The West Memphis Three: Murder, Lies and Nonsense

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🗓️ 27 July 2022

⏱️ 76 minutes

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Summary

The West Memphis Three case is back in the news again- thanks to the efforts of Damien Echols to try to get a piece of evidence DNA tested. Has the media ever given us the full story about this case?

To try to find out, we spoke with researcher Danni Cash, who has an encyclopedic knowledge of this complicated story. Danni is also one of the administrators of the West Memphis 3 discussion group on Facebook. You can find that group at

https://www.facebook.com/groups/1031585231015872

In addition, Danni hosts the podcast 10601 Sabo, which covers a different case. You can find it at

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/10601-sabo/id1586602280

If you are interested in learning more about this case, you can find primary source documents at

http://callahan.mysite.com/index.html

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0:31.5	This episode contains discussion of the brutal murder of three children.
0:38.2	If you've been interested in true crime long enough, there are certain cases you hear
0:41.8	about over and over cases that have, for whatever reason, caught the attention of the public
0:47.9	in a way that others simply do not.
0:50.9	cases like John Bonnet Ramsey, Casey Anthony, and the case we will be discussing today,
0:57.5	the West Memphis 3.
0:59.2	We are talking about this case today, not just because of recent news developments,
1:04.4	but because as we will see, we feel it offers a good example of how easily media narratives
1:10.0	conform around the case and how those narratives can twist and distort the actual facts.
1:17.2	We are going to give you the very basic details about this as concisely as possible.
1:23.8	This case involves three eight year old boys, Steve Branch, Michael Moore, and Christopher
1:30.6	Buyers.
1:31.8	The children went missing in West Memphis, Arkansas on May 5, 1993.
1:38.8	They were discovered dead in a water filled ditch the next day, nude and hog tied with
1:44.3	their own shoelaces.
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