Devil's Knot: The True Story of the West Memphis Three - Couverture souple

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Leveritt, Mara

 
9780743417600: Devil's Knot: The True Story of the West Memphis Three
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ISBN 10 : 0743417607 ISBN 13 : 9780743417600
Editeur : Atria, 2003

Synopsis

*A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING REESE WITHERSPOON AND COLIN FIRTH*

The West Memphis Three. Accused, convicted…and set free. Do you know their story?

In 2011, one of the greatest miscarriages of justice in American legal history was set right when Damien Echols, Jason Baldwin, and Jessie Misskelley were released after eighteen years in prison. Award-winning journalist Mara Leveritt’s The Devil’s Knot remains the most comprehensive, insightful reporting ever done on the investigation, trials, and convictions of three teenage boys who became known as the West Memphis Three. 

For weeks in 1993, after the murders of three eight-year-old boys, police in West Memphis, Arkansas seemed stymied. Then suddenly, detectives charged three teenagers—alleged members of a satanic cult—with the killings. Despite the witch-hunt atmosphere of the trials, and a case which included stunning investigative blunders, a confession riddled with errors, and an absence of physical evidence linking any of the accused to the crime, the teenagers were convicted. Jurors sentenced Jason Baldwin and Jessie Misskelley to life in prison and Damien Echols, the accused ringleader, to death. The guilty verdicts were popular in their home state—even upheld on appeal—and all three remained in prison until their unprecedented release in August 2011.

With close-up views of its key participants, this award-winning account unravels the many tangled knots of this endlessly shocking case, one which will shape the American legal landscape for years to come.

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À propos de l'auteur

Mara Leveritt has won several awards for investigative journalism, including Arkansas's Booker Worthen Prize for her book The Boys on the Tracks. She is also author of The Mena File, Dark Spell, and Devil's Knot. A contributing editor to the Arkansas Times, she lives in Little Rock.

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Éditeur
Atria
Date d'édition
2003
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0743417607
ISBN 13 
9780743417600
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
432
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
Simon and Schuster Netherlands BV
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9780743417594: Devil's Knot: The True Story of the West Memphis Three

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ISBN 10 :  0743417593 ISBN 13 :  9780743417594
Editeur : Simon & Schuster, 2002
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