Damien Echols

Damien Echols

50 (1974-12-11)
Arkansas, USA

Damien Wayne Echols is an American writer and ceremonial magician based in Harlem, New York. He is best known as one of the West Memphis Three, a group of teenagers controversially accused and convicted of a triple murder in 1994. Since his release from death row in 2011, Echols has authored several autobiographies and spiritual books.

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Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills 1996 (7.599)

A horrific triple child murder leads to an indictment and trial of three nonconformist boys based on questionable evidence.
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West of Memphis 2012 (7.372)

The documentary tells the hitherto unknown story behind an extraordinary and desperate fight to bring the truth to light. Told and made by those who lived it, the filmmakers' unprecedented access to the inner workings of the defense allows the film to show the investigation, research, and appeals process in a way that has never been seen before; revealing shocking and disturbing new information about a case that still haunts the American South.
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Paradise Lost 2: Revelations 2000 (7.1)

Revisiting the 1994 Arkansas murder of three 8-year-old boys and the three teenagers convicted of the crime. A follow up to Paradise Lost, Revelations features new interviews with the convicted men, as well as with the original judge and police investigators.