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Usage examples of arrests.

A few hours after Gitchell announced the arrests, Bray interviewed the boy again.

The victim this time was a deputy sheriff—an undercover narcotics investigator who, the state police discovered, had been pawning evidence seized in drug arrests to buy drugs for himself.

Guns seized in drug arrests were found to be missing from the evidence locker.

The city was in a state of alarm—residents were even afraid to go shopping—and local officials were expecting arrests.

At the time of the arrests, he and his detectives had Jessie’s convoluted confession to hold against the three—and little else.

And despite the abundant rumors about Damien, by the time of the arrests, police had found no physical evidence linking him to the crime.

Municipal judge Rainey, who had signed the warrants for the searches and arrests just the night before, now issued an order denying public review of those documents.

A television news director reported that a woman called his station the day after the arrests, offering to sell a copy for several hundred dollars.

Six hundred people turned out two weeks after the arrests when the Missouri Street Church of Christ offered a free lecture on what advertisements said were “the six indicators of Satanic involvement.

Now, with news of the West Memphis arrests, he asked his assistant, Glori Shettles, to drive across the river and inform the court-appointed defense lawyers that if they wanted him, he was willing to help.

But at least the trickle had included copies of the autopsy reports, which the West Memphis police had finally received after the arrests.

From June until well into September, the only records the defense attorneys received were those that had been generatedbefore the arrests, and the release of even these was slow.

It objected to any future seals and asked Burnett to remove those that had been imposed at the time of the arrests.

This lengthy interview, which was conductedbefore the arrests, had inexplicably been withheld, not just past August but for more than three months after that.

What could they have been looking for, more than eight months after the murders—and nearly seven months after the arrests?