Yes, she gave me change, but I don't know how much it was.
STIDHAM: Did you talk to anybody when you left with your whiskey bottle?
MISSKELLEY: No.
STIDHAM: Did you talk with anybody on your way to Lakeshore?
MISSKELLEY: No, I was walking by myself.
STIDHAM: Did you walk down in front of ____'s shop? How'd you get to Lakeshore?
MISSKELLEY: I was walking from my aunt's house. Then walked down towards John Heck's.
STIDHAM: What?
MISSKELLEY: Heck's. Right behind -
STIDHAM: Heck's?
MISSKELLEY: Yeah, right behind the shop.
STIDHAM: What's that, Heck’s?
MISSKELLEY: That's a wrecker service.
STIDHAM: Oh, okay. Did you go under that little railroad thing?
MISSKELLEY: Uh-huh. (Affirmatively indicating) And I went up under the underpass, then I Saw Damien and Jason and walked -
STIDHAM: Where were they at? Were they under the underpass or were they? -
MISSKELLEY: No. They was at Lakeshore.
STIDHAM: Where did you meet them?
MISSKELLEY: In the park by Quinton's house, Quinton Johnson.
STIDHAM: You talk to Quinton that day?
MISSKELLEY: Huh-uh. (Negatively indicating)
STIDHAM: Did you see anybody else outside?
MISSKELLEY: No.
STIDHAM: Somebody seen the two of you talking or something?
MISSKELLEY: But, people don't say nothing when we talk.
STIDHAM: But did anybody see, or did you talk to anybody else?
MISSKELLEY: No.
STIDHAM: So you're in a park?
MISSKELLEY: Uh-huh. By the - by the lake.
STIDHAM: Is there swing sets there or something, or - ?
MISSKELLEY: No, it wasn't a swing set.
STIDHAM: How do you know it's a park?
MISSKELLEY: It's like a field between houses and stuff.
STIDHAM: Just playground equipment there?
MISSKELLEY: Huh-huh. (Negatively indicating)
STIDHAM: Was there anybody else there?
MISSKELLEY: No.
STIDHAM: Damien and Jason were just there?
MISSKELLEY: Uh-huh. (Affirmatively indicating)
STIDHAM: Did they know you were coming?
MISSKELLEY: Yeah, ‘cause that's when Jason called me, uh, that Monday.
STIDHAM: Told you to be down there Wednesday?
MISSKELLEY: Uh—huh. He said that's we was going to go to Lakeshore and find some girls.
STIDHAM: Go to Lakeshore and find some girls?
MISSKELLEY: No - he called me Monday and asked me to come to Lakeshore, we was going to go to West Memphis, we was going to go find some girls in West Memphis.
STIDHAM: Okay. Did ya’ll talk about hurting boys, or doing anything to boys, or -?
MISSKELLEY: No, sir.
STIDHAM: Up until this time had you ever been to a devil worship meeting?
MISSKELLEY: Yes.
STIDHAM: Where at?
MISSKELLEY: Out at Lakeshore.
STIDHAM: Where at in Lakeshore?
MISSKELLEY: Back on, uh, back there in - at the very back.
STIDHAM: What did ya'll do at this meeting?
MISSKELLEY: Well, uh, people bring candles and make - make a circle and light them. Then Damien would start talking and we listen to him while he talked.
STIDHAM: what'd he talk about?
MISSKELLEY: He started, you know, talking to the devil, you know, different kind of ways, talk to the devil.
STIDHAM: Do they ever talk about hurting people or killing people, or doing things to people?
MISSKELLEY: Huh-uh. (Negatively indicating)
STIDHAM: Never came up?
MISSKELLEY: No.
STIDHAM: What about this picture of the three little boys?
MISSKELLEY: Damien had a briefcase and I saw - when he opened it I saw a picture, it was a Polaroid picture that had uh, had three boys that was on a bicycle by some white houses.
STIDHAM: Was it a picture of those that got killed?
MISSKELLEY: Yes, sir.
STIDHAM: How do you know that?
MISSKELLEY: After I - After I seen them that day then I memorized who they were.
STIDHAM: From the picture?
MISSKELLEY: (response inaudible)
STIDHAM: But Jason and Damien never said anything to you about?
