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West of Memphis An informative, fascinating, thought-provoking, in-depth, 147-minute documentary that chronicles the arrest in June 1993 and subsequent trial and conviction of Arkansas teenagers Jessie Lloyd Misskelley, Damien Wayne Echols, and Jason Baldwin in the alleged satanic murders of three 8-year-old boys Stevie Hobbs, Christopher Byers, and Michael Moore, who were hogtied and sexually mutilated; the controversial appeal, overturned conviction, and release of the prisoners 16 years later on Aug. 31, 2011; and consists of brief film clips from HBO documentaries Paradise Lost, Paradise Lost 2: Revelation, and Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory and interviews with former juvenile corrections officer Terry Driver, former prosecutors Brent Davies and John N. Fogleman, defense attorney Dennis Riordan, Devil's Knot author Mara Leveritt and researcher Martin Hill, WM3 prisoner supports (such as Johnny Depp, Patti Smith, Eddie Vedder, Natalie Maines, Henry Rollins, and Peter Jackson), private investigator Rachel Geiser, therapist Robert Heath Meeks, attorneys (such as Scott Ellington, Steven Braga, Dan Stidham, Laura Nirider, and Philip Wells), FBI profiler John Douglas, journalist Erin Moriarty, law professor Steve Drizin, trial judge David Burnett, juror Sharon French, forensic pathologist Vincent Di Maio, assistant attorney general David Raupp, Damien Echol's wife Lorri Davis, and witnesses Stephanie Dollar, Vicki Hutcheson, and Dennis Carter.   Redhead: Year: 2013 Rating:  R View West of Memphis on the Internet Movie Database