![]() ![]() News of the boys' deaths and the manner in which it happened soon reached the inhabitants of the small community. In Byers' case the evidence revealed that he had been castrated, and his genitals skinned before he was killed. The next day, their bodies were found in the woods near their homes with evidence showing they had been brutally beaten and savagely murdered. On May 5, 1993, Christopher Byers, Michael Moore, and Steven Branch went missing from their homes in West Memphis, Arkansas. A film based on the book, Devil's Knot, was released in 2013. All three teenagers convicted were released on August 19, 2011. The book also focuses on one of the victim's stepfathers and his possible connection with the murders. ![]() Leveritt's book revolves around the central idea that the three teenagers' convictions stemmed from " Satanic panic" rather than actual evidence. The names of the three teens convicted - Damien Echols, Jason Baldwin, and Jessie Misskelley - would come to be known as the West Memphis Three. ![]() Devil's Knot: The True Story of the West Memphis Three is a 2002 true crime book by Mara Leveritt, about the 1993 murders of three eight-year-old children and the subsequent trials of three teenagers charged with and convicted of the crimes. ![]()
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