Just finished the third film. So did they do it, /tv/?

>>84679088
I think so,IIRC the documentary omitted a lot of stuff.

>>84679088
>So did they do it, /tv/?

Nope. Only the Central Park Jogger case kids got fucked over as badly as these three.

>>84679191

What stuff? I'd say the evidence was flimsy at best.

>>84679088
Fake news the documentary series. A few points below:

>1. No mention if the DNA connecting Damien Echols to the murder of Stevie Branch.

>2.No video of Damien admitting on the stand that he walked through the crime scene almost every day because it was a short-cut he took to his friend Jason's house and to his girlfriend Domini's.

>3.No mention that Jessie Misskelley maintained his guilt for over 3 months after confessing until his lawyer talked him into retracting his guilt.

>4. No mention of additional confessions by Jessie to both his lawyers and the prosecution. Jessie was still confessing and maintaining his guilt after his conviction.

>5.No mention that Jessie's lawyer told him to purposely tank on the IQ test to try and discredit his confession, despite that his lawyer, Dan Stidham is on camera telling him to do this in the first film. Court testimony showed he purposely "malingered" on the test to score lower.

>6.No mention that the animal predation claims were disproven by Dr Sturner during their appeals.

>7.No mention that Jessie, Damien, and Jason's alibies all fell apart under scrutiny. And all three were unaccounted for at the time of the murders.

>>84679638
Like Damien having history mental health issues and threatening to slit his mothers throat.

>>84679088
If you're interested in these stories, I recommend reading The Cases that Haunt Us by John Douglas. He is essentially the FBI agent that developed modern criminal profiling (inb4 Robert Ressler shills).

His take was that this all started with a similar scenario as Making a Murderer - a borderline retarded redneck (guy on the right in your image) getting duped into a confession. From a psychology perspective it would be incredibly unusual for teenagers of this background to commit such a crime. While he ultimately didn't point any fingers, the stepfather of one of the boys made a lot more sense.

>>84679088

After the whole parade of bullshit, the crime itself was almost rendered irrelevant. At the risk of sounding like a tryhard moralfag, the irony of a system that's supposed to uphold the law being so fundamentally broken itself is a hard thing to miss.

But hey, peace of mind is more important than actual justice so who gives a shit.

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>>84679994
That's weird,you'd think lower class teens with unstable families would be the first to commit violent crimes.

I'm not a profiler though

>>84679845
>8.No mention that Jessie had been arrested a few short months prior for stalking a girl and busting her lip open after he punched her in the face.

>9.No mention Jessie once pulled a knife on another teen and pressed it to his throat, asking, "Would you like to be dead?"

>10.No mention that Damien admitted to playing with dead animals in his book Almost Home. In fact Jason's cousin once witnessed Damien stomp a dog to death and the police recovered a dog skull from his room during a previous arrest.

>11.No mention that Damien told his ex-girlfriend he always wanted to know what it felt like to kill.

>12.No mention he told a therapist he could be another Charles Manson or Ted Bundy.

>13.No mention he failed a polygraph.

>14.No mention of how he smirked at the parents of the victims in court and licked his lips at them.

>15.No mention that the prosecution said the crime was a thrill killing and confronted Damien on the stand about his statements saying the same on the stand. Damien told the police bizarre things about how killing the boys gave the killer power and decribed in detail how the killer thought and how he enjoyed killing the boys.

>16.No mention of the contradicting stories Jason's mother told about the knife pulled from the lake behind her home; a knife that matched to the serrated patterns on the inner thigh of Chris Byers and to injuries on the chest of Michael Moore.

A short blog on the DNA connecting Damien to the murder of Stevie Branch.
https://thewm3revelations.wordpress.com/2017/03/13/damien-echols-and-dna/

>>84679088
This propaganda is part of a disturbing trend with two attacks, occupying both fiction and documentary spaces:
>(((people))) and pets the filmmaker likes are exonerated using deceit, emotional reasoning, glaring omissions and cinematic tricks
>people the filmmakers don't like -- who tend to be white, Gentile, and somewhat less often male -- are defamed, presented as surely guilty, argued to be worse than they actually are, or blamed for unrelated things
Other titles in this unethical genre include Arbitrage and the Wolf of Wall Street, the Making of a Killer, the made for tv movie about the woman who let a homeless man die embedded in her car windshield (in real life the woman was black), and the made for tv movie about the black serial killer who made his victims drink bleach (which made him look innocent).
This is one phenomenon.

>>84679994
If there is one law enforcement professional that I feel confident flatly dismissing without a hearing, one guy that knows less about law and crime than my pet bunny rabbit, it is surely that complete charlatan. This guy's career is literally the rejection of science and the worship of bad reasoning.

>Damien Echols Legal Defense Team Press Conference - November 1st, 2007
>Little Rock, AR
>Second Amended Petition for a Writ of Habeas Corpus

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pT4KJxr_2J0&list=PLFEF67775BF4AADC3


Has anybody refuted this?

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>May 6, 1993: The morning after the murders, Jessie's friend, Buddy Lucas, stopped by Jessie's house. Buddy said Jessie told him he "hurt" some boys in West Memphis the night before. He then broke out in sweat, cried, and gave Buddy a used pair of sneakers (presumably the ones he wore to the crime scene).
>June 11, 1993: Reports suggest Jessie immediately recanted. He did not. He confessed again to his own attorneys eight days later.
>August 19, 1993: Jessie Misskelley met with his attorney, Dan Stidham, at the Clay County Detention Center and gave a statement that continued to confirm his guilt.
>February 4, 1994: On the day he was sentenced to life plus 40 years for the murders, he got in a police car and confessed to the officers all the way to prison.
>February 8, 1994: He put his hand on a Bible and swore to his attorney (Dan Stidham) that he, Damien, and Jason committed the murders.
>February 17, 1994: This time, Jessie confessed to the prosecutors. At the start of the confession the prosecutors noted that Jessie had not been promised any deals for his testimony. His attorneys begged him not to give this confession, but he gave it anyway.
>October 24, 1994: A cell mate of Jessie’s named Michael Johnson wrote to prosecutor Brent Davis begging him to keep Jessie behind bars. He said Jessie told him details of the crime. He described Jessie as a “cold, morbid person.”

Why did this totally innocent guy keep confessing?

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Reminder that West of Memphis shits on this """trilogy"""

They tried to write off Damien as just a troubled metal kid who dindu nuthin and liked Metallica, but his fucking medical history reads like the biography of a serial killer.

http://westmemphisthreediscussion.yuku.com/topic/8582/Damiens-Mental-Health-History