MISSKELLEY: No.
STIDHAM: Who was in this cult meeting? l want to know everybody.
MISSKELLEY: Me, Jason, Damien, Domini. I don't know.
STIDHAM: Keith?
MISSKELLEY: No. I just met him up the (inaudible).
STIDHAM: He didn't go to these meetings?
MISSKELLEY: Huh-uh, (negatively indicating) there's another guy - it was a guy - by Lakeshore.
STIDHAM: An old guy? A young guy? Was he a kid?
MISSKELLEY: No, he ain't no kid, he's a guy.
STIDHAM: Older man?
MISSKELLEY: uh-huh. (Affirmatively indicating)
STIDHAM: What's he look like?
MISSKELLEY: He's tall, got black hair. He looks just like Damien.
STIDHAM: Do you know where he lives?
MISSKELLEY: I don't now, but he did live out at Lakeshore.
STIDHAM: At which trailer?
MISSKELLEY: Almost on - almost on the last street.
STIDHAM: Did he have a first name? Did anybody ever call him by name, or by nick-name?
MISSKELLEY: Huh-uh. (Negatively indicating) He didn't have no nick-name.
STIDHAM: Did you guys wear black coats with hoods on them or anything like that?
MISSKELLEY: No. I ain't got a black - I ain't got no black jacket with no hood.
STIDHAM: Did this other guy that was tall and black headed have long black hair?
MISSKELLEY: It was pretty long.
STIDHAM: Is your hand still on that Bible, Jessie?
MISSKELLEY: Yes, sir, it is.
STIDHAM: You're telling me the truth?
MISSKELLEY: Yes, sir, I am.
STIDHAM: You don't know this other guy's name?
MISSKELLEY: I’ll think of it in a minute. I just can't think of it right now.
STIDHAM: You can take your time. Was it Kenney, Or Kent?
MISSKELLEY: No, he's a kid - Kent is a kid.
STIDHAM: Did he go to these meetings too?
MISSKELLEY: Who? Kent?
STIDHAM: Yeah.
MISSKELLEY: No, I just met him. I've probably known him for about two or three days is how long I've known Kent.
STIDHAM: What else would happen at these meetings?
MISSKELLEY: Uh, we drank.
STIDHAM: Listen to music?
MISSKELLEY: Yes, and drank.
STIDHAM: What about the dogs' legs and stuff?
MISSKELLEY: No.
STIDHAM: Why did you tell the police that?
MISSKELLEY: I just made that up.
STIDHAM: How many cult meetings have you been to?
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STIDHAM: And they were all down in Lakeshore?
MISSKELLEY: Yes, sir. Every one I went was.
STIDHAM: What about Vickie Hutchison saying she seen you in a meeting at Turrell-Twist?
MISSKELLEY: I hadn’t never been to Turrell. My hand is still on the Bible, I hadn't never been to Turrell. And Damien ain't got no - Damien don't have no red car.
STIDHAM: Does he even drive?
MISSKELLEY: He don't even own a car. He don't even drive. He don't even drive.
STIDHAM: Did Damien and Jason have any beer when you got there that day? Out at Lakeshore at about 6:30?
MISSKELLEY: Yee, I think it was a l2—pack.
STIDHAM: Were they carrying it in a sack?
MISSKELLEY: It was in a sack. They kept it in a sack.
STIDHAM: What kind of beer?
MISSKELLEY: It was cheap beer.
STIDHAM: Don't know what kind it was?
MISSKELLEY: Nope.
STIDHAM: What kind of sack was it in? Brown paper sack?
MISSKELLEY: It was just a regular brown paper sack.
STIDHAM: Tell me about this briefcase. Were you at a meeting when they had a briefcase?
MISSKELLEY: That - that older guy - he brought it, he brought the briefcase.
STIDHAM: It wasn't Damien’s briefcase?
MISSKELLEY: No, it was the older guy. It was that guy that looked just like Damien. He brought it, and he had a gun, and had a picture of them three boys that got, that got killed. They was on the bikes by some white houses and in the background you could see some trees.
STIDHAM: Can you remember this older guy's name now?
MISSKELLEY: No, sir. I'm still thinking.
STIDHAM: What did it start with?
MISSKELLEY: I can’t think of it.
