Devil's Knot: The True Story of the West Memphis Three by Mara Leveritt [FIRST EDITION] 2002

Devil's Knot : The True Story of the West Memphis Three by Mara Leveritt FIRST EDITION [2002] ATRIA BOOKS 4th printing.  Hardcover with dust jacket.  Near mint; reads ike new!  In 2011, one of the greatest miscarriages of justice in American legal history was set right when Damien Echols, Jason Baldwin, and Jessie Misskelley were released after eighteen years in prison. Award-winning journalist Mara Leveritt's The Devil's Knot remains the most comprehensive, insightful reporting ever done on the investigation, trials, and convictions of three teenage boys who became known as the West Memphis Three.For weeks in 1993, after the murders of three eight-year-old boys, police in West Memphis, Arkansas seemed stymied. Then suddenly, detectives charged three teenagers, alleged members of a satanic cult, with the killings. Despite the witch-hunt atmosphere of the trials, and a case which included stunning investigative blunders, a confession riddled with errors, and an absence of physical evi