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East Carolina is BOWL BOUND after a thrilling 30-29 overtime win over the Memphis Tigers at the Liberty Bowl Memorial Stadium.   

East Carolina is BOWL BOUND after a thrilling 30-29 overtime win over the Memphis Tigers at the Liberty Bowl Memorial Stadium. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/thesportsobj/support

Join Al Myatt and Kevin Monroe for the Bonesville Pregame Podcast as they look ahead to East Carolina's American Athletic Conference clash with Memphis on Saturday, Nov. 13, 2021, at Liberty Bowl Memorial Stadium (12 p.m., ESPN+). Myatt and Monroe analyze the Pirates and their opponent ahead of kickoff each week. With decades of experience… [ More... ]

After an unexpected week off, the Memphis Football Podcast returns to diagnose what's gone wrong during the Tigers' two-game losing streak. Are the Tigers' fumbling problems the biggest concern? Is it time for fans to panic with a 3-2 team? Columnist Mark Giannotto and beat writer Evan Barnes break down the positives of the offense but also some adjustments. They dive into the problems with a Tigers' defense ranked near the bottom nationally in almost every major category. They wrap things looking ahead to Memphis at Tulsa on Saturday (8 p.m., ESPN2) as well as changes coming to Liberty Bowl Memorial Stadium, which will have a new name and perhaps more renovations on the way. 

Jon Goin joins the show to talk about the WGC, the Olympic golf field and more. Rick Horrow joins the show to talk about Memphis' plans to upgrade Liberty Bowl Memorial Stadium, the Olympics and more. Dave and Brett talk about MLB news and the NBA draft to close the hour.

On today's show: Jessica and Meghan discuss the NBA Finals, congratulate the Storm on their WNBA championship, discuss the latest news about fan attendance in Liberty Bowl Memorial Stadium and more. They also discuss milk preferences, single dudes' mentality, and NFL news with DeAngelo Williams. Meghan McPeak hops on to put a bow on the WNBA season before the ladies discuss PDA and more in POP of the morning. (start) WNBA Finals (7:00) NBA Finals (20:00) Off the Grind (27:00) Liberty Bowl Memorial Attendance (40:00) DeAngelo Williams (1:06:00) Meghan McPeak (1:28:00) POP Watch LIVE at 8am, Weekdays on the Grizzlies App: bit.ly/MemGrizzApp Watch today's full show at: youtube.com/grindcitymedia

In this episode Memphis radio legend Devin Steel mixes music & soccer. Devin spent the last 25 years building a reputation as an afternoon radio drive-time king on a Memphis powerhouse station.  His studio became a must-visit for any visiting celebrities, athletes, and top hip hop and R&B artists. Steel is a lifelong soccer fan. Even when college football came calling, he never lost his love for the Beautiful Game.  Not only a fan, Devin also plays and manages in an adult amateur soccer league. Maybe his on-field soccer stats haven't blown up like some of the artists he's promoted, but he is no less engaged- even designing his club's kits! When he's on the pitch, he's on a bike.  The guys ask him about his new hobby, cycling. In soccer news... A pair of England national team players have been sent home for breaking quarantine protocol.  The guys will tell you whose bubble burst. The Lionel Messi saga was short but intense.  Tim & Brodee an update on his 2020-21 plans and a guess at what's next. A critical four-day span for USL Championship side Memphis 901 FC.  They'll take on North Carolina FC twice with both clubs needing wins, not draws, to push for the playoffs. Wins would be a great present as we say HAPPY BIRTHDAY to 901 FC Head Coach Tim Mulqueen! Before we go, it is with deep sadness we tell you that friend of the podcast & Memphis Rogues goalkeeper John Houska has passed away this week.  He was an aggressive goalkeeper during his amazing career at Loyola University Maryland & was in goal on that historic night vs New York Cosmos, shutting them out 1-0 at Liberty Bowl Memorial Stadium. Houska was also the face of the team, always taking time to make personal appearances at youth clinics and other events around Memphis. John was still full of that same energy and hope when we recently spoke with him. His personality really shines through in our podcast chat, which you can listen to here. John Houska was 64.  He will be missed by his surviving family, friends, and the generation of kids he impacted in Memphis. A big thanks to our guest as Devin Steel mixes music & soccer.     Support the show: https://podcave.app/subscribe/my-3-subs-a-soccer-odyssey-mqdxzscg See omnystudio.com/policies/listener for privacy information.

