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True Crime Blueprint and follow, subscribe to the new podcast. Three little boys went into the woods

one afternoon in West Memphis, Arkansas,

and they never came back out.

Three teenagers went to prison for it.

Eighteen years later, those teenagers walked free as convicted murderers who pled guilty.

They say they didn't do it, and the DNA in this case may point to someone else entirely.

This is True Crime Blueprint.

All right, let's start at the very beginning of this, because if you don't understand where this

happened and what the place felt like in 1993, the rest of the story is going to make almost no

sense. West Memphis, Arkansas sits right on the western bank of the Mississippi River,

staring right across the water at Memphis, Tennessee. And in 1993, it was a working-class Delta Town with a

poverty rate that was significantly higher than the national average. A lot of families were renting.

A lot of people were living in trailer parks. The jobs that existed were mostly labor jobs,

and the social structure of the community was what I'd call pretty rigid.

There was this version of normal that got enforced quietly and consistently.

And if you fell outside of it, people noticed, and they talked.

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