Episode 28: "One of the guys had a devil worshiping book and we would go by it"

      https://www.amazon.com/Blood-Black-Against-Memphis-Killers-ebook/dp/B06XVT2976/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=blood+on+black&qid=1559059428&s=gateway&sr=8-1 https://www.amazon.com/Where-Monsters-Go-Against-Memphis-ebook/dp/B06XVNXCJV/ref=sr_1_1?crid=XNLYB8QUIQ7F&keywords=where+the+monsters+go&qid=1559059470&s=gateway&sprefix=where+the+monsters+go%2Caps%2C167&sr=8-1 https://www.amazon.com/Case-Against-West-Memphis-Killers-ebook/dp/B07C7C4DCH/ref=sr_1_3?keywords=gary+meece&qid=1559059536&s=gateway&sr=8-3 https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0753HJZ1P/?ie=UTF8&keywords=gary%20meece&qid=1559059573&ref_=sr_1_6&s=gateway&sr=8-6 https://www.amazon.com/Blood-Black-Against-Memphis-Killers-ebook/dp/B06XVT2976/ref=sr_1_2?keywords=gary+meece&qid=1559059573&s=gateway&sr=8-2             "One of the guys had a devil worshiping book and we would go by it."       Self-confessed Satanists in trouble with the law became a prime source of information. Alvis Clem Bly, 36,  had been charged with sexual abuse, first degree in March 1993, and was still in the Crittenden County Jail when Detective Allen talked to him on June 29  about his involvement in the cult. Bly at times seemed almost incoherent while nonetheless giving details that concurred with others' statements.  Bly had lived on East Barton in West Memphis, in the neighborhood of the victims, and in Lakeshore prior to being arrested. He had been involved in the cult for about a  year.  About 20 people, never less than eight, were involved.  “We always had a certain time to meet out there during the week. ... We always go on Sunday” at  6 o’clock in the evening. “It was in the book that’s what time you’re suppose to start it.”  “Buckland’s Complete Book of Witchcraft,” the go-to text locally for witches, said, “Most covens meet once a week, but there really is no hard and fast rule.” There was little agreement among professed occultists talking to police about meeting times.  Bly explained: “Well we just go out there and one of the guys had a devil worshiping book and we would go by it, which was sacrificing dogs or chicken. We would drain their blood. Then we would take and cut the heart out and put it in the center of the pentagram and set fire to it and worship the devil.” He described the pentagram as “a devil symbol” placed “on the floor.” “They had some chalk, some  white powder chalk and some blue chalk like carpenters chalk and would draw it with it.” Bly, who had been following the case in the news, named Misskelley and Baldwin as participants. He said cult members called Baldwin “Davien.”  Allen got out a newspaper with a story about the killings and photos of the three suspects.  Allen: “Okay is this the one they call Damien?” Bly: “No sir.” Allen: “That’s, I’m point to Jason Baldwin?” Bly: “I see, that’s ... that’s not Davien, the other boy was Damien, I don’t see him on th ... there he is, that’s Davien there.” Allen: “Okay that’s the one they call Damien there.” Bly: “Yes sir.” Allen: “Davien, what ever you know him as.” Bly: “Davien that’s devil name.” Allen: “Okay, and this is the person you know as Baldwin?” Bly: “Yes sir.” Allen: “Point to a picture of Jason Baldwin and this person here, do you recognize him?” Bly: “He’s the leader, Misskelley is.” Clearly, Misskelley was not the leader.  Allen: “Okay, um.” Bly: “All I know is Jason or Jes or Jessie, something like that.” Bly named locations for cult activities, such as an old red barn behind Lakeshore, a huge, empty house out on Highway 50 North and a shed behind a house on Rich Road in West Memphis.  Bly claimed he had had a ski boat and had taken Misskelley down to Hernando Point  in Mississippi the previous summer (though he was uncertain about Misskelley’s first name). Bly: “I don’t know how we brought it up but I used to not believe in the Bible or the Lord, and he ask me if I was atheist and I told him yes and that’s how I come about getting in it, he told me that devil would give me more than God ever would.” A