TDW 1704 - Day That Changed West Memphis Forever

0:03 welcome everyone Adam the woo here

0:03 today's Vlog is going to have a little

0:04 bit different feel a little bit

0:06 different momentum and presentation than

0:09 I normally do most of the time I drive

0:12 around showing a lot of fun stuff

0:14 interjecting and overload of humor into

0:17 the content today is not going to be the

0:19 case this is a subject matter that I

0:22 have researched and followed for many

0:26 years and it really does not lend itself

0:29 in any any

0:31 facet to Comedy and humor and disrespect

0:35 of that fashion

0:37 so if this is not your type of subject

0:40 matter please understand we'll be back

0:43 to our normal

0:45 campy funfilled type of Vlogs

0:49 tomorrow but I wanted to check this

0:51 location in this town

0:54 out here we go tucked away in the corner

0:57 of

0:58 Arkansas it's a town by the the name of

1:00 West Memphis a small little Community

1:04 just a few miles from the Tennessee

1:06 State

1:07 Line and this name has now become

1:11 infamous with an event that

1:14 changed this small town forever up until

1:17 that point I'm sure the town had issues

1:20 and struggles like any place does but

1:24 nothing could have prepared them for

1:26 what was going to happen not only with

1:28 the tragic

1:30 events but also the way the locals

1:35 reacted to that moment on May 5th around

1:38 700 p.m. the police department was

1:41 alerted to the fact that three young

1:43 boys had gone missing they searched a

1:46 little bit that evening but it wasn't

1:48 until the following day May 6th that

1:51 them and the rest of the folks in town

1:55 took it very very seriously Stevie

1:58 Branch Michael Moore and Christopher

2:01 buers lived in this neighborhood and

2:04 attended this school they were second

2:06 graders best friends and Cub Scouts on

2:10 the back side of these houses used to be

2:13 a lot more heavily wooded and was

2:16 referred to as Robin Hood Hills the

2:20 entrance to the former wooded area would

2:23 have been down there they have since

2:24 bulldozed all the

2:26 trees since that day

2:31 over in here would have been another

2:35 area that was very thick with Woods only

2:39 a few remains of some trees but it used

2:42 to come out to probably about here and

2:46 there used to be a ravine that went

2:49 across that direction that they have

2:52 filled in with dirt since then spawned

2:56 off of this Waterway

3:00 which still

3:01 exists right in the

3:04 Ravine right about in that

3:07 area is where they found the bodies of

3:10 the three boys perhaps one of the most

3:13 famous images from the crime scene is

3:17 this pipe that stretches

3:20 across the still existent

3:29 Waterway this is where they found two of

3:29 the bicycl

3:30 in the water below the pipe there is

3:34 quite a bit of disturbing video

3:38 footage and photographs online if you so

3:42 choose to research on your own not

3:45 really going to show too many

3:58 day except for where the bicycles were

3:58 found there on either side one bike on

4:01 one side of the pipe one bike on the

4:03 other a lot of the images you will find

4:07 if you

4:08 decide to look this stuff up

4:12 are are definitely definitely disturbing

4:16 so I warn

4:36 it's very sad when you are visually

4:36 familiar with an event when you have

4:38 seen it on television and researched it

4:40 over the years and seen photos and

4:42 videos and then you show up to the

4:44 location even that guard rail back

4:48 there it brings back

4:51 memories you know of what you've always

4:54 learned about and seen kind of hits you

4:57 kind of hits you hard

5:00 imagine living imagine being one of

5:02 those three cars parked there every

5:03 night living in that house they have to

5:13 know can you even imagine the Waterway

5:13 is referred to as the 10m

5:16 byou and there are a couple other key

5:20 landmarks in this case as well in this

5:23 now empty parking lot was a truck wash

5:26 called the Blue Beacon and it's right

5:30 next to where that wooded

5:33 area used to be and if you look at old

5:37 photos the building was

5:40 blue just like the

5:42 paints on the sidewalk

5:45 there little chilling reminder

6:11 for obvious reasons plenty of

6:11 neighborhood watch signs in the

6:14 neighborhood now here was that original

6:17 entryway into the

6:19 woods right there that little road would

6:21 lead into the into the

6:29 forest naturally anyone in that

6:29 situation when hearing the news of their

6:32 children and the people in the

6:35 town they wanted answers they wanted to

6:37 know who did

6:39 this three

6:42 teenagers had the finger pointed at them

6:46 and eventually were

6:47 convicted of the murders of the three

6:51 children these three teenagers went on

6:54 to be known as The West Memphis 3 but

6:58 this is where a lot of debate comes into

7:00 play

7:02 originally the locals around here were

7:06 convinced that those three guys were the

7:09 killers but over

7:12 time some people have changed their way

7:16 thinking even some of the

7:19 parents of the 38-year olds have changed

7:22 their tune and said that the

7:26 incarcerated

7:28 teenagers were innocent and that is

7:30 where my speculation and opinion will

7:34 come to an end because the fact of the

7:36 matter is I really do not know and there

7:39 is no information that I can share that

7:43 has not already been discussed in great

7:49 detail so that's where I'm going to

7:49 leave that's where I'm going to leave

7:50 that this fish and chicken place here

7:54 called sharks was formerly a

7:57 Bojangles restaurant

8:00 it's on the back side of the train

8:03 tracks and not too far from the wooded

8:06 area where the crime scene was this is a

8:09 very pivotal spot for those who have

8:11 followed the

8:12 investigation because this is a location

8:15 where supposedly a man the night of the

8:18 murders went in the restroom cleaned

8:21 blood off

8:23 himself and then

8:25 left this man since then has been given

8:28 the nickname name Mr

8:30 Bojangles because no one

8:33 knows who he is it's not open but by

8:36 peeking in the window you can see the

8:39 hallway and you can

8:41 see the restrooms at the end of the

9:00 hall it is amazing how many crimes

9:00 are never really fully

9:03 explained how they are done we never

9:05 really

9:06 know what

9:09 happened unless we were part of we were

9:12 there not just this case per se but so

9:16 many so many others there's so many

9:18 Mysteries out there

9:25 speculations comments criticisms

9:25 concerns on the way things were handled

9:30 detective work has got to be an

9:34 interesting subject and police

9:38 investigators none of that I know

9:40 anything about I do a little bit of

9:41 research on my own but nowhere on that

9:45 level and it's hard for me to chime in

9:48 with

9:49 opinions and speculation on things

9:52 simply

9:53 because I do not have all the evidence I

9:55 do not have all the facts that's why I

9:57 always try to keep things you know

10:00 biased is it unbiased or biased I try to

10:03 keep everything middle

10:05 ground and look at it from both

10:10 sides I hope you understand but I do

10:13 know that the event that happened right

10:17 there may of 93 was a tragic

10:22 one I can't even

10:25 fathom what it was like for the families

10:27 in the town

10:35 so sad leaving Arkansas now about to

10:35 cross over the Mississippi River and

10:39 into

10:40 Tennessee over to my

10:42 left is

10:45 Memphis and I will see you tomorrow from

10:49 there for a little bit more of a

10:52 lighthearted subject

10:56 matter take care of yourselves

10:59 love you

11:01 guys storms on the horizon tonight

11:05 supposed to be really bad as mentioned

11:09 yesterday I am now in

11:12 route to find the

11:14 hotel to get out of Harm's

11:18 Way

11:20 Vlog over

TDW 1704 - Day That Changed West Memphis Forever

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