Gary Gitchell

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  Published on: 11/3/2007    Last Visited: 11/3/2007  

  Officers and volunteers had covered the area where the bodies were found several times before discovering the bodies in the water, [Inspector] Gitchell said."That area where the boys were found was saturated hard and heavy that morning and even the evening before," he said. [West Memphis Evening Times, May 7, 1993]
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  According to Gitchell, this area had been well-covered already during the search efforts, although he attributed the discovery to one of his officers."One of my men noticed a shoe.Being inquisitive, he jumped in the water and started feeling around," Gitchell explained.
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  Hester radioed for Inspector Gary Gitchell.
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  So it's probably the most relaxed atmosphere that we have in the police department. [Gary Gitchell, Misskelley trial]
  
  She continues to work for the West Memphis Police.

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  westmemphisthreediscussion.yuku.com/topic/2641/t/CA3-11 - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 3/11/1994    Last Visited: 5/17/2009  

  West Memphis Police Inspector Gary Gitchell, in the unenviable position of a defense witness, was asked to testify about possible police miscues in the case.
  
  He acknowledged police lost evidence taken from the Bojangles restaurant in West Memphis where a suspicious black man smeared blood on the walls of the women's restroom on the night of May 5 just a mile from the crime scene.
  
  He also testified that police wired the trailer home of Victoria Hutcheson, a key witness in the Misskelley case, in order to overhear Echols conversing with her.
  
  Gitchell also was unable to locate a copy of the consent form Hutcheson signed, and he said it was "impossible" to transcribe what police heard of the surveillance. "The quality was such - with the music in the background - you just couldn't hear any of the voices," he said.
  
  Gitchell also testified about getting a knife by Federal Express from the Creative Thinking International Ltd. film crew doing a documentary on the case.
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  Gitchell also testified that Hutcheson was working with police during their investigation of Echols.

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  westmemphisthreediscussion.yuku.com/topic/2757/t/ET-3-2 - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 3/27/1992    Last Visited: 5/17/2009  

  The Crittenden County Crimestoppers has awarded approximately $30,000 to tipsters, recovered $418,907 in stolen property and confiscated $313,315 worth of narcotics since the organization was formed in July 1985, according to CCC Coordinator Capt. Gary Gitchell.
  
  Funded by private donations only, Crimestoppers pays from $100 to $1,000 for information leading to the arrest of an individual believed to have committed a felony crime, explained Gitchell, who is also public information officer with the West Memphis Police Department.
  
  "It only operates on funds donated by organizations and individual citizens," he noted. "Beginning this year, Crimestoppers, as a means of giving recognition to those who make contributions, will give a framed Certificate of Appreciation to organizations or individuals who donate $100 or more.
  
  "This is to further show our appreciation for them taking part in helping solve crime in this community," Gitchell pointed out.
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  "Even though a dollar is small amount [sic], it can add up when you have a lot of people participating," Gitchell explained.
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  Gitchell pointed out that the amount of reward money given to a caller or a tipster is determined by the Crimestoppers Reward Committee, a group of "ordinary" individuals who are on Crimestoppers board of directors.
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  The reward is given to a tipster in various ways, Gitchell said. "Actually, it's anyway the tipster wants," he explained.
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  The local organization is a member of Crimestoppers International, Gitchell pointed out, and there are approximately 850 crime stoppers organizations in the U.S., Canada, England and Australia. Internationally, he pointed out, $2 billion in stolen property has been recovered by crime stoppers organizations.
  
  "Nationwide," he said, "the same type of success stories are reported by crime stoppers organizations."
  
  Gitchell pointed out that local merchants have also helped make the CCC what it is today, and he has been asked to speak before such groups as well as others to explain what CCC is all about.
  
  "I'm always willing to go and talk about Crimestoppers," he explained. "All merchants and organizations are free to call me, and I'll do that. A lot of people out there don't know what Crimestoppers does.
  
  "I must say that Crimestoppers does appreciate all the work the Evening Times has done in getting the information out," Gitchell added. "Without that help, we could not have done what we have done."
  
  As proof that crime stoppers is rated high in popularity throughout the nation, Gitchell pointed to the fact that President George Bush, the U.S. Attorney General and the FBI director were speakers during a recent crime stoppers conference in Louisville, Ky. Gitchell noted that the crime stoppers theory was introduced in 1976 by Greg Maraleese, a detective with the Albuquerque, N. Mex. As proof that crime stoppers is rated high in popularity throughout the nation, Gitchell pointed to the fact that President George Bush, the U.S. Attorney General and the FBI director were speakers during a recent crime stoppers conference in Louisville, Ky. Gitchell noted that the crime stoppers theory was introduced in 1976 by Greg Maraleese, a detective with the Albuquerque, N. Mex.
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  Photo: Captain Gary Gitchell

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  westmemphisthreediscussion.yuku.com/topic/2497 - [Cached Version]
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  The greatest confusion that it creates with me has been the fact that despite the fact that it is in the most organized fashion I have seen in Gary Gitchell's office, it comes to me in the most disorganized fashion.
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  deposition of Gary Gitchell, Bryn Ridge and Mike Allen.
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  Gary Gitchell is the head of the investigative division of the West Memphis Police Department.
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  I'd like to be able to depose Mr. Gitchell and Mr. Ridge and Mr. Allen.
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  Now, I can have a conversation with Inspector Gitchell, but nothing about the conversation is under oath or recorded, and he can lead me astray if he chooses. And I'd like to be able to question him under oath so I can use it for cross examination purposes which is exactly what Mr. Fogleman wants to question my client's mother so if she were to testify differently, he can use that to cross examine her.
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  THE COURT: Mr. Gitchell, can you arrange a date
  
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  and time for them to view the physical evidence?
  
