Bruce Sinofsky - GalleyCat http://www.mediabistro.com/galleycat The First Word On the Book Publishing Industry Copyright 2013 Mon, 20 May 2013 14:02:23 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 West Memphis Three Background Reading The story of the West Memphis Three is heartbreaking no matter how you look at it. Three teenagers were just released after spending 18 years in prison–convicted on flimsy evidence of murdering three little boys.

The teens were characterized as Satanists because they read Anne Rice and Stephen King books, and listened to heavy metal. The controversial case has been the subject of an array of films and books including a new documentary that is currently at the Toronto Film Festival and a new biopic of the case that director Atom Egoyan has just signed on to direct.

For those readers that want more background on the case, we’ve put together a list of books and documentary films that will tell you how this bizarre case attracted the likes of Peter Jackson, Eddie Vedder and Johnny Depp. continued…

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]]> Dianna Dilworth http://www.mediabistro.com/galleycat/west-memphis-three-background-reading_b36792#disqus_thread http://www.mediabistro.com/galleycat/west-memphis-three-background-reading_b36792 http://www.mediabistro.com/galleycat/?p=36792 Mon, 22 Aug 2011 13:23:16 +0000