In episode 78 of GT247's Tigers in 20, host and lead writer Christian Fowler, GT247 founder Brooks Hansen and digital content producer Kenny Stubblefield discuss the latest in Memphis football and basketball. To begin the episode, the crew briefly discusses the NBA's cancellation of playoff games. Next, they talk about the outrage from Memphis fans due to seating being 12 feet apart for the 2020-2021 season. There have been a lot of fans on social media explaining their frustrations that fans have to sit 12 feet apart rather than six, and the crew gives their opinion. Following the Liberty Bowl Memorial Stadium seating discussion, the GT247 crew moves on to how the local media handled the Collierville High School football situation last week. Fowler, Hansen and Stubblefield explain why they were a bit baffled by the media's decision to rip CHS for not allowing media at last Friday night's game. Next, the trio discusses four-star class of 2021 Memphis commit Josh Minott. Hansen and Stubblefield were in Atlanta, Georgia over the weekend to watch Minott play in an AAU tournament. Minott's CP25 squad one their opening game and lost their second, and Hansen and Stubblefield give their takeaways from watching Minott play live for the first time. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On the schedule, it looked like a trip to the south to pick up an easy road win against an expansion team. For Franz Beckenbauer, Giorgio Chinaglia, Roberto Carlos & the defending NASL Champion New York Cosmos, it turned to be anything but that against the fledgling Memphis Rogues. Tim talks with original Rogues radio color analyst Bob Brame, who was there at Liberty Bowl Memorial Stadium the night David took his shot at soccer’s Goliath. Support the show.

Kansas State and Navy collide in the 61st AutoZone Liberty Bowl on Tuesday, Dec. 31 at the Liberty Bowl Memorial Stadium in Memphis, Tenn. The game is slated for a 2:45 p.m. kickoff and will be shown on ESPN. The all-new Powercat Pregame Podcast featuring GoPowercat.com publisher Tim Fitzgerald, and Fitz is joined by GPC's D. Scott Fritchen, Riley Gates and Ryan Wallace in the roundtable session before the Navy coordinators talk about their team during pre-bowl press conferences. In the second segment, Fitz speaks with GoPowercat analysts Marcus Watts, Brien Hanley and Kelly Stewart before wrapping up this jam-packed pregame podcast with his score prediction. The Powercat Podcast streams on the 247Sports Podcast Network at Megaphone.fm., and the Powercat Pregame Podcast is sponsored by Robbins Motor Company. You can subscribe to the Powercat Podcast to ensure instant and consistent delivery of shows at Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Stitcher, Spotify and TuneIn, and if you enjoy the podcast, please leave a review. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Cerrito and Local 24's Jessica Benson talk about Memphis Football, the Cotton Bowl, Mike Norvell and more as they look back at what they will remember from the week. Also, Tiger Lane correspondent Brad Broders calls in to talk about the AAC Championship Game at Liberty Bowl Memorial Stadium. Plus, producer Gabe Guhn joins Cerrito to answers questions from Memphis Reddit.Listen to Cerrito Live every Saturday from 10-11am on Sports 56/96.1/87.7 FM in Memphis. Subscribe to the show on Apple Podcasts, Google Play, tunein, PlayerFM, Sticher or Spotify.

Join us Isaac Simpson & Bryan Moss (@Isaac_Rivals / @RivalsBMoss) as we come to you live from Liberty Bowl Memorial Stadium to get you set for today's AAC championship game and Rnd2 of the Memphis Tigers & Cincinnati Bearcats

Cincinnati Bearcats vs Memphis Tigers Predictions, Picks, and Odds for their showdown on Saturday, December 7, from Liberty Bowl Memorial Stadium, Memphis TN. Direct from Las Vegas, the WagerTalk handicapping crew look at the Vegas odds and give their college football expert picks and predictions on the matchup between the Cincinnati Bearcats vs Memphis Tigers. Current Vegas college football odds have Memphis Tigers favored by 9.5 over Cincinnati Bearcats.

