A horrific triple child murder leads to an indictment and trial of three nonconformist boys based on questionable evidence.A horrific triple child murder leads to an indictment and trial of three nonconformist boys based on questionable evidence.A horrific triple child murder leads to an indictment and trial of three nonconformist boys based on questionable evidence.
- Won 1 Primetime Emmy
- 9 wins & 10 nominations total
- Self - KAIT-TV
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- Self - KAIT-TV
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- Self - KAIT-TV
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- Self - KAIT-TV
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- Self - KAIT-TV
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- Self
- (as Rev. Tommy Stacy)
- Self
- (as Jessie Miskelly)
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- TriviaFirst feature film to contain licensed music of Metallica, something that the band was initially opposed of doing. The band was involved in raising public awareness of the accused. Joe Berlinger would later do a documentary on Metallica in "Metallica: Some Kind of Monster".
- GoofsDamien reads this Shakespearean quote while on trial: "Life's but a walking shadow...full of sound and fury signifying nothing." He incorrectly refers to it as being from A Midsummer Night's Dream. It is, in fact, a soliloquy famously from Macbeth.
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Damien Wayne Echols: I knew from when I was real small people were gonna know who I was, I always had that feeling... I just never knew how they were gonna learn. I kind of enjoy it now because even after I die, people are gonna remember me forever. People are gonna talk about me for years. People in West Memphis will tell their kids stories... It'll be sorta like I'm the West Memphis boogie man. Little kids will be looking under their beds - "Damien might be under there!"
- SoundtracksWelcome Home (Sanitarium)
By Metallica
Written by James Hetfield, Lars Ulrich, and Kirk Hammett
Produced by Flemming Rasmussen (uncredited) with Metallica (uncredited)
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- America Undercover: Paradise Lost - The Child Murders at Robin Hood Woods
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