ravenmidnight's Full Review: Mara Leveritt - Devil's Knot: The True Story of th...
Some time ago I wrote an opinion on a film I had watched entitled Paradise Lost:The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills in which I expressed my views on the true life case represented in this documentary. That view was and remains that the three young men convicted for the crime are innocent.
The case is not a new one, many know of and have stated their own opinions on the case, a legal battle frought with controversy from the very beginning.It has been known to lead to agressive verbal arguments over the facts and finer details of the case, setting blood aboil on both sides of the argument. In either case three young men, Damien Echols, Jason Baldwin, and Jessie Misskelley Jr. are now in prison accused of the murder. I have returned to the case again with a book I had recently found out about entitled Devil's Knot:The True Story of the West Memphis Three.
The book, I find is even more thourough than either of the two documentaries (Paradise Lost:The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills and Revelations: Paradise Lost 2 respectively) and sets out to be entirely impartial about the events that took place on May 5, 1993, the night on which three 8 year old boys were murdered brutally and left dead in a nearby stream, found naked and bound with their own shoelaces the following morning and the case that followed which soon far overshadowed the tragedy of their deaths.
Leveritt does not state her own opinions until the conclusion of the book, stating the facts of the events in a smooth voice of simple truth, basing her book on the actual court documents themselves and events as the transpired. She seeks to allow he reader to judge for themselves what happened.
After the murdered boys are found, and after many misleads and much bungling of the police department the whole town is left outraged and confused as weeks go by with no true leads until Chief Inspector for the case Gary Gitchell anounces that he has arrested three suspects which he believes to be the only possible killers and a whole town's anger over the deaths is unleashed on three young men who have yet to understand just why they have been accused.
Is this a case of blind justice? Have they been used as scapegoats for nothing more than being different? These are questions the author asks us to consider as she informs us not only of the controversial court case, but the continuing lives of those convicted of the crime and other key people involved with the case. I encourage everyone to read this book, see the documentaries, and most importantly view the website www.wm3.org and decide for yourself if justice has been served and if so for whom?
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