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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.
The usual theory given about the boys' deaths involves drug trafficking. The theory is that the boys were murdered after witnessing a drug drop from an airplane. [10] This drug trafficking was linked to the operations of Barry Seal and the Mena Airport in nearby Polk County. The case was profiled on the television program Unsolved Mysteries ...
Based on this confession and the story told to police by Aaron Hutcheson, Misskelley, Echols, and Baldwin were all arrested and charged with three counts of Capital Murder. Each of the three men encountered issues during the course of the trials, including the inability to have the trial moved away from the Arkansas area, lack of the ...
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 ...
Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills is a 1996 American documentary film directed, produced and edited by Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky about the trials of the West Memphis Three, three teenage youths accused of the May 1993 murders and sexual mutilation of three prepubescent boys as a part of an alleged satanic ritual in West Memphis, Arkansas.
An article in the Des Moines Register on Dec. 1, 1973 reported on the arrest of three of the four Fryer brothers who were later convicted for their roles in the Gitchie Manitou murders.
Unidentified murder victims in Arkansas (2 P) Pages in category "People murdered in Arkansas" The following 29 pages are in this category, out of 29 total.
Morgan Nick, a girl who was kidnapped from the parking lot of the Alma Little League ballfield in Arkansas at 10:45 p.m. on June 9, 1995. Suspect's red truck, DNA connect him to Morgan Nick