LITTLE ROCK (KATV) — Damien Echols, Jessie Misskelley, and Jason Baldwin were convicted in 1994 for the murders of three little boys in West Memphis — but in the years since, many have become convinced they were innocent and themselves the victims of a gross miscarriage of justice.
In his search for exoneration, Echols has petitioned the state of Arkansas to get advanced DNA testing done on evidence that West Memphis police at one point said was lost. After more than five years of petitioning, that evidence has been sent off for new DNA testing.
The murders of 8-year-olds Christopher Byers, Stevie Branch, and Michael Moore in 1993 shook the country…