West Memphis 3 Essays

The West Memphis Three vs. The Salem Witch Trials Society makes people feel pressured to make assumptions for their own benefits. There have been many examples of this throughout history. Society has been pressuring people to change and make assumptions, dating back to the stone ages all the way until the present. Why does society pressure people to make assumptions? Society makes people feel as if they are obligated to be what other people want them to be, and perform what society wants them to

Kaitlyn Kline Professor DiFatta Business Law 01 February 2015 The West Memphis three is a case that created quite a stir when it occurred back in the 1993 when the crime occurred and then again in 1994 when there was a conviction. There was a wrongful conviction made when three young men were convicted in this murder case. However, no one questioned it because they were seen as fitting the description of a criminal based upon outside appearances. There were three young boys that were found murdered

committed affect countless communities, making society wonder why the convicted would ever commit these horrible acts of injustice. On May 5th 1993, three little boys, all of the age of eight, were found in a ditch, naked and sexuality mutated in West Memphis, Arkansas. Three teenaged boys, Jessie Misskelley Jr has a reputation for having a temper and engaging in fights, Jason Baldwin and Damien Echols were previously arrested for vandalism and shoplifting, trialed and convicted of capital murder, though

I. Introduction A. Hook 3 teen-agers accused of raping and murdering 3 second-grade boys B. Background Info On May 5th 1993 in West Memphis, Arkansas; the three boys pictured above were reported missing at 7pm by Mark Byers, Christopher Byers step-father. The next day, the boys’ bodies were found by a creek in a place called Robin Hood hills. The scene was horrific; the boys were found spread out, naked, and hogtied with their own shoe laces. Chris byers was found not only in the way but castrated

Summary: In 1983 a young 11-year-old girl, Sabrina Buie, was found in a soybean field in a rural area of Red Springs, NC. She had been raped and murdered. There was no physical evidence as to who committed the crime. However, suspicion was cast upon two half-brothers, Henry Lee McCollum, 19, and Leon Brown, 15, who had recently moved to the area from New Jersey and were considered outsiders. Both men were considered mentally disabled. The brothers were arrested. After many long hours of threats

The people accused in the West Memphis Three case were Jessie Misskelley, Damien Echols, and Jason Baldwin. These boys didn’t have a sufficient amount of evidence to be charged guilty. A few reasons they were considered guilty is because, Jessie Misskelley did confess several times witnessing these children being killed. Jesse Misskelley also had mentioned he has partaken in satanic worships. Guilty evidence against Damian Echols consists of girls saying that he has killed the boys, and that

In an article by Douglas Linder (n.d) it talks about a famous murder that happened in West Memphis, Arkansas. On May of 1993, three eight-year old boys were found murdered in the woods of their hometown in West Memphis, Arkansas. West Memphis Police Department started receiving calls from worried parents, who couldn’t locate their sons. A search had begun around West Memphis, with the help of the community, they found the lifeless bodies of the young boys in the woods. Shortly, rumors around the

On 2nd August 1994, 13 year old American boy Eric Smith was charged with the murder of a 4 year old boy called Derrick Robbie in Savona. Derrick Robbie was walking alone to a summer camp just down the road from where he lived, when Smith saw him and lured him off the path and into a small patch of woods on the way to the camp (Leung, 2004). It was there where Smith went on to strangle Derrick Robbie and unearthed some rocks nearby which he used to beat him to death. After this Smith sodomised the

On May 5th 1993, the bodies of three 8year old boys, Michael Moore, Steve Branch and Christopher Byers were found murdered in an area known as Robin Hood Hills in West Memphis, Arkansas. The investigation to these murders had seen three teenage boys, Damien Echols, 18, Jason Baldwin, 16 and Jessie Misskelley, 17, charged, found guilty of these murders and released from jail under an Alford plea in 2011. Firstly, some of the key elements of the investigation will be discussed, such as Jessie Misskelley’s

had some satanic books in his room. Also one witness testified that Damien had a jar of severed testicles in his room, but it was never proven. The West Memphis Three is still a sore spot for Memphis. Some people still believe that Jessie, Damien, and Jason killed the three little boys. All but one parent of the three little boys still

