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The Weight of Eighteen Years: The West Memphis Three | The Evidence Room
In this episode of The Evidence Room, host Cynthia Bandeville examines the harrowing case of the West Memphis Three, a wrongful conviction that spanned eighteen years and exposed deep flaws in the American justice system. On May 5, 1993, three eight-year-old boys—Steve Branch, Michael Moore, and Christopher Byers—vanished while playing near Robin Hood Hills in West Memphis, Arkansas. Their bodies were found hogtied with shoelaces, sparking a media frenzy and a police investigation that quickly turned toward local teenagers Damien Echols, Jason Baldwin, and Jessie Misskelley Jr. Because the…
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