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Overview:
Kim Nees of Poplar,
At the time of Kim Nees death Barry Beach was 17 years old. While being
held for questioning in an unrelated incident in
According
to Barry Beach, Detectives Alfred Calhoun and Jay Via had threatened him, and described to him in detail what it is like to be put
to death in the electric chair. Barry Beach claims that Detective Calhoun also told him that unless he admitted to the
Analysis:
Barry Beach’s
speech reversals indicate that he is innocent of killing Kim Nees. His reverse speech also indicates that he truly feared for his
life when interrogated by Alfred Calhoun and Jay Via, which would make for a coerced confession. In Barry Beach’s speech reversals
he talks of his innocence, being free, and being afraid during his encounter with Alfred Calhoun and Jay Via.
Reverse speech
from others indicate lies were being told, information withheld, possible evidence suppressed, and at least one of the probable true
killers of Kim Nees.
Dateline NBC 4-4-08
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Every chance I got
to be honest with you. (Asked if he liked to party.)
He lose an eye. His eye looks nasty red. (I'm not sure who he is referencing.
Barry Beach was possibly thinking of something else while talking. He is speaking with Keith Morrison. The only purpose
for leaving this speech reversal in is to try and verify the condition of one of Keith Morrison's eyes at the time of the interview.
If it is known if Keith Morrison has a damaged eye, or at least appearing that way at the time of the interview, this may validate
the reversal.)
Yes sir. I said that on tape... (Asked if he said he killed the girl in
Did not did this. Here I recite. (Professing
his innocence)
...that I killed Kim Nees.
Scene make boy scared. (Evidence of coercion? He was made to be afraid during the interrogation.)
...and
then he spent half and hour to an hour... (Commander Alfred Calhoun pressuring Beach during interrogation for a confession.)
Roaster
on the fire. There's no scene in it. (Evidence of coercion. He was afraid while being interrogated. He didn’t want to see himself
being electrocuted.)
...explaining to me the different effects of a person when they are electrocuted...
I've been afraid they
damage me. (Evidence of coercion?)
...all the way from their hair being singed and catching on fire...
I am afraid of the law. (Evidence
of coercion?)
And then I was asked to give a hypothetical story using myself as the perpetrator.
I don't remember all the details of it.
That was way I speak
the law. Remember all that.
That is hard for most people in
Make myself look I revealed the criminal. So I'm a fraud.
I'll say it out. (Professing his innocence)
I was a 20 year old kid, 23 hundred miles away from my real home...
I'm afraid I was
gonna burn up here. (Evidence of coercion?)
Obviously the judge felt that I should never see society again.
When I get out, shall
see surrendered shattered life. (Professing his innocence)
I don't know that anything on January 7th benefited me.
Remember defendant.
Confession is not admittable order. (Professing his innocence.)
And I just want just them to know that, I am a sober, straight,
educated man that they can be proud of. (Asked what is most important to him.)
It hurts. It was someone. The one. That else. Who done
it. (Professing his innocence)
(Sissy Atkinson) I said when we all die, and go to heaven... (Recalling her conversation
with Centurion Ministries.)
(Sissy Atkinson) Here I'd lie. Even though they see it.
(Sissy Atkinson) ...and you guys find out...
(Sissy
Atkinson) Right now is the agreement.
(Sissy Atkinson) ...that I had no knowledge of it.
(Sissy Atkinson) It was the woman, that
I hit. (Confession?)
(Sissy Atkinson) I was not there. I had no participation in it.
(Sissy Atkinson) I initiate. It's just
that one girl. Her I hit. (Confession?)
(Sissy Atkinson) I don't know who did it.
(Sissy Atkinson) And they do find all that. (Does
she think it is known who killed Kim Nees?)
(Sissy Atkinson)...and tell me you're sorry.
(Sissy Atkinson) Here I'll save my neck.
(Sissy
Atkinson) So I said, "Could you please take me home". (Talking about her alibi)
(Sissy Atkinson) I won't seem suspicious.
(Sissy
Atkinson) ... She drove me to my home, and I went in, and I went to bed.
