Three 8-year-old Cub Scouts were found murdered in Arkansas in May 1993, their bodies hogtied and thrown into a ditch — and their genitals so horrifically mutilated that prosecutors could only ...

In 2007, a retrial seemed imminent. But instead of going to trial and risking defeat, the state of Arkansas offered the West Memphis Three a deal to let them go free—an Alford plea, in which ...

Damien Echols, Jessie Misskelley and Jason Baldwin were all charged in the case that would infamously become known as the West Memphis Three. The West Memphis Three case has been at the center of ...

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Three former Memphis officers were acquitted Wednesday of all state charges, including second-degree murder, in the fatal beating of Tyre Nichols after he ran away from a traffic ...

The Untold Story of the West Memphis Three Murder Case." Co-written with Tom McCarthy, the book is a true insider's look into the trial and its aftermath. Stidham also offers up plenty of new ...

In a later trial, Echols was sentenced to death and ... of innocence while the charged crime is registered. For the West Memphis Three, in 2011, this plea meant they would be re-sentenced for ...

The four-day trial of Father Charles Thessing ... At the time, Thessing was the lead priest at St. Michael Catholic Church in West Memphis and Sacred Heart of Jesus Church in Crawfordsville.

Judge James Jones Jr. set Kelly's trial for July 14 during ... that Parker was a mother of three who worked as a medical assistant at a clinic in nearby West Memphis, Arkansas.

Years after the trial, as he worked to clear the names of the “West Memphis Three,” Stidham enlisted the help of two retired ...