Satanic Panic III: West Memphis Boogeymen
Category: Podcasts
5 Jun 15
With at least 3 books, 4 documentaries, and one (very terrible) feature length film, the story of the West Memphis Three is not what you’d call overlooked.
Terry Hobbs, today’s primary alternate suspect.
That said, we’re no closer to finding out who was truly responsible for the horrific murders of Christopher Byers, Michael Moore, and Stephen Branch than we were 20 years ago.
John Mark Byers, another suspect.
Join us as we try to talk it through: from phsyciatric reports to bleeding chicken men, from overzealous probation officers to overly imaginative 8 year olds, we’ll get into everything.
Another alternative suspect: Mr. Bojangles (artist rendering.)
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3 Comments
Tons of research over several years, actually. What, specifically, did anyone get wrong?
Great Satanic Panic series you have going here! I wonder if, for October, you might do a podcast on the moral panic involving Halloween candy being tainted with poison/razorblades etc.? The writer Joel Best is a good starting point for info on this.
I, for one, think you did a great job, but isn’t the reason for the show to expose lies told in history? Was this case already just one big lie so it seemed fitting to the theme?
I thought that comparing Damien Echols life after prison in contrast to his pre-prison conditions was an interesting perspective, by the way. In his autobiography he talks a lot about growing up without running water, certainly not the ideal environment for someone with untreated mental illness, i’d be curious to see how he would have matured if given the space to. His upbringing was -bleak-. {definitely not indicating that false imprisonment was ideal}