The brutal 1993 murder of three young boys shocked the community of West Memphis, Arkansas—a crime made all the more scandalous by whispers that the slayings were satanic in nature. A trio of local teens were singled out and accused of the crime. The prosecution stressed the possibility that the accussed had slaughtered their victims as part of devil worship. All three were convicted and one received the death penalty. Despite this swift judgement, multiple individuals, including documentarians Bruce Sinofsky and Joe Berlinger, remained unconvinced by the court ruling. They believed the teens were innocent, and that their convictions had far more to do with small town mistrust and shoddy investigative work rather than cold, hard evidence. So the filmmakers set out to document the case. Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills is the first entry in what became a three-part series, exploring the trials and tribulations of the so-called West Memphis Three.

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