Podcast Ep 180
The West Memphis Three
Three boys dead in a drainage ditch, three teenagers convicted, twenty years of doubt.
Arkansas, 1993. Three eight-year-old boys are found murdered in a wooded creek. Three local teenagers — Damien Echols, Jessie Misskelley, and Jason Baldwin — are arrested within weeks. The trial leans heavily on Misskelley's contested confession and on the prosecution's claim that the killings were satanic.
Show notes
The Alford plea that freed all three in 2011, the new DNA work that points elsewhere, and why Arkansas has refused to reopen the investigation.
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