December 18th, 2011

“I had a fundamental belief that the justice system was about a search for the truth,” Joe Berlinger says. Three films later, he knows it’s not. “It’s about who’s got money and who can tell the best story.”

A look at the case of the West Memphis 3 - Damien Echols, Jason Baldwin and Jessie Misskelley - three teenagers who were convicted of the ‘Satanic’ murders of three young boys in West Memphis, Arkansas in the early 1990’s, and the people who helped put them in jail and those who helped get them out of jail 18 years later.

“I had a fundamental belief that the justice system was about a search for the truth,” Joe Berlinger says. Three films later, he knows it’s not. “It’s about who’s got money and who can tell the best story.”

A look at the case of the West Memphis 3 - Damien Echols, Jason Baldwin and Jessie Misskelley - three teenagers who were convicted of the ‘Satanic’ murders of three young boys in West Memphis, Arkansas in the early 1990’s, and the people who helped put them in jail and those who helped get them out of jail 18 years later.