5/27/2023 0 Comments Devil's Knot by Mara LeverittI have never been so angry and confused reading a piece of true crime as I was with this story. Leveritt walks the reader through this entire case from the moment the murders are discovered until the release of the wrongly accused. Mara Leveritt has put together one of the most well-researched and detail-filled true crime books I have read with DEVIL’S KNOT. These guilty verdicts made the local Arkansas population happy and even upheld appeal until their eventual release in August 2011. Despite these issues, the jurors were quick to sentence Jason Baldwin and Jessie Misskelley with life in prison and Damien Echols to death. The trial can best be summed up as a witch-hunt filled with investigative errors, false confessions, and a lack of solid evidence. After weeks of dead end investigative work, police suddenly charged three teenagers believed to be members of a satanic cult as the murderers. The case was sparse on clues as to who may have committed these crimes. In 1993, three eight-year-old boys were found brutally murdered in West Memphis, Arkansas. After eighteen years in prison, in 2011 one of the greatest miscarriages of justice was righted when Damien Echols, Jason Baldwin, and Jessie Misskelley were released from prison.
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