Three documentaries produced by HBO documenting the investigation and trials of the West Memphis Three, spanning 15 years from their initial conviction, through appeals onto their eventual release last year.
Paradise Lost - The Child Murders At Robin Hood Hills (1996)
Paradise Lost 2 - Revelations (2000)
Paradise Lost 3 - Purgatory (2011)
Recently watched these three movies (just under 7 hours total). A really captivating and eye-opening story. No doubt the initial movie has saved the life of one of the convicted kids and saved the other two from spending their lives in prison. These movies (as well as the Oscar-winning Murder on a Sunday Morning from 2001 about a different case) have put a lot more media attention and scrutiny on the way police conduct their investigations and sometimes force suspects to give false confessions on which they are later convicted despite the lack of any scientific evidence.
Paradise Lost - The Child Murders At Robin Hood Hills (1996)
Paradise Lost 2 - Revelations (2000)
Paradise Lost 3 - Purgatory (2011)
Recently watched these three movies (just under 7 hours total). A really captivating and eye-opening story. No doubt the initial movie has saved the life of one of the convicted kids and saved the other two from spending their lives in prison. These movies (as well as the Oscar-winning Murder on a Sunday Morning from 2001 about a different case) have put a lot more media attention and scrutiny on the way police conduct their investigations and sometimes force suspects to give false confessions on which they are later convicted despite the lack of any scientific evidence.
