VIDEO: West Memphis 3 Talk About Documentary ‘Paradise Lost’

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• We bicker with one another about candidates and politics and remakes and racial issues all while these guys have lost two decades of their lives for a crime they didn’t commit.

  Until you have fallen victim to a mistake in our flawed legal system and don’t have the enormous amount of money to dig yourself out with quality legal representation, you have zero fucking idea how helpless you really are. ZERO. (I, for one, am experiencing exactly how flawed our legal system is this very moment.)

  When are those responsible for these mistakes going to serve THEIR time? Maybe if THEY were punished for their mistakes, the legal system would stop throwing shit against the wall and seeing if it sticks.

  Comment by Indrid Cold — Wednesday December 21, 2011 @ 1:09pm PST  Reply to this post

  • Those responsible did serve time. Only, not enough of it. Six years per murdered boy, a piece. The state of Arkansas said that was enough, but my conscience says otherwise. Prosecutor Ellington may well find out how many of his constituents feel the same, come election time.

    Comment by Fred J Walsh — Friday December 23, 2011 @ 8:26am PST  Reply to this post

    • “Prosecutor Ellington may well find out how many of his constituents feel the same, come election time.” You just summed it all up right there, Fred J Walsh. The state is scared of being sued and people that had anything to do with the case are worried about not winning their next election! The fact you still think the 3 are guilty, after all that’s come to light over 18 years, makes me assume you are man of very low intellect. Sorry, but anyone still too stubborn to admit maybe they are wrong after all this time, is fooling nobody but themselves at this point.

      Comment by FRW — Sunday January 15, 2012 @ 1:34am PST  Reply to this post

• Is HBO.com the worst site to navigate? I cant find the links to the whole Q&A. I just spent 10 minutes watching related clips but not this interview.

  Comment by curtis — Wednesday December 21, 2011 @ 1:23pm PST  Reply to this post

• sadly i do not get hbo in my area so i will have to wait till this comes out on dvd and bravo for peter to pay the bills and help the three finaly be free as much as they can be

  Comment by demoncat — Wednesday December 21, 2011 @ 2:39pm PST  Reply to this post

• Enough with these guys already. Christ they got away with murder cause the prosecution couldn’t find evidence good enough to stick. They should be happy and move on with their lives. Stop trying to poke the bees nest.

  We all know 20 years later dna will appear that will prove them guilty. I’m a metal head but this is bullshit.

  Comment by Eddie — Wednesday December 21, 2011 @ 6:44pm PST  Reply to this post

  • Somebody call the waaaaahbulance!? No DNA now nor later will there ever be to prove them to doing this crime. Don’t you love how the state of AK agreed with the plea? It’s so great ! ! !

    Comment by Super3 — Thursday December 22, 2011 @ 7:56am PST  Reply to this post

    • The Arkansas postal abbreviation is AR. (AK is Alaska.)

      More importantly, there were DNA findings that did not exclude the Three as potential contributors.

      SOURCE: Email from Bode Technologies, 08-16-2007
      (see ligature and penile swab results)
      http://callahan.8k.com/cgi-bin/i/images2/writ_exhibits/Exhibit_V-1_02.jpg

      However, the DNA findings as reported by the defense were overall inconclusive. This is why Peter Jackson, a main financier of those DNA tests, recently admitted, “Well, obviously we don’t know who killed these kids.”

      SOURCE: Peter Jackson Interview, 12-05-2011
      http://www.aintitcool.com/node/52167

      The weakness of the DNA findings is presumably one reason why the defense went to the prosecutor and secured a plea deal, rather than proceed with the scheduled evidentiary hearings this month, which were to determine whether new trials would be granted.

      It’s also possible the defense’s rush to cop a plea was predicated upon untold findings that may have implicated the Three, which presumably would have been required revealing, should the evidentiary hearings have proceeded. Fortunately for the Three, they faced a craven, inexperienced Prosector who feared “having his ass handed to him” by an expensive legal team, and who chose to accept the defense’s request to deal rather than fight for his professed belief in the merit of the original convictions.

      In any case, the Three remain convicted child murderers, in the eyes of the state of Arkansas. And in Alaska, too.

      Comment by Fred J Walsh — Friday December 23, 2011 @ 1:05am PST  Reply to this post

  • to the guy who is a metal head, does that really matter that you like Metallica? ok.. then. i still get surprised at how neverminded these metal…heads are. ok, Metallica rules.. so f what? what has music ever had to do with a murder case unless it was a suicide? and that is very understandable.. do it!!

    Comment by surre durre — Friday December 23, 2011 @ 12:24am PST  Reply to this post

• Many people believe the WM3 were guilty as charged. They were found guilty by a unanimous jury the first time. They plead guilty instead of waiting for a trial the second time. They were not found guilty because of the way they dressed, or their musical tastes, but because of the testimony and evidence.

  Of the three accused and convicted the first time, Misskelley confessed three separate times, once with his lawyer present. Misskelley also told two other people about the crime before he was arrested. Baldwin told someone else he committed the crimes. Echols was seen in muddy clothes near the crime scene. Echols is reported to have either told or bragged about the crime to four people before he was arrested.

  Echols also had a history of psychiatric treatment. His reported actions included brutally killing a dog, starting fires at his school, threatening to kill his teachers and parents and stating he liked to drink blood.

  Comment by West Memphis Three Truth — Thursday December 22, 2011 @ 8:05pm PST  Reply to this post

  • If the anti WM3 mob can’t even acknowledge/understand that the trail in 1994 was a complete joke, despite if you think they are guilty or not, then I don’t see how any debate or discussion can be had about the case with you. It was flawed beyond belief from both sides and hardly a fair one in such a time of insane hysteria.

    Comment by FRW — Sunday January 15, 2012 @ 1:59am PST  Reply to this post

• This is all about what a good PR team can do for child murderers. Peter Jackson’s money couldn’t buy any proof that these guys are innocent, but it could buy a good PR team to convince everyone that these guys are innocent. It apparently worked, sadly. They took three baby killers and turned them into celebrities.

  Comment by LLcoolSA — Friday December 23, 2011 @ 9:07am PST  Reply to this post

  • LLcoolSA, Jackson’s motive for taking them and turning them into celebrities with his own hard owned cash is what? Not sure if you have noticed, but they have been quite a big deal in the media before Jackson got involved. I don’t think you quite understand the point of the DNA results. How else can you prove somebody didn’t do something with DNA results? Either their DNA is there or it’s not. Turns out it’s not. We were told by the prosecution how these small boys were brutaly mutilated by the WM3 in a cult killing. Turns out now in new evidence, that the multilations were caused by animals after death and not a knife as they claimed in 1994. I could go on and on with everything that has been proved wrong over the years, but don’t think you give a damn enough about truth, so I won’t even bother.

    Comment by Anonymous — Sunday January 15, 2012 @ 2:17am PST  Reply to this post