Father of Victim to Convicted Killer: ‘I’m Here for You’:
For 14 years Mark Byers was convinced that the West Memphis 3 killed his son Christopher Byers. For those same 14 years, the WM3 supporters have accused Mark Byers of being the “real killer”. Now at least half of hell has frozen over because now with the new DNA evidence that’s been released Byers is now saying that the WM3 did not kill his son.
“I didn’t want to see it,” he said of learning of the new evidence. “I felt like Benedict Arnold. I’m going against everything I believed for 14 years.
“I want these three men to know I’m here for you,” said Byers, who had himself been suspected of involvement in the murders by some people in West Memphis. “I hated you for years. I believed with all my heart you killed my son — and I’m sorry for that.”
Authorities have never called Byers a suspect.
Byers told ABC News that he now wants “justice” for his son and the other boys.
“They let down not just me and two other family members,” he said of the government officials who handled the case. “They let down every citizen who pays their salary.”
I wonder how this is going over with the “Free the WM3” crowd. From what I’ve seen without going to the WM3 website most supporters are still convinced that Byers did it. Now I’ve made my thoughts known on this case that the right men are in jail. However, Byers does have a certain air of suspicion swirling around him. I just don’t think it’s for killing those kids. Honestly, I don’t think Byers really believes what he’s saying. It seems like to me since some of the suspicions have been taken off of him with the DNA evidence he’s cuddling up to the WM3 supporters to get all the suspicion off him.
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