The West Memphis Three

This event was a lesson to our Judicial Systems to find the guilty party under concrete evidence and not let society choose for us on who is to be send to prison or lose half of their life’s under false accusations.

On Aug 2011. Echols, along with Baldwin and Misskelley entered an Alford plea. Which granted them to walk free after approximately 20 years in prison.

I believe the boys were wrongfully accused & deserved a better opportunity at proving their innocence.

Evidence was later on presented which could have turned the whole case around. But was all denied just to point fingers at the accused due to detective’s “Tunnel Vision” which directed them to the three outcast by the town and ended the case in less time.

Both are trying to come to a rational agreement due to the evidence shown.

I personally believed the officers just wanted to point fingers and accused anyone to make the town believe they cause the suspects. The only evidence they had to ask for a warrant was Jessie’s confession that was clearly obtained under coercive circumstances. Even after the Defense Attorney asked for other evidence, Judge Burnett denied it.

According to different sites & evidence. Jessie’s confession was obtain through bribe from detectives using psychological skills. They told Jessie that his family will be compensated $35,000 if he had any leads towards the murder or any Satanic Rituals he has taken part in. After hours of wearing the young man down, Jessie started to tell them what they want to hear just to finish the interrogation and allegations. He repeated what they told him to get the story straight and until he believed it himself.

Damien Echols, Life After Death

The three teenagers were charged with murder less than a year after the murder. Jessie & Charles were sentenced for life; as for Damien, was sentenced to death. According the documentary “West Memphis Three”, there was no actual concrete evidence to charged the three boys other than the fact that they were outcast cause of their ways of dressing & the supposed Satanic rituals they were involved in (according to the town).

The three young man Damien, Jason & Jessie were outcast in their town. Which became an interest towards the police in the desperate time since their trail of evidence were getting cold. So they decided to point the fingers towards the three young (different according to the town) man.

Jessie Misskelley, 17

On May 1993, three little boys from the small town of Memphis, Arkansas went missing. At some point during their late night expedition on their bikes, they were murdered. Three teenagers were then accused with the disappearing and murder of the three young boys.