Cincinnati Bearcats vs Memphis Tigers Predictions, Picks, and Odds for their showdown on Friday, November 29, from Liberty Bowl Memorial Stadium, Memphis, TN. Direct from Las Vegas, the WagerTalk handicapping crew look at the Vegas odds and give their college football expert picks and predictions on the matchup between the Cincinnati Bearcats vs Memphis Tigers. Current Vegas college football odds have Memphis Tigers favored by 11 over Cincinnati Bearcats. Cincinnati Bearcats vs Memphis Tigers PredictionsHigh-powered Memphis (42 ppg) has a chance to host AAC title game vs. Cincy next week and overtake it as highest ranked Group of Five team. Hence, we recommend torrid Tigers, expertly led by NFL prospect QB White (7th in pass efficiency),who figures to outduel Bearcats’ slumping QB Ridder, who’s only 18 of 43 for 140 L2Gs. Mike Norvell’s Memphis side on 11-4-1 spread run at Liberty Bowl. (analysis provided by The Gold Sheet)

Mark Giannotto, Evan Barnes and Jason Munz recap last week's monumental moments, from "College GameDay" to taking down SMU at Liberty Bowl Memorial Stadium.

Tigers beat reporters Jonah Jordan and Drew Hill discuss Memphis hosting ESPN's College GameDay, SMU coming to Liberty Bowl Memorial Stadium and Penny Hardaway's two exhibition games.

Join me Isaac Simpson ( @Isaac_Rivals) & Bryan Moss       ( @RivalsBMoss) as we come to to you live from high above Liberty Bowl Memorial Stadium and get you set for the Tigers first first foray into AAC play with a huge western division matchup against rival Navy. We’ll also take a look around the AAC and give our picks on the rest of the games coming up this weekend. You can give us a call with your thoughts at (917) 889-9149  

Join me (@Isaac_Rivals) live from the press box at Liberty Bowl Memorial Stadium as I close the book on the Tigers win over Ole Miss and get you set for this mornings matchup against the Southern Jaguars including my keys to the game, scouting report, score predictions & more! I’ll take a look at other action around the AAC as well. Give me a call w/ your thoughts at (917) 889-9149

Join me (Isaac Simpson) & Bryan Moss coming live from the press box at Liberty Bowl Memorial Stadium as we’ll get you set for the matchup against the Ole Miss Rebels

In episode 40 of Tigers in 20, lead writer and host Christian Fowler and GoTigers247 founder Brooks Hansen discuss the latest in Memphis Tigers basketball and football.The duo begins by discussing former Memphis forward Isaiah Stokes. The 6-foot-8 big man enrolled at the University of Memphis on Tuesday, which filled the final scholarship for the Tigers 2019 class.Stokes is originally from Memphis, and he will be returning home to resume his college basketball career. Next, Fowler and Hansen discuss class of 2020 official visits. On Tuesday, it was reported that five-star guard Jaden Springer and four-star forward Mady Sissoko have both set their official visit dates to Memphis.Springer will be visiting Memphis on Sept. 14 and Sissoko will be visiting on Sept. 3. The GoTigers247 crew discusses both official visits and what they mean for Memphis coach Penny Hardaway and his staff.Finally, the duo previews the Tigers week one matchup against Ole Miss. After eight months of waiting, Memphis fans will get to see Tigers coach Mike Norvell and the team at Liberty Bowl Memorial Stadium on Saturday.Fowler and Hansen discuss what it'll take for Memphis to come away with a victory, and they both give score predictions. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Ole Miss Rebels vs Memphis Tigers Predictions, Picks, and Odds for their showdown on August 31, 2019, from Liberty Bowl Memorial Stadium. Direct from Las Vegas, Kelly Stewart, Bryan Leonard and Bruce Marshall look at the Vegas odds and give their college football expert picks and predictions on the matchup between Ole Miss Rebels vs Memphis Tigers. Current Vegas college football odds have Memphis favored by 5.5 over Ole Miss (updated Ole Miss Rebels vs Memphis Tigers College Football Odds from Vegas http://www.wagertalk.com/livelines).

