He was shot dead on waste ground near Fulborne Hospital on 14 November 1995.

November 1995: Ian Grant: Cherry Hinton, Cambridge: Ian Grant was a 24-year-old who had worked as a nightclub doorman in Cambridge and St Ives. Samuel Little, 78, has confessed to 90 murders from California. The series also promises interviews from one of the defendants, Jason Baldwin, who will walk viewers through his first-hand account of the trial, imprisonment, and subsequent release of all three suspects after they entered Alford pleas in 2011. The murder remains unsolved but a £20,000 reward is on offer for information leading to a conviction. The FBI said one of the nation's most prolific serial killers currently in jail in Texas may be linked to three Arkansas murders. The Investigation Discovery documentary promises to explore the wave of celebrity activism around the West Memphis Three case, as well as the 'satanic panic' that overtook the small town of West Memphis spurred by individuals who believed the homicides were 'cult-like' in nature. In the years following the crime, flimsy evidence used in the trial faced multiple, years-long bouts of intense scrutiny from legal experts, media, and celebrities such as Eddie Vedder of Pearl Jam and Natalie Maines of The Dixie Chicks. A separate trial jury in Clay County resulted in convictions for Misskelley.

All three victims had been stripped naked, hog-tied, beaten severely, and left to die in a muddy, shallow creek that led to a drainage ditch in the Robin Hood Hills community in West Memphis, according to the Commercial Appeal archives.įacing intense public scrutiny to solve the homicides, the West Memphis police fingered three teenagers - Damion Echols, Jessie Misskelley, and Jason Baldwin - as the primary suspects.Ī Jonesboro, Arkansas jury sided with prosecutors and found two defendants, Echols and Baldwin guilty of capital murder.

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