The Unsettling Case of the West Memphis Three
By Jake Hinkson
August 22, 2011The West Memphis Three are free. Damien Echols, Jason Baldwin, and Jessie Misskelley Jr.—who have been in jail in Arkansas for eighteen years for the murders of three little boys in 1993—were released from prison on August 19th. Baldwin and Misskelley were serving life sentences. Echols was on death row. Their case became famous, in…