An Arkansas judge ruled Thursday that Damien Echols and his lawyers’ request for DNA testing in the triple murder of three boys will not be granted. The hearing, which was held on Thursday morning at the Crittenden County District Court in West Memphis, came about after Echols and his legal team pushed to test newly-discovered …
The lawyers for Damien Echols, one of the centerpieces of the “West Memphis Three” case, have filed a motion to have evidence tested after the state of Arkansas previously refused the testing, according to reports. Echols’ lawyer petitioned for the new DNA by using an MVAC, a wet vacuum system that can find more DNA …
One of the centerpieces of the “West Memphis Three” case says an Arkansas prosecutor is refusing to cooperate with DNA testing that could potentially help solve three murders for good. Damien Echols was one of three teens convicted of killing three small boys in West Memphis, Arkansas, in 1993. Echols was sentenced to death while …
The lawyer for Damien Echols has found lost evidence in the case against the “West Memphis Three,” three men who were teens when they were convicted of murder. Echols, along with friends Jason Baldwin and Jesse Misskelly, was convicted of murder in 1994, in connection with the 1993 murders of three young boys in West …
