EXHIBIT A-IOI - West Memphis Three Case - Document Archive
EXHIBIT A-IOI - West Memphis Three Case - Document Archive
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<strong>Case</strong> 4:09-cv-00008-BSM <strong>Document</strong> 30-5 Filed 07/17/2009 Page 76 of 297<br />
" LexisNexils"<br />
SECTION: LIFESTYLE / PREVIEWS; Pg. 039<br />
LENGTH: 573 words<br />
Copyright 1996 North Jersey Media Group Inc., All Rights Reserved<br />
The Record<br />
HEADLINE: THE RITUALS OF MURDER;<br />
FOLLOWING A TRAIL OF TEARS AND ANGER<br />
SOURCE: Wire services<br />
BYLINE: JERRY TALLMER, Special to The Record<br />
BODY:<br />
September 20,1996; FRIDAY; ALL EDITIONS<br />
MOVIE REVIEW<br />
(three stars)<br />
PARADISE LOST: Directed, produced, and edited by Joe Berlinger and Bruce<br />
Sinofsky. Photographed by Robert Richman. Music by Metallica. 150<br />
minutes. Unrated. At the Quad in Manhattan. Originally shown at Lincoln<br />
Center's New Directors/New Films and on HBO.<br />
He was a loner, an 18-year-old who in the Southern Baptist<br />
community of<strong>West</strong> <strong>Memphis</strong>, Ark., tried to become a Roman Catholic. He<br />
read books on witchcraft. He was into heavy metal ("It makes me feel<br />
more alive"). He always wore black.<br />
A few years earlier, he changed his name from Wayne Echols to<br />
Darnien Wayne Echols. No, he was to testify under cross-examination, not<br />
after Darnien in"The Omen"; after Father Damien, the saint ofthe leper<br />
colonies.<br />
Ofall the people in"Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin<br />
Hood Hills,"an extraordinary documentary opening today,<br />
Echols, a quiet-spoken, pretty boy with a Veronica Lake hairdo he<br />
primps in a courtroom mirror, is easily the most intriguing. Did he do<br />
it? We may never know.<br />
On the night ofMay 5, 1993, the bodies ofthree 8-year-olds,<br />
Christopher Byers, Steven Branch, and Michael Moore, were discovered<br />
mutilated and hogtied with their shoelaces in a creek beside Interstate<br />
40 in the Robin Hood Hills section of<strong>West</strong> <strong>Memphis</strong>. The Byers boy had<br />
been emasculated.<br />
Arrested and tried for the triple slayings, or "ritual murders,"<br />
were Echols, his best friend Jason Baldwin, then 16 but looking a<br />
baby-faced 12, and Jessie Lloyd Misskelly Jr., then 17 with an IQ of72,<br />
and manifesting it.<br />
Filmmakers Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky, who had previously<br />
scored with"Brother's Keeper,"went to <strong>West</strong> <strong>Memphis</strong> immediately after
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