Michael Johnson

This is all I could find on it.

September 17th, 1993
Arkansas State Crime Lab releases Luminol Report, stating possibility the assaults on the victims occurred on or near bank area of the drainage ditch, which coincides with Jessie Misskelley's account.

October 10th, 1993
Tiffany Danielle Allen, 13, is interviewed by Sgt. Allen. She reports that she had heard a Satanic Cult exists in West Memphis, and that she once witnessed a fight between Jason Baldwin and another boy. During the fight, Damien Echols allegedly dipped his finger into blood from the boy and tasted it.

November 17th, 1993
Divers find 12-inch survival knife forty feet from the shore of the lake behind Jason Baldwin's trailer. Arkansas Crime Lab Pathologist Dr. Frank Peretti states the knife could be consistent with some of the wounds on victims.

December 12th, 1993
Crittenden County Juvenile Authority Officer Jerry Driver makes statement outlining his reasons for believing there is or was cult activity in West Memphis area, headed by a man named Lucifer. He states much of his information was gained from conversations with Damien Echols in 1992, who warned him the cult was about to graduate to the "human sacrifice" stage, and one of these could be expected to occur sometime in the near future. In late summer of 1992 Driver reports he saw Damien, Jason and Jessie Misskelley, Jr. walking down the street, wearing long black coats and carrying staffs. More recent to the deaths, he had seen Damien and Jason hanging out at the local Walmart, though without Jessie.

January 14th, 1994
Alabama Department of Forensic Sciences confirms fiber consistencies for some of the fibers found on victims' clothing and some garments from wardrobes of defendants' homes.

February 1st, 1994
Michael Roy Carson makes a statement to Investigator C. A. Beall of The Arkansas State Police, alleging that Jason Baldwin confessed involvement in the murders to him during the time they spent together at the Craighead County Detention Center in August or September of 1993. He passes polygraph by being "essentially truthful."

And finally, one piece of "evidence" that has come up since the completion of the trials.

October 24th, 1994
Michael Johnson sends a letter to prosecutor Brent Davis, stating that he is currently housed with Jessie Misskelley in the Arkansas Department of Corrections "Diagnostic Unit, Special Programs Unit." He alleges that Jessie confessed to him that he committed the murders with Damien Echols and Jason Baldwin, and that they left a nightgown at the scene, "so that it would look like women had committed the crime." Johnson asks Davis to do everything in his power to keep Misskelley behind bars because "he is a very cold, morbid person."

One thing which it occurs to me to point out after compiling this list is what misleading impressions a novice to this case might get if they examined the file without any other information than what the WMPD is willing to provide them with. Perhaps that helps explain why there are a few people out there who are still impassioned proponents of the trio's guilt. An average person could conceivably come away from a visit like the one I made to the WMPD evidence room accepting the defendants' guilt as something no longer even worthy of question.

After all, even if you don't want to accept the softball girls' word for what they heard, William Winfred Jones was also someone Damien allegedly confessed to. Aaron Hutcheson allegedly witnessed them do it.