Aug 19, 2022
RawNews1st/Tech – Jesse William Dirkhising, 13, was bound, sexually assaulted, tortured, and murdered in Rogers, AR. Davis Carpenter and Joshua Brown were convicted of his murder.
In the early morning hours of September 26, 1999, police and emergency services received a 911 call to Carpenter’s apartment on Sunset Drive in Roger, Arkansas. Carpenter met Police at the door stating, “he’s not breathing, he’s not breathing.”
Police saw a younger nude man (later identified as Brown) with a flashlight and telephone, standing next to an teenage boy that was laying bound on the floor, not moving.
Emergency Medical personnel immediately rushed the young man to St. Mary’s Hospital. Doctors pronounced him dead at the age of 13. The medical examiner ruled Jesse’s cause of death as drugging and positional asphyxia.
According to court documents, police found Jesse unresponsive, on a mattress on the floor. There was also an empty medicine bottle on the mattress.
Jesse had been gagged with his own underwear, a bandana, and duct tape. His arms and legs were bound with duct tape and belts. Duct tape was also found around one of his hands. His stomach and genitals were covered in feces.
Investigators immediately took Brown into custody. During his second interview the next day, Brown admitted to investigators that he had taken part in the sexual torture and murder.
Investigators learned that Jesse had been going to Carpenter’s apartment every weekend for the previous two-month period. Carpenter told investigators that Brown had been sexually assaulting Jesse during each visit.
He stated that he did not participate in the assaults, but he did watch Brown sexually assault Jesse repeatedly.
Brown told investigators that Carpenter had planned each assault, including detailed instructions and diagrams on what to do to Jesse.
He described how he and Carpenter had given Jesse antidepressants and a sedative. They also gave him a urine enema that had been laced with amitriptyline.
Amitriptyline is a prescription medication used to treat depression but can be used to treat insomnia, migraines, and pain. Brown explained they he had repeatedly raped Jesse with various objects, including food.
He said that Jesse was a willing participant in his “horseplay.” He continued, telling police he had taken a break to make himself a sandwich and had stuffed Jesse’s underwear into his mouth to “keep him quiet” while he went into the kitchen.
Brown told police at one point, he noticed that Jesse was not breathing. According to his statement, he and Carpenter discussed cleaning Jesse up in the shower and dumping his body somewhere rural, but ultimately, it was Carpenter who called 911.
According to news sources, when detectives searched Carpenter’s apartment, they recovered child pornography.
They also discovered an instructional guide on how to sedate a child and a diagram that illustrated how to position and bind a victim. Carpenter had also made extensive notes that detailed different fantasies of molesting children.
During the trial, both Carpenter and Brown were found guilty of rape and first-degree murder.
Both men were given a life sentence without the possibility of parole for the first-degree murder, plus each man received an additional 25 years for the rape charge with the consideration that Jesse was not yet at the age of consent and was extensively drugged.
Brown is currently serving his sentence in Brikeys, Arkansas, at the East Arkansas Regional Unit. Carpenter. Davis Don Carpenter died while in Tucker, Arkansas, at the Arkansas Department of Corrections Maximum Security Unit in 2020.
Jesse was buried in Friendship Cemetery, Springdale, AR. Faculty and students at Lincoln Middle School turned his locker and his school bus seat into memorials so that he would never be forgotten.
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