[DCBryan1]

Now they have gone and done it.

These three murdeous pricks of three (3!) eight year old boys in Arkansas, are going to be freed today in Jonesboro, AR after they plead guilty to first degree murder and the judge throws out the capital murder convictions.

Melanie Raines and the Follywood propaganda machine have won. What a disaster......! ! ! Casey Anthony and Damien Echols will probably hook up and produce the AntiChrist.

Background: Wiki on the murders, trial, conviction

Current news live: Fox News article on legal proceedings

Pictures of the three murderers, whom will probably be free tonight:

Pictures of the raped, bludgeoned, and murdered victims:

FWIW...one of the father's of the murdered boys has stated since 1994 that if they should get out, he will kill them.

[Grunthor]

I remember that case. Echols is one evil son of a b*tch.

[cherry]

isn’t one of the fathers also a prime suspect?

[WOBBLY BOB]

Celebrity interest, HBO movies and the recent rump organizing

Ok. what's "rump organizing"? is that something these little b*tches learned in prison?

[Darren McCarty]

Wasn’t there a DNA issue in this case, or am I thinking of something else.

[null and void]

FWIW...one of the father's of the murdered boys has stated since 1994 that if they should get out, he will kill them.

Where do we send donations?

[Terry Mross]

You are completely wrong. One, there is no eividence connecting them to the crime. There is DNA evidence tying one of the boys’ stepfather to the crime scene. His own exwife, and mother of one of the victims, is convinced her ex did it.

The father you state wants them out so he can kill them has since apologized and said he was ashamed of how he acted in the past. He now says he is convinced these three had nothing to do with it.

This was the case of a inept small town police department getting a conviction based on an underage retarded kid’s forced confession.

[Venturer]

I was thinking that this was hard to believe, but really it isn’t.

This is todays Justice system.

Aint it grand?

If the father is waiting outside for this killer and gets him. I would like to volunteer for that trial.

[Scythian]

There are some things on this earth to terrible to contemplate, this is one of them, evil beyond evil, it’s frightening, not in a scary movie kind of way, but in an unsettleing kind of way to think man can and will do things that make the human soul turn away in shame of his own existance. I know these three boys are with our Father in heaven.

[wardaddy]

Are there any freepers here with closer knowledge of this..I was out of country mostly when all this went down or living in Miami..

I recall reading about it

anyone with hard evidence knowledge?...it sounds bad but what was the evidence...I’m purely ignorant on it

I occasionally see some folks with the T-shirts here in Nashville area “ Free the West Memphis...”

one is a bouncer at the Wheel on lower Broadway ..honky tonk...on the smoking side of Broadway across from Tootsies and Roberts

I was tempted to ask the guy but it’s so loud...the infrequent times my wife and I go to bars downtown

[A_perfect_lady]

But wow, when I read the wiki page, that investigation really is a mess and that step-father looks kind of shady. I wouldn’t want to be in charge of making this decision.

[acad1228]

I've been following this case since it first happened and I've never once believed them to be guilty. The prosecution had to spoon feed details of the crime to the mildly retarded boy for his confession. Also, on the night of the murders, there was the man covered in blood in the restroom of a restaurant near the crime scene. The police investigated then lost all the evidence they recovered from the restroom.

There is just too much evidence that provides reasonable doubt.

[BfloGuy]

They may well be innocent. We can hope that modern DNA techniques will help decide.

[Scotsman will be Free]

I read the background material that you provided via wikipedia. What a cluster the whole affair is. It appears that the police mishandled many, if not all, aspects of this case. What a shame.

[DeoVindiceSicSemperTyrannis]

It always makes me so mad how they let out evil creeps like this. They will just do the same stuff again. Vile animals like this should be killed.

[supremedoctrine]

Allow me to say that no one so far on this thread seems to know anything about this case, which I’ve been following from nearly the beginning. You make no references to the real facts laid out in the HBO movie, or even anything in the article linked to this posting.
While I wasn’t directly involved with anything in this case, I was involved twenty years ago in the Randall Adams case.
Adams was wrongly convicted of a shooting death of a Texas Cop that he had NOTHING to do with, was not EVER a criminal of any kind, yet sat for twelve years on Death Row, until an enterprising filmmaker stumbled up on his story, and made a film called The Thin Blue Line. See it, and watch the HBO movie about the WM3. Just because some Hollywood people got behind their innocence doesn’t mean they’re guilty. I have no interest in debating this issue, but you owe it to yourself to get educated before you make such outrageous statements.

[dragonblustar]

Its like there is no f’n justice in America. ( Casey Anthony, OJ, others........ )

[lastchance]

You must not be that familiar with the case. I have no doubt that these men are innocent. Also the father who you most likely refer to is know convinced of their innocence.

Mara Leveritt has done excellent research on the case which resulted in the book “Devils Knot.” It is well worth reading.

There was never any evidence that directly tied any of those convicted to the murders. The so called confession was a joke and a prime example of the abuse of police procedures. Miskelly got a lot of the details wrong until badgered by the police into correcting his errors. Two example come to mind. The way the boys’ were tied and the time of death.

[nerdwithagun]

I've just now read over a lot of the wikipedia info. It seems there is not a lot of evidence to these guys. Yes, Echols is insane and comes of as evil crazy, and all 3 come across as nasty, punk, anti social kids but again the evidence on them is very sketchy

Wikipedia has good days and bad days, is there anything besides whats on there that I should know about? The police sound like the really screwed up

[Terry Mross]

A Memphis TV station is reporting two will be released. Maybe Echols is going to call their bluff and make them give him a new trial or drop the charges.

[org.whodat]

Plea bargain, hell, let the bastards rot in jail,