EXHIBIT A-IOI - West Memphis Three Case - Document Archive

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The Evil Powers of Rock and Roll:
The Supersuckers' Eddie Spaghetti
Works to
Free the West Memphis
Three
On May 5, 1993, three 8-year-old boys were brutally
murdered in West Memphis, Arkansas. The small town was
terrified, and the small town police department had no idea
how to deal with a murder of this magnitude. The
combination of hysteria and incompetence resulted in the
conviction of three other boys: .Jessie Misskelley, .Jason
Baldwin, and Damien Echols. Misskelley, Baldwin, and
Echols became known as the West Memphis Three.
The West Memphis Police Department, hy their own
admission, were able to ohtain no physical evidence to
convict the West Memphis Three. The prosecution's
argument rested on a confession by Misskelley, a confession
marked by Misskelley's lack of knowledge of any of the
particulars of the case, including the place and time of the
murders.
Since the confession was so questionable, since there was
no physical evidence, and since the prosecution was faced
,'Vith a hysterical community, they fell hack on the age-old
method of constructing a witch-hunt. They tried the West
Memphis Three not for murder, hut for being "satanic." A