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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.
On May 5, 1993, Christopher Byers, Michael Moore, and Steven Branch went missing from their homes in West Memphis, Arkansas.The next day, their bodies were found in the woods near their homes with evidence showing they had been brutally beaten and savagely murdered.
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.
The Arkansas Supreme Court on Thursday said a judge wrongly denied a request for new genetic testing of crime scene evidence from the killing of three boys nearly 30 years ago. In a 4-3 decision ...
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 ...
In 1975, Creech was convicted of two murders in Idaho where he confessed to killing at least 26 people, but only a few of these confessions were verified. He was sentenced to death in 1983.
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]
Stacy Lee Drake, 50, was taken into custody Thursday morning