West Memphis Three (Part One: Robin Hood Hills)
Unresolved: A True Crime & Mystery Podcast
Unresolved Productions
4.5 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 23 March 2026
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
West Memphis, Arkansas was, in a lot of ways, the kind of American small town that people often romanticize. And like all romanticized places, it had its dark spots - such as poverty, underfunded social services, domestic troubles, and a police department under investigation by the Arkansas State Police for suspected mishandling of drug task force money. It was not a perfect place. But for the children who lived there, it was the only place.
In the spring of 1993, three eight-year-old boys lived in that world. They rode their bikes through the neighborhood and explored the woods behind their houses. On the evening of May 5th, 1993, those three boys went out to play and never came home...
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| 0:00.0 | This episode contains graphic content that may not be suitable for all ages. |
| 0:08.0 | Listener discretion is advised. |
| 0:10.0 | If you or someone you know is struggling or in crisis, help is available. |
| 0:15.0 | Call or text 988 or chat with someone at 988 lifeline.org. Those outside of the U.S. |
| 0:22.6 | reach out to someone at your local crisis center or hotline. |
| 0:25.6 | Please do not suffer in silence. |
| 0:32.6 | If you drive west out of Memphis, Tennessee, across the Hernando de Soto Bridge, the big |
| 0:42.2 | arching M that spans the Mississippi River, you'll find yourself in another state almost |
| 0:46.6 | before you realize you've left the first one. |
| 0:49.5 | The aptly named city of West Memphis, Arkansas sits right there on the other side of the water. |
| 0:55.4 | Close enough to see the Memphis skyline, close enough to hear the trucks grinding along |
| 0:59.3 | Interstate 40, close enough that you might think the two cities are basically the same place. |
| 1:05.4 | They're not. |
| 1:06.8 | In 1993, Memphis was a sprawling southern metropolis of more than 600,000 people, struggling |
| 1:13.5 | with some of the highest crime rates in the country. |
| 1:16.4 | West Memphis was a working-class town of about 28,000, tucked into the flat Delta farmland |
| 1:22.3 | of Crittenden County. It had truck stops and trailer parks and modest branch-style homes and a single big shopping center. |
| 1:30.3 | It had the kind of economy that ran on shift work and hourly wages, stuff like construction, service jobs, |
| 1:37.3 | a handful of factories and warehouses that clustered along the interstate corridor. |
| 1:42.3 | People in West Memphis didn't have a lot of money. |
| 1:45.0 | They almost never took vacations. |
| 1:47.0 | They did not drive new cars. |
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