Lorri Davis
Appearances
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Life After Death: An Interview with Damien Echols & Lorri Davis
I mean, he commanded that place. I'm not saying that there weren't times when things were really scary or he was in danger. It was always stressful to think of what could be happening to him. But there was something about him that just commanded his space, and he was able to hold his own. And that was the hard part about when he got out. He didn't know the world.
Last Podcast On The Left
Life After Death: An Interview with Damien Echols & Lorri Davis
He didn't understand any of the systems out here or how to do. I mean, most of I mean, here's the thing. He survived in a place most of us would never survive.
Last Podcast On The Left
Life After Death: An Interview with Damien Echols & Lorri Davis
For all those years.
Last Podcast On The Left
Life After Death: An Interview with Damien Echols & Lorri Davis
Yes. And then he gets out and everything crashes. His brain just crashes and he can't. it, he, like he said, he was a different person to me, but then I became a different person too, because, you know, I, I say this sometimes I'd become weaponized to, to do the things that I needed to do. I wasn't like that before I met him.
Last Podcast On The Left
Life After Death: An Interview with Damien Echols & Lorri Davis
And so suddenly we're these two people who have these abilities that we don't need anymore.
Last Podcast On The Left
Life After Death: An Interview with Damien Echols & Lorri Davis
No, because I grew up in rural. I can't say that word ever. Rural.
Last Podcast On The Left
Life After Death: An Interview with Damien Echols & Lorri Davis
Don't worry about it. I grew up in West Virginia.
Last Podcast On The Left
Life After Death: An Interview with Damien Echols & Lorri Davis
You mean when I was growing up?
Last Podcast On The Left
Life After Death: An Interview with Damien Echols & Lorri Davis
No, we were polar opposites, really. It just didn't make any sense at all.
Last Podcast On The Left
Life After Death: An Interview with Damien Echols & Lorri Davis
Here's the thing. I mean, I never knew how to dress. I didn't have any senses. I just didn't. Well, according to him, I didn't have any sense of style at all. And Damien, so, I mean, I just started after he got out. I said, why don't you just start buying my clothes? So he did. And he still does to this day. That's amazing. He has a much better, I mean, I dress better now than I ever.
Last Podcast On The Left
Life After Death: An Interview with Damien Echols & Lorri Davis
I mean, my whole wardrobe, yes, is black. But I actually really love to. And now he's got me. So we both just wear uniforms all the time. Like I have the same. Sure. 10 pairs of pants and 10 shirts.
Last Podcast On The Left
Life After Death: An Interview with Damien Echols & Lorri Davis
It was funny though, when we got married, um all the goth girls online they were so pissed i mean they were she doesn't even she doesn't know she wasn't on warped tour when i was there they weren't gonna sit around and learn about buddhism like you did And I wore this, like, it was kind of a, it was like a red kind of, it was, I mean, it was pretty, but it was this red kind of flower dress.
Last Podcast On The Left
Life After Death: An Interview with Damien Echols & Lorri Davis
And there were all these comments online about, she wore that dress, you know, it was just on.
Last Podcast On The Left
Life After Death: An Interview with Damien Echols & Lorri Davis
I have a practice. It's not exactly the same as Damien's. It's different, but it's still, it's,
Last Podcast On The Left
Life After Death: An Interview with Damien Echols & Lorri Davis
The same results.
Last Podcast On The Left
Life After Death: An Interview with Damien Echols & Lorri Davis
Hopefully. Yeah.
Last Podcast On The Left
Life After Death: An Interview with Damien Echols & Lorri Davis
We don't know yet. I mean, that will be... I mean, once we get the testing done and...
Last Podcast On The Left
Life After Death: An Interview with Damien Echols & Lorri Davis
Yeah. So let me start with just even a little bit of backstory. So we, because it's been, I mean... It's been a long, hard road to get here. So we asked to test evidence in 2019 because of a new technique called MVAC. But there's a lot of new techniques that are even around now. So anyway, one thing after another, and we ended up
Last Podcast On The Left
Life After Death: An Interview with Damien Echols & Lorri Davis
it just was, I mean, dealing with Arkansas was a nightmare and we ended up finally, they told us that the evidence had been lost, stolen, or burnt up in a fire.
Last Podcast On The Left
Life After Death: An Interview with Damien Echols & Lorri Davis
It was, yes. All of the laces that tied the victim. So that would have, there were, let's see how many sets of shoelaces that would have been.
Last Podcast On The Left
Life After Death: An Interview with Damien Echols & Lorri Davis
Six. So we ended up having to sue the state in order to get access to the evidence to see if they had it. And it turns out they did. So then we had to then we had to go to court to ask if we can test the evidence. And that's why we ended up in the Supreme Court, which that I mean, all of this took what we got that ruling last April, this past April. So that would have been. from 2019 to 2024.
Last Podcast On The Left
Life After Death: An Interview with Damien Echols & Lorri Davis
That's how long it took.
Last Podcast On The Left
Life After Death: An Interview with Damien Echols & Lorri Davis
To do this.
Last Podcast On The Left
Life After Death: An Interview with Damien Echols & Lorri Davis
Yeah. And then people, I know people have been getting, because that was huge when that Supreme Court handed down that ruling, but that was just the beginning. That's telling... And we've been so truly blessed with what's going on in Arkansas right now because the prosecutor is actually working with us, a wonderful prosecutor named Sonia Fonticello.
Last Podcast On The Left
Life After Death: An Interview with Damien Echols & Lorri Davis
So, but it's, but now it's taken, it's, and people don't understand why it's been taking so long. They're like, well, you, you know, they said you could test it. Just why don't you test it? But our lawyer, Steve Braga, who has just been, he's, he's just been, he's the most amazing lawyer. And it, it was Damien who sued the state and took this to court, Jason and
Last Podcast On The Left
Life After Death: An Interview with Damien Echols & Lorri Davis
Jason Baldwin and Jesse Miskelley were not a part of that lawsuit. So we knew at some point they were going to have to come on board. So for the last few months, what we've been doing is coordinating with their legal teams. so that we all have an agreed upon order with the prosecutor. We haven't, we're not there yet, we're close.
Last Podcast On The Left
Life After Death: An Interview with Damien Echols & Lorri Davis
We're thinking we're probably gonna have an agreed upon order and this means all the evidence is gonna be tested and all of the techniques we're gonna use, what labs we're gonna use down to what scientists we're going to use. So it is gonna be a very, very tight order And we've been working with the Innocence Project to get recommendations and other experts.
Last Podcast On The Left
Life After Death: An Interview with Damien Echols & Lorri Davis
I mean, really the best people have come aboard to help us. Couldn't have a better team. And finally, we're moving toward an agreement. Probably we'll have it in December. They're thinking we'll probably start testing in January. And we'll probably have results soon. They're thinking earliest could be late February. So this is amazing.
Last Podcast On The Left
Life After Death: An Interview with Damien Echols & Lorri Davis
And I can't discuss all of the evidence that we're going to be testing. I can say that the ligatures are part of it and hairs, but there's also going to be other things tested. It's going to be