The Brutal Killing Of Three West Memphis Boys

The united states is one of the most empowered country’s from our economy, to our military, but like every other country we have our flaws. Our flaws are found in our judicial system. You can witness these flaws by watching the HBO series paradise lost, a documentary about the West Memphis three, a brutal killing of three West Memphis boys. This court case shows many flaws from the bias to the actual evidence the prosecution shows. In May of 1993, three West Memphis teenagers were arrested. Damien Echols, Jesse Miskelley, and Jason Baldwin had been arrested on the charged with the murder of three West Memphis boys Steve Branch, Michael Moore, and Christopher Byers, that were found in a creek in the middle of the woods brutally murdered, mutilated,

After being arrested and brought in, then followed the countless hours of questioning, trying to persuade the boys to commit to a crime they never committed. After hours of being shown the dead boys pictures and being questioned Jesse Miskelley cracked, he admitted to seeing Damien Echols and Jason Baldwin kill the three kids, but claimed he had nothing to do with it. You will later find out in the court case the Jesse Miskelley has an extremely low IQ, on the border of mental retardation, and it is proven that if you have a low IQ, people can tend to make false accusation and just tell you what you want to hear. after hours of interrogation and being shown dead boys pictures its possible he just wanted to get out of there so he told the cops whatever they wanted to hear. Throughout the case there are many biases that create huge flaws in the case, such as how they dress, wearing all black, having black hair. People beleive its weird, because they wear what they were they can be capable of doing such a brutal murder. They also because that listening to heavy metal and reading horror story’s such as Stephen King makes you satanic, even though thousand of people wear black, listen to heavy metal, and read Stephen King. Does that make the rest of

One big bias was the fact that Damien Echols was interested in learning about other religions as well as practicing them, especially the wicca religion. The wicca religion is focused upon a cult, or the study of witches. Besides the biases in the case, there was evidence and witnesses that were very unreliable. There was almost no evidence linking the three boys to this murder. The defence pointed out that the crime scene had no blood, no evidence that the boys were killed there, that means it would take someone that knows what they’re doing to either clean up the crime scene as well as it had been, which the boys were not smart enough or skilled enough to do that, or the possibility that the little boys were killed somewhere