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As the boys sat in jail, the community began to feel a sense of both wonder and horror. West Memphis was basically built over a truck stop and the river that ran across. The Blue Beacon Truck Stop had drivers all hours of the day and night. Anyone could have happened upon an opportunity there to look about 3 miles in the direction of the patch of woods where the boys were found. Many speculated what the boys had done to conceal their crimes.

There is one prominent fact that no one bothered to announce: that after all the evidence, after all the accusations, there was no forensic evidence to tie the boys to the crime. No hair, skin, or blood was found to link Damian, Jason and Jessie to the site. The savagery of the attacks would have surely spilled blood if the murders had been committed there. Being that the site was near a creek that flowed into a stream that bordered a river, it would be almost certain that had the crime been committed there, that blood would be found, somewhere. There was none, leading police to believe the boys were killed else where and their nude bodies dumped in the creek bed. The evidence was purely circumstantial; accusations and gossip were thick among the community. A woman named Narlene Hollingsworth, the aunt of Damian’s girlfriend claimed to have seen Damian and Domini Teer, his girlfriend, walking along an access road, all muddy on the night of the crime. She gave a description of Damian and confided in the police that she had always thought Damian was some kind of witch and many people lived in fear of him. There is a saying that things we do not understand are to be feared and that worked against Damian. People do indeed fear the unknown. In reality he was just a young man who had religious issues he was working through, to find where he could find faith. That was considered to be “freakish” behavior and the news repost's flashing like a sick stench, details only the police should have had. Many thought this was probably the worst thing they had ever heard. West Memphis isn’t like NYC or LA. Things like this didn’t happen in West Memphis. I saw a DVD that coincidently showed someone from West Memphis saying “People like that don’t come to our town.” Someone came to your town because this crime happened there!

By this time the parents had all been notified and all family of the accused as well. I have seen one image that makes me crackle with anger, I was watching an interview on a National news show and a woman was calling them devil worshippers that had no soul to kill 3 small children. Damian may have been researching Wicca, a religion that cares for mother earth to attain serenity. This does not make him a devil worshipper. Wicca has been long practiced and in the past, in the 1800’s people were burned at the stake for practicing what they called witchcraft. I personally know little about Wicca dogma but I do know they do not, in true Wicca sense, slaughter children. And a slaughter it was, without question. The confession of Jessie Miskelley was all the police needed to hold all three boys, who were charged with the triple slaughter. There was no bail set-to the best of my knowledge. The occultist rumors made for gory tabloid trash. This time it was true: there was a boogyman in the woods and there were three of them.