Losing Paradise
The Child Murder Case That Divided a Small TownBy Miguel A. Baughman
Length6h 44m
About this audiobook
On a humid spring afternoon in 1993, three eight-year-old boys never made it home. Their bound, brutalized bodies were pulled from a drainage ditch in a wooded stretch of West Memphis, Arkansas, known as Robin Hood Hills. Within weeks, police had their suspects: three teenagers with no alibi but their own word, no physical evidence but a confession extracted after hours of interrogation, and the misfortune of looking different than their neighbors expected a killer to look. Within a year, all three were convicted. One was sentenced to die.
This is the story of how a terrified town, gripped by rumors of satanic ritual and a wave of cultural panic, convinced itself it had found its killers, and how eighteen years, an HBO documentary, advancing DNA science, and a relentless army of skeptics finally cracked the case wide open. Drawing on court transcripts, forensic reports, and decades of investigative journalism, this account reconstructs the crime, the trials, and the legal maneuver that set three men free without ever declaring them innocent.
Neither prosecution nor defense escapes scrutiny. This is an unflinching look at fear, faith, forensic failure, and the human cost of a justice system that moved too fast to ever truly answer one question: who killed these three boys?
Audiobook details
GenreTrue Crime
Length6 hrs 44 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Introduction
9Chapter 7: Arrests and Charges
2Introduction: Shadows in Robin Hood Hills
10Chapter 8: The Misskelley Trial
3Chapter 1: Three Boys
11Chapter 9: The Echols-Baldwin Trial
4Chapter 2: West Memphis, Arkansas: 1993
12Chapter 10: Appeals and Growing Doubts
5Chapter 3: Initial Investigation
13Chapter 11: The Filmmakers' Lens
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6Chapter 4: Satanic Panic Context
14Chapter 12: New Evidence Emerges
7Chapter 5: The Outsiders
15Chapter 13: The Alford Plea
8Chapter 6: The Confession
16Chapter 14: Lives After Release
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