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Now, not quite three years after the murder of 8-year-old Christopher Byers—and with some criminal charges against her and her husband still pending—Melissa Byers was dead. The problem facing...
Melissa DeFir Byers was born on January 15, 1956. She died of undetermined causes on March 29, 1996. Melissa was the biological mother of Chris Byers and Ryan Clark. At the time of her youngest son's murder in May of 1993, Melissa was married to John Mark Byers.
On May 5, 1993, Christopher Byers, Michael Moore, and Steven Branch went missing from their homes in West Memphis, Arkansas. The next day, their bodies were found in the woods near their homes with evidence showing they had been brutally beaten and savagely murdered.
- Mara Leveritt
- 2002
Apr 26, 2023 · John Mark Byers, Christopher’s stepfather, reported the boys missing to the West Memphis Police Department at approximately 8 p.m., reported local newspaper the Memphis Flyer.
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Dec 28, 2009 · His wife, Melissa, passed away in 1996. After the murders, Byers announced to the media fervently that he believed the West Memphis 3 were guilty. But by 2005, he began to question the original...
The West Memphis Three are three men convicted as teenagers in 1994 of the 1993 murders of three boys in West Memphis, Arkansas, United States. Damien Echols was sentenced to death, Jessie Misskelley Jr. to life imprisonment plus two 20-year sentences, and Jason Baldwin to life imprisonment. During the trial, the prosecution asserted that the ...
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Jun 20, 2020 · KAIT TV reports on the car crash death Thursday near Memphis of John Mark Byers, stepfather of one of the children killed in the West Memphis Three case. His funeral notice says he was 62. His...