Episode 10 of The Case Against examines the documented mental ills of young Damien Echols. #WM3 #DamienEchols #TrueCrime  From "Blood on Black" by Gary Meece          'AN ALIEN, FROM ANOTHER WORLD, NOT LIKE ANY HUMAN ON EARTH"       “I think at the time I probably suffered from what most teenagers suffer from, you know, just teenage angst, maybe depression, maybe sometimes even severe depression,” Damien Echols explained to CNN's Larry King in 2007 about his adolescence, making it sound as if he was a typical moody teenager. Echols painted a self-portrait of a fairly ordinary kid just a little out of the norm: “Things weren't exactly the same — especially in the South — as they are now. I believe that I probably stood out in the small town where we were living just because of the music I listened to, the clothes that I wore, things of that nature. They considered me an oddity. So I drew attention. For example, one of the things they used against us at trial was the fact that I listened to Metallica. You know, back then, 15 years ago, that was something that was considered strange. Now you hear it played on classic rock stations. It's no big deal at all.” The West Memphis police had more promising leads than who was listening to Metallica, which would have been a rich field for suspects. By 1993, Metallica was one of the top rock acts internationally, playing 77 shows worldwide on its “Nowhere Else to Roam” tour, including dates in such Southern towns as Johnson City, Tenn., Lexington, Ky.,  and Greenville, S.C. Five years earlier, Metallica had been one of the headliners for the Monsters of Rock Tour at Liberty Bowl Memorial Stadium, just across the river from West Memphis. Two years before that, Metallica had opened for Ozzy Osbourne at the Mid-South Coliseum at the Memphis Fairgrounds. Then as now, being a Metallica fan was no big deal and not something that would single anyone out as a murder suspect. Echols was known around Marion and West Memphis for his carefully cultivated persona as a sneering specter in black stalking along the side of the road, reveling in his bad reputation as a practitioner of the dark arts. What troubled authorities was not an immature poseur with Gothic pretensions but the deeply troubled youth behind the cliched facade.   In 2001, Dr. George W. Woods, a Berkeley, Calif., psychiatrist, attempted to clarify what was wrong with Damien Echols in a lengthy statement with an encompassing survey of Echols' mental troubles and background, based greatly on suspect self-reporting.   Dr. Woods' evaluation was requested by the Echols defense to determine if his mental illness affected his competency to stand trial. The defense, attempting to appeal the conviction, contended that antidepressants Echols was taking in 1992-1993 heightened his manic episodes, creating a “psychotic euphoria” that included hallucinations and the delusion that “deities” were transforming him into a “superior entity.”   The problems and limitations were longstanding, Dr. Woods explained. “Mr. Echols' mother, Pamela, was adopted under mysterious circumstances and reared as the only child of her adoptive mother, who was trained as a practical nurse, and her adoptive father, who was an illiterate blue collar worker. When Mr. Echols' mother began junior high school, she developed bizarre behavior that intensified as she grew older. She stopped attending high school because, in her words, it made her ‘crazy.' She was unable to cope with the stress of school, stopped leaving her home entirely, and received psychiatric treatment. Her adoptive mother was forced to quit work in order to stay home and care for her. Mr. Echols' mother, Pamela, married Mr. Echols' father, Joe Hutchison, when she was only 15. “Mr. Echols' mother became pregnant with Mr. Echols during the first year of her marriage. Due to her age and mental condition the pregnancy was high risk and marked by numerous complications. According to her, the pregnancy ‘almost killed me.' She remained so nauseated and ill that she lost 50 pounds over the course of nine months. Her diet was very poor; she was not well nourished. Her long, high risk labor necessitated a caesarean section from which she recuperated slowly. “Not surprisingly, Mr. Echols had many problems as an infant and young child. He was ‘fretful and nervous and cried all of the time.' His mother could not soothe him, and he slept fitfully for only three or four hours a night. At a very young age he began to demonstrate troubling behaviors. He repetitively banged his head against the wall and floor until he was three. ... “Following Mr. Echols' birth his mother suffered a miscarriage and soon after became pregnant with his younger sister. ... Mr. Echols' mother was not able to care for her two small children, so she sent Mr. Echols to live with his maternal grandmother. Although Mr. Echols returned to live with his mother and father, his mother was very dependent on her mother for assistance in caring for Mr. Echols and, later, his sister. Pamela Echols was never able to live on her