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The West Memphis Three are three freed men convicted as teenagers in 1994 of the 1993 murders of three boys in West Memphis, Arkansas, United States. Damien Echols was sentenced to death , Jessie Misskelley Jr. to life imprisonment plus two 20-year sentences, and Jason Baldwin to life imprisonment.
To this day, the West Memphis Police have yet to investigate Byers any further. Gary Gitchell – Chief Inspector for West Memphis Police. When asked during a press conference how confident he felt about the case against Echols, Baldwin and Misskelley, based on a scale from "1 to 10," he stated: "An Eleven".
Devil's Knot is a 2013 American biographical crime drama film directed by Atom Egoyan and adapted from Mara Leveritt's 2002 book of the same name.The film is about the true story of three murdered children and three teenagers, known as the West Memphis Three, who were convicted of killing the three children during the Satanic panic.
The Arkansas Supreme Court ruled in favor of Damien Echols in his ongoing battle for new DNA tests he says may exonerate him from the 1993 murders.
As with the Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky's Paradise Lost documentary trilogy (Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills (1996), Paradise Lost 2: Revelations (2000), and Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory (2011)), West of Memphis is about the West Memphis Three case, in which Damien Echols, Jason Baldwin, and Jessie Misskelley, three teenagers from West Memphis, Arkansas, were convicted ...
Damien Wayne Echols (born Michael Wayne Hutchison; December 11, 1974) is an American author who first became known as one of three teenagers, the West Memphis Three, convicted of a triple murder in 1994 despite the lack of physical evidence connecting them to the crime [1] and the dubious nature of the other evidence.
Apr. 6—Police say one man fatally shot another on the dance floor of a social club — the first of two fatal shootings within a few hours early Saturday in Albuquerque. Albuquerque Police ...
Oct. 24—The Butler County Coroner's Office ruled the deaths of a woman and a man found dead Saturday morning in a home on Rockford Drive in Hamilton a murder-suicide. A 30-year-old woman died of ...