02459cam a2200361 4500 155877592 TxAuBib 20140227120000.0 030221s2002||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2003268771 9780743417600 0743417607 (OCoLC)50728429 TxAuBib Leveritt, Mara. Devil's knot : the true story of the West Memphis Three / Mara Leveritt. West Memphis Three. New York : Atria Books, 2002. 419 p., [8] p. of plates : ill., map, pb ; 24 cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. In 2011, one of the greatest miscarriages of justice in American legal history was set right when Damien Echols, Jason Baldwin, and Jessie Misskelley were released after eighteen years in prison. Award-winning journalist Mara Leveritt’s The Devil’s Knot remains the most comprehensive, insightful reporting ever done on the investigation, trials, and convictions of three teenage boys who became known as the West Memphis Three. For weeks in 1993, after the murders of three eight-year-old boys, police in West Memphis, Arkansas seemed stymied. Then suddenly, detectives charged three teenagers—alleged members of a satanic cult—with the killings. Despite the witch-hunt atmosphere of the trials, and a case which included stunning investigative blunders, a confession riddled with errors, and an absence of physical evidence linking any of the accused to the crime, the teenagers were convicted. Jurors sentenced Jason Baldwin and Jessie Misskelley to life in prison and Damien Echols, the accused ringleader, to death. The guilty verdicts were popular in their home state—even upheld on appeal—and all three remained in prison until their unprecedented release in August 2011. 20140227. Baldwin, Charles Jason, 1977- Echols, Damien. Misskelley, Jessie. Juvenile homicide Arkansas West Memphis Case studies. Murder Arkansas West Memphis Case studies. Trials (Murder) Arkansas West Memphis. Children Crimes against United States Case studies. Judicial Error. https://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/description/simon034/2003268771.html TXING