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Unresolved: A True Crime & Mystery Podcast

West Memphis Three (Part Three: The Devil In West Memphis)

Unresolved: A True Crime & Mystery Podcast

Unresolved Productions

History, True Crime, Society & Culture

4.52.7K Ratings

🗓️ 30 March 2026

⏱️ 88 minutes

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Summary

“I think I was the closest thing he could come to conceiving of what he thought a Satanist would look like. All black was the only thing I ever wore. Ridiculous hairstyles. I was a stupid teenager.”

On May 6th, 1993 - the same day the bodies of three boys were found in West Memphis, Arkansas - a juvenile probation officer was standing at the crime scene as authorities gathered to process the evidence. In an offhand remark, he said that a local youth, Damien Echols, had "finally killed someone."

The bodies hadn’t been autopsied yet. No evidence had been processed and no interviews had been conducted. No suspects had been identified through any investigative means whatsoever. And a law enforcement officer was already naming a suspect at the crime scene. Not because of anything connected to this crime, but because of who that person was and what that person was rumored to believe...



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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. reach out to someone at your local

0:24.2

crisis center or hotline. Please do not suffer in silence.

0:32.4

That's not. Let him speak.

0:37.7

Thank you.

0:40.6

Four of them are definite human sacrifice ones.

0:43.2

The victims are easily picked up.

0:46.1

They are wandering teenagers looking for a good time.

0:50.0

Runaways, skid row, bum, paper boys, paper girls.

0:51.5

You can go out to the street.

0:55.7

The day before or the day doing, pick up that child, drug him or whoever you want to get them ready for the ceremony and at that time they will slice the person's

1:01.5

throat open oh pick up the blood and a challenge because they believe that the power can in the blood

1:08.0

will add to them how do you know this how do you know this i wasn't the only one who practices them. How do you know this?

1:11.6

I wasn't the only one who practiced this.

1:13.6

So have you practiced in going out and picking up people off the street and slicing their drugs?

1:18.6

Yes, they were the easiest way to get into it.

1:20.6

In 1980, a Canadian psychiatrist named Lawrence Pazder published a book with his patient and eventual wife, Michelle Smith.

1:28.9

The book was called Michelle Remembers, and it told a story so horrifying and so extreme that it

1:35.1

should have been easily dismissed as fantasy. It was not. It actually became a bestseller.

1:42.5

Under Pazder's guidance, using a technique called

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