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Chapter 1: Who is Domini Teer and why is she significant?
Hello, everybody, and welcome to this special episode of The Prosecutors. Today, we're going to talk to someone who has been involved in this case from the very beginning, Dominie Teer, who most of you will know as Damien Echols' girlfriend from the first Paradise Lost movie. After that movie, she and her child, Damien's son, pretty much moved on from this case, tried to avoid it.
You can imagine why. So she hasn't really spoken about this case in more than 30 years, and we were really honored that she would trust us enough to have this conversation. A few things, I'll give you some observations going in of what to expect. Number one, it has been over 30 years. There are a lot of things she doesn't remember. That's not that surprising. I found her to be very credible.
So I think when she says she doesn't remember something, she's telling the truth. She really doesn't remember it. There's a few interesting insights about the way this case has been reported, her perspective on what exactly was going on in West Memphis, which often clashes with some of the things we've talked about and some of the reports the police made.
So I think this will be interesting for you. I hope you enjoy it. And thank you again to Domini for joining us. I just really appreciate you taking the time to talk to me about this stuff. To start out, why don't you introduce yourself?
I'm Dominique. I retired. I don't know what else.
You know, it's funny. It's funny because you're grandma now, right?
I am. I am a grandma now. That is true.
Congratulations. It's funny because... know 30 30 whatever years ago or longer i don't know how long it's been um you know you you're in that documentary paradise lost and for so many people it's it's like you're frozen in time you know what i mean like you as a teenager is what people say that has to be a little strange for you yeah it's a little
weird i uh i watched it i watched that one that documentary once after you know after i had my kids and everything then it was strange it was strange to watch yourself on tv yeah a little weird did you take part in the other two or did you just take part in the first one i don't remember i've seen them all but i don't recall Just the one after that, I moved away. Yeah.
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Chapter 2: What insights does Domini provide about the West Memphis 3 case?
That's not my opinion. I know for a fact. They're absolutely innocent.
When you say you know for a fact, so for people out there who doubt that, who think maybe they are guilty, what can you say that you think might convince them?
Because I was standing right next to them the day that these kids were supposedly kidnapped and murdered, doing anything. We weren't near there ever. We didn't know them. We didn't know their family members. We didn't know anything about them at all.
And I'll back up in a second because I want to get some background. So one of the things that's been said by some people is that Damien would say things, whether just sort of like he's a cocky teenager or whatever. Or the people who said they heard it or just lie that he would say things about how he did it, or he was involved. There's the infamous softball girls.
He was at the softball game. No, no, that was a bunch of lies that never happened. That's. Something that they either decided to make up their own little heads or the police. talk them into saying it. I don't know. Not real.
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Chapter 3: What was Domini's experience during the trial?
But you never heard anything like that?
No, never, ever. Never.
Chapter 4: What does Domini say about the innocence of Damien, Jason, and Jesse?
So how old were you when you met Damien? I was 16.
I was 16.
And am I right to say, it's funny because I look at these cold files and I listen to trial transcripts and I watch the documentaries and There's so many little things that aren't clear from all that. Is your birth name Domini? Yeah. It is. Okay. Because it's been reported some places that you changed your name to Domini.
I changed my name?
Yeah.
No. That's not real.
Okay. So there you go.
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Chapter 5: How did the media portray Domini during the Paradise Lost documentary?
Work certificate says Domini.
Is it Domini or were you ever called Dominique? No. No. Okay. Also interesting. It's so funny.
They messed up my name and they weren't talking about me. They must have been talking about somebody else.
That's so interesting because yeah, you'll read, I'm trying to remember, see if I have it in my notes actually, what people said your birth name. It's so funny. It's just so funny because people come up with this stuff. That you had changed your name, I guess maybe when Damien changed his name or something.
You know what, to be honest with you, we had been dating for a very long time before I even knew that he went by any other name than Damien.
His name had never been Michael.
I didn't even know his name was Michael. I didn't even know that. Somebody had, I think his, a friend of his or somebody said Michael and I looked at him and I'm like, and he responded to it and I looked at him all weird like, who's Michael? And he's like, oh, that's me.
That's hilarious.
That's funny.
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Chapter 6: What does Domini think about the accusations of occult involvement?
Okay.
This is the thing.
He was a best friend of one of my ex-boyfriends, so he wasn't the order of anything as far as I know. He was just the guy that wanted to kind of be included in a group with us as a friend.
So do you think he would have just said that? I mean, I don't want to say making stuff up, but like... I don't know.
I mean, he could have. To somebody else. It wasn't to me.
Gotcha. There's another report that you told someone, the police or the prosecutors, that you drank blood and it was no big deal because your mother drank blood. Have you ever heard that? No.
That's awful.
That's terrible. No way.
never drank anyone's blood no thank you that's gross that's kind of mean to say to my disabled mother that's kind of rude does your cousin cousin was I guess had edited or was part of some sort of like alternative art magazine out in California about vampires do you remember that
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Chapter 7: What memories does Domini have of the day of the murders?
And they're driving down the access road, the service road, right next to Blue Beacon Truck Wash and where the murders happened.
Okay, so first off, let me clear up a little bit of Gnarlyne's little story and her little lie. The laundromat is clear across town. My aunt worked there. Worked there, by the way. She no longer worked there during the trial. Okay, so... Yes, my aunt worked at a laundromat, but it wasn't that little laundromat that me and Damien were waiting at. This was a laundromat clear across town.
And so as far as that goes, that right there starts her lying. I mean, just right off the bat, big fat lie right there. I don't know why she lies. I have no idea.
So it's a different laundromat than the one that you guys would have been at?
Totally different laundromat. Completely different laundromat.
And maybe that's me misunderstanding. I just always assumed it was the same laundromat, but I guess it's possible.
Completely different.
Was your aunt that worked the laundromat, that's Dixie Hubbard though, right?
Yeah, that's my aunt Dixie.
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Chapter 8: How does Domini reflect on the public's perception of her relationship with Damien?
Let me ask you this. Not necessarily the night of the murders, but is there ever a night that you could think of that you guys might have been walking in that place where Narlene says she saw you?
Never. Literally, literally the last time, the very last time, and this was years before the murder, years. I'm telling you, like, probably five to six years before these kids were ever probably even born. My aunt lived in the neighborhood. I went to school at East Junior High. My aunt lived in that neighborhood. I went with a friend
and he showed me well you know where the pipe is the famous pipe i guess they have it they showed it on the news or some documentary or something i've seen it many times right the stupid pipe that's on there okay uh my friend showed me the pipe and he walked across it and i didn't want to get wet so i stayed on the other side he walked across it walked back
uh i got all creeped out didn't want to be there anymore and we left that is the only time ever that i remember even being near where those kids were found ever and as far as i know damien and jason we never went there we as far as i know they never even knew that that place existed And like I said, the only reason I knew that place existed was because I went to school right there.
And my friend knew where it was because he lived in the apartment. So we're right next to that little cul de sac. So that would be the last time I ever saw that place other than, you know, after they, you know, found the kids there.
Do you remember if you had a pair of pants with white flowers on it?
No. Nope. All black all the time.
You know, the prosecution's theory was it wasn't you, that you weren't there at all, that it was actually Jason, that they saw Jason. I don't think so. So the people, and I'm just going to name you the people who said that they saw two people who they thought were Damien and you.
And just tell me if you know anything. I know who you're going to say.
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