THE WEST MEMPHIS THREE: EIGHTEEN YEARS FOR SOMETHING THEY DIDN'T DO

Episode 133 | Historical EventsIn this History episode we focus on the West Memphis Three — Damien Echols, Jason Baldwin, and Jessie Misskelley — three Arkansas teenagers convicted in 1994 of murdering three eight-year-old boys on evidence built from a coerced confession and Satanic Panic, who served eighteen years before walking out on Alford pleas in 2011 without ever being exonerated.This episode covers what the Satanic Panic was and why it was so powerful in rural Arkansas in 1993, how Misskelley's twelve-hour interrogation without an attorney produced a confession full of errors, what the 2007 DNA testing found and what it pointed toward, and why the murders of Steve Branch, Michael Moore, and Christopher Byers remain officially solved by people who almost certainly didn't commit them.Three children were murdered. Their killer has not been brought to justice. That sentence has been true for over thirty years.#HistoryMystery #WestMemphisThree #TrueCrime #SatanicPanic #HistoryPodcast