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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]
Police officers James Sudbury and Steve Jones felt that the crime had "cult" overtones, and that Damien Echols might be a suspect because he had an interest in occultism, and Jones felt Echols was capable of murdering children. [10] The police interviewed Echols on May 7, two days after the bodies were discovered. [10]
The names of the three teens convicted - Damien Echols, Jason Baldwin, and Jessie Misskelley - would come to be known as the West Memphis Three. Leveritt's book revolves around the central idea that the three teenagers' convictions stemmed from "Satanic panic" rather than actual evidence. The book also focuses on one of the victim's stepfathers ...
Devil's Knot is a 2013 American biographical crime drama film directed by Atom Egoyan and adapted from Mara Leveritt's 2002 book of the same name.The film is about the true story of three murdered children and three teenagers, known as the West Memphis Three, who were convicted of killing the three children during the Satanic panic.
During the trial, Damien Echols is asked about his familiarity with Aleister Crowley's belief system. Echols also states that he likes reading books by Anton LaVey and Stephen King. The community is shown to be politically conservative and strongly Evangelical Christian. Because Misskelley had provided police with a confession, his trial is ...
He preyed upon children in BBC's broadcasting studios, at children's hospitals and inside schools. ... Jason Baldwin and Damien Echols did at the time. The trio were arrested and convicted 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 ...
Hannah is Mel’s eldest. She was born on Nov. 24, 1980, in Australia; the first of her parents’ seven children together. According to People, she worked as a production assistant on her dad’s ...