Son tres hombres, juzgados y condenados cuando eran adolescentes en 1994 por el asesinato en 1993 de tres niños en West Memphis, Arkansas.
Damien Echols fue condenado a muerte, Jessie Misskelley, Jr. fue condenada a cadena perpetua más dos penas de 20 años, y Jason Baldwin fue condenado a cadena perpetua. Durante el juicio, la fiscalía afirmó que los niños fueron asesinados por los tres como parte de un ritual satánico.
Los cuerpos sin vida de los tres niños fueron encontrados la tarde siguiente, en el arroyo de un campamento llamado Robin Hood Park, desnudos, atados con los cordones de los zapatos y salvajemente golpeados. Dos de los tres se habían ahogado, mientras que Byers presentaba graves heridas de arma blanca, además de haber sido castrado.
Las investigaciones, llevadas a cabo de forma muy deficiente, se centraron en los tres sospechosos, en lugar de en pruebas concretas, porque se los consideraba chicos problemáticos y porque era necesario encontrar rápidamente a los culpables.
Pero una gran parte de la opinión pública, incluidas muchas personalidades del mundo del espectáculo, se movilizó a favor de los tres, convencida de que se trataba de un grave error judicial.
Esta movilización permitió profundizar en el caso y reunir nuevas pruebas decisivas, gracias a las cuales, en julio de 2007, los abogados defensores de Echols presentaron un escrito para destacar que, basándose en pruebas de ADN, el material genético recuperado en la escena del crimen no era atribuible a los tres acusados.
La vergüenza de este caso reside en el hecho de que, explicado muy brevemente, los acusados, aunque inocentes, tuvieron que declararse culpables para ser liberados, una práctica del sistema judicial que en los EE. UU. se llama Alford Plea (según la cual, aunque profesaron su inocencia, reconocieron que los cargos contra ellos eran fundados y, por lo tanto, se declararon culpables, renunciando así a la posibilidad de demandar al Estado por los años que pasaron injustamente en prisión).
Un acuerdo considerado injusto y escandaloso por la opinión pública. En cuanto al verdadero culpable, las sospechas se han desplazado hacia el padrastro de una de las víctimas. Incluso se supo que su ex esposa (y madre de una de las víctimas) lleva años pidiendo la reapertura del caso, pero sin éxito.
Ahora, a sus cuarenta, los tres de West Memphis intentan llevar una vida normal y parece que ya no están en contacto entre sí.
The most tragic thing about this case, is that the parents of these boys are living in absolute hell. Made out of hatred, confusion, uncertainty and constant doubt about who is their real boogeyman.
Out of all the true crime cases I’ve seen over the years, This one is probably the most captivating to me. Simply because they’re are only two outcomes. Either 3 young men were guilty of committing these horrendous murders and escaped justice or 3 young men were innocent and wrongfully imprisoned while the real killer still roams free to this day.
The police involved in this ended up getting drafted over to Scotland to help my local police force deal with a murder of a 14 year old girl, Jodie Jones. The police and media did the exact same thing as this case. Used “satanic interests” which were essentially just examples of the interests of your classic Slipknot fan in the early 2000s. The parallels between this case and the one over here is crazy when you know that the same cops from this case were involved…… all the way across the world in Scotland. The reason I know this is because of it being public knowledge that our small police force in that area brought in help from America (we’re part of Britain so no idea why that was necessary) and a Netflix doc about the West Memphis 3 mentioned it. The boy convicted was her boyfriend who she was going to his house, Luke Mitchell, and it was all circumstantial evidence, no forensics whatsoever. She just didn’t turn up at his house, he raised the alarm, a search party quickly went out due to the short distance between their houses and then they found her. The brutality of the crime guaranteed the murderer would leave dna and they would carry dna. There was nothing for him but so many other things that the police completely ignored for other people. There are a whole heap of people that should have been interviewed as suspects, including family members that were in the area, a guy who they traced from a used condom found beside her body. Real crazy stuff.
This case in particular is haunting. I am retired from teaching children but even as I watched them at play I would think “they’re so little,so small even the ones as old as these three especially seeing them at a distance. The idea of an adult doing anything violent to a child is horrible. A child stands no chance and has no defense at all.
As having been both a prosecutor and defense attorney, everyone wants clear answers, but the real world is full of factual uncertainty, conflicting evidence and moral ambiguity. Try and distill certainty from that mix.
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Son tres hombres, juzgados y condenados cuando eran adolescentes en 1994 por el asesinato en 1993 de tres niños en West Memphis, Arkansas.