own or care for her children without a great deal of support. She remained dependent on others for guidance and assistance with child rearing. “Like Mr. Echols' mother, his father, Joe Hutchi- son, also appears to have suffered from mental instabili- ty. Joe Hutchison is uniformly described as immature, self absorbed, cruel and capricious. He chronically neglected and abused his family. He berated his wife and son, set unrealistic expectations, called them degrading names, destroyed their most cherished possessions, terrorized them by threatening to break their bones and hurt them in other ways, and isolated them from community and family support by moving frequently -- sometimes impulsively leaving a residence only days or weeks after moving in. On one occasion, he forced his wife to leave her hospital bed to move with him to an- other city. He found sadistic pleasure in donning horrifying rubber masks of hideous monsters and appearing at his son's bedroom window where he terrified Mr. Echols by making gruesome noises. In addition, Mr. Hutchison kept his family anxious with his fixation on the notion that others were trying to hurt him. For ex- ample, he was convinced ‘people were trying to run him down' and constantly harangued his wife and son about the individuals who were trying to kill him. ... “Neither mother nor child was equipped to deal with Joe Hutchison's increasingly disturbed behavior. Fearing for her life and those of her children Pamela Echols finally found the courage to divorce Joe Hutchison in 1986.” Damien was the product of two extremely unstable parents. Damien's troubling and often bizarre behavior from an early age worried family members. None of this suggested that the result would be a teenager whose only complaint would be your average case of ‘“the summertime blues.” Dr. Woods continued: “Mr. Echols first recalls being overwhelmed by distressing and terrifying emotions in the second grade when he was positive there was going to be a nuclear war. He believed he ‘had to get back to where something told him he came from before the war started.' As he grew older this obsession evolved into a driving force that consumed him and ‘took up every bit of brain space and brain power.' He became convinced that he was ‘an alien, from another world, not like any human on earth.'” Problems at home continued, Dr. Woods noted. “Mr. Echols' mental deterioration spiraled against the backdrop of his unpredictable and troubled home life. His mother's confusion and dependence continued. Within days of divorcing Joe Hutchison she married Andy Jack Echols, an illiterate laborer who worked intermittently as a roofer. The family was extremely poor. They found a shack set in the middle of crop fields that were doused with pesticides at regular intervals. Despite the extremely unhealthy conditions, the Echols remained in the shack for five years. …" Damien's adoptive father, the since-deceased Jack Echols, gave his impressions of the young Damien on Sept. 4, 2000: “I married Pam Hutchison in 1986, shortly after she split up from her husband Joe. I had known her from the city through friends that we both had. I adopted both of her children, Michelle and Damien. When I adopted Damien, his name was Michael and he had to change his last name to Echols and while he was doing that he changed his first name to Damien. Damien was reading about a preacher named Damien who he liked and that is how he got his name. “When we first got married, I lived in some apartments in Marion. Pamela and her children moved in with me and we stayed there for a few months. We finally moved into a house that needed a lot of work that was in the middle of a wheat field. Some folks might call it a shack, but it gave us a roof over our heads and a place to go home to. It was only 35 dollars a month and we needed someplace that did not cost very much. I fixed the house up as best I could. We had a toi- let in the bathroom and a sink in the kitchen, but they weren't hooked up right so we could not use them at first. I fixed up a pump that was supposed to pump in water, but it could only handle a little bit of water at a time. We learned to use as little water as possible. Since water was a problem we ate off paper plates so we did not have to do dishes. During part of the year, the water would quit running and we had to bring it in from outside. Most of the time we went to Pamela's mama's house and my children's houses and filled up gallon jugs. We tried to fill up enough at one time so that we only had to go every other day or so. We had to haul in wood to heat the place, and it got plenty cold in that part of Arkansas. I got paid okay when I was roofing but if there was ever a storm or other bad weather then I did not work and we did not get a paycheck for that week. I was the only one working in the family so it was real hard when I missed out on work.” In his writings, Damien has described this portion of his childhood with great bitterness. Jack Echols continued: “Damien was not in very good health while we lived at the