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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.
Nearly 30 years after three boys were found dead, the Arkansas Supreme Court has ruled new DNA testing of evidence from the crime scene can proceed, overturning a circuit court which had denied a...
Here’s what you should know about the West Memphis Three and their fight for justice: Satanic Panic Mr. Echols, Mr. Baldwin, and Mr. Misskelley consistently maintained their innocence, but the prosecution argued that the teens had killed the boys as part of satanic ritual.
West Memphis Three, three American men who in 1994, while teenagers, were found guilty of murdering three young boys in West Memphis, Arkansas, allegedly as part of devil worship.
What’s known is that three 8-year-old boys — Steve "Stevie" Branch, Christopher Byers and Michael Moore — were murdered in West Memphis, Arkansas, in 1993. Damien Echols, Jason Baldwin, and Jessie Misskelley, Jr. were arrested and convicted for the crimes, despite a majority of the evidence being circumstantial.
In May 1993, the bodies of three 8-year-old boys, Christopher Byers, Steve Branch and Michael Moore, were found naked and hog-tied in a drainage ditch in a wooded section of West Memphis,...
In a 4-3 decision, the court reversed the 2022 ruling denying the request to test evidence from the 1993 crime scene where three 8-year-old boys were found brutally slain in a drainage ditch near West Memphis.
The story of the “West Memphis Three,” whose decades-long murder case was the source for a noted documentary trilogy, returned to court Thursday, with a judge denying one of the men access...
The West Memphis Three have been wrongfully convicted for crimes they did not commit. But, crucial new evidence of their innocence has been uncovered including crime scene DNA that absolves the three young men and points to others.
(West Memphis, Arkansas) After two years of lies, unnecessary delay and obfuscation by some Arkansas legal authorities that prevented the West Memphis 3’s Damien Echols from conducting state of the art DNA testing on the evidence in the murder of three children in 1993, a court hearing to establish the right to test forensic evidence will ...