![]() ![]() ![]() All of them were convicted after Misskelley confessed to helping Echols and Baldwin with the murders, which he later recanted.īaldwin and Misskelley were sentenced to life without parole while Echols received the death penalty. and prosecutors argued they killed the boys as part of a Satanic ritual. Three teenage boys were arrested for the crimes - Damien Echols, Jason Baldwin and Jessie Misskelley Jr. ![]() They were naked and hog-tied with their own shoelaces, and showed signs of blunt force trauma and mutilation, the latter of which may have been the work of wild animals, reported the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette newspaper. The next day, their bodies were found in a nearby canal. On the evening of May 5, 1993, 8-year-olds Stevie Branch, Christopher Byers and Michael Moore went missing in West Memphis, Arkansas. ![]()
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