(Sissy Atkinson) I was the one they name the animal.
(Sissy
Atkinson) Well nobody, my mom's not here no more. (Asked who can corroborate her story.)
(Sissy Atkinson) I'm wondering how small
my (unknown).
(Sissy Atkinson) Not possible what so ever. (Asked if it were possible she were at the murder scene that night.)
(Sissy
Atkinson) I was the one who saw. (She was at the murder scene.)
(Sissy Atkinson) J.D., no I don't even know what he is talking
about. I've never talked to him about that. Ever.
(Sissy Atkinson) No. I've got a very, very good memory. (Asked if it's possible she could have blocked the memory
from her mind about the murder.)
(Sissy Atkinson) Murdered girl. (Confession?)
(Sissy Atkinson) Let them talk all they want.
(Sissy
Atkinson) Now we've all lost meadow. (“Meadow” is a metaphor in reverse speech: it generally refers to a place of rest.)
(Sissy
Atkinson) If I was down there, I'm sure they would have found some kind of DNA on me.
(Sissy Atkinson) We were smart and I threw outfit. (Discarded
evidence? Does “we” indicate a third person reference, or were there others involved?)
(Alfred Calhoun) Well, I've been
accused of many things, but in this case I'm not guilty... (Asked if he had ever threatened Barry Beach into confession by using the
electric chair.)
(Alfred Calhoun) There's a time I threat physical. Yes I would used to do that.
(Alfred Calhoun) ...of threatening
that young man.
(Alfred Calhoun) When I informed him that I thought he was being deceptive to me...
(Alfred
Calhoun) He end his confession with - Who give me a ride away home now? (Barry Beach has said by making a false confession, he
thought they would let him go.)
(Alfred Calhoun) ...Mr. Beach kind of threw his hands up a little bit like this...
(Alfred Calhoun)
That man says "I killed her".
(Alfred Calhoun) Only to seek the truth. (Asked if he had any motive for getting Barry Beach to
confess to a homicide.)
(Alfred Calhoun) Just that fear is the law. (Does he believe it is morally OK to use fear in obtaining a confession?)
(Jay
Via) Alfred stepped out of the interview room, and he says he wants to talk to you.
(Jay Via) His boss sold me this. (unknown) that
I've fetched the fire. (Reversals occur in the third person)
(Jay Via)...said he had erased the tapes and we went ballistic...
(Discussing the confession tape of Barry Beach.)
(Jay Via) Except no one was asked. But see, I really hid this. (Suppression of evidence?)
(O'Connor)
And it was from a lady by the name of Sissy Atkinson.
Must have thought his sister made it up. (Is he thinking about J.D. Atkinson?)
(O'Connor)
She proceeded to tell me that they found Kim Nees' body.
(O'Connor) The officers seen me enough. Here (hear) that they might do this
service.
(O'Connor) I might have mentioned it to the County...(Asked if he ever told anyone about Sissy Atkinson calling him
about a body in the river 2 hours before police knew.)
(O'Connor) He lied for this didn't stand. I remember. (Reversals occur in the
third person. He never told anyone about Sissy Atkinson calling him.)
(O'Connor)...but I think it went in one ear and out the
other.
(O'Connor) Lies were going on, and then it was messed up.
(J.D. Atkinson) Well the way she said it that they were
partyin' down there. (Asked if Sissy Atkinson told him that she was there the night Kim Nees was killed.)
(J.D. Atkinson) And I made
offer with it. (Did he try to tell police?)
(J.D. Atkinson) Well it's just that, one of them girls come runnin' around the pickup
with a crescent wrench.
(J.D. Atkinson) Is it wicked? The modern murder excite me now.
(J.D. Atkinson) In my own mind, I think
Kim Nees is looking over Sissy's shoulder all the time.
(J.D. Atkinson) After all she's just the one who fills the scene. Make me sad.
Now I'm mourning. (He believes Sissy Atkinson was there.)
(Dean Mahlum) That was one of the, again if you will, the theories
that... (Responding to the theory that the killing involved local girls.)
