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Detectives attributed their break in the small town of West Memphis, Arkansas, three eight-year-old boys disappeared. Damien was sentenced to life in prison.
Finally, a month after the murders, detectives announced three arrests -- and a Web site was formed to support the inmates, now known as "The West Memphis Three." When the Arkansas Supreme Court affirmed the verdicts, state officials insisted that anyone who questioned the trials simply did not know "the facts." Now, for the first time, an award-winning investigative reporter examines that official stand. In riveting narrative, Devil's Knot draws readers into the drama of a modern-day courtroom dominated by references to Satan. On the evening of May 5, 1993, in the case to a former special education student, seventeen-year-old Jessie Misskelley Jr. The next afternoon, the naked bodies of Stevie Branch, Christopher Byers, and Michael Moore were found submerged in a nearby stream. The boys had been bound from ankle to wrist with their own shoelaces and severely beaten.
Damien was sentenced to life in prison. Finally, a month after the murders, detectives announced three arrests -- and a Web site was formed to support the inmates, now known as "The West Memphis Three." When the Arkansas Supreme Court affirmed the verdicts, state officials insisted that anyone who questioned the trials simply did not know "the facts." Now, for the first time, an award-winning investigative reporter examines that official stand. In laying out "the facts" of this still-unfolding case, it offers a frightening look into America's system of justice. In riveting narrative, Devil's Knot draws readers into the drama of a satanic cult.
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