West Memphis Three – Resources

BOOKS
1995. Guy Reel, Marc Perrusquia, and Bartholomew Sullivan. The Blood of Innocents: The True Story of Multiple Murder in West Memphis, Arkansas

2002. Mara Leveritt. Devil’s Knot: The True Story of the West Memphis Three

2003. Henry Rollins Broken Summers (Behind the scenes look at the making of the CD “Rise Above: 24 Black flag songs to benefit the West Memphis Three” and the subsequent world tour.)

2004. M.W. Anderson & Brett Alexander Savory, editors. The Last Pentacle of the Sun: Writings in Support of the West Memphis Three

2005. Damien Echols. Almost Home: My Life Story Vol 1

2007. Collected and edited by Misti Rainwater-Lites & Michael W. Johnson. West Memphis Witch Hunt: Poems Supporting The West Memphis 3 Defense

2011. Terry Cooksey. The Cooksey-Nisenbaum Murders – The Witch Hunts That Led to the Witch Hunt Against the West Memphis 3

2012. Greg Day. Untying the Knot: John Mark Byers and the West Memphis Three

2012. Damien Echols. Life After Death

2012. William Ramsey. Abomination: Devil Worship and Deception in the West Memphis Three Murders

2012. Michelle Echols Mount. Love Forever and After

2013. John Douglas and Mark Olshaker. Law & Disorder: The Legendary FBI Profiler’s Relentless Pursuit of Justice (Contains approximately 110 pages about the WM3 case.)

2014. Mara Leveritt with Jason Baldwin. Dark Spell: Surviving the Sentence

2014. Damien Echols and Lorri Davis. Yours for Eternity: A Love Story on Death Row

2014. David Pietras and Amanda Pettrey. Hunting The West Memphis Boogeyman

2015. Sam Dennis McDonough. The West Memphis Boogieman

2016. George Jared. Witches in West Memphis : The West Memphis Three and another tale of false confession

2017. Nick van der Leek and Lisa Wilson. King of Freaks (Saga of the West Memphis Three Book 1.)

2017. Gary Meece. Blood on Black: The Case Against the West Memphis 3, Volume I (The Case Against the West Memphis 3 Killers Book 1)

2017. Gary Meece. Where The Monsters Go: The Case Against the West Memphis 3 Killers, Volume II

2018. Gary Meece. The Case Against the West Memphis 3 Killers: Condensed and revised from “Blood on Black” and “Where the Monsters Go”

2019. Vicki Edwards. Boxful of Nightmares: Terry Hobbs’ personal memoirs on the West Memphis Three Murders

2023. Dan Stidham and Tom McCarthy. A Harvest of Innocence: The Untold Story of the West Memphis Three Murder Case

2025. Paula N. Payne. The West Memphis Three Murder, Injustice, and the Fight for Truth: Three teens accused, a town in fear, and a case that still divides America

2025. Mark Stokes. Wrong Time, Wrong Place: The Tragedy of the West Memphis Three

2025. Louis D. underwood. The West Memphis Three: A Real-Life Mystery of Murder, Mistakes, and the Truth That Took Years to Uncover

2025. Michel Suarez. The West Memphis Three Damned in Black

DOCUMENTARIES
1996. Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills

2000. Paradise Lost 2: Revelations

2010. 48 Hours: A Cry for Innocence

2011. True Crime with Aphrodite Jones: West Memphis Three

2011. Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory

2012. West of Memphis

2020. The Forgotten West Memphis Three

2020. The West Memphis Three: An ID Murder Mystery

WEBSITES
West Memphis Three Case – Document Archive:
http://callahan.mysite.com/

Murders In West Memphis:
https://www.jivepuppi.com/

MISCELLANEOUS
2011. University of Arkansas at Little Rock Law Review – Are ‘Voices for Justice’ Heard: A Star-Studded Rally on Behalf of the West Memphis Three Prompts the Delicate Question
https://lawrepository.ualr.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1079&context=lawreview

2012. Loyola of Los Angeles Law Review – The Truth Behind Echols v. State: How an Alford Guilty Plea Saved the West Memphis Three
https://digitalcommons.lmu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2802&context=llr

2014. Cornell Law Reviev – The Unexonerated: Factually Innocent Defendants Who Plead Guilty
https://scholarship.law.cornell.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=4648&context=clr