Editing West Memphis Three (section)

==="Mr. Bojangles"===

The sighting of a black male as a possible alternate suspect was implied during the beginning of the Misskelley trial. According to local West Memphis police officers, on the evening of May 5, 1993, at 8:42&nbsp;pm, workers in the [[Bojangles' Famous Chicken 'n Biscuits|Bojangles']] restaurant located about a mile from the crime scene in Robin Hood Hills reported seeing a black male who seemed "mentally disoriented" inside the restaurant's ladies' room. The man was bleeding and had brushed against the restroom walls. Officer Regina Meeks responded to the call, taking the restaurant manager's report through the eatery's [[Drive-through|drive-through window]]. By then, the man had left, and police did not enter the restroom on that date.<ref name="Leveritt6-174">{{cite book|title=Devil's Knot: The True Story of the West Memphis Three|last=Leveritt|first=Mara|year=2003|publisher=Simon & Schuster|isbn=0-7434-1760-7|pages=6, 174}}</ref>

The day after the victims' bodies were found, Bojangles' manager Marty King, thinking there was a possible connection to the bleeding man found in the bathroom, reported the incident to police officers who then inspected the ladies' room. The man reportedly wore a "blue cast type brace on his arm that had white Velcro on it", which would have made it difficult to tie up and murder three young boys.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|last=Linder|first=Douglas O.|author-link=Doug Linder|access-date=December 1, 2021|title=Who Killed the Three Boys?|url=https://famous-trials.com/westmemphis/2247-whokilled|website=Famous Trials}}</ref> King gave the officers a pair of sunglasses he thought the man had left behind, and the detectives took some blood samples from the walls and tiles of the restroom. Police detective Bryn Ridge testified that he later lost those blood scrapings. A hair identified as belonging to a black male was later recovered from a sheet wrapped around one of the victims.<ref name="Leveritt6-174"/>