by - October 29, 2024 1:46 pm
Echols to ask for expanded DNA testing in West Memphis Three case
No firm dates have been set for DNA testing evidence in the West Memphis Three case, but Damien Echols and his legal team plan to ask for items to be…
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by - April 18, 2024 12:17 pm
Arkansas Supreme Court to allow touch DNA testing to move forward in West Memphis Three case
The Arkansas Supreme Court ruled Thursday (April 18) that advanced touch DNA testing can be done on evidence in the “West Memphis Three” case. The decision was a reversal of…
by - November 21, 2023 2:33 pm
Echols hearing before the Arkansas Supreme Court likely in early 2024
Damien Echols plight to force the state of Arkansas to test ligatures used to bound three boys murdered in West Memphis on May 5, 1993, likely won’t be decided by…
by - April 6, 2023 2:43 pm
Arkansas Supreme Court denies attempt to dismiss Echols appeal for advanced DNA testing
The Arkansas Supreme Court denied a motion Thursday (April 6) by the Arkansas Attorney General’s office to dismiss an appeal filed by Damien Echols to allow for advanced DNA testing…
by - January 10, 2023 8:20 am
Echols files petition with Supreme Court for advanced DNA testing
Damien Echols filed a petition Monday (Jan. 9) with the Arkansas Supreme Court asking it to allow for new M-Vac touch DNA testing on ligatures collected in the 1993 murders…
by - August 2, 2022 5:54 pm
Echols files appeal to allow for advanced DNA testing to be done in WM3 case
Damien Echols has filed an appeal to have advanced DNA testing done on ligatures that were collected in the murders of three 8-year-old boys in West Memphis on May 5,…
by - June 23, 2022 2:11 pm
Judge denies advanced DNA testing in West Memphis 3 case
Crittenden County Circuit Court Judge Tonya Alexander denied a petition Thursday (June 23) by Damien Echols to have advanced DNA testing done on ligatures that were recovered in the 1993…
by - June 21, 2022 3:33 pm
President of M-Vac DNA Systems thinks advanced testing could provide clues in WM3 case
A deadly E. coli outbreak at several Jack in the Box fast food restaurants in the western United States in 1993 may provide the means to solve one of the…
by - February 9, 2022 1:36 pm
Prosecutor in West Memphis Three case opposes advanced DNA testing
Prosecutor Keith Chrestman has filed a motion in Crittenden County Circuit Court asking a judge to not allow advanced DNA testing to move forward in the infamous West Memphis Three…
by - January 25, 2022 10:41 am
Damien Echols asks court to move forward with advanced DNA testing in WM3 case
Damien Echols has filed a petition to compel the state of Arkansas to conduct advanced DNA testing on evidence in his case. Echols has asked for clothing, ligatures, and other…
by - October 18, 2021 5:38 pm
Police Department ordered to comply with FOIA request in West Memphis Three case
A man who claims he was wrongfully convicted in the 1993 murders of three boys in West Memphis may soon learn what happened to the evidence in his case that…
by - August 19, 2021 11:18 am
Echols seeks answers about evidence as the West Memphis Three mark a decade out of prison
Ten years ago today (Aug. 19), three men convicted of brutally beating three, 8-year-old West Memphis boys to death were released from prison after being incarcerated for almost two decades….
by - April 28, 2021 4:53 pm
Prosecutor Keith Chrestman talks first 100 days in office; WM3’s Echols asks for more evidence to be tested
When Keith Chrestman was a child, he was fascinated by the television sitcom “Different Strokes” and honed in on one character in particular, the father in the series Mr. Drummond,…
by - November 27, 2017 1:45 pm
Jessie Misskelley Jr. arrested during traffic stop; not expected to be returned to prison
Jessie Misskelley Jr., released from prison in 2011 in the infamous West Memphis Three case was jailed Saturday night after he was arrested on a slew of traffic citations. Misskelley,…