Dedication To Damien, Jessie, Jason, Steven, Christopher and Michael:
Stand for Justice
As all you WM3 supports know the "Stand for Justice" Rally held in front of the Marion County Courthouse has come and gone. I am very happy to report it was a huge success!
The organizers of this rally were Mara Leveritt who is a journalist that unselfishly donates her time to raise awareness of the corruption that has taken place in her state. Also the ARWAR ladies who consist of Mary Boley Amanda Lamb and Wendy crow. For the past 4 years the ARWAR ladies have found a common passion of cracking the lid on the corruption that has and still is going on in Arkansas where they live! All three ladies have the courage to continue to fight against corruption to make there state a better place to live. Now one would think this would make them very popular in there state. This sadly is not the case, although they do have a lot of followers, they also have a LOT of people who judge and discriminate against them for speaking there mind and going against the grain of the masses! But as far as I am concerned personally I think Mara Leveritt Mary Boley Amanda Lamb and Wendy crow all deserve a standing ovation! I am extremely PROUD to call these people my friends. They do not back down just to go with the flow of what the majority want, they all stand tall, strong and proud and keep spreading the TRUTH of this case and many other cases of corruption to the world.
On the day of the rally they were blessed with GREAT weather. There were around 65 supporters that showed up, most of them were from the Arkansas and the Memphis area. Now most people couldn't fathom how dangerous it could be for a local to stand up against corruption over in Arkansas. It in my eyes is a HUGE thing for these people to have the courage to stand up against corruption and show there compassion for 3 innocent men. They also organised guest speakers, they consisted of. Kelly Duda, Mara Leveritt, Lanette Grate and Rebekah Kennedy.
All of the above people that have been mentioned help to restore my faith in the human race, they are compassionate, unselfish, stand up for the truth no matter what it cost them. I hope who ever reads this will take the time to visit their sites and show their love, respect and support.
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Go here to leave Mara your thanks or thoughts
Go here to see what the ARWAR girls are up to
Go here for the ARWAR girls on myspace
Go here for Kelly Duda on myspace
Go here for Rebekah Kennedy on myspace
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This is a factual film that we have made for people who are not familiar with this INJUSTICE! We urge you to go look at the websites on the right of the page to see all the FACT'S for yourself and make your own mind up of their INNOCENCE!!
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WM3 Music
- Buffalo Creek have a song named "West Memphis 3" on their album Signal to Noise.
- XReignOfterrorX released a song titled "Dear Martyr", at the end of the song says "freedom for the West Memphis 3".
- On the "Touring Band 2000" live Pearl Jam DVD, Eddie Vedder adds the lyrics "free the West Memphis Three!" to Do the Evolution.
- Echols is credited as a writer of the lyrics to the song "Army Reserve" on Pearl Jam's 2006 self-titled album.
- Metallica—Baldwin's favorite musical group—contributed original music to both Paradise Lost documentaries.
- Under the direction of Henry Rollins, various hip-hop, heavy metal, punk, and other musicians came together to record Rise Above, a collection of cover songs originally performed by Black Flag. All profits from the record and the supporting tour were donated to the suspects' defense funds.
- Zao featured a song named "Free the Three" on their 2002 album Parade of Chaos and on their greatest hits album Legendary.
- In 2004, Leviathan released "West Memphis Three" on their album "Internal Inferno".
- Alkaline Trio have a song "Prevent This Tragedy" on their 2005 album Crimson about the West Memphis Three.
- Hip-hop artist, Sage Francis references both the West Memphis 3 and the Paradise Lost documentaries, on the track Slow Down Gandhi on his 2005 album A Healthy Distrust, with the line "The West Memphis Three lost paradise, it's death penalty versus Suicidal Tendencies"
- Warp To World has released a song titled "Salem's Way" about wrongful persecution (using the Salem Witch Trials as the main point) the song features the line, "Are we repeating the past, in West Memphis," in the end of the song. Warp to World are supporters of the Free The West Memphis Three campaign.
