WMPD Time Log - June 3, 1993

8:00 AM: SQUAD MEETING/DISCUSSED ATTEMPTING TO PICK UP JESSIE MISSKELLEY JR IN REFERENCE TO HIS BEING A MEMBER OF CULT THAT DAMIEN ECHOLS AND JASON BALDWIN ARE SAID TO BE MEMBERS OF. CHECK POSSIBILITY OF HIS BEING A WITNESS TO HOMICIDE OR ANY STATEMENTS HE MAY HAVE OVERHEARD FROM DAMIEN OR ANYONE CONCERNING THE HOMICIDE.

9:13 AM: DETECTIVE SGT. MIKE ALLEN CHECKED INTO SERVICE

DETECTIVE ALLEN WENT TO THE RESIDENCE OF JESSIE MISSKELLEY JR. TO ATTEMPT TO MAKE CONTACT. CONTACTED THE FEMALE WHO WAS AT THE RESIDENCE WHO INFORMED THAT JESSIE JR. WAS NOT AT THE RESIDENCE. SHE INFORMED ALLEN THAT HE COULD GO TO JIM'S DIESEL REPAIR AND MEET WITH JESSIE MISSKELLEY SR.

9:45 AM: ALLEN WENT TO JIM'S REPAIR AND MET WITH JESSIE SR. WHO WENT AND PICKED UP JESSIE MISSKELLEY JR. JESSIE MISSKELLEY JR. THEN WENT WITH DETECTIVE ALLEN TO THE WEST MEMPHIS POLICE DEPARTMENT.

10:00 AM: DETECTIVE SGT. ALLEN FILLED OUT THE SUBJECT DESCRIPTION FORM AND THE INTERVIEW BEGAN WITH THE QUESTIONS OR ANY KNOWLEDGE HE HAD OF THE HOMICIDE AND HIS WHEREABOUTS ON THE DAY OF THE HOMICIDE.

11:00 AM: DETECTIVE ALLEN READ JESSIE MISSKELLEY JR. HIS RIGHTS ACCORDING TO THE MIRANDA RULE WITH DETECTIVE RIDGE BEING A WITNESS TO THE PROCEDURE. IT WAS DETERMINED THAT IT WOULD BE NECESSARY FOR JESSIE MISSKELLEY SR. TO SIGN A CONSENT TO ALLOW JESSIE JR. TO SUBMIT TO A POLYGRAPH EXAMINATION.

11:15 AM: SGT. ALLEN WENT WITH JESSIE MISSKELLEY JR. TO FIND HIS FATHER TO OBTAIN A CONSENT TO TAKE A POLYGRAPH EXAMINATION. SGT. ALLEN HAD JESSIE RIDING AS A UNSECURED PASSENGER IN THE FRONT SEAT AT WHICH TIME HE MET JESSIE AT OR NEAR MISSOURI STREET AND SHOPPINGWAY. SGT. ALLEN MET WITH JESSIE MISSKELLEY SR. AT CHIEF'S AUTO PARTS WHERE HE EXPLAINED THE UPCOMING PROCEDURE AND OBTAINED A WRITTEN CONSENT FOR JESSIE MISSKELLEY TO TAKE A POLYGRAPH EXAMINATION.

11:30 AM: JESSIE MISSKELLEY JR. WAS READ HIS RIGHTS ACCORDING TO THE MIRANDA RULE BY BILL DURHAM PRIOR TO HIS ADMINISTERING A POLYGRAPH EXAMINATION.

11:55 AM: FIRST CHART WAS COMPLETED DURING POLYGRAPH EXAMINATION.

12:03 PM: SECOND CHART COMPLETED DURING POLYGRAPH EXAMINATION

12:11 PM: THIRD CHART COMPLETED DURING POLYGRAPH EXAMINATION. AFTER THE TEST ABOUT 15 MINUTES WERE SPENT IN THE POST TEST INTERVIEW.

12:30 PM: BILL DURHAM ADVISED DETECTIVE RIDGE, INSPECTOR GITCHELL, AND SGT. MIKE ALLEN THAT JESSIE MISSKELLEY WAS BEING DECEPTIVE IN HIS RESPONSES TO THE RELEVANT QUESTIONS ASKED DURING THE POLYGRAPH EXAMINATION.

12:40 PM: IT WAS DECIDED THAT DETECTIVE RIDGE AND INSPECTOR GITCHELL WOULD CONTINUE THE INTERVIEW.

2:20 PM: JESSIE STATES TO INSPECTOR GITCHELL THAT HE WAS PRESENT WHEN THE THREE BOYS WERE KILLED. PREPARATIONS WERE BEGUN TO TAPE THE REST OF THE INTERROGATION WHEN IT WAS DETERMINED THAT JESSIE WAS A DIRECT WITNESS OR A PARTICIPANT OF THE HOMICIDE.

2:44 PM: THE TAPED CONFESSION BEGAN WITH JESSIE MISSKELLEY JR. BEING QUESTIONED BY DETECTIVE RIDGE AND INSPECTOR GITCHELL.

3:18 PM: THE TAPED CONFESSION WAS COMPLETED. WORK WAS STARTED IN REFERENCE TO OBTAINING SEARCH WARRANTS AND ARREST WARRANTS FOR THE PERSONS NAMED AS PARTICIPANTS IN THE HOMICIDE.

3:22 PM: JESSIE JR. OFFERED FOOD WHICH HE DECLINED AND WAS GIVEN TWO CIGARETTES.

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3:45PM: INSPECTOR GITCHELL CONDUCTED A SECOND INTERVIEW WITH JESSIE MISSKELLEY JR. TO CLEAR UP SOME DISCREPANCIES CONCERNING TIME AND EVENTS IN THE FIRST INTERVIEW.

5:05 PM: JESSIE JR. ASKED IF HE WANTED ANY FOOD TO EAT.

6:15 PM: JESSIE JR WAS FED.

6:30 PM: JESSIE JR. WAS ASKED IF HE WANT TO RELIEVE HIMSELF.

9:06 PM: RIDGE, GITCHELL, FOGLEMAN PRESENT FOR A PROBABLE CAUSE HEARING WITH JUDGE P. RAINEY PRESIDING.

9:14 PM: TESTIMONY WAS GIVEN CONCERNING THE PROBABLE CAUSE FOR THE SEARCH WARRANTS AND ARREST WARRANTS FOR THOSE INVOLVED IN THE HOMICIDE.