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Jerry Kane and Joseph Kane were identified by Arkansas State Police the day after the shootings. [1]A lifelong resident of Ohio, [12] Jerry Kane ran a debt elimination business and traveled the country giving paid seminars on methods of "forestalling foreclosures", [13] lecturing that money and home loans are fictitious, and that people can simply sign a quitclaim deed and live in their houses ...
According to local West Memphis police officers, on the evening of May 5, 1993, at 8:42 pm, workers in the Bojangles' restaurant located about a mile from the crime scene in Robin Hood Hills reported seeing a black male who seemed "mentally disoriented" inside the restaurant's ladies' room. The man was bleeding and had brushed against the ...
Eventually, the police brought in Jessie Misskelley for questioning in relation to the murders. Misskelley was 17 and considered to have a mild intellectual disability. Despite this, a simple questioning turned into a heated interrogation by West Memphis Police, which resulted in a confession from Misskelley that was almost immediately recanted.
Interim Memphis Police Chief Cerelyn "C.J." Davis said 12 people were arrested in the operation, and police seized multiple guns and drugs.
As the City of Memphis worked to pass its budget for the upcoming fiscal year, Memphis Police Department interim Chief Cerelyn "C.J." Davis took about a 12% cut to her salary.. As the city passed ...
A Memphis Police Department officer drives past an American flag displayed between two Memphis Fire Department trucks outside of Hope Church prior to the start of the funeral for Joseph McKinney ...
Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills is a 1996 American documentary film directed, produced and edited by Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky about the trials of the West Memphis Three, three teenage youths accused of the May 1993 murders and sexual mutilation of three prepubescent boys as a part of an alleged satanic ritual in West Memphis, Arkansas.
The Memphis Police Department was founded in 1827. [6] In 1878, the 55-man police department was devastated by the yellow fever epidemic with all 55 officers stricken, and 10 officers dying. [6] By 1927, the city's murder rate was 69.3 per 100,000 population, the highest in the country.