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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.
Damien Wayne Echols was born Michael Wayne Hutchison on December 11, 1974. [2] He lived with his mother and father until their divorce, when he was 8. [2] The family frequently moved and Echols would attend eight schools before the age of ten. [3] At the age of 13, he took a new name, with the last name of his stepfather Jack Echols. [4] [2]
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 man has been arrested and charged with second-degree murder after fatally shooting another person outside a restaurant on Beale Street early Sunday morning, the Memphis Police Department said.
Her husband, 50-year-old Kenrod Cartez Echols, contacted police soon after and told them he had a role in his wife's death. In addition to murder, Echols was charged with tampering with evidence ...
On Friday, the South Carolina Department of Corrections announced the arrests made by the department’s Inspector General for the three’s role in a “sprawling” scheme that netted $146,000 ...
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.
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 ...