In the small town of West Memphis, Arkansas, three eight-year-old boys disappear and are brutally murdered, sparking a wave of fear and hysteria that leads to a sensational trial. The community and police department point fingers at three local teenagers, Damien Echols, Jason Baldwin, and Jessie Misskelley Jr., who are subsequently convicted of the murders in what becomes one of the most infamous cases of mass hysteria in American history. The film tells the true story of the West Memphis Three, whose convictions were later overturned after new evidence emerged, shedding light on the dark secrets that led to their wrongful conviction.
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