Saatana sõlmes - Mara Leveritt

"The West Memphis Three. Arrested as a suspect, convicted . . . and released.

Do you know their story?

In 2011, one of America's most controversial verdicts became even more tumultuous when Damien Echols, Jason Baldwin and Jessie Misskelley Jr. was suddenly released after eighteen years in prison. Mara Leveritt's Satan's Knot is the most comprehensive and clear account of the suspicions, trials and convictions of the three teenage boys who became known as the West Memphis Triad.

Police in the city of West Memphis, Arkansas, seemed to fumble for weeks in the dark after the murders of three eight-year-old boys in 1993. Then, completely unexpectedly, the investigators accused three teenagers, who were also said to belong to a satanic sect, to have committed the murders. Despite the witch-hunt-like atmosphere surrounding the trials, the prosecution's woefully inadequate evidence, flawed confessions, and the absence of any concrete evidence linking the defendants to the crime, the teenagers were convicted. Jurors sentenced Jason and Jessie to life in prison and the alleged ringleader of the sect, Damien, to the death penalty. The convictions, which were upheld even after they were appealed, were greeted with open arms in the state, and the trio remained in prison until the men's unprecedented release in August 2011."