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August 09, 2008
The latest information on the "West Memphis Three" case.
October 30, 2007
DNA Tests and Other Scientific Evidence Prove Damien Echols Was Wrongfully Convicted in 1993 West Memphis Murders, Federal Court Filing Says.
Federal filing says Echols, on death row in Arkansas, must get new trial or be released, citing multiple DNA tests, analysis from several of the nation's l...
August 18, 2007
The convictions of Damien Echols, Jason Baldwin, and Jessie Misskelley in the 1993 murders of three boys at Robin Hood Hills in West Memphis, Arkansas may have yet another chapter in the long history of one of the most controversial cases in America. It has been suggested that part of the reason tha...
August 15, 2007
Beginning in the 1880's, perhaps the only scientific means available to aid criminal investigators in determining who was responsible for a crime was fingerprinting. Fingerprints were used as a primary method of identification until the early 1900's. Flaws in fingerprint evidence such as becoming ea...
August 09, 2007
It’s been less than a month since preliminary DNA testing concluded in the infamous ‘West Memphis Three’ case, testing which has so far proved that no scientific link exists between Damien Echols, Jason Baldwin, or Jessie Misskelly and the Robin Hood Hills crime scene or victims Chris Byers, Steven ...
August 02, 2007
"I was young and I was stupid, I regret it every day. I ain't sayin I didn't do it, but i've paid for my mistakes. It's a lost and empty feeling when they don't want you around. I've finally got my freedom, but what good is it now?"
That is part of the song "One Second Chance" by Jeff Bates, a fo...
August 01, 2007
From the Vietnam Conflict in the 1960’s to the Global War On Terrorism today, one of the biggest controversies lies in whether or not the media is actually distorting the truth of what is going on with our soldiers on the battlefield. The media is often charged with only showing negative aspects of ...
July 30, 2007
“If someone can build it, then someone can unbuild it”. This single piece of self-motivation was said by Nick Wells, a professional jewel thief portrayed by Robert DeNiro in the hard hitting action movie “The Score”.
In the late 1960’s the Zodiac killer stalked Northern California for nearly a yea...
July 29, 2007
In what some may call a “what goes around, comes around” occurrence, the man convicted of stalking and killing ‘My Sister Sam’ actress Rebecca Schaeffer in 1989 was brutally stabbed in Mule Creek State Prison on Friday.
Robert John Bardo, 37, was the recipient of 11 stab and puncture wounds. Afte...
July 28, 2007
They are mostly forgotten now, these brave men and women of the past. All well into their hundreds, they reside in nursing homes, private residences and hospitals waiting to die. The best years of life are far behind them now, most of it stripped away in a war that most have forgotten, or weren’t ar...
July 28, 2007
'The Fox Report' host Shepard Smith and associates went against the public teaching of exiting a building during a fire alarm, whether a fire was actually occurring or not, by not making an attempt to exit at all. The Fox Newsman attempted to excuse the behavior of not only himself, but the rest of ...
July 27, 2007
Parchman, Mississippi sits in the fertile heartland of the famous Mississippi Delta. One of the last real work farms left in the United States, the Mississippi State Penitentiary (formerly called Parchman Farm or Parchman for short) consists of around 18,000 acres, and is the oldest and only maximum...
July 26, 2007
Today of course, is July 26. While this date landmarks many great things such as the independence of Liberia (1847) and the Maldives (1965), the end of the Kargil War in India (1999), as well as the establishment of what would later become the United States Post Office Department (1775) and the sign...
July 25, 2007
Cell Block Four at Varner Supermax in Grady, Arkansas is without a doubt one of the worst places a person can find himself. The seventy-eight cell structure, which is one of six such cell blocks housing the most violent offenders in the state, is especially troubling because about thirty-six pri...
July 23, 2007
The blog world seems to be reeling from a recent article that claims the United States Military is to blame for creating serial killers and mass murderers. “In Cold Blog” which the authors describe as “A True Crime Compendium From the Leading Voices in the Genre” makes a nearly 1400-word accusation ...
November 30, 1999
Following Monday’s massive 700 page filing in federal court, which included a second amended petion for a writ of habeas corpus detailing the final results of DNA testing, flaws in the original evidence used to convict Damien Echols, and opinions by some of the nations leading pathologists, defense ...