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The story: One summer afternoon, three eight-year-old boys disappear. Their bodies are then found hog-tied, and submerged in a nearby creek. There is a rush to find someone to blame and put on trial. Three teen-aged boys are arrested and railroaded by the criminal (in)justice system. The media shamelessly influences the public by fanning the flames of hysteria. "A child sex killing" "The boy's genitals were cut off, and are missing" "Satanic ritual abuse killings". Then how unscrupulous LEO coerce a "confession" from a mentally-deficient 17-year-old (he thought that he could earn the $30,000 reward for information about the boy's disappearance by telling made-up stories to the police) and then how equally unscrupulous prosecutors use that teenager to testify against the other two teenagers -- leading to their wrongful convictions. They were all innocent. The teenagers were 18, 17, and 16 years old. Your tax dollars at work! AND the actual murderer(s) were never caught or punished. But there are clues as to whom the real murderer(s) may have been... The parallels to how BoyLovers are wrongly convicted are numerous. NOTE: Forensic experts later said that the boy's genitals were probably eaten by turtles while the bodies were submerged in the creek. So it wasn't a "sex crime" committed by "pedophiles" at all. Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0117293/ A horrific triple child murder leads to an indictment and trial of three nonconformist boys based on questionable evidence. TRAILER: https://www.imdb.com/video/vi3516858649/?ref_=tt_vi_t_1 A "RECAP" OF THE CASE (not really necessary to watch, but has some recent details that don't come out in the other videos): https://yewtu.be/watch?v=MHmZAFKdHZI (see the Reviews below for information about the injustices of the trial and convictions) FILM DESCRIPTION: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradise_Lost:_The_Child_Murders_at_Robin_Hood_Hills WATCH ONLINE HERE -- HIGH RESOLUTION: https://archive.org/details/MoviesMoviesMoviesMoviesMoviesMoviesMoviesMoviesMoviesMoviesMoviesMovies/Paradise+Lost+The+Child+Murders+at+Robin+Hood+Hills+(1996)SiLvErDuSt%40SHAREGO/Paradise+Lost+1+-+The+Child+Murders+At+Robin+Hood+Hills.avi WATCH ONLINE HERE -- LOW RESOLUTION: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=irvmQX2xvnQ OR: https://yewtu.be/watch?v==irvmQX2xvnQ ANOTHER DOCUMENTARY ABOUT THE SAME TRIAL: FILM DESCRIPTION: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_of_Memphis West of Memphis Directed by Amy Berg Written by Amy Berg, Billy McMillin Starring The West Memphis Three (Damien Echols, Jason Baldwin, & Jessie Misskelley) Lorri Davis Eddie Vedder Peter Jackson Distributed by Sony Pictures Classics Release dates 21 January 2012 (Sundance) 28 December 2012 Running time 147 minutes Language English Box office $310,154 "West of Memphis is a 2012 New Zealand-American documentary film about the West Memphis Three that was directed and co-written by Amy Berg, and produced by Berg, Fran Walsh and Peter Jackson, and Damien Echols (who is the primary subject of the film) and his wife, Lorri Davis. It was released in the US by Sony Pictures Classics to critical acclaim, and received a nomination for Best Documentary Screenplay from the Writers Guild of America." Critical reception (reviews): "Writing in The Wall Street Journal, film critic Joe Morgenstern described West of Memphis as "a devastating account of police incompetence, civic hysteria and prosecutorial behavior that was totally at odds with a vastly persuasive body of evidence uncovered in a privately funded investigation". He wrote that director Amy Berg "has a dramatist's eye for what was irretrievably lost — the innocent lives of the children, plus 18 years of three other innocent lives. And she saw, equally well, what was there to be gained: dramatic new insights into an inexorable progression from random arrests through groundless supposition, fevered conjecture and flagrant perjury to official disgrace in a supposedly airtight case." "Film critic Philip French of The Observer called West of Memphis "riveting", and a "shocking indictment of the American criminal justice system and a tribute to the dedication of selfless civil rights lawyers and their supporters from all over the world". "Owen Gleiberman of Entertainment Weekly gave the film an "A−" and wrote that it "casts a hypnotic spell all its own. It artfully sketches out the events for anyone who's coming in cold, but basically, its strategy is to take what we already know and go deeper. [...] West of Memphis goes after another possible suspect, Terry Hobbs, who was stepfather to one of the victims and who has denied any involvement. In doing so, the film reframes the story's terrible darkness, even if it can't give us the closure we hunger for." "Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times gave the film a perfect four star rating, writing: "Do we need a fourth film? Yes, I think we do. If you only see one of them, this is the one to choose, because it has the benefit of hindsight." VIEW FULL FILM ONLINE HERE: https://archive.org/details/west-of-memphis NOTE: I had some problems streaming the videos from archive.org (it maxed out my system) so you may want to download them to watch them. The films are not an "easy watch," especially the parts where actual photos of the boy's dead bodies are shown. But you learn a lot about how the LEO operate, how the media makes up stories, how people in society jump to (wrong) conclusions, and how innocent people are convicted and imprisoned. Sound familiar? Give a "shout out" if you watch the videos, OK? So I know I'm not wasting my time with posts like this. Thanks! M. |