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Paradise Lost

the Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills
Jul 09, 2015akirakato rated this title 4 out of 5 stars
This is a 2005 documentary directed by Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky. This dark odyssey began with the tragic murders of three 8-year-old boys, whose nude bodies were discovered in a shallow creek in West Memphis, Arkansas. One of the victims was castrated. The community demanded justice, and one month later the police arrested three local teenagers accused of sacrificing the boys as part of a Satanic ritual. Despite overwhelming public antipathy towards them, the defendants steadfastly maintained their innocence. Although the trial produced virtually no phisical evidence connecting the defendants to the crime, the community as well as the police believed that they had the killers because the yound men's pemchant for heavy metal music and black clothing and fascination with the Wicca religion as evidence of their crime. From actual courtroom footage and clandestine jailhouse interviews with those kids, I think these teenagers are innocent.