Kim Nees of Poplar, Montana was found murdered on June 16, 1979. There was a substantial amount of physical evidence found at the crime scene, including the probability of more than one person involved. It was rumored that several girls may have been involved.
At the time of Kim Nees death Barry Beach was 17 years old. While being held for questioning in an unrelated incident in Louisiana on January 4, 1983, it was discovered by detectives through a background check that there was an unsolved murder in Montana. After being held for three days, he was questioned about Kim Nees’ murder. He proclaimed his innocence in not knowing anything about who murdered her. Detectives questioned him throughout the day.
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 Montana murder, Calhoun would personally see to it that he went to the electric chair in Louisiana. By the end of the interrogation, they had a recorded confession from Barry Beach to the Kim Nees murder. The tape has been declared by Detective Jay Via to have been erased. Jay Via however had a transcript of the confession. It has been said that nearly ninety percent of the confession did not match evidence at the scene. There is no physical evidence linking Barry Beach to the crime, nor were there any eyewitnesses. Barry Beach was tried and convicted in 1985 based primarily on that confession. He was sentenced to serve 100 years, without parole.
What Does Reverse Speech Analysis Reveal?
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.
Update:
Barry Beach has received clemency from Gov. Steve Bullock. He was released from prison on Friday, November 20, 2015! Reverse speech proved accurate!
Click on the reversals to hear the audio.
Dateline NBC 4-4-08
Barry Beach
(Asked if he liked to party.) Every chance I got to be honest with you. 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.)
(Asked if he said he killed the girl in Montana.) Yes sir. I said that on tape… 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.)
(Commander Alfred Calhoun pressuring Beach during interrogation for a confession.)…and then he spent half and hour to an hour… 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’d have to prove, but that force him. (gibberish) Tell Christopher how he could tie us around in it.
I don’t remember all the details of it. That was way I speak the law. Remember all that.
(Kieth Morrison: I don’t think I would confess to killing a girl if I didn’t kill her.) That is hard for most people in America to believe that a person could be led… 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.)
(Asked what is most important to him.) And I just want just them to know that, I am a sober, straight, educated man that they can be proud of. It hurts. It was someone. The one. That else. Who done it. (Professing his innocence)
Former Neighbor, Dottie Sue “Sissy” Atkinson
(Recalling her conversation with Centurion Ministries.) I said when we all die, and go to heaven… Here I’d lie. Even though they see it.
…and you guys find out…(Sissy Atkinson) Right now is the agreement.
…that I had no knowledge of it. It was the woman, that I hit. (Confession?)
I was not there. I had no participation in it. I initiate. It’s just that one girl. Her I hit. (Confession?)
I don’t know who did it. And they do find all that. (Does she think it is known who killed Kim Nees?)
…and tell me you’re sorry. Here I’ll save my neck.
(Talking about her alibi) So I said, “Could you please take me home”. I won’t seem suspicious.
… She drove me to my home, and I went in, and I went to bed. I was the one they name the animal.
(Asked who can corroborate her story.) Well nobody, my mom’s not here no more. I’m wondering how small my (unknown).
(Asked if it were possible she were at the murder scene that night.) Not possible what so ever. I was the one who saw. (She was at the murder scene.)
J.D., no I don’t even know what he is talking about. I’ve never talked to him about that. Ever. Well maybe he’s lost his mind. I would not see the one of the order on. I hate this.
(Asked if it’s possible she could have blocked the memory from her mind about the murder.) No. I’ve got a very, very good memory. Murdered girl. (Confession?)
Let them talk all they want. Now we’ve all lost meadow. (“Meadow” is a metaphor in reverse speech: it generally refers to a place of rest.)
If I was down there, I’m sure they would have found some kind of DNA on me. We were smart and I threw outfit. (Discarded evidence? Does “we” indicate a third person reference, or were there others involved?)
Detective Alfred Calhoun of the Oachita Parish Sheriff’s Office in Monroe County, La.
(Asked if he had ever threatened Barry Beach into confession by using the electric chair.) Well, I’ve been accused of many things, but in this case I’m not guilty… There’s a time I threat physical. Yes I would used to do that.
...of threatening that young man. And I’ve been an asshole.
When I informed him that I thought he was being deceptive to me… 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.)
…Mr. Beach kind of threw his hands up a little bit like this… That man says “I killed her”.
(Asked if he had any motive for getting Barry Beach to confess to a homicide.) Only to seek the truth. Just that fear is the law. (Does he believe it is morally OK to use fear in obtaining a confession?)
Detective Jay Via Of The Oachita Parish Sheriff’s Office In Monroe County, La.
Alfred stepped out of the interview room, and he says he wants to talk to you. His boss sold me this. (unknown) that I’ve fetched the fire. (Reversals occur in the third person)
(Discussing the confession tape of Barry Beach.)…said he had erased the tapes and we went ballistic… Except no one was asked. But see, I really hid this. (Suppression of evidence?)
Dallas O’Connor, Former Mayor Of Poplar.
And it was from a lady by the name of Sissy Atkinson. Must have thought his sister made it up. (J.D. Atkinson is Sissy Atkinson’s brother. Is he thinking about J.D. Atkinson?)
She proceeded to tell me that they found Kim Nees’ body. The officers seen me enough. Here (hear) that they might do this service.
(Asked if he ever told anyone about Sissy Atkinson calling him about a body in the river 2 hours before police knew.) I might have mentioned it to the County.. He lied for this didn’t stand. I remember. (Reversals occur in the third person. He never told anyone about Sissy Atkinson calling him.)
…but I think it went in one ear and out the other. Lies were going on, and then it was messed up.
J.D. Atkinson, Brother Of Sissy Atkinson
(Asked if Sissy Atkinson told him that she was there the night Kim Nees was killed.) Well the way she said it that they were partyin’ down there. And I made offer with it. (Did he try to tell police?)
Well it’s just that, one of them girls come runnin’ around the pickup with a crescent wrench. Is it wicked? The modern murder excite me now.
In my own mind, I think Kim Nees is looking over Sissy’s shoulder all the time. 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, Sheriff Of Roosevelt County, Montana
(Responding to the theory that the killing involved local girls.) That was one of the, again if you will, the theories that… 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?)
(Referencing that he believed they had the real killer, Barry Beach.) Absolutely. Absolutely no question in my mind. Calhoun was smart. (What is it he considers Calhoun to be smart about?)
…This confession is good, it’s solid. 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, who was a special prosecutor in Beach’s case
(Interviewer commenting that 3-4 people have said that Sissy Atkinson said she killed Kim Nees.) Not a scintilla of proof to support that. 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.)
don’t think they (Centurion Ministries) performed the kind of searing scrutiny that they should have before they moved forward with the case. Ask if they’re offering enough bullshit that the group smears.
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