Damien Echols was sentenced to death, Jessie Misskelley, Jr. was sentenced to life imprisonment plus two 20-year sentences, and Jason Baldwin was sentenced to life imprisonment.

At the time of their arrests, Jessie Misskelley, Jr. was 17 years old, Jason Baldwin was 16 years old, and Damien Echols was 18 years old.

Baldwin and Echols had been arrested for vandalism and shoplifting, respectively, and Misskelley had a reputation for his temper and for engaging in fistfights with other teenagers at school.

Misskelley and Echols had dropped out of high school ; however, Baldwin earned high grades and demonstrated a talent for drawing and sketching, and was encouraged by one of his teachers to study graphic design in college.

Baldwin and Echols were acquainted with Misskelley from school, but were not close friends with him.

Shortly after Misskelley's original confession, police arrested Echols and his close friend Baldwin.

Aaron's further statements were wildly inconsistent, and he was unable to identify Baldwin, Echols or Misskelley from photo line-ups, and there was no " playhouse " at the location Aaron indicated.

Misskelley was tried separately, and Echols and Baldwin were tried together in 1994.

Three weeks later Echols and Baldwin went on trial where the prosecution accused the three of committing a Satanic murder.

On March 19, 1994 Echols and Baldwin were found guilty on three counts of murder.

The court sentenced Echols to death and Baldwin to life in prison.

Following their convictions, Echols, Misskelley and Baldwin submitted imprints of their teeth that were compared to alleged bite-marks on Stevie Branch's forehead not mentioned in the original autopsy or trial.

In October 2003, Vicki Hutcheson, who played a part in the arrests of Misskelley, Echols and Baldwin, but did not testify at the trial, gave an interview to the Arkansas Times in which she stated that every word she had given to the police was a fabrication.

She noted that when she visited the police station they had photographs of Echols, Baldwin, and Misskelley on the wall and were using them as dart targets.

The boys on trial for the crime were Jessie Misskelley, Damien Echols and Jason Baldwin.

The film documents the events from the arrests of Misskelley, Echols and Baldwin for the murders of Christopher Byers, Michael Moore and Stevie Branch.

The first trial to be covered in the film is that of Misskelley, a trial which was severed from those of Echols and Baldwin since it was Jessie who submitted a confession.

Part two of the film documents the trials of Echols and Baldwin.

The pair later broke into a trailer during a rain storm and were arrested, though only Echols was charged with burglary.

They interviewed Echols on May 7, two days after the bodies were discovered.

On June 2, 1993, Hutcheson told police that about two weeks after the murders were committed, she, Echols and Misskelley attended a Wiccan meeting in Turrell, Arkansas.

Echols testified that Ridge's description of the conversation ( which was not recorded ) regarding those particular details was inaccurate ( and indeed that some other claims by Ridge were " lies ").

The defense team objected during cross-examination of Echols when the prosecution attempted to question him about his past violent behaviors, but were overruled.

" That was three different songs ... yet they were brought together to sound like one, which was fantastic ," lead guitarist John Echols said of " You Set The Scene " in the liner notes by Andrew Sandoval for the " Collector's Edition " of " Forever Changes " that was released by Rhino Records in 2008.

They were led by singer / songwriter Arthur Lee and lead guitarist Johnny Echols.

At trial, the defense team argued that news articles from the time could have been the source for Echols ' knowledge about the genital mutilation, but the prosecution claimed that Echols ' knowledge, which Echols said was limited to what was " on TV ", was nonetheless too close to the actual facts, since there was no public knowledge of drowning or that one victim had been mutilated more than the others.

Mundine went on to claim the vacant WBA Super Middleweight title with a unanimous points decision over Antwun Echols on 3 September 2003, in front of his home crowd at the Sydney Entertainment Centre.

After a month had passed with little progress in the case, police continued to focus their investigation upon Echols, interrogating him more frequently than any other person ; however, they claimed he was not regarded as a direct suspect but a source of information.

During their conversation, Hutcheson reported that Echols made no incriminating statements.

In August 1966 the single " 7 and 7 Is ", notable for the exceptional guitar work of Johnny Echols, became their highest-charting at No. 33 in the Billboard Hot 100.

As the Georgia State Constitution forbids banishment beyond the borders of the state, officials instead ban the offender from 158 of Georgia's 159 counties, with Echols remaining as their only option.

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Police heard rumors that the young lovers had planned to have a child and sacrifice the infant ; based on this story, they had Echols institutionalized for psychiatric evaluation.

During Echols ' trial, Dr. George W. Woods testified ( for the defense ) that Echols suffered from:

She claimed she implicated Echols and Misskelley to avoid facing criminal charges and to obtain a reward for the discovery of the murderers.

In 2007, Echols petitioned for a retrial based on a statute permitting post-conviction testing of DNA evidence due to technological advances made since 1994 which might provide exoneration for the wrongfully convicted.

It was also significant for being the first song cycle by an African-American pop musician ( group leader Arthur Lee was African American as was lead guitarist John Echols ).

Academic Alice Echols, in her 1989 book Daring To Be Bad: Radical Feminism in America, 1967 – 1975, argued that radical feminist Valerie Solanas, best known for her attempted murder of Andy Warhol in 1968, displayed an extreme level of misandry compared to other radical feminists of the time in her tract, The SCUM Manifesto.

Stuart-Ware and Echols performed with Baby Lemonade at Hollywood's Whisky A Go-Go, on June 28, 2006, for the concert to benefit Lee, who had been diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia earlier in the decade.

Under Lt. William Echols in 1859, caravans of the U. S. Camel Corps crossed the county searching for a shorter route to Fort Davis.

Echols was born in Georgia and served in the state legislature for many years.

Echols County has become notable in recent years as it has served as a place of banishment for many of Georgia's criminals.

Mayor Doug Echols officially apologized to him on the city's behalf for the Freedom Riders ' treatment in the city.

In Paradise Lost 2, Bruce Sinofsky and Joe Berlinger visit support groups for Damien Echols, sentenced to lethal injection in the first film, and revisit Mark Byers, who is facing gossip about his possible involvement with the murder of his son.

The support groups for Echols want Byers to have his bitemark compared to the one on the photo, but Byers has had false teeth since four years after his son's murder.