- Tatonka released a song titled "Robin Hood Hills" in reference to the West Memphis Three.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Memphis_3
PARADISE LOST: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills:
A 1996 documentary film directed by Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky about the trials of three teenage boys in West Memphis, Arkansas for the murder and sexual mutilation of three prepubescent boys. The boys on trial for the crime are: Jessie Misskelley, Damien Echols and Jason Baldwin, also known as the West Memphis 3. During the course of the filming, Mark Byers, the stepfather of one of the victims, gives the filmmakers a knife which has blood in the hinge. The filmmakers turn the knife over to police, who examine it; the DNA is similar to that of himself and the boy but the evidence is nonetheless inconclusive since the DNA evidence produced was fragmented and can not provide concrete links. Other evidence is lost. All three teenagers are convicted. The film was followed by a sequel, Paradise Lost 2: Revelations, which suggests that further evidence was missed or suppressed and attempts to prove Echols' innocence.
PARADISE LOST 2: Revelations:
The 2000 sequel to the documentary film Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills, a film in which three teenagers were accused of murdering three young boys in a Satanic ritual abuse. In Paradise Lost 2, Bruce Sinofsky and Joe Berlinger visit support groups for Damien Wayne Echols, sentenced to lethal injection in the first film, and revisit Mark Byers, who is facing gossip about his possible involvement with the murder of his son. Echols is appealing his sentence and his defense attorney notices what he believes to be bite marks in a photograph of the face of one of the victims; the prosecution argues that the marks are from a belt buckle and not teeth.
The three boys convicted in the first film are all tested and do not match the alleged "bite marks" on the victim. The support groups for Echols want Byers to have his bitemark compared to the one on the photo, but Byers has had false teeth since four years after his son's murder. Byers gave the Defense copies of his dental records and they didn't match the "bite marks" either. Byers takes a polygraph to prove his innocence but is on a variety of medication while taking it, including Xanax and Haldol; he passes the test.
Statement From WM3 Victim's Father:
My name is Rick Murray, and I am the biological father of Christopher, one of the three boys who were murdered in West Memphis, Arkansas, in 1993. I'm making this statement to say that I am not satisfied with the investigation of my son's murder. I am not satisfied with the verdicts of the trials, and I want everyone to know that I believe the wrong people are in prison for this crime. I have many reasons for feeling this way. I know the people who are close to this thing, and I know that people were mad about it, and they were wanting it to be solved quick. It got to the point where they weren't thinking about the truth, they were only listening to what the police and the reporters were telling them. There was no evidence to convict the three who are in prison and everybody knows this. They just don't want to see it this way, because it's easier to believe that the police got the right people. One of the reasons I feel the way I feel is because I don't think that Damien, Jason and Jessie are insane, but I feel that it would definitely take an insane person to do what was done to those children. There are a lot of things that the police just didn't look into. Someone could have driven up along the tree line on the East side of the wooded area, Robin Hood Hills. That dirt field East of the woods. There's a culvert that goes from the service road up along the tree line. Anyone could have driven up there and dumped the bodies in the creek, but the police never tried to find out any more about it. They were too quick to say that the murders were committed by a devil worshipper cult. I don't believe that anyone should be convicted of murder that they didn't do whether it's my son or not my son. I've talked to people who believe these boys are guilty, and they just don't have any evidence to support what they're saying. It seems to me that if they really cared about the truth they would listen to reason and see that there just wasn't enough to put these three in prison. I want to know who murdered my son, and I want to know that they will be caught and punished for what they did. I don't want three innocent people to suffer for something they didn't do. - Rick Murray, May 2000
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WM3 Books:
- Devil's Knot : The True Story of the West Memphis Three - By Mara Leveritt
- Almost Home: My Life Story Vol 1 - By Damien Echols
- The Last Pentacle of the Sun: Writings in Support of the West Memphis 3 - By Brett Alexander Savory
- Broken Summers - By Henry Rollins
- Blood of Innocents - By Reel
- Damien Echols
- Jason Baldwin
- Jessie Misskelley Jr.