Cases
Satanism and cults in media and law
Molly M. Fleming, a graduate journalism student, wrote an academic paper titled, “Case 93-06-666: Analyzing the Pretrial Publicity of the West Memphis Three Trial.” She was kind enough to send me a draft of her paper and, with her permission, I am publishing in two parts below. Unfortunately, I cannot reproduce her graphs. Anyone wishing to contact Ms. Fleming may do so by writing to me.
Thoughts on a follow-up
I want to thank you for your continued support and belief that the WM3 are innocent and need to be released! I really thought with the DNA evedince that they would finally be released but I see the judge has denied them once again! Your book was OUTSTANDING and I have read it 3 times since the first read. Are you planning on doing a follow up?
Chuck Avery
Columbus, Ohio
Thanks, Chuck. I am writing another book, but it’s not about this case. So many people are involved in the WM case now, and the actions of the lawyers and the courts are being so closely followed that I don’t feel the urgency to explain what’s happening here that I did when writing Devil’s Knot. That said, the case continues down its convoluted path and some concise explanation of the machinations that have kept Damien, Jason and Jessie imprisoned for all these years will someday be needed, if only because people coming new to the case will almost certainly find it hard to believe that our courts have behaved as they have—and gotten away with it for so long, and at such enormous expense to the innocent.