STIDHAM: He had long hair?
MISSKELLEY: It was kinda long.
STIDHAM: Mustache, beard?
MISSKELLEY: Mustache.
STIDHAM: You sure?
MISSKELLEY: Mustache and a beard.
STIDHAM: He had a mustache and a beard?
MISSKELLEY: Uh-huh, at that time he did.
STIDHAM: How can he look like Damien, Damien doesn’t have a mustache and a beard?
MISSKELLEY: When he shaves it he looks like Damien. (Telephone rings)
STIDHAM: Did anybody else go to these meetings besides this older guy, uh, Damien and Jason and Domini? Any other girls?
MISSKELLEY: Um - don't think there was no other girls.
STIDHAM: They’re the only people that went to these meetings with y’all?
MISSKELLEY: They's the only ones that went with me.
STIDHAM: What do you mean, went with you?
MISSKELLEY: They's the only people I seen at the meeting with me.
STIDHAM: Anybody else there?
MISSKELLEY: Nope.
STIDHAM: What was this shit about cooking a dog in a wash tub that you told the officers a couple of days ago?
MISSKELLEY: I made that up.
STIDHAM: Now you're not making anything up you're telling me about, are you?
MISSKELLEY: No, sir. My hand is still on the Bible.
STIDHAM: Do you know what devil worshiping is, Jessie?
MISSKELLEY: It's Satan.
STIDHAM: Did you believe in this stuff or were you just out there -?
MISSKELLEY: I was just out there just - just drinking and having fun.
STIDHAM: Was this older guy the leader of this thing?
MISSKELLEY: Uh-huh. (Affirmatively indicating) He always did what Damien told him to do.
STIDHAM: Damien told him what to do, or he told Damien -?
MISSKELLEY: No, he told Damien what to do - he always told Damien what to do.
STIDHAM: What did he tell Damien to do?
MISSKELLEY: He tells Damien, you know, go kill a dog, or - hurt a kid or something, and he'd do it.
STIDHAM: Did he tell Damien to go hurt these kids?
MISSKELLEY: When I was there, he didn't. He might have told, you know, after, but he didn't tell him when I was there.
STIDHAM: Can you think of his name?
MISSKELLEY: Huh-uh. (Negatively indicating)
STIDHAM: He wasn't there the day the boys got murdered, was he?
MISSKELLEY: No, he wasn’t there with us. But in that briefcase it was them three boys.
STIDHAM: Do you think he told Damien to do this?
MISSKELLEY: I think he did, because, I didn't know until after I seen a picture in the briefcase, then after the murders happened, then, then I remembered who they were. I seen them at the court meeting.
STIDHAM: What did this older guy’s name - did he drive a car, or - - ?
MISSKELLEY: He always walked, you know, out there to Lakeshore, where we was at he always walked.
STIDHAM: Have you ever seen him drive a car?
MISSKELLEY: Huh-uh. (Negatively indicating)
STIDHAM: Did he work anywhere?
MISSKELLEY: I don't know that either.
STIDHAM: Do you know what his name started with?
MISSKELLEY: Murphy - no. I can't remember. I can't think of his name.
STIDHAM: Murray?
MISSKELLEY: It started with a M.
STIDHAM: Murray Farris?
MISSKELLEY: Uh -
STIDHAM: Murray Farris doesn't have black hair.
MISSKELLEY: No, it started with a M, I don't know - I don't know his name, it started with a M.
STIDHAM: Do you know who Murray Farris is?
MISSKELLEY: Huh-uh. (Negatively indicating) I hadn't never saw - I hadn't ever heard that name.
STIDHAM: How about LaTrell. Have you ever of anybody named LaTrell?
MISSKELLEY: Huh-uh. (Negatively indicating)
STIDHAM: You think it started with a M? Michael?
MISSKELLEY: Best of my knowledge it started with an M.
STIDHAM: Keep trying to think of that name.
MISSKELLEY: The best of my knowledge, it started with a M.
STIDHAM: How old was he?
MISSKELLEY: He's - I’d say - I'm going to say he was in his mid-twenties or somewhere closer to his thirties.
STIDHAM: What would he do at the meetings? Was he in charge?
MISSKELLEY: Yes.
