I am reading Damien Echols book, Life after Death. Recommended to all. I just recently discovered this case and watched all documentaries Paradise Lost 1,2 ,3 after that I saw West of Memphis. I am pretty sure this is not the only case that has been this unfair and horrendously corrupt. I am sure the only reason we know about this is because of Paradise Lost. Damien Echols is writing in his book that all in contact with the law, knows it's rather a rule than an exception that they will tamper with evidence, they will harass you and they will try to use the power given to them by us, the people if they for some reason would want to do that to you. I am thinking a lot about why. Why is this happening. Maybe it is a certain personality drawn to becoming police, judges and so on. Maybe the whole environment is infected and the new people just can't stand their ground from what is going on. I don't know, but I know it is happening for several reasons mainly including power, status, money and of course prejudice and fear , as all other problems in the world. Another tip is watching the movie Scorpio with Al Pacino. It also shows how deep this goes. I am from Sweden, we are also experiencing this. I think no country is free of it, even though there are different degrees of corruption. Corruption is not only the big big lies and things but each and every time a man/woman from the law, with power uses that power in any small or big way to affect something. That is corruption!!! It is so sad and it should stop right now. We should all do our best as human beings, as fellow beings on this earth to make all injustices stop ! As much as we as one person can do, but one person can make a pretty big chance. Just look at what the documentary did for Jason, Damien and Jessie. Good luck to these guys I am so glad they are finally out! Now I just hope the real killer will be caught so that the other three small boys will have peace. Maybe by a miracle that can happen even if the law in Arkansas has no plans for trying to catch the real killer. Sad sad sad.
And here come the standard lies about the Misskelley confession, from Echols/Davis. This time from Lorri, the self-described case researcher. She states (1) Jessie had an IQ of 68, and was 16 yrs old. (2) After 12 hours of questioning, "finally" the confession emerged, because by that point, Jessie just wanted to go home. Wrong on all counts.
He was in "solitary confinement for 24 hours a day for last 10 years", so why do he say he took the deal to get out because he said he feared the prison office's could just pay a guy to stab him to death. How if in solitary confinement he is a liar why lie if he is innocent. If innocent he wouldn't take the deal and then sue the state for wrongfully convicting him he can't because to do this he has to prove he is innocents which he can't he just pleds it instead.
In actuality Jessie was 17, tested in those years as a 72-74 IQ, and most importantly confesses after about 4 1/2 hours at the station -- not all of which time was spent questioning him (some time was required to set up polygraph, and to seek out his father's permission to administer the polygraph.) There's no reason Echols/Davis can't be accurate about these things and still maintain innocence. They know better, and trust that their interviewer and audience doesn't.
