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Devil's Knot: The True Story of the West Memphis Three Paperback – October 21, 2003

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  • Paperback: 432 pages
  • Publisher: Atria Books (October 21, 2003)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0743417607
  • ISBN-13: 978-0743417600
  • Product Dimensions: 5.5 x 1.1 x 8.4 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 8.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (256 customer reviews)
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5.0 out of 5 starsExcellent and much-needed
By Brian Flemming on October 11, 2002
Format: Hardcover
I'm fascinated by the West Memphis Three case, but the advocacy nature of so much of the available information (the documentaries, the wm3.org website) has always left me with the feeling I'm not getting the whole story. The main figures in the West Memphis and Arkansas justice system have long said that the movies and website skirt the true facts, and if those facts were known people would understand that the guilty parties are in prison. Leveritt wisely took this assertion as the premise of her book--she decided to put it to the test. She has done a brilliant, dispassionate job of it. My understanding of this case had deepened tenfold by the time I finished reading the book (as well as its exhaustive end notes). Every opportunity is given to advocates of the boys' guilt to bring to light those missing "true facts." It is utterly horrifying to see how this process actually casts more doubt on the case that the prosecutors and police created. The horror is compounded by the obvious fact that Leveritt is not presenting a slanted version of the story. She goes above and beyond to find those crucial "true facts" that will establish guilt. But it seems they don't exist.
The documentaries, website materials and other information about this case (I've been semi-obsessed with it since 1996) have always left vague, nagging doubts in my mind. This book erased them.
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5.0 out of 5 starsA Tremendous Service To The World
By A Customer on January 13, 2003
Format: Hardcover
Having followed this case since 1996 and read much of the publically available documentation on the WM3.org site, I can say that Mara Leveritt's book is meticulously researched - more so than most of the Pre-Mallett legal cases except perhaps Stidham's - and the fact that it is by a respected Arkansas journalist ought to help put to rest the notion that only "outsiders who don't understand" would support the WM3.
Leveritt does a commendable job on two counts - showing Arkansans that not only "outsiders" believe that the WM3 cases were travesties of justice, and showing the "outsiders" that not all Arkansans are as biased, incompetent, self-serving, and self-deluded as the officials in Crittenden County involved with the WM3 case seem to be.
It is preposterous that people continue to believe Misskelley's confessions after reading their transcripts and circumstances. You don't need to be an expert like Leo & Ofshe (whose papers can give much more detailed arguments as to why Misskelley's confession is bogus) to realize that the confession is coerced, and the specifics given in it are produced by Det. Ridge and fed to Misskelley. If you can read Chapter 7 in this book and still believe that this confession is valid, you've either not paid attention to the transcripts (feel free to ignore anything that you may consider Leveritt's "interpretations") or you have such preconceptions about the defendants' guilt (and/or the infallibility of Police and Prosecutors) that even scientific evidence would not convince you.
You can't get through this book without feeling that there are serious grounds for a retrial, and that there is more than a reasonable doubt as to the defendants' guilt.Read more ›
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5.0 out of 5 starsProfoundly Disturbing
By Chris K. Wilson on December 2, 2003
Format: Paperback
I suppose there are hundreds of cases such as this hidden away in American history justice files - sensational crimes, creating mass hysteria, law enforcement officials desperate to catch a break and solve terribly violent murders. What is most profoundly disturbing about "Devil's Knot - The True Story of the West Memphis Three," a well-researched and eye-opening account by Mara Leveritt, is there is no comfortable resolution to this case.
If the three teenagers who were convicted in the slayings of three eight-year-old boys in 1993 are truly guilty - as the juries found them - then it is a sad testament to the ever-decreasing humanity existing within the interstate wasteland of faceless trailer parks, strip malls and fast food dives. However, if these three anti-social teens were railroaded simply because they were counterculture, adorned in black listening to Metallica and Black Sabbath while perusing Anne Rice, then this morbid tale is an example of a modern-day witch-hunt akin to the Salem Witch Trails hundreds of years ago.
Has justice been served in West Memphis, Arkansas - a small, faceless Southern town near the banks of the Mississippi River? Someone murdered those three innocent boys in or near the woods outside of town. But is that someone truly behind bars?
When reading "Devil's Knot," it is abundantly clear these law enforcement officials had little experience dealing with a violent case such as this. The crime scene was contaminated, officers didn't follow leads, interviews were not recorded, evidence was lost, witnesses were threatened, body conditions leaked to the press.Read more ›
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5.0 out of 5 starsBeyond important.
By Amazon Customer on November 9, 2014
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I first became acquainted with the case which is the subject matter of the book while watching the HBO film, "Paradise Lost," about it. (That film, and its sequels, incidentally, are covered in the book).

There was a gruesome murder of three young boys in a small town in Arkansas in the early 1990s. The hyper-zealous police arrested a few teens who, God forbid, listened to Metallica and did things that, well, teens do all over the world. And all were convicted, one sentenced to death and the other two to life in prison.

In the meantime, I've become acquainted with a few pathological police tendencies, e.g., searching for "Satanic Ritual Abuse" (SRA), one of the lead "investigators" of which, Dale Griffis, who has a PhD from a mail order catalog, was among the "witnesses" in the show trial that made up the case.

My interest has increased in that element of portions of our society; I'm not an atheist but find religious zealots of any denomination to be worthy of scrutiny and, in the case of many, SEVERE punishment for their waste of taxpayer dollars, their conviction of the innocent, and their disrespect--ironically?--of the law.

Oh, I should add that while I saw the movie to which I referred, I worked for a county government. At one awards gathering, everyone stood up for an ovation for an officer who provided the circumstantial evidence to send a guy away probably for the rest of his life, the first time, if I recall, that a person was convicted of such a charge on circumstantial evidence. I was the only one who refused to stand. My office mate, at attorney, asked why. I answered that I don't think there was adequate evidence, and I don't like the zeal on which the fellow was convicted.Read more ›
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