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The West Memphis Three are three freed 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.
8 wrz 2024 · Jessie Misskelley Jr., Jason Baldwin, and Damien Echols were convicted of killing three boys in a cult-like ritual in May 1993 — but then they were later released in 2011. In May 1993, three young boys in West Memphis, Arkansas were found dead, naked, and hogtied in a ditch. The tragedy sparked an immediate search for their killer — or killers.
28 cze 2021 · The three Freedom Summer workers, all in their 20s, had been investigating the burning of a black church near Philadelphia, Mississippi when they disappeared in June of 1964.
25 sty 2023 · One of the prosecution's key pieces of evidence linking Jason Baldwin to the crime — a survival knife with a serrated edge recovered from a lake behind his home — has also come under scrutiny. The knife was thrown into the lake by Baldwin's mother a year before the murders.
21 lip 2023 · A group of teenagers - Damien Echols, Jason Baldwin, and Jessie Misskelley were accused and convicted of the murder of three eight-year-old boys in West Memphis, Arkansas, in 1993. The brutal crime scene and lack of concrete evidence led to widespread speculation about the motive and the guilt of the accused.
15 cze 1989 · On a hot and sticky night in 1964, a gang of police and Ku Klux Klansmen kidnaped and murdered three civil rights workers after a high-speed chase through the backwoods of Neshoba County. They...
22 gru 2021 · Not a single piece of evidence ever connected the West Memphis Three, Damien Echols, Jason Baldwin, and Jessie Misskelley, to the 1993 murders of three 8-year-old boys.
