One of the books I read taught me that serial killers have the ability to manipulate people into doing things for them & with them contrary to the victim's own doubts or good sense. It seems this enables serial killers to become killers of a series rather than just one. A person with this ability, for instance, would have little trouble convincing a dentist or oral surgeon to pull all of their teeth, for no good reason, even if there were a murder trial going on involving bite marks as evidence. Call up some different oral surgeons in your town & see if pulling all of your teeth on a whim is something any of them are willing to do. You will find that reputable dentists will refuse without some sound medical reason. 

If you go to this link then you already know these rehashed facts, about the DNA evidence that has turned up since the trial putting blood from a stepdad & one of the victims on the same knife. This same stepdad somehow coaxed an oral surgeon to yank all of his teeth through his strange powers of persuasion after bite mark evidence came to light. These facts are eminently ignorable, since the stepdad was never even a suspect & all evidence pointing to him is dismissed or lost. 

I read another book on a guy that was released after serving so many years on death row, when DNA evidence proved he couldn't possibly have done it. Interestingly, in spite of the work put in by the team of college kids who did the research, found the real killer, fought for the release of the patsy, resulting in his sentence being overturned & true justice being done, to this day the prosecutor insists that a guilty man is now walking the streets. I saw this prosecutor on a show about this case one night, clinging to this fantasy in spite of the new evidence that proved his innocence, unafraid to sound as ridiculous as someone who believes OJ & Robby Blake didn't do it. How could anyone persist in maintaining a wrong belief, when the evidence is overwhelmingly in favor of the contrary? 

The released man's lawsuit against the state for millions of dollars for wrongful imprisonment, etc. gives powerful financial incentive for the prosecutor to keep pretending, in spite of how dense, stubborn & obtuse such a position reveals him to be. 

According to a Department of Justice website devoted to graphing crimes, a child is 86% more likely to be murdered by a family member than a stranger. Our wacky Canadian friends have figured out that in 'blended' families, step fathers murder 60 to 100 times more often than biological fathers. This well known fact has its own title & body of research behind it, the prettily monikered 'Cinderella Effect'. If this crime had been examined according to basic principles of Occam's Razor, laid down in the 14th century that have served the police well for generations, probably the guilty party would be behind bars right now rather than three kids guilty only of standing out from the crowd. Since expedience masks incompetence well, if I were a member of the West Memphis, AK community, I'd move out of fear. Not only is the entire legal branch of the govt. out there ridiculously inept & quick to arrest & successfully prosecute anyone for anything, but somewhere a murderer with a taste for little boys lurks.
 

The preceeding was an editorial based on the author's opinions and conclusions about the West Memphis Three case (and others). While the opinions in this editorial are solely the author's, antiMusic's encourages you to research more about this case so that you can draw your own conclusions and possibly become as puzzled and angry as the author. We have provided the following links to aid you in your research

Court TV's Crime Library Site has an extensive article on the case and examines arguments on both sides. 

WM3.org is an advocacy site to "Free the West Memphis Three"

There were two HBO documentaries made about the case. Paradise Lost and Paradise Lost 2 The first includes extensive footage from the trial and was recently released on DVD. Your local video store may carry one or both films. Netflix and Blockbuster Online should have both DVDs available. And you can purchase both at Amazon.com at the links below. 

Paradise Lost - The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills
Paradise Lost 2 - Revelations

Further articles can be found through Google.
 
 

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