(Dean Mahlum) That is the earth. Though we fake it. ("Earth"
is a metaphor in reverse speech used in this case it would apply to: stability and strength. Is he saying that there is strong
evidence to support that girls were involved, although it was made to look otherwise?)
(Dean Mahlum) Absolutely. Absolutely no
question in my mind. (Referencing that he believed they had the real killer, Barry Beach.)
(Dean Mahlum) Calhoun was smart. (What is
it he considers Calhoun to be smart about?)
(Dean Mahlum) ...This confession is good, it's solid.
(Dean Mahlum) They lost the
goods and sheriff mixed it. (He is incongruent. He says the confession is good, but he knows that without the tape it is
not a good confession.)
(Marc Racicot) Not a scintilla of proof to support that.(Interviewer commenting that 3-4 people have
said that Sissy Atkinson said she killed Kim Nees.)
(Marc Racicot) It lacks the proof, but I'd like to see that. (His reversal is congruent
and he appears to be at least open to evidence supporting Sissy Atkinson being the killer.)
(Marc Racicot) I don't think they
(Centurion Ministries) performed the kind of searing scrutiny that they should have before they moved forward with the case.
(Marc
Racicot) Ask if they're offering enough bullshit that the group smears.
If reversals are put together an overall theme can often be noticeable.
He lose an eye. His eye looks nasty red.
Did not did this. Here I recite.
Scene make boy scared.
Roaster
on the fire. There's no scene in it.
I've been afraid they damage me.
I am afraid of the law.
I'd have to prove, but that force him.
(gibberish) Tell Christopher how he could tie us around in it.
That was way I speak the law. Remember all that.
Make myself look I revealed
the criminal. So I'm a fraud. I'll say it out.
I'm afraid I was gonna burn up here.
When I get out, shall see surrendered shattered
life.
Remember defendant. Confession is not admittable order.
It hurts. It was someone. The one. That else. Who done it.
(Sissy
Atkinson) Here I'd lie. Even though they see it.
(Sissy Atkinson) Right now is the agreement.
(Sissy Atkinson) It was the woman, that
I have hit.
(Sissy Atkinson) I initiate. It's just that one girl. Her I hit.
(Sissy Atkinson) And they do find all that.
(Sissy Atkinson)
Here I'll save my neck.
(Sissy Atkinson) I won't seem suspicious.
(Sissy Atkinson) I was the one they name the animal.
(Sissy Atkinson)
I'm wondering how small my (unknown).
(Sissy Atkinson) I was the one who saw.
(Sissy Atkinson) Well maybe he's lost his mind. I would
not see the one of the order on. I hate this.
(Sissy Atkinson) Murdered girl.
(Sissy Atkinson) Now we've all lost meadow.
(Sissy Atkinson)
We were smart and I threw outfit.
(Alfred Calhoun) There's a time I threat physical. Yes I would used to do that.
(Alfred
Calhoun) And I've been an asshole.
(Alfred Calhoun) He end his confession with - Who give me a ride away home now?
(Alfred Calhoun)
That man says "I killed her".
(Alfred Calhoun) Just that fear is the law.
(Jay Via) His boss sold me this. (unknown) that I've
fetched the fire.
(Jay Via) Except no one was asked. But see, I really hid this.
(O’Connor) Must have thought his sister made
it up.
(O'Connor) The officers seen me enough. Here that they might do this service.
(O'Connor) He lied for this didn't stand. I remember.
(O'Connor)
Lies were going on, and then it was messed up.
(J.D. Atkinson) And I made offer with it.
(J.D. Atkinson) Is it wicked? The modern
murder excite me now.
(J.D. Atkinson) After all she's just the one who fills the scene. Make me sad. Now I'm mourning.
(Dean Mahlum)
That is the earth though we fake it.
(Dean Mahlum) Calhoun was smart
(Dean Mahlum) They lost the goods and sheriff mixed it.
(Marc
Racicot) It lacks the proof, but I'd like to see that.
(Marc Racicot) Ask if they're offering enough bullshit that the group smears.