On the evening of May 5, 1993, in West Memphis Arkansa three eight year old, second grade boys named Christopher Byers, Stevie Branch and Michael Moore were last seen alive during the evening in their neighborhood around 5:30 p.m. By nightfall around 9:30 p.m. all of the parents of the three missing boys called the police station about their boys who never returned home. On the following morning of May 6, 1993, police searched for the three young boys in the Robin Hood Woods which is located right

Who: Suspects- Donald Smith and twin brother, Ronald Smith. Victim- Genai Coleman (preschool teacher who was shot). What: Murder of a preschool teacher and a carjacking. Donald Smith was convicted in 2008 of murdering a preschool teacher and carjacking. Witnesses described a man matching his description, security camera footage matched his description, and even DNA evidence was found apparently matching Donald to the crime. However, Donald claimed it was his twin brother the entire time. Fingerprints

English 11-5 9 May 2018 West Memphis Three: Guilty or Innocent? Introduction In the court of law, guilty and innocent alike are protected by certain rights. Is it better to assume a man is guilty based on stereotypes and prejudice? Evidence must be substantial and confessions must never be forced or excessive. All evidence must be legally obtained, but sometimes things don’t happen the way they are supposed to. For in May of 1993, unspeakable acts rocked the community of West Memphis, Arkansas. Three boys

Faisal Alanazi Prof. Meredith Doench ENG 200 11/1/15 Annotated Bibliography Robertson, Campbell. "Deal Frees ‘West Memphis Three’ in Arkansas." The New York Times, Aug 19 (2011). Web. 24 Oct. 2015. The online article, which appeared in the NYT discusses the West Memphis case explaining the circumstances that led to the case and the aftermath of the murder of the three kids. The article also summarizes the case decades after the case when the men involved were released. Instead of taking sides, the

was a normal day after school for many families on May 5th, 1993. The sunlight was still out as the sounds of far away cars roared through the wind. The giggles of nearby school children drifted through and faded within the quiet neighborhood of West Memphis. To the surprise of many the tranquility of this small town in Arkansas would soon be lost and a force so strong would shake America. As the sun began to lower and prepare for the next day, three little boys never made it back home for dinner that

Around 7:00, there were 3 teens in a white Monte Carlo they have been drinking vodka & smoking a lot of marijuana. Matthew Whitten was driving & he spotted Johnny on the opposite side of the road. One of the unknown teens said that the driver turned his steering wheel & the car

One summer day changed the lives of Kevin and Sue Neal forever when Kevin reported the vanishing of his stepchildren, beginning the case entitled Nature’s Evidence. Kevin called 911 on July 9th at 1:52 in the afternoon to report that his two stepchildren disappeared under his watch. A month later, a neighbor, whose yard linked to the cemetery, smelled and found their decomposing bodies in the back of his yard, which leads investigators to wonder one important question: who murdered these children

1974, Wichita Kansas, four members of the Otero family are found murdered in their home. Father, Joseph Otero, and mother Julie Otero were both found strangled in their bedroom, a bag over the head of Mrs. Otero. 9 year old Joseph Otero Jr. was found strangled on his bedroom floor, a bag also over his head. The worst was saved for 11 year old Josephine. Josephine was found in the family’s basement hung from an overhead pipe. She was bound and partially nude. She had been hung with her feet a fraction

Between the years 1979 and 1981, Wayne Williams is suspected to be the murderer of more than 20 youthful boys, although, he was only convicted of killing two adults both in Atlanta, Georgia. Even 30 years after his trail, there is still some debate and doubt, on whether or not he was Atlanta’s serial killer. After watching, Atlanta Child Murders, it’s believable Wayne Williams committed and caused the majority of these tragic deaths. By continuing to read, you will gather textual evidence as to why

Unsolved Murders of Oklahoma Summer James American History Coach Baker November 13, 2014 The Unsolved Murders of Oklahoma! In 1977, late April, At Oklahoma’s Camp Scott a councilor returned from a training session and found her stuff strewn. Her doughnuts were gone but there was a paper inside of her empty doughnut box. She took the paper out and noticed that in was a hand written note. In this note the person who wrote it vowed to murder three of the campers. This councilor didn’t take