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      • Damien Echols, Jason Baldwin, and Jessie Misskelley, Jr. were arrested and convicted for the crimes, despite a majority of the evidence being circumstantial. Two were sentenced to life in prison, and the third received the death penalty.
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  2. Apr 26, 2023 · A recap of the 1993 murders of three 8-year-old boys in West Memphis, Arkansas, and the controversial case of the West Memphis Three, who were convicted and later released after spending decades in prison. Explore the evidence, the suspects, the motives and the controversies behind this unsolved crime.

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  3. Apr 19, 2024 · CNN — Nearly 30 years after three boys were found dead, the Arkansas Supreme Court has ruled new DNA testing of evidence from the crime scene can proceed, overturning a circuit court which had...

  4. Jun 24, 2022 · Danny Johnston/AP. CNN — The story of the “West Memphis Three,” whose decades-long murder case was the source for a noted documentary trilogy, returned to court Thursday, with a judge...

  5. The West Memphis Three are three men convicted as teenagers in 1994 of the 1993 murders of three boys in West Memphis, Arkansas, United States. Damien Echols was sentenced to death, Jessie Misskelley Jr. to life imprisonment plus two 20-year sentences, and Jason Baldwin to life imprisonment.

  6. Apr 18, 2024 · In a 4-3 decision, the court reversed the 2022 ruling denying the request to test evidence from the 1993 crime scene where three 8-year-old boys were found brutally slain in a drainage ditch near West Memphis. The additional testing was sought by Damien Echols, one of the three men convicted in the slayings.

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  7. Dec 22, 2021 · By Joyce Peterson. Published: Dec. 21, 2021 at 7:56 PM PST. WEST MEMPHIS, Ark. (WMC) - Not a single piece of evidence ever connected the West Memphis Three, Damien Echols, Jason Baldwin, and Jessie Misskelley, to the 1993 murders of Steve Branch, Christopher Byers, and Michael Moore.

  8. Jul 21, 2007 · A jury convicted the West Memphis 3, Damien Echols, Jason Baldwin and Jessie Misskelley for the murders of Michael Moore, Stevie Branch and Christopher Byers. Stevie Branch was Pam Hobbs' son. Now, there are new developments in the case and Hobbs is speaking out about the new DNA evidence.

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