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Today marks the 30th anniversary of the murders of Stevie Branch, Michael Moore. And sorry, I'm getting some feedback. Stevie Branch, Chris Spires, and Michael Moore, the three eight-year-olds left to ride their bikes in West Memphis, Arkansas, and never returned home alive. Their killers, Damien Eccles, Jason Baldwin, and Jesse Ms. Kelly were convicted in February of 1994.

The killers became a cause-seleb after the HBO Paradise Lost documentaries released.

In fact, these documentaries were so popular that there were three more documentaries.

This launched a star-studded, well-moneyed campaign estimated to be in the

$10 to $20 million range. That campaign hit Pader in 2011 when this state accepted their

request for an Alford plea. Now, an Alford plea is legally a guilty plea,

but you can publicly maintain your innocence. The state accepted. They were released.

Joining me is Lisa O'Brien from the Based in Fact podcast. Welcome. Hi, Roberta. Thank you for having me.

Thanks so much. And thanks so much. If you have not listened to Lisa's great guest episode on

Rodney Reed, definitely check it out. I thought it was fantastic. Thank you. What makes you

believe that the West Memphis three are guilty?

Well, when you look at all of the evidence circumstantial and otherwise, it all points to them.

There's three victims, three knots. They were killed in a remote area but near their homes.

There's no way a single person could have handled all three boys, taking three victims, three

perpetrators.

That makes the most sense.

And really, when you come down to it, even with the DNA evidence that they did get,

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