The case of the West Memphis Three has garnered critical media coverage over the decades and has become the focus of an acclaimed documentary trilogy. In 1994, three teens – Jessie Misskelley Jr., ...

MEMPHIS, Tenn.– Damien Echols of the infamous West Memphis Three case announced Thursday that he will be back in court this summer. In a tweet, Echols said he and his legal team will be back in court ...

The petition filed by Damien Echols and his legal team for further DNA testing to prove his innocence in the West Memphis murders was denied on Feb. 8. According to attorneys in Crittenden County, the ...

Nearly 30 years after three boys were found dead, the Arkansas Supreme Court has ruled new DNA testing of evidence from the crime scene can proceed, overturning a circuit court which had denied a ...

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — The Arkansas Supreme Court has made its first decision in a new West Memphis Three case. Damien Echols is one of the three people that's accused of killing three West Memphis teens ...

A hearing regarding new DNA testing of items from the West Memphis Three case has been moved to Aug. 1. The hearing was previously scheduled for July 23, but some attorneys had conflicts with that ...

A Crittenden County Judge has denied Damien Echols' request to order prosecutors to hand over DNA evidence to a lab for testing. Echols appeared in a West Memphis courtroom on Thursday morning. Echols ...

The Arkansas Supreme Court on Thursday said a judge wrongly denied a request for new genetic testing of crime scene evidence from the killing of three boys nearly 30 years ago. In a 4-3 decision, the ...

Damien Echols during his 1994 trial in Jonesboro. Credit: Bill Templeton Now, Echols wants the courts to allow a form of DNA testing that wasn’t available in 1994 to examine DNA on the shoelaces used ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. MEMPHIS, Tenn. (WREG) — The Arkansas Supreme ...

A hearing this week could decide whether evidence from one of the most high profile murder cases in Arkansas history can be retested for genetic material in hopes it reveals who killed three children ...