West Memphis Three

[Rising Dead Man]

Who's glad their freed?

[Spookymufu]

I have no idea who that is or what their story is...

[Murfreesboro]

My mother's family was from southeast Arkansas, and I'm pretty sure I was visiting relatives in that state when this story broke in the early '90s. Three little boys, Cub Scouts, were brutally (perhaps ritualistically) murdered, and these three men (teens at the time) were convicted of it. I mean, these children (eight years old) weren't just killed. They were tortured, mutilated, left to die. At the time it was widely believed the crime was a Satanic ritual.

Apparently there have been a couple of HBO specials I never saw about these three convicted men, who plead some type of technicality, saying they were likely to be found guilty by the evidence, but they didn't really do it. They plead guilty only because they thought a prosecutor would find them guilty, not because they were. Sounds weird to me, I don't get it. But the HBO specials cast doubt on their guilt, and several celebrities, as well as many other people, I suppose, came to believe they were wrongly convicted.

Anyway, they are free now, on this technicality, and I heard on TV that the authorities consider the case "closed." I don't understand how it can be closed. If these men didn't do it, then someone else did. If they did do it, then why are they being set free?

[Spookymufu]

sounds like the work of sleazebag lawyers, like Casey Anthony's lawyers and OJ's lawyers....