  MR. GITCHELL: Yes, sir.

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  westmemphisthreediscussion.yuku.com/topic/2557/t/ET-5-1 - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 5/17/1994    Last Visited: 5/17/2009  

  > ET, 5/17/94, Gitchell resigns job as head of detectives
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  ET, 5/17/94, Gitchell resigns job as head of detectives
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  ET, 5/17/94, Gitchell resigns job as head of detectives Lead
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  Gitchell resigns job as head of detectives
  
  West Memphis Police Department's chief of detectives, Gary Gitchell, has resigned from his position, Mayor Keith Ingram confirmed this morning.
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  Gitchell is on vacation until further notice, Sanders said.
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  Sanders said Gitchell was on vacation "until further notice."
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  Gitchell, whose home telephone number is unlisted, could not be reached for comment.

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  westmemphisthreediscussion.yuku.com/topic/2647/t/CA5-20 - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 5/20/1994    Last Visited: 5/17/2009  

  GITCHELL ASSUMES NEW DUTIES JUNE 13
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  Police inspector Gary Gitchell, who headed the investigation into the murders of three West Memphis boys last year, has resigned to go into private business.
  
  Gitchell, 41, will become the managing director of the Memphis office of Pinkerton Investigation Services. He will assume his new duties on June 13.
  
  Gitchell, who was the second highest ranking officer on the force, was chief of detectives and public information officer. The West Memphis native will remain on the police payroll until the first of the year, he said, due to accrued overtime.
  
  Mayor Keith Ingram, in acknowledging Gitchell's 20 years of service, proclaimed Thursday "Gary Gitchell Day" in West Memphis.
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  The mayor read a proclamation that noted in part that Gitchell "will be missed by all but the criminal element he dealt with."
  
  Caption: Gary Gitchell

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  westmemphisthreediscussion.yuku.com/topic/2594/t/ET-2-1 - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 2/17/1994    Last Visited: 5/17/2009  

  Department spokesman Gary Gitchell said this morning could not comment on reports that hair and a colored substance that appeared to be blood were found on the stick, but he did say the item was en route to the Arkansas State Crime Lab for analysis.
  
  "We'll see what comes of it," he said.

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  westmemphisthreediscussion.yuku.com/topic/2599 - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 2/17/1994    Last Visited: 5/17/2009  

  66. Gary Gitchell, WMPD

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  westmemphisthreediscussion.yuku.com/topic/2611/t/CA5-8- - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 3/12/2001    Last Visited: 5/17/2009  

  Gary Gitchell of the West Memphis Police Department.
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  Gitchell said the three boys died "from trauma, just trauma" to their heads.
  
  Gitchell would not comment on or deny an Arkansas State Police radio broadcast Thursday night that said West Memphis police were investigating the abduction and sexual mutilation of the three boys.
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  For now, West Memphis police have declined an offer of more detectives from the state police, Gitchell said. But he said he might accept the offer later.
  
  "We've got 15 people on this now, and if we get too many, we'll be tripping over each other," he said.
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  The FBI's behavioral sciences experts in Quantico, Va., are also being briefed on the details of the crime, Gitchell said, so that federal psychologists might develop a profile of the killer or killers.
  
  The West Memphis case has attracted the attention of departments through the country, and investigators have been phoning Gitchell's office, eager to see if the West Memphis case might shed light on their own.
  
  The woods where the boys were found stand between the Mayfair Apartments and the Blue Beacon Truck Wash, which faces an access road paralleling Interstate 40.
  
  "We have some of the major trucking in the nation going through here," Gitchell said. He said his detectives have not ruled out the possibility that they're looking for hitchhikers, truckers, neighborhood residents - anybody.
  
  "We are leaving no stone unturned," Gitchell said Friday afternoon. "We have some hopeful leads that we are checking on."
  
  He added, "It's frustrating. We will rely heavily on the Crime Lab to bring forth some information to sort of steer us in one direction or the other."
  
  He said his criminal investigation division has received almost 300 phone tips since Thursday and that a reward fund had swelled to $6,000 by Friday.
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  CAPTION: Gary Gitchell, Steve Branch, Christopher Byers, Michael Moore

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  westmemphisthreediscussion.yuku.com/topic/2590/t/CA9-29 - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 9/29/1993    Last Visited: 5/17/2009  

  Police inspector Gary Gitchell declined comment after a hearing Monday.

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