this is such a tragic situation. nothing worse than imprisoning innocent people. the case is so sketchy, and even if they are guilty, they're no more guilty than casey anthony.

TMZ...yeah ok...

 

Originally Posted by JRoth15

I just read the wiki page on it...and have no idea what I just read.

this.

sounds like the adoptive father dude did it tho

The Associated Press

BREAKING: Judge accepts plea to free the "West Memphis Three," who were convicted in scouts' deaths, after 18 years in prison.

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So can they sue now?

 

Originally Posted by BillMueller

why would you make this thread and cite TMZ?

why do people quote fox news?

tmz is more fair and balanced than fox news ainec.

just because TMZ covers celebrity gossip does not make them an unworthy citation.

 

Originally Posted by BillMueller

why would you make this thread and cite TMZ?

TMZ has broken so many stories in the last couple years and i cannot remember them being wrong.


DEAL WITH IT.

 

Originally Posted by EyeKnows

why do people quote fox news?

tmz is more fair and balanced than fox news ainec.

Not saying TMZ is unreliable (it's not), but this is a bit of an overstatement. Please control your liberal urges to bash Fox News every chance you get.

Basically, one of the defendants is borderline retarded. After 4+ hours of being hounded by the detectives, the kid broke. He couldn't handle it anymore and told them what they wanted to hear. The DA ran with this, and this was the only thing they had. I really recommend watching the doc. It's very good, save for a disturbing crime scene photo showing the dead kids, something I wish they would have left out. The step father is quite the character.. I must watch

I also found the wiki article on this very long, but I also thought it was pretty interesting. The part about the Bojangles man was interesting and also suspicious. Sounds like the cops really dropped the ball here in basically every way possible. I don't think the 3 are necessarily innocent either (basically agree with Mr. Blonde).

just watched part one, about halfway through part two. i feel strongly that they were wrongly convicted. the utter lack of physical evidence and the witch-hunt-like trial just sickens me. i can understand why people are convinced casey anthony, OJ simpson and joran what'shisname are guilty without much physical evidence, but these kids were just pressured and pushed into being the scapegoat of an obviously ignorant police force.

holy shit, this mark byers has GOT to be guilty. he takes a cocktail of 5 anti-depressants, one being depakote, which is a powerful anti-psychotic med i am pretty sure. dude doesn't have a screw loose, he has no screws in his head whatsoever, i can't believe his head is still on his shoulders. dude is out of his mind and likely even murdered his wife.

 

Originally Posted by Mr. Blonde

Paradise Lost is definitely worth a watch. Showed them as victims of the bible belt and the system. However, I'm not convinced they were innocent. They are guilty of something imo. I do think that John Mark guy was guilty as sin.
I can't believe they let them out.

lol. What an outlandish statement with nothing to back it up.

 

Originally Posted by AMARTIN1181

lol. What an outlandish statement with nothing to back it up.

which part? And the more you post the more I realize why most people here hate you

 

Originally Posted by AMARTIN1181

lol. I'll hold my tongue since you're a mod. Cool story bro, sorry for disagreeing with you.

if ya scared, say ya scared.

 

Originally Posted by northkato

this is such a tragic situation. nothing worse than imprisoning innocent people. the case is so sketchy, and even if they are guilty, they're no more guilty than casey anthony.

they are a lot more guilty than Casey Anthony. They were convicted and then entered Alfred pleas under this agreeement. Casey was acquitted on the murder charge. That's a huge difference.

As to the evidence, I watched the 48 hrs special about this case last night on the West Coast feed. I would agree that the police made some errors in the investigation from the report. I watched thinking I would have liked to have seen quite a bit more on the first trials and the investigation to put everything into context. I must say that Damien doesn't strike me as someone I have a lot of sympathy for because he comes across as a con artist to me. I hope I'm wrong but it seems that a lot of the people who were involved in the case lost sight of the fact that the three real victims of the crime were the murdered little boys

 

Originally Posted by Mr. Blonde

Paradise Lost is definitely worth a watch. Showed them as victims of the bible belt and the system. However, I'm not convinced they were innocent. They are guilty of something imo. I do think that John Mark guy was guilty as sin.
I can't believe they let them out.

haven't seen paradise lost and wish i had seen it before 48 hrs last night.

I don't think they were convicted because they were in the Bible Belt. It seemed more likely that the statement of the one guy got them all convicted, directly in his case and because the jurors heard about it in the other trial. "Confessions" are incredibly hard to overcome at trial. The statement that Damien made where he was either "joking" or confessing didn't help him either. Obv the fact the prosecutor tied it to a satanic ritual didn't help them but the brutal murder of 3 little kids was bad enough on it's own. It really didn't need any embellishment

 

Originally Posted by RicWall

What the Mockumentaries fail to show. Misskelley confessed after he was convicted, to his own attorney and there are transcripts available if you care to read the 74 page confession. Oh yeah Misskelley also confessed to prosecutors after he was convicted.

http://callahan.8k.com/wm3/img2/jm_2...statement.html Misskelley confession to his own attorney after conviction

http://callahan.8k.com/wm3/jm_feb17.html Misskelley confession to prosecutors after conviction

Oh yeah the hair (not DNA) was found on a binding of a victim.However the binding (shoelace) could easily have been his own childs shoelace. There is no DNA such as blood from any suspect, dna under fingernails, or dna in an oriface of a victim. The bodies were submerged in a creek for 17 hours before discovery basically washing away all but two strains of DNA found on one victims shoe.

The guilty pleas can be spun however you like, the fact is: all three were convicted in two seperate trials by 24 juriors, Then all three plead guilty to first degree murder friday. Recieved time served plus ten years suspended, with 21 year sentence imposed if they reoffend.

good point about the DNA. It certainly wasn't compelling evidence as presented in the 48 hrs report. I leave the house every day with some amount of dog hair ( I have 2 golden retrievers) on parts of my body but especially my shoes. Hair gets in there and stays for a while. The step-dad having the pocket knife was much more damming to me. Of course, no motive for step-dad was given as far as I could see. The report stated they were nude but didn't say whether they were sexually assaulted. No one mentioned any previous or subsequent allegations of sexual misconduct on the step-dad's part either. That's unlikely to be something he suddenly decided to do one day.