Echols and two friends were convicted of killing three boys in what was portrayed as a satanic sacrifice back in the '90s. They were later released on an Alford plea.

Damien Echols is best known for the worst years of his life. On March 19, 1994, Echols was sentenced to death for the gruesome murder of three grade-school boys in West Memphis, Arkansas. He was 19.

In the mid-90s a movement began to, at the very least, grant Echols and his co-defendants a retrial. There was strong evidence that Misskelley was coerced into a confession. The evidence was shaky and ...

Damien Echols Tells Us How Stephen King Novels Taught Him to Write by Alan Scherstuhl. ... Why would True Detective have been acceptable in Arkansas in the early 90s, while Stephen King wasn’t?

Damiel Echols of the West Memphis Three, used the spiritual practice of High Magick to help him survive the 18 years he spent on death row. He's now written a book about it and is teaching ...

Damien Echols, who awaited execution on death row for 18 years before being released in 2011, won’t be tuning in to any true crime documentaries captivating audiences across America anytime soon.

Damien Echols was in prison the first time he saw “The Mothman Prophecies.” Though it’s a Hollywood thriller about supernatural phenomena, it touched on elements of magick, which had helped ...

Damien Echols will have another day in court. advertisement. Action News 5 Memphis. West Memphis 3 hearing on DNA evidence scheduled. Story by K8 Newsdesk • 1w.

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — A lawyer for Damien Echols is appealing a judge's ruling that denied new DNA testing in the murder of three children in 1993. In June, Judge Tonya Alexander ruled that it ...

Echols, along with Jason Baldwin and Jessie Misskelley, was convicted in the 1993 murders of three eight-year-old boys, Stevie Branch, Christopher Byers, and Michael Moore. To report a typo or ...