old farm house. He was not able to go outside of the house because he got really sick. He had a real hard time with his breathing because of all the crops outside the house. Sometimes his eyes and throat swelled up and he could not swallow or see very good. The place right below his eyes turned to a darkish color kind of like he had been hit in the eye. I think the worst thing for Damien, though, were his headaches. From the time that we moved into that house, he would get terrible headaches. He asked me to squeeze his head so that his pain would go away. I would put my arms around his head, like in a head lock and I squeezed it. I did not want to hurt him but he always asked to squeeze harder, so I did. I think that the pain of the headache hurt more than the squeezing of his head. He got relief for a few moments while I did this but the headache always came back. He took some medicine to help with his breathing and to try and keep his swelling down and it did help a little bit but not near as much as we wanted it to work. “Damien went through these spells where he could not sleep no matter how hard he tried to. He stayed up for three or four nights in a row without sleeping at all. These periods were very hard for him and by the end of the second day of no sleep, he was exhausted, fussy, and miserable. He cried a lot during these times and no one seemed to be able to help him with what he was upset about. We never could figure out what he was so upset about, but there was no doubt in my mind that he was as miserable as a little boy could be. His sister Michelle went in his room to talk to him and he sometimes fell asleep for a couple of hours or so and then he stayed up for another few days before getting anymore sleep. I was worried about Damien but I did not know what to do. I had to work during the day and every evening when I came home, I hoped that he would be asleep but he was normally still up. After many days of this, Damien finally slept for an entire night. Once he got a full night's rest, he went for a few weeks without having trouble sleeping. I always hoped that these times would not come back but they always did. It just about broke my heart to see how hard Damien tried to handle his problems, but he never was able to figure out what made him so sad. “Damien never was a really happy boy. He got really sad sometimes and no one, including Damien, had any idea what was wrong. He cried really hard and I asked him what was making him so sad and he told me that he did not know. I never could figure out how someone could cry so hard and not know why they were sad and it was real hard to watch Damien go through this. Damien used to spend a few days in a row where he cried really hard. Sometimes it seemed like he was having trouble with his breathing because he cried so much. During these periods, Damien sometimes started laughing uncontrollably, just like one of those laughs that comes from the belly. It was very strange to me that he went from crying to laughing and I was confused about why he did this. Michelle and his mama tried to get him to stop being so sad but the only thing that ever seemed to help him was time. After a while, he would finally get to where he could stop crying and being so sad. Damien went through this on a regular basis. “There were other times when Damien had so much energy he did not know what to do. He got really excited and kind of hyper and he always walked at these times. Damien walked to some of the parks in the area, to some of his friends houses, and across town. He told me that he sometimes got confused because he was sure where he needed to go but when he got there he felt like he was in the wrong place. I thought that he meant that he changed his mind about where he wanted to go but he told me that it was not like that. Damien did not decide where he was supposed to walk to but got a feeling about where he should be but, when he got where he was going, his feeling changed and he had to go somewhere else. He was real frustrated at these times and I did not know how to help him. I did not really understand what he meant about not knowing where he wanted to be. I sometimes felt that I should have done a better job trying to figure out what he was talking about and maybe then I could have made things a little better for him. “I remember that Damien had some strange needs. Some things could never be out of place and had to be put in a place just so. He had the same pillow all his life and if it ever got misplaced, he howled his head off. Damien could not sleep with any other pillow for as long as I have known him. He had a lot of fear about the closet in his room and did not want any of his toys ever put in the closet. If his toys were in the closet, he panicked and thought they would die. Damien had these two fire hats; one was black and one was red. We had to keep the hats under the bathroom sink just so and right beside each other. If they were not in their place, it made him panic and afraid. … “Sometimes Damien did not have any appetite and he did not