![]() ![]() Other than that, there is no physical evidence against the teens. Although the police mention fiber evidence at one point, it seems as though that doesn’t pan out–although the film doesn’t address this issue satisfactorily. The confession also contained gross factual errors and at least one clear instance of the police feeding the boy answers to questions. During that time, the kid passed a polygraph, but was told that he failed. The recorded confession came after the boy spent twelve unrecorded hours with interrogators and without the presence of parents or legal representation. The key piece of evidence was a confession elicited from one of the boys who was seventeen and has an IQ of 72. If you don’t know, Paradise Lost documented the trial and conviction of three teenage boys for the murder of three children in West Memphis, Arkansas. But that so many people died so horribly so that one day I could say “I’m in the same country as Arkansas” is pretty hard to swallow. If we were trying to kick them out that would be one thing. Specifically, I look back in wonder that a war was fought to keep the South from seceding. “While I am entirely innocent, you have enough evidence to convict me, therefore I am entering a guilty plea so as not to possibly receive a harsher sentence later.Watching the Paradise Lost films makes me look at history in a different way. ![]() Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory chronicles the release of the West Memphis Three in 2011 following the emergence of new evidence and a subsequent ‘Alford plea’ (where you plead guilty while maintaining your innocence, e.g.Follows Paradise Lost : The Child Murders of Robin Hood Hills.Both films are now available for purchase on line and can be found in most video stores that don’t totally suck. Certainly your response to these films may not be the same as mine, but they’re absolutely worth a look just to try to piece together what you think may have happened to three innocent kids in rural Arkansas nearly a decade ago. After the second installment I felt even more shaken. I felt unsettled after seeing the first film. While the first film may have left viewers feeling uneasy about the course of the trial and the way practically every aspect of this event went down, the follow up installment is a veritable boxing match of new information, alternative scenarios, possible injustice and, as the title says, a whole slew of revelations about the relationships of the people we met in the first film. Their efforts to push for a retrial comes into sharp conflict with both the feelings of the victims’ families and the pride of police and attorneys associated with the first trial who are steadfastly determined that no errors were made. The information they’ve accumulated is vast, factually accurate and, to say the least, compelling. The majority of the film is dedicated to chronicling the activities of the Free the West Memphis 3 Support Fund, a group dedicated to cataloging all of the factual evidence, information, transcripts and testimony of the first trials and making them public knowledge. We also find out what happened to the murder victims’ families and are shown new evidence that could possibly allow the prisoners the opportunity for a new trial. The gawky teenagers of the first film have turned into young men behind bars who are all coping differently with life in prison. We have to go back to Arkansas too?Ĭlare’s rating: Thought Paradise Lost was riveting? You ain’t seen nothin’ yet.Ĭlare’s review: The second installment of the Paradise Lost documentaries, Paradise Lost 2: Revelations, picks up a few years after the convictions of Damien Echols, Jason Baldwin and Jessie Miskelley have been handed down. Summary Capsule: As though a triple homicide and a possible miscarriage of justice weren’t enough. The Scoop: 2000 documentary, directed by Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky.
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