Johnny Depp will be speaking tonight on 48 Hours Mystery about the West Memphis Three.
The CBS station was expecting this actor to be promoting his new movie, "Alice in Wonderland," which has just been released. Instead, much to everyone's surprise, he wants to tell us about three teenagers who have been wrongly accused of murder, in hopes of having this case re-opened. There are other actors, including Winona Ryder, who are also supporting this effort, as well as some musicians.
In a miscarriage of justice that compares to the Salem Witch Trials, a small town in Arkansas just across the Mississippi River from Memphis, Tennessee, responds to a gruesome murder of three 8-year-old boys. But 20th century forensic science plays no apparent role in the investigation, and they find no physical evidence to convict the three teenagers, yet they managed to do it anyway. A superstitious community in "Satanic Panic" desperately clings to the belief that teenagers who wear black clothes and listen to heavy metal music must be worshipping the devil, who requires innocent human sacrifice. All evidence which suggest otherwise is completely ignored.
For a 14-page detailed account of the West Memphis Three case, go here.
http://www.trutv.com/library/crime/notorious_murders/famous/memphis/index_1.html
For a good one page account of this case, go here.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Memphis_3
To see how the good folks at Facebook are responding to all of this, go here.
http://www.facebook.com/search/?ref=search&q=west%20memphis%203&init=quick#!/search/?flt=1&q=west%20memphis%203&gl=1&lo=en_US&sid=1847184243.1482459098..1
I usually watch AMW on Saturday nights, but this time I am looking forward to hearing what Johnny Depp has to say on 48 Hours. It would surely please me a great deal if my readers would watch this show and comment on it here.
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UPDATE March 1st
If you want to know how people have responded to this episode, and to this case, you will find some good examples in here.
http://www.wm3.org/
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Never thought this would happen in America, least not in modern times. No kidding when they say "no evidence."
Not a thing did they do right, either in investigation or in prosecution. Time for retrial.
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