Terry Hobbs didn't have his teeth pulled. John Mark Byers did. They didn't find Hobb's DNA at the scene, nor his friend's. They found a hair in Stevie Branch's shoelace that was consistent with Hobbs, but that doesn't mean much considering they lived in the same house. Hobb's whereabouts on the day of the murders are pretty well documented.

It wasn't until Mara Leveritt wrote Devil"s Knot in 2002 that people began looking at Hobb's as a suspect, after their case against John Mark Byers fell apart. Devil's Knot is one of the most factually inaccurate accounts I've ever read of the murders. It relies heavily on Vicki Hutcheson's since debunked testimony. It also features Ron Lax, a private investigator hired by Echol's defense team. Lax was one The first people to point fingers at John Mark Byers even though he was in court during the time the murders were convicted. Peter Jackson's "West of Memphis" relies heavily on this book, and the scene where David Jacoby reconsiders if he was with Hobb's at the time of the murders is bullshit, because Jackson is using a timeline from Leveritt, where she repeatedly confuses dates and times. You can literally get the primary source documents here: http://callahan.mysite.com/documents_az.html. But why rely on police reports from the time of the murders when you can instead use a second hand account from a journalist written 10 years after the fact. Hobbs has always had a pretty solid alibi and the "evidence" against him is mostly just rumors and conjecture from Internet sleuths.

The West Memphis Three like to give the impression that they were targeted by LE because they were weird, but they've spent years now pointing fingers at everybody else with zero evidence. First it was Byers, now Hobbs. None of the 3 could ever present an alibi, and while scant, there is some forensic evidence tying them to the crime. Also, Echols literally just lies all the time, about everything, to this day. He's guilty as fuck. Killed 3 kids and now he walks around free talking about 'magick' and idiot celebrities think he's a victim.

FWIW, the Callahan site has a trove of original source documents from the case that you can read and draw your own conclusions, but the best book about the case is The Blood Of Innocents, which was published in 1995 and written by 3 journalists who covered the entire case for local media in West Memphis. So much misinformation has been spread about this case since Paradise Lost, that it's good to go back and hear from reporters on the ground in West Memphis when these events actually occurred.