eat for several days. It did not seem to matter what Pamela put on the table, he did not want to eat it. After a few days of not eating, Damien looked weaker and I could tell it was wearing on him. I wished that he would eat for his health but when he did not have an appetite there was nothing any one could do.” Dr. Woods wrote: “Going from Joe Hutchison to Andy Echols was like going from the frying pan into the fire. In addition to increased isolation and poverty and being exposed to toxic pesticides, the Department of Human Services (DHS) records show that Andy Echols sexually abused Mr. Echols' younger sister repeatedly until she mustered the courage to report him to her school counselor. DHS intervened and Pamela moved her children out of the shack. Yet, that was as much as Pamela Hutchison Echols was able to do to protect her children from the ravages of poverty, domestic violence, mental illness and sexual abuse. For, no sooner had she separated from Andy Echols than she, Damien and his sister moved in with Joe Hutchison, along with Joe Hutchison's own mentally impaired son. The return of Joe Hutchison, whom Mr. Echols had not seen for years, coincided with Mr. Echols' first psychiatric hospitalization.” Echols' mental troubles did not get better with age, wrote Dr. Woods. “In adolescence Mr. Echols became frankly suicidal. Unable to find a way out of his depression and hopelessness, he thought the only escape from his constant mental, physical and emotional pain was to kill himself. ... At about the age of 16, his mental illness took a sudden turn for the worst. Mr. Echols describes feeling disorganized and out of control of his racing thoughts and emotions. He began to ‘laugh hysterically and make other people think I was crazy.' For Mr. Echols ‘manic-ness' meant ‘everything sped up and became frantic. Others called it hysterical,' but Mr. Echols described it as ‘... being driven.' When he ‘... went crazy, everything sped up.' He ‘... had no thought process.' He could not remember ‘... all of the weird things I did,' but people would tell him about them lat- er and he was surprised by his actions. For example, he recalled a time when ‘some kids threw a hamburger up on the ceiling' and he reached up, grabbed it, and ate it. “His mania was interspersed with periods of ‘waiting' interminably for ‘an abstract thing that might come in the blink of an eye.' He was mentally confused and ‘did not know what he was waiting for.' Mr. Echols ‘tried cutting' himself to ‘feel different somehow' and ‘to see if it would let some of the pain out.' He felt ‘worn-out.' During the one year of high school he attended in the ninth grade, he kept a journal at the instruction of his English teacher. It became more and more abstract -- ‘when I wrote about one thing it came out as something else. If I wrote about the moon, I was actually describing the grocery store.' “Mr. Echols reported that the intense shift between depression and mania ‘literally drove me crazy.' He remembered that ‘everything hurt, from the smell of water to green grass, brown grass.' He was exquisitely sensitive to ‘the way people smelled' and ‘the smell of water.' He described manic episodes when his ‘brain rolled, like a TV that is not adjusted.' He believed his brain rolled when it rained or when he was near a large body of water. The change of seasons had a strong effect on him also, especially fall and winter, and made ‘his brain roll constantly.' “Mr. Echols' overwhelming depression and other problems with mood during childhood and adolescence caused disabling disturbances in his emotions, thoughts, behavior and physical health. His sleep was irregular; he often had no energy to perform the simplest tasks; his thoughts were paralyzingly sluggish or racing at speeds he could not control. He felt caught in time, and thought it was hopeless even to think about feeling better or gaining control over his life. He ruminated about painful memories and insignificant events. He could not concentrate and became easily confused; it was impossible to make even simple decisions. He cried and ‘sobbed all the time without any understanding of what made ...' him so sad. He had no ability to feel joy or pleasure. He became completely inconsolable and isolated, unable to relate to others in any meaningful way. He was inexplicably sensitive to physical sensations and reacted to the slightest changes in his environment. His body ‘hurt when the sun went up or when the sun went down, when it rained or when it did not rain.' He could not stop or escape from the pain; it became ‘a throb that never went away.' He despised himself and felt worthless; he was consumed with shame and despair.” Dr. Woods added: “Mr. Echols has been evaluated on three separate occasions by three different psychologists, each of whom administered a battery of tests. A prominent feature of each evaluation was the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI), which was administered on June 8, 1992; September 2, 1992; and February 20, 1994. The independent test results were