West Memphis Three

The 2012 documentary West of Memphis examines the controversial trial of the West Memphis Three – three teenage boys convicted in 1994 of murdering three eight-year-old boys in Arkansas.

The documentary Paradise Lost follows the trial of three teenagers accused of brutally murdering three eight-year-old boys in West Memphis, Arkansas, in 1993.

Three eight-year-old boys were found murdered in West Memphis, Arkansas on May 6, 1993. Police accused three teenagers of satanic ritual murder based on their clothing style and music taste. The case became a global symbol of wrongful conviction born from moral panic.