May 6, 1993

The bodies of eight-year-old Michael Moore, Christopher Byers, and Steve Branch were discovered submerged in a drainage ditch a few blocks from their homes. Their hands and feet had been bound, their skulls had been bludgeoned, and they had been sexually mutilated. Police arrested Damien Echols, Jason Baldwin, and Jessie Misskelley for what have become known as the Robin Hood Hills Murders; however, continuing controversies over the case against the “West Memphis Three,” as the defendants have become known, have kept the murders and the men imprisoned for them in the national spotlight.

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