FREE THE WEST MEMPHIS THREE For more info check out www.wm3.org In May 1993 three 8 year old children, Christopher Byers, Stevie Branch, and Michael Moore were found murdered in a creek in a wooded area known as Robin Hood Hills in West Memphis Arkansas. Within a month the West Memphis police department announced that it had caught the killers, 17 year old Jessie Misskelley, 16 year old Jason Baldwin, and 18 year old Damien Echols. According to the police the 3 children were murdered in a satanic ritual. Their evidence was an error filled confession by Misskelley, who is mentally handicapped with an IQ of 72. Misskelley was subjected to 12 hours of interrogation without parental consent or legal counsel, and only 46 minutes of those 12 hours were audio taped. Misskelley recanted his story that night but it was too late. Even though there was no physical evidence at all, no murder weapon, no motive and no connection between the victims and the accused, the three teenagers were convicted in 1994 for the murders. The prosecutions evidence was black hair, black t-shirts, Metallica cds and Stephen King novels. Jessie Misskelley and Jason Baldwin were sentenced to life without parole while Damien Echols was sentenced to death by lethal injection. They have been in prison for over 11 years for a crime they did not commit. Time is running out for Damien Echols, but there is still hope. To find out how you can help please visit www.wm3.org Also check out the 2 award winning documentaries about the case: "Paradise Lost" and "Paradise Lost 2: Revelations" and the book "Devils Knot" by Mara Leveritt. Learn more, give to the defense fund and tell everyone you know. Help save an innocent mans life. Please spread the word,Thanks
C'mon, this is in America? They've held these guys for 11 years on one dodgy confession. Yeah, right.
Ex-Misfits vocalist Michale Graves is totally supporting Damien Echols right now, so it kind of sparked my interest in the whole thing. I also wouldn't mind reading Almost Home.
That's a whole other thread about celebs supporting causes and should they be influencing - we have a local case where a very high profile local celeb is supporting the refugee claim of a very dodgy guy. Mr Dodgy is now a celeb in his own right - never mind the claims of terrorism that have been made by many governments. His own country has said they'd welcome him home now that the crowd he supports is in power but still he refuses to go and would rather stay in a country full of infidels. Michale Graves may be right, but I wouldn't let that interfere with an independant opinion!
I know, but what I'm saying is I would have had no idea about any of it. But Mike introduced me to what happened with the 3, and the story seems interesting.
I heard about this case throught the csi channel in Australia and it just makes me so angry!! I just think that it's insane on what ground they have convicted these guys, one of them being on deathrow!! Since when is it a crime to wear black clothing, listen to metallica and read Stephen King? Please support these guys, cause if it can happen to them... it could happen to you! You can read more here: http://www.crimelibrary.com/notorious_murders/famous/memphis/index_1.html