Inside the Unknown Story of the Forgotten West Memphis Three
On May 5, 1993, best friends Steven Branch, Michael Moore, and Christopher Byers—all 8 years old and in the second grade—went missing in West Memphis, Ark.
On May 6, the boys' battered bodies were found in a drainage ditch in Robin Hood Hills.
All three had been stripped naked and hogtied with their own shoelaces.
Christopher's genitals had been mutilated.
A month later, three teenagers—Damien Echols, Jason Baldwin and Jessie Misskelley Jr.—were charged with murdering the boys.
They were convicted under what can best be described as questionable circumstances, and eventually released after what started to feel like the world had taken up their cause.
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