You are listening to the Roberta Glass True Crime Report, putting the true back in true crime.

From New York City, Roberta Glass is now on the record.

Two hours, the lies come fast and furious right from the beginning.

Straight out of the gate.

Before we start, why were the West Memphis three convicted and what were they convicted of?

They were convicted of killing eight young boys that The murders happened May 5th, 1993.

They were arrested June 3rd after Jesse Ms. Kelly was brought into the police and he confessed.

So he confessed.

He was actually, the police asked, because he was underage, they asked his father.

So he actually went with the okay of the dad.

And so he went in and then it led to the arrests of Damien Eccles and Jason Baldwin.

And then court proceedings took place in two different courts.

There was some kind of legal technicality.

So they separated the two cases.

And they were all convicted of murdering the three, eight-year-olds.

Based upon a lot of first person evidence evidence witnesses who testified they heard Eccles say at a softball park that he did it and he was going to kill two more

and then there was also a family who saw somebody they thought was Eccles near the scene of the crime on muddy

so those were I think yeah those were two of the crime on muddy. So those were, I think, were. Yeah.

Those were two of the compelling.

Dominie.

Yeah.

And they found that he, they kind of tripped him up in court too, that he had information that he could

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