Losing Paradise
The Child Murder Case That Divided a Small TownBy Miguel A. Baughman
Length6h 43m
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 43 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Disclaimer This book is a work of non-fiction based on real
2Reader Discretion Advisory This book contains detailed descr
3Introduction: Shadows in Robin Hood Hills
4Chapter 1: Three Boys
5Chapter 2: West Memphis, Arkansas: 1993
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6Chapter 3: Initial Investigation
7Chapter 4: Satanic Panic Context
8Chapter 5: The Outsiders
9Chapter 6: The Confession
10Chapter 7: Arrests and Charges
11Chapter 8: The Misskelley Trial
12Chapter 9: The Echols-Baldwin Trial
13Chapter 10: Appeals and Growing Doubts
14Chapter 11: The Filmmakers' Lens
15Chapter 12: New Evidence Emerges
16Chapter 13: The Alford Plea
17Chapter 14: Lives After Release
18Justice Reconsidered The Robin Hood Hills drainage ditch loo
19About the Author Miguel A. Baughman is an award-winning inve
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