Devil's Knot

Devil's Knot
Author :
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Total Pages : 544
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781471131073
ISBN-13 : 1471131076
Rating : 4/5 (076 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Devil's Knot by : Mara Leveritt

Download or read book Devil's Knot written by Mara Leveritt and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2014-01-30 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on a true story, this edition of Devil's Knot will tie-in to a major motion picture starring Academy Award winners Reese Witherspoon and Colin Firth. This riveting portrait of a small Arkansas town recounts the all-too-true story of a brutal triple murder and the eighteen-year imprisonment of three innocent teenagers. For weeks in 1993, after the grisly murders of three eight-year-old boys, police in West Memphis, Arkansas, seemed stumped. Then suddenly, detectives charged three teenagers - alleged members of a satanic cult - with the killings. Despite the witch-hunt atmosphere of the trials and a case that included stunning investigative blunders, the teenagers, who became known as the West Memphis Three, were convicted. Jurors sentenced Jason Baldwin and Jessie Misskelley to life in prison and Damien Echols, the accused ringleader, to death. The guilty verdicts were popular in their home state - even upheld on appeal - and all three remained in prison until their unprecedented release in August 2011. In Devil's Knot, award-winning investigative journalist Mara Leveritt presents the most comprehensive, insightful reporting ever done on this story - one of the greatest miscarriages of justice in American legal history. In-depth research, meticulous reconstruction of the investigation and close-up views of its key participants unravel the many tangled knots of this endlessly shocking case.


Devil's Knot Related Books

Devil's Knot
Language: en
Pages: 544
Authors: Mara Leveritt
Categories: True Crime
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-01-30 - Publisher: Simon and Schuster

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Based on a true story, this edition of Devil's Knot will tie-in to a major motion picture starring Academy Award winners Reese Witherspoon and Colin Firth. This
Devil's Knot
Language: en
Pages: 444
Authors: Mara Leveritt
Categories: Fiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 2003-10-21 - Publisher: Simon and Schuster

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

The award-winning investigative journalist takes readers deep inside the 1993 slayings of three boys in West Memphis, Arkansas, revealing the overzealous prosec
Devil's Knot
Language: en
Pages: 439
Authors: Mara Leveritt
Categories: True Crime
Type: BOOK - Published: 2002-10-08 - Publisher: Simon and Schuster

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

*A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING REESE WITHERSPOON AND COLIN FIRTH* The West Memphis Three. Accused, convicted…and set free. Do you know their story? In 2011,
The Blood of Innocents
Language: en
Pages: 436
Authors: Guy Reel
Categories: True Crime
Type: BOOK - Published: 2000-03-01 - Publisher: Pinnacle Books

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Recounts the events surrounding the 1993 murders of three boys in West Memphis, Arkansas, and the trials of the three teens who were convicted of the crime.
Dark Spell
Language: en
Pages: 0
Authors: Mara Leveritt
Categories: Juvenile homicide
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014 - Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

"Jason's story illuminates the many ways America's justice system can go wrong and fight-often with a vengeance-to sustain that wrong. It celebrates the ordinar