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Origin
Born September 16, 1987, in Oklahoma City, Wesley Windham is the son of Tommy Windham and Janice Windham (formerly Wilbourn, and more briefly, Wells). Around the time he was 18 months old, he and his parents moved to Benton, Arkansas, due to a need for his father to relocate for his job.

Early Years
Windham attended preschool at Children's Corner and grade school at Howard Perrin, an elementary school only a couple of minutes from his house. Due to some disciplinary problems he experienced in his kindergarten class, his parents made the decision to hold him back a year. During his grade school years he played tee ball, soccer, basketball, and golf. He was also an active member of the Cub Scouts and then Boy Scouts until sixth grade when he chose to drop out. In sixth grade he joined the school band. He and his parents and younger sister, Marissa (three years his junior), attended First Baptist Church in Benton until he was about six, when they started attending First Methodist across the street. During his middle school years (sixth, seventh grades) he took a great liking to the rap artist Eminem. The rapper's music served to influence Windham's attitudes and behaviors and resulted in him writing a violent poem which landed him in therapy.

Middle Years
From late middle school through junior high school, Windham enjoyed spending his afternoons and summers skateboarding with his friends John Elmore, Ross Green, Josh Broughton, and Justin Lyle, among others. It is also thought that his skateboarding influenced his delinquent behavior during this time.

High School Years
Upon entering high school, Windham was a fairly quiet student. He didn't have very many friends and wasn't active in very many activities. Band was his main extracurricular activity. As a sophomore, he was taken under the wing of a senior band member by the name of Melissa Stonesifer. He and Stonesifer would hang out on weekends and would sit together on band bus rides to football games. He got his first job working at Western Sizzlin in Benton, where he worked for a few months as a sophomore. Then as a junior he worked for a while at the county library, shelving books. As a senior he worked at Smokey Joe's Barbecue in Benton, which is owned by some fellow attenders of First Methodist. He met a younger girl named Brooke Balding at a band all region dance and started dating her halfway through his senior year. He took her to prom and vacationed with her family and they broke up the summer after he graduated.

College Years
Windham chose Henderson State University on a whim and started attending there during the fall of 2006. Upon entering, he was an undecided major. He thought about aviation until realizing how expensive it was. He then chose psychology but then abandoned that at the thought of not being able to find a job without at least a master's degree. He tried a couple of semesters in the business college but came to the realization that it wasn't right for him. He then settled on psychology, expecting to attend graduate school after Henderson. When he arrived at Henderson, he quickly befriended several boys on his floor. Within two years, almost all of those boys had dropped out of college for one reason or another.