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Coming soon as a major motion picture starring Academy Award winners Reese Witherspoon and Colin Firth, this “riveting portrait” (Publishers Weekly) of a small Arkansas town recounts the all-too-true story of a brutal triple murder and the eighteen-year imprisonment of three innocent teenagers.For weeks in 1993, after the grisly murders of three eight-year-old boys, police in West Memphis, Arkansas, seemed stymied. Then suddenly, detectives charged three teenagers—alleged members of a satanic cult—with the killings. Despite the witch-hunt atmosphere of the trials and a case that included stunning investigative blunders, the teenagers, who became known as the West Memphis Three, were convicted. Jurors sentenced Jason Baldwin and Jessie Misskelley to life in prison and Damien Echols, the accused ringleader, to death. The guilty verdicts were popular in their home state—even upheld on appeal—and all three remained in prison until their unprecedented release in August 2011. In Devil’s Knot, award-winning investigative journalist Mara Leveritt presents the most comprehensive, insightful reporting ever done on this story—one of the greatest miscarriages of justice in American legal histo

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Author

Mara Leveritt

Publisher

@mystery_books_ar

Published

2002

Language

EN

ISBN

9780743417617

Category

history

Subjects

True Crime, Law, Social Science

Rating

4.13 / 5 (5,977 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14