Damien Echols fue condenado a muerte, Jessie Misskelley, Jr. fue condenada a cadena perpetua más dos penas de 20 años, y Jason Baldwin fue condenado a cadena perpetua. Durante el juicio, la fiscalía afirmó que los niños fueron asesinados por los tres como parte de un ritual satánico.
Los cuerpos sin vida de los tres niños fueron encontrados la tarde siguiente, en el arroyo de un campamento llamado Robin Hood Park, desnudos, atados con los cordones de los zapatos y salvajemente golpeados. Dos de los tres se habían ahogado, mientras que Byers presentaba graves heridas de arma blanca, además de haber sido castrado.
Las investigaciones, llevadas a cabo de forma muy deficiente, se centraron en los tres sospechosos, en lugar de en pruebas concretas, porque se los consideraba chicos problemáticos y porque era necesario encontrar rápidamente a los culpables.
Pero una gran parte de la opinión pública, incluidas muchas personalidades del mundo del espectáculo, se movilizó a favor de los tres, convencida de que se trataba de un grave error judicial.
Esta movilización permitió profundizar en el caso y reunir nuevas pruebas decisivas, gracias a las cuales, en julio de 2007, los abogados defensores de Echols presentaron un escrito para destacar que, basándose en pruebas de ADN, el material genético recuperado en la escena del crimen no era atribuible a los tres acusados.
La vergüenza de este caso reside en el hecho de que, explicado muy brevemente, los acusados, aunque inocentes, tuvieron que declararse culpables para ser liberados, una práctica del sistema judicial que en los EE. UU. se llama Alford Plea (según la cual, aunque profesaron su inocencia, reconocieron que los cargos contra ellos eran fundados y, por lo tanto, se declararon culpables, renunciando así a la posibilidad de demandar al Estado por los años que pasaron injustamente en prisión).
Un acuerdo considerado injusto y escandaloso por la opinión pública. En cuanto al verdadero culpable, las sospechas se han desplazado hacia el padrastro de una de las víctimas. Incluso se supo que su ex esposa (y madre de una de las víctimas) lleva años pidiendo la reapertura del caso, pero sin éxito.
Ahora, a sus cuarenta, los tres de West Memphis intentan llevar una vida normal y parece que ya no están en contacto entre sí.
PrisioneroEnArgentina.com
Agosto 21, 2024
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CommentThere were six victims in this case
How does one go on the stand for a murder trial and blatantly lie!?!?! This is people’s lives!!!!!
The most tragic thing about this case, is that the parents of these boys are living in absolute hell. Made out of hatred, confusion, uncertainty and constant doubt about who is their real boogeyman.
I’ll never understand how people can straight up lie on the stand about things in a murder case involving children,
Out of all the true crime cases I’ve seen over the years, This one is probably the most captivating to me. Simply because they’re are only two outcomes. Either 3 young men were guilty of committing these horrendous murders and escaped justice or 3 young men were innocent and wrongfully imprisoned while the real killer still roams free to this day.
So much has been said and written, so much of it ranging from speculative to torrid.
Horrible case.
The police involved in this ended up getting drafted over to Scotland to help my local police force deal with a murder of a 14 year old girl, Jodie Jones. The police and media did the exact same thing as this case. Used “satanic interests” which were essentially just examples of the interests of your classic Slipknot fan in the early 2000s. The parallels between this case and the one over here is crazy when you know that the same cops from this case were involved…… all the way across the world in Scotland. The reason I know this is because of it being public knowledge that our small police force in that area brought in help from America (we’re part of Britain so no idea why that was necessary) and a Netflix doc about the West Memphis 3 mentioned it. The boy convicted was her boyfriend who she was going to his house, Luke Mitchell, and it was all circumstantial evidence, no forensics whatsoever. She just didn’t turn up at his house, he raised the alarm, a search party quickly went out due to the short distance between their houses and then they found her. The brutality of the crime guaranteed the murderer would leave dna and they would carry dna. There was nothing for him but so many other things that the police completely ignored for other people. There are a whole heap of people that should have been interviewed as suspects, including family members that were in the area, a guy who they traced from a used condom found beside her body. Real crazy stuff.
This is one of those cases where no matter who did it there was still a massive miscarriage of justice.
This case in particular is haunting. I am retired from teaching children but even as I watched them at play I would think “they’re so little,so small even the ones as old as these three especially seeing them at a distance. The idea of an adult doing anything violent to a child is horrible. A child stands no chance and has no defense at all.
As having been both a prosecutor and defense attorney, everyone wants clear answers, but the real world is full of factual uncertainty, conflicting evidence and moral ambiguity. Try and distill certainty from that mix.
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Ni hay narcha atrás. Muy patético.
Una justicia injusta como en la Argentina, que ademas es corrupta.