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Leveritt is the winner of the 2012 Writers Fellowship award to help her write her follow-up book on the West Memphis Three, Justice Knot. "It's one of the best things that have happened in my career," says Mara Leveritt. "Once I went to the police

It sits on the shoulders of the filmmakers just as it does on parents, judges, law enforcement officials and the West Memphis Three, the men who spent those years in prison, convicted of the murders, before being freed last summer.

A hallmark of all three Paradise Lost films has been their understanding and embrace of subjects self-presentations. As much as the movies have commented on society, they also contemplate how individuals see themselves.

WHEN the Arkansas men known as the West Memphis Three were released from prison this summer, it was a momentous occasion not only for those convicts, who had each spent nearly 20 years behind bars for murders they say they did not commit,

Since 2004, Peter Jackson and his wife Fran Walsh have quietly bankrolled DNA and forensic investigations to help free Jason Baldwin, Jesse Misskelley Jr., and Damien Echols — a.k.a. the West Memphis Three — who were

Finally, we've got the poster premiere for Peter Jackson and Fran Walsh's West Memphis Three documentary West of Memphis. Though the three wrongly convicted men are now free, Jackson and Walsh are working hard to bring justice to the case and solve the

Tonight, HBO is set to premiere Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory, the third film in a trilogy of documentaries that tells the story of the West Memphis 3, three teenagers who were convicted in 1993 of the rape and murder of three young boys.

It sits on the shoulders of the filmmakers just as it does on parents, judges, law enforcement officials and the West Memphis Three, the men who spent those years in prison, convicted of the murders, before being freed last summer.

By STEVE DOLLAR Breaking news ushered the documentary "Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory" into the headlines along with its subjects last August when the so-called West Memphis Three were suddenly freed from an Arkansas prison after serving 18 years for the

In June 1993, high school students Damien Echols, Jason Baldwin and Jessie Misskelley — known as the West Memphis Three — were accused of the brutal murders and mutilations of three 8-year-old boys, supposedly as