Jessie Pope

The Steuben County man accused of killing his wife pleaded not guilty to new murder charges in court Thursday. Thomas Clayton faces three murder counts for the death of his wife Kelley in their Caton home in September. Wednesday, a grand jury indicted Clayton on one count of first degree murder and two counts of 2nd degree murder. In court he maintained his innocence, despite a large crowd who did not seem to support him. "Your Honor I had nothing to do with this. I am not guilty. Michael

savagely murdered in West Memphis Arkansas. The investigation lacks hard evidence and a suspect, and the police automatically turn their focus on Satanism. Unfortunately, three teenage boys became the prime suspects: Damien Echols, Jason Baldwin, and Jessie Misskelley. Because they wore black and listened to hard rock music, they were outcasts. With nothing but circumstantial evidence mounted upon these teenage boys, the community lets a "Satanic Panic" outweigh the facts. All the while, there is more

“The best way to avoid becoming a scapegoat is to find one.” Warren Eyster writer of The Goblin of Eros. Everyone has at least told one lie about someone to escape consequence. It could be done by politicians, your friends, siblings, and you. You pass such lies and rumors, in result the innocent will never be seen as innocent. They will always have this heinous act under their name. The Crucible is a story filled with plot twist, revenge, love and passion. Salem, a town in Massachusetts, is filled

boys were found the next day, hog tied in a wooded area called “Robin Hood Hills”. After the case had been “thoroughly” investigated, the West Memphis Police announced on the news that they had found the murderers, pointing fingers at Damien Echols, Jessie Misskelley and Jason Baldwin, three teenagers who were different from the norm in West Memphis, making it easy for them to be accused. I believe the boys were wrongfully accused of this crime because there is a lack of evidence in the case pointing

There are many prisoners sitting in prison today for a crime not committed by them. Sometimes, the law rushes into convictions before getting complete facts. Maybe a small town needed revenge which could lead to a wrong conviction. It could be from “ignorance of the law”. Most are not aware of their rights and what could be said that might falsely incriminate a person. There are also the forced confessions by police who threaten or use scare tactics to get a false confession. Most wrongfully convicted

The justice system present in the United States is one of fairness, equality, and human rights. In a court of law, all men are created equal and have certain unalienable rights that nothing or no one can take away. What is to happen when these rights are denied, abused, or ignored? It is a frightening outcome when unruly factors destroy the basis of this system. As a victim of injustice once said, “People have prejudices, people have fears, people have hates. These things cloud our ability to reason

The scales of justice are rarely in balance. In “West of Memphis”, imperfection within the criminal justice system is used as a central theme. Imperfection can be defined as an unsatisfactory feature. Similarly, town fervor, which puts additional pressure on investigators to swiftly come up with answers, bible-belt politics, namely, devil worshiping, celebrity clout, which leads to freedom from prison, as result, show imperfection in the criminal justice system as a central theme. Firstly, murder

Mackenzie Milner Ms. Whitford ENGL 101 29 November 2016 “The West Memphis Three” There are many movies we can watch and not give a second thought about, except when we see those few little words “based on a true story.” There is something about these movies that put a deeper chill in our bones. The movie “Devil’s Knot” may be based on a true story, but viewers are not fascinated about the mystery of the crime and neither are the countless documentarians on the case. Viewers are interested and overwhelmed

Case Summary. Wayne Bertram Williams: Accused Child Murderer. Between 1979 and 1981, Wayne Williams of Atlanta, Georgia, was accused of the murder of over 20 children but was convicted of the murder of two adults. The victim had officers that were an identical match to the fibers in Williams home and his vehicle. The case was called the Atlanta Child Murders, in which Williams was arrested. Williams was believed to be responsible for the murder involving two adults because of the evidence, but

The film Paradise Lost documents the case of the deaths of three West Memphis children, as three teenage boys are put on trial for the speculation of their murders. Jessie Misskelley Jr., Damien Echols, and Jason Baldwin are the suspects in question. The three second-grade boys were found to have been choked, raped, and sexually mutilated before their murders. Sources in West Memphis report that Misskelley, Echols, and Baldwin are worshippers of Satan and the murders were committed as a ritual act