Talk:Damien Echols
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editThere is no point pretending the sources do not support the sentence about the lack of physical evidence connecting Echols and the other teenagers to the crime. Please do not make false claims about sources when you have not read the sources. If you believe they do not support the sentence you either haven't read them or failed to understand them, though given how explicit they are in stating this I find the latter unlikely. Four examples:
Blume, John H.; Helm, Rebecca K. (November 2014). "The Unexonerated: Factually Innocent Defendants Who Plead Guilty". Cornell Law Review. 100 (1). Ithaca: Cornell Law School: 157–192.
In fact, no physical evidence had ever been discovered linking the three alleged perpetrators to the crime.
"West Memphis Three". Encyclopædia Britannica. Chicago: Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.
All three were arrested in June 1993, though no physical evidence connected them to the crime and each had alibis.
Dewan, Shaila (October 30, 2007). "Defense Offers New Evidence in a Murder Case That Shocked Arkansas". The New York Times.
Two of the men, Jason Baldwin and Jessie Misskelley, are serving life in prison, while one, Damien W. Echols, is on death row. There was no physical evidence linking the teenagers, now known as the West Memphis 3, to the crime.
Dunne, Carey (October 27, 2018). "Magick 'Saved My Life': the Former Death Row Inmate Turned Warlock". The Guardian. London: Guardian Media Group.
In their search for suspects, the town labeled Damien and his two metalhead friends “Satanists” and accused them of killing the boys in a ritual sacrifice. No physical evidence tied the three teenagers to the brutal murders.