Episode 180: The West Memphis Three (An Interview with Dan Stidham)
Suffer the Little Children
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🗓️ 25 August 2024
⏱️ 104 minutes
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Summary
This is the story of three innocent children whose lives were stolen in an unspeakable act of violence. It’s also the story of three wrongfully convicted teenagers who spent 18 years in prison, one of them on death row, for a crime they didn’t commit—the victims of a flawed justice system and a community in the grip of fear.
In today’s episode, I’m honored to discuss a case that has gripped me for many years with the one man who has been involved since the beginning: Jessie Misskelley’s original defense attorney, case advocate, and author of the recent book, A Harvest of Innocence: Judge Dan Stidham.
This is our discussion about his book and the tragic case of the West Memphis Three.
- A Harvest of Innocence by Dan Stidham on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Harvest-Innocence-Untold-Memphis-Murder/dp/B0CMYZ2BT7
- Judge Stidham’s website: https://www.danstidham.com
- Email Judge Stidham with information about the case: [email protected]
- Truth & Justice with Bob Ruff podcast: https://www.truthandjusticepod.com
- Paradise Lost documentary series: https://www.max.com/shows/paradise-lost/d509d74f-3c01-4367-9a42-a3aece5de4c9
- The Forgotten West Memphis Three docuseries: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt12092348/
- West of Memphis documentary: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2130321/
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| 0:00.0 | This podcast contains descriptions of violence against children and adult language and is not suitable for all audiences. |
| 0:07.0 | Listen or discretion is advised. Hi everyone and welcome to suffer the little children the |
| 0:26.6 | podcast giving voices back to the victims of child abuse murder and |
| 0:30.4 | their families. I'm your host Lane, and this is episode 180, |
| 0:36.1 | the West Memphis 3 with Dan Stidham. |
| 0:39.7 | On the evening of May 5, 1993, three 8-year-old boys, Stevie Branch, Michael Moore, and Christopher |
| 0:46.7 | Byers, went missing in West Memphis, Arkansas. |
| 0:50.9 | The next day, in a nearby wooded area area the boys were found brutally murdered, bound, and submerged in a drainage ditch. |
| 0:58.0 | The horrific nature of the crime shocked the community and police quickly arrested three local |
| 1:04.0 | teenagers, Damien Eccles, Jason Baldwin, and Jesse Miss Kelly based on a |
| 1:09.2 | coerced false confession, no solid evidence, and satanic panic. This is the story of three |
| 1:16.2 | innocent children whose lives were stolen in an unspeakable act of violence. |
| 1:20.4 | It's also the story of three wrongfully convicted teenagers who spent 18 |
| 1:25.9 | years in prison, one of them on death row for a crime they didn't commit, the |
| 1:31.0 | victims of a flawed justice system and a community in the grip of fear. |
| 1:36.3 | In today's episode, I'm honored to discuss a case that has gripped me for many years with the |
| 1:41.3 | one man who has been involved since the beginning, |
| 1:44.0 | Jesse Miss Kelly's original defense attorney, case advocate, and author of the recent |
| 1:48.9 | book A Harvest of Innocence, Judge Dan Stidham. |
| 1:52.0 | This is our discussion about his book and the tragic |
| 1:55.8 | case of the West Memphis 3. My introduction to this case was in 2010 when |
| 2:02.0 | True TV's Crime Library was still online and flourishing. |
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