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At the time of their arrests, Jessie Misskelley Jr. was 17 years old, Jason Baldwin was 16 years old, and Damien Echols was 18 years old. [19] Baldwin and Echols had been previously arrested for vandalism and shoplifting respectively, and Misskelley had a reputation for his temper and for engaging in fistfights with other teenagers at school.
A month later, three teenagers – Damien Echols, Jason Baldwin, and Jessie Misskelley Jr. – are arrested after Misskelley confesses to the murders following 12 hours of interrogation. They are taken to trial, where Baldwin and Misskelley are sentenced to life in prison, and Echols to death, all the while proclaiming their innocence.
Jessie Misskelley – Friend of both Damien and Jason's; considered mildly mentally disabled, and at the time of his arrest, he had the education level of a fourth grader despite being 17 years old. His confession was the basis for the arrests and convictions of Echols and Baldwin, despite its many critical inconsistencies.
A Minnesota state senator was arrested on suspicion of burglary in Detroit Lakes early Monday morning. Sen. Nicole Mitchell, a first-term Democrat from Woodbury, was booked into the Becker County ...
Sep. 21—DARWIN — Authorities say 2.5 pounds of methamphetamine was seized and two men were arrested after executution of two search warrants in and near Darwin. According to a news release ...
Nov. 22—A 19-year-old man from Minneapolis, Minn., is accused of third-degree sexual abuse that police allege took place in Newton. Xian M. Wanjala has since been arrested and charged for the ...
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.
May 9—A 18-year-old from Lyle has been arrested and charged with a total of 15 felony counts, 14 of which include charges related to child pornography. William John Eklund is facing 11 counts of ...