Devil's Knot: The True Story of the West Memphis Three Paperback - 2003
by Mara Leveritt
From the prize-winning investigative reporter who has had the inside track on the story since it first broke in 1993 comes the definitive chronicle of the notorious child murders in West Memphis, Arkansas. of photos.
Summary
The West Memphis Three. Accused, convictedand set free. Do you know their story?
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.
With close-up views of its key participants, this award-winning account unravels the many tangled knots of this endlessly shocking case, one which will shape the American legal landscape for years to come.
First line
AT 7:41 P.M. ON MAY 5, 1993, a full moon rose behind the Memphis skyline.
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- Title Devil's Knot: The True Story of the West Memphis Three
- Author Mara Leveritt
- Binding Paperback
- Edition unknown
- Pages 432
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Atria Books, New York, New York, U.S.A.
- Date 2003-10-21
- ISBN 9780743417600 / 0743417607
- Weight 0.92 lbs (0.42 kg)
- Dimensions 8.44 x 5.56 x 1.19 in (21.44 x 14.12 x 3.02 cm)
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Themes
- Chronological Period: 1990's
- Cultural Region: South
- Geographic Orientation: Arkansas
- Geographic Orientation: Tennessee
- Locality: Memphis, Tennessee
- Library of Congress subjects Murder - Arkansas - West Memphis, Juvenile homicide - Arkansas - West Memphis
- Dewey Decimal Code 364.152
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