STIDHAM: Was he the boss or the (inaudible) honcho, or - ?
MISSKELLEY: Uh-huh. (Affirmatively indicating) Because he had a briefcase and had a - it was in a white bag, like in a sandwich bag, he had some white stuff.
STIDHAM: What was it? (inaudible) cocaine?
MISSKELLEY: (no audible response)
STIDHAM: Did the older guy ever tell Damien and Jason to do something stupid, did they do it? You said kill a dog?
MISSKELLEY: He always told Damien. He knew - he must knew Damien for a long time ‘cause he didn't ever tell none of us to do that stuff.
STIDHAM: Did you ever see him kill a dog?
MISSKELLEY: No.
STIDHAM: Did you ever kill a dog?
MISSKELLEY: When I was little, but, no.
STIDHAM: You’ve been to about three or four of these meetings?
MISSKELLEY: Uh-huh. (Affirmatively indicating)
STIDHAM: Okay. May the 5th, you get to Lakeshore about 6:30?
MISSKELLEY: Yes, sir.
STIDHAM: And you met at this park by Quinton's house?
MISSKELLEY: Uh-huh. (Affirmatively indicating)
STIDHAM: You didn't see anybody else there, nobody else was standing around that would have seen you?
MISSKELLEY: No, sir. ‘Cause I always went the back way, you know, towards Jason's house. I always went the back way, not the front way.
STIDHAM: What happened after you went to the park - now you say you were supposed to meet them there that day?
MISSKELLEY: Supposed to meet them in West-I mean Lakeshore.
STIDHAM: At 6:30 or just whenever you got there?
MISSKELLEY: Whenever I got - I had time.
STIDHAM: Okay.
MISSKELLEY: So, we started walking towards West Memphis -
STIDHAM: How'd you get there?
MISSKELLEY: We walked.
STIDHAM: I mean, did you walk along the interstate or? -
MISSKELLEY: No, we walked over a overpass.
STIDHAM: Overpass?
MISSKELLEY: You go - it's the overpass between Lakeshore and Wal-Mart, is the overpass. We walked over it.
STIDHAM: Did you throw anything down, or pick any thing up, or did anybody see you?
MISSKELLEY: I don't know there was a bunch of traffic going by, I don’t know.
STIDHAM: You didn't see anybody you knew or talk to anybody you knew?
MISSKELLEY: I didn't know nobody.
STIDHAM: Where did you go?
MISSKELLEY: We started walking toward West-uh, to Wal-Mart, I - I - Jason and me, you know -
STIDHAM: Kenny Watkins. Do you know that guy?
MISSKELLEY: Kenny Watkins?
STIDHAM: Watkins, that man you (inaudible)?
MISSKELLEY: Huh-uh. (Negatively indicating) I may know if I see his face, but other than that -
STIDHAM: So ya'll started over the overpass, and...
MISSKELLEY: We started walking toward Lakeshore and I asked Jason, you know, - -
STIDHAM: Were you walking from Lakeshore?
MISSKELLEY: Uh-huh. I asked Jason, you know, where we're going to find them girls at. He said we just going to walk around and look. And I said, okay. So we started walking. We went down - down Blue Beacon Road, and then by a bridge, we saw a little trail, and we went down that little trail. And we sit there and we started drinking.
STIDHAM: Okay, now did you see - I assume that you walked down from Wal-Mart right there, then walked down across from Missouri Street? Do you know where Missouri Street is in West Memphis, by McDonalds and Krystal?
MISSKELLEY: We didn’t go that far down.
STIDHAM: How far down did you go?
MISSKELLEY: We went from Wal-Mart, stayed on that road all the way down, all the way, went through the red light, over the railroad track and on down to (inaudible) then Blue Beacon and Lowe's.
STIDHAM: Okay. So is there a liquor store there by those railroad tracks that you're talking about walking over?
MISSKELLEY: Yeah. It just says Liquor.
STIDHAM: You walked down the service road then? Right?
MISSKELLEY: Yep.
STIDHAM: And it was just the three of you?
MISSKELLEY: Uh-huh. (Affirmatively indicating)
Stidham asks Misskelley detailed questions about what he was wearing the day of the crime. Then he asks what Damien Echols was wearing:
STIDHAM: What did Damien have on that day?
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