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New Orleans writer Damien Echols and wife Lorri Davis will be interviewed during a free event at 10 a.m. Wednesday in Southeastern Louisiana University's Pottle Auditorium in Hammond.
Damien Echols talks with reporters outside the West Memphis District Courthouse following a hearing on whether to retest evidence from the 1993 trial for new DNA on Thursday, June 23, 2022.
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 ...
Echols, along with Jason Baldwin and Jesse Misskelley, who had previously been convicted of the crime, were released in 2011 after DNA evidence did not match either of the three.
Like Eddie, Damien Echols and the rest of the "West Memphis Three" -- Jason Baldwin, and Jessie Misskelley -- were accused and convicted of killing 8-year-old boys Steve Branch, Michael Moore and ...
How Johnny Depp’s ‘Brother’ Damien Echols Inspired a Character on ‘Stranger Things’ Season 4 Johnny Depp stood by his friend Damien Echols until he was freed after 18 years on death row.
Echols, a man who, as a teenager, was accused of a triple murder in West Memphis, Ark., asked his Twitter followers to "Please join us in court, so they know the world is aware of what they're doing." ...
On Jan. 24, Echols' attorneys filed a motion in Crittenden County Circuit Court saying they wanted to use M-Vac wet-vacuum DNA testing on sneaker laces that were used to hogtie the three boys.
Damien Echols and his legal team are moving forward in their hopes of clearing Echols' name in the infamous "West Memphis 3″ case. Echols, arrested in the case with Jason Baldwin and Jessie ...
Damien Echols said new DNA testing is being stalled by an Arkansas prosecutor that could lead to his innocence in the West Memphis murder of three boys in 1994.