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Little jessie's father. i met him at his home on a cold winter day to learn more about his son. >> everybody loved him. he loved kids, called him uncle jessie. >> 17 years. >> jessie's father said he had a good heart but his son struggled in school and he didn't make it past the ninth grade. >> at the time he was 17 years old. he came from a family that was a big family. he was a rough kid. he was low functioning in school. he had been in special ed from the time he started school. >> low functioning. >> i.q. i think at 72 is what he's been measured at. >> and what does that mean? how does he ...

>> and what does that mean? how does he compare to a normal student? >> well, if a normal student is 100, then a 72 in our state, i believe that a 70 is the cutoff for mental retardation legally. so he was just above that. and he had been in special ed until he'd finally dropped out in high school when he was 16, a year earlier than this. >> jessie knew damien echols and jason baldwin but not well. they lived in a neighborhood close by. what was your world? what was your day like? what was your life like? >> poor white trash. that's one of the things that made it so easy for them to put this o...

So he was just above that. and he had been in special ed until he'd finally dropped out in high school when he was 16, a year earlier than this. >> jessie knew damien echols and jason baldwin, but not very well. they lived in a neighborhood close by. what was your world? what was your day like? what was your life like? >> poor white trash. that's one of the things that made it so easy for them to put this off on us. is because we were expendable. our lives didn't matter. >> whether that was true or not, the police were struggling to solve a crime with very few leads. what kind of pressure are ...

>> damien echols grew up in marian, arkansas a mile or two from west memphis. his best friend jason baldwin lived nearby and so did a boy named jessie misskelley. >> jessie misskelley, sr., is little jessie's father. i met him at his home on a cold winter day to learn more about his son. >> everybody loved him. he loved kids, called him uncle jessie. >> 17 years. >> jessie's father said he had a good heart but his son struggled in school and he didn't make it past the ninth grade. >> at the time he was 17 years old. he came from a family that was a big family. he was a rough kid. he was low fu...

And he had been in special ed until he'd finally dropped out in high school when he was 16, a year earlier than this. >> jessie knew damien echols and jason baldwin but not well. they lived in a neighborhood close by. what was your day like? >> poor white trash. that's one of the things that made them so easy for them to put this off on us. is because we were expendable. our lives didn't matter. >> whether that was true or not, the police were struggling to solve a crime with very few leads. what kind of pressure are police under at the time? >> business was suffering. people were not going ou...