quite consistent; all revealed valid profiles and strong indications of depression, mania, severe anxiety, delusions and psychosis. “Test results for the June 8, 1992, MMPI reflected elevations on scores of psychotic thinking, including hallucinations, paranoid ideation, and delusions, as well as severe anxiety and other related emotional disturbances. The suggested diagnoses were schizophrenia, disorganized type; and bipolar disorder, manic. Individual responses on this test revealed that Mr. Echols was afraid of losing his mind, had bizarre thoughts, and had very peculiar experiences. Three months later, on September 2, 1992, a second MMPI was administered. The test results very closely paralleled the findings of the earlier MMPI. Shortly before Mr. Echols' trial began in 1994, he was administered the MMPI a third time for the purpose of identifying mitigating evidence. Like the other two, this MMPI revealed psychotic thought processes consistent with schizophrenia. Specific indicators of a thought disorder included mental confusion, persecutory ideas, acute anxiety, and depressed suicidal ideation. ... “Prior to and during his murder trial, Damien Echols suffered from a severe psychiatric disorder characterized by enduring delusions, auditory and visual hallucinations and severe mood swings ranging from suicidal depression to extreme mania.” Dr. Woods wrote: “Mr. Echols' accounts of his symptoms since childhood are consistent with severe traumatic stress disorders and mood disorders. He reported periods of dissociation in which he ‘lost' long spans of time. He also endorsed numerous physical problems, including frequent severe headaches (for which he was treated with prescription medications as a child), heart palpitations, difficulty breathing (he was diagnosed with and treated for asthma), and chronic sleeping problems. He reported having nightmares from which he awakened in a terrified state as often as twice a night. These symptoms persisted throughout his childhood and adolescence and grew to include periods of psychosis. … “ Although he has received no psychiatric treatment on death row Mr. Echols stated his mental illness has improved significantly since his incarceration. ... “Prior to and during his trial, Mr. Echols heard ‘voices that were not really voices' and he ‘was not sure if it was a voice inside' his head or ‘somebody else's voice.' He thought it ‘was nearly impossible' to tell if it was his voice or somebody/something else. He experi- enced visual hallucinations that ‘were personifications of others. They were like smoke, changing shape but present and constant.' The personifications had specific names and activities. One was ‘Morpheus Sandman' who was a hybrid of a human being and a god. Another example was ‘Washington crossing the Delaware.' Mr. Echols saw Washington cross the Delaware with ‘Her- mes on the boat.' Hermes was able to cross with Wash- ington because ‘Hermes was moving backwards through time.' Mr. Echols came to believe that he was the same as these personifications, ‘made of the same material and from the same place.' “Mr. Echols stated that at some point in his adolescence he came to believe he was ‘something that was almost a supreme being that came from a place other people didn't come from.' This transformation caused him to change physically, the pertinent changes appearing in his ‘appendages, hands, feet, hair.' He acquired ‘an entirely different bone structure that was not human.' He developed ‘stronger senses.' His eyesight was better and his ‘ability to smell and taste changed.' He had a different stance, moved his eyes and held his head differently. He grew his nails so that they would be a ‘perfect 1 ½ inches long.' When he looked at his hands, he could see his bones. His weight dropped to 116 pounds, consistent with neurovegetative signs seen in mood disorders. This period of physical change be- gan the year before his arrest and lasted for about two years after he was on death row. …” Echols' lifelong struggle with mental illness took several violent turns in the year leading up to his arrest.   https://eastofwestmemphis.wordpress.com   https://www.facebook.com/WestMemphis3Killers/?epa=SEARCH_BOX https://www.amazon.com/Blood-Black-Against-Memphis-Killers/dp/0692802843/ref=sr_1_fkmrnull_1?keywords=gary+meece&qid=1550445054&s=gateway&sr=8-1-fkmrnull https://www.amazon.com/Blood-Black-Against-Memphis-Killers-ebook/dp/B06XVT2976/ref=sr_1_fkmrnull_2?keywords=gary+meece&qid=1550445054&s=gateway&sr=8-2-fkmrnull https://www.amazon.com/Where-Monsters-Go-Against-Memphis-ebook/dp/B06XVNXCJV/ref=sr_1_fkmrnull_3?keywords=gary+meece&qid=1550445054&s=gateway&sr=8-3-fkmrnull https://www.amazon.com/Case-Against-West-Memphis-Killers-ebook/dp/B07C7C4DCH/ref=sr_1_fkmrnull_4?keywords=gary+meece&qid=1550445054&s=gateway&sr=8-4-fkmrnull https://www.amazon.com/Case-Against-West-Memphis-Killers/dp/B071K8VNBM/ref=sr_1_fkmrnull_6?keywords=gary+meece&qid=1550445054&s=gateway&sr=8-6-fkmrnull                        

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