Hi everybody. This is Katie from A Date with Dateline, and I want to tell you about the latest season of

American Scandal from Wondry. American Scandal, the West Memphis 3. In 1993, three eight-year-old

boys were brutally murdered in West Memphis, Arkansas. As the small-town local police struggled to solve the crime,

rumors soon spread that the killings were the work of a satanic cult. Mm-hmm. Ring a bell,

satanic panic. Suspicion landed on three local teenagers, but there was no real evidence linking

them to the murders. However, that would not protect

them. Wondry's show American scandal brings to life some of the biggest controversies in U.S. history,

presidential lies, environmental disasters, corporate fraud, and now in the latest series,

three teenage boys falsely accused of a vicious

triple homicide. But their story doesn't end with the trials or convictions. Instead, their plight

will capture the imagination of an entire country and spark a campaign for justice that will last

almost two decades. We are about to play

you a clip from the latest season of American Scandal, The West Memphis 3. While you're

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From Wondery, I'm Lindsay Graham, and this is American Scamp. I'm American Scamp.

I'm, On the night, On the night of May 5, 1993, the tiny police department in West Memphis, Arkansas was swamped

with distress calls. Three local eight-year-old boys had gone missing, and no one had a clue where

they'd gone. Michael Moore, Stevie Branch, and Christopher Byers were second-grade boys from ordinary blue-collar families.

They were best friends, members of a local Cub Scout troop, and as inseparable in life as they would be in death.

The savagery of their murders shocked their local community.

Located on the eastern edge of Arkansas, just across the Mississippi River from Tennessee,

West Memphis was the kind of town where everyone seemed to know everyone else, and they all

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