23. Damien Echols spent 10 years in solitary confinement

All The Wiser

Kimi Culp

Society & Culture, Education, Health & Fitness, Self-improvement

4.9 • 652 Ratings

🗓️ 19 February 2020

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Damien Echols grew up as a Metallica-listening, Wicca-dabbling, non-conformist teenager in southern bible belt country. When three 8-year-old boys were found dead in the woods of West Memphis Arkansas, the police immediately turned to Echols and his two friends Jason Baldwin and Jessie Misskelley. In 1994, Damien was sentenced to death and spent 18 years in prison including 10 years in solitary confinement. In order to keep his mind active, Damien turned his cell into a monastic-like sanctuary and practiced meditative rituals for up to eight hours a day. It was during this time that Damien met his wife Lori, who assisted in the uncovering of new DNA evidence that would eventually free him. Damien shares that we can all escape our own individual prisons, whether mental, emotional, or physical, and come out on the other side thriving.

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1:02.1	podcast. For every inspiring interview you hear, we donate $2,000 to charities around the world.
1:09.2	I believe in the power of storytelling to inspire us all
1:13.0	to think differently about the world around us. So I've combed the country for some of the most
1:19.3	jaw-dropping stories you have ever heard, people who have been to the brink and back,
1:25.0	stories of survival against all odds, and whose lives have been changed
1:29.3	in unthinkable ways. Today's interview is with Damien Eccles. In 1993, in West Memphis, Arkansas,
1:38.8	one of the most heinous crimes in our country was committed when three young boys were brutally murdered.
1:45.9	There was mass hysteria, nonstop media coverage, and a criminal investigation led by fear,
1:52.3	ego, and urgency instead of truth, justice, and accuracy.
1:57.8	Damien Eccles and two other teenage boys were convicted of this unthinkable crime.
2:05.0	Damian Eccles was sentenced to death and would eventually spend 10 years in solitary confinement.
2:11.9	As he sought there on death row, the world caught wind of his story.
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