Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory
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| Directed by | Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky |
| Produced by | Bobby Friedman |
| Starring | Jessie Misskelley, Damien Echols and Jason Baldwin (the West Memphis Three) |
| Music by | Metallica |
| Distributed by | Home Box Office (HBO) |
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| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory is a 2011 documentary film and sequel to the films Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills and Paradise Lost 2: Revelations. The three films chronicle the arrest, 18-year imprisonment, and eventual release of Damien Echols, Jason Baldwin, and Jessie Misskelley, otherwise known as the West Memphis Three. The films, directed by Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky, are considered to play a substantial role in generating publicity, awareness, and support for the innocence of the West Memphis 3.
It aired on HBO on January 12, 2012. The film was also nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for Exceptional Merit in Documentary Filmmaking (2012), and for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature.
Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky update the case of the West Memphis Three since the release of Paradise Lost 2: Revelations in 2000. Damien Echols's defense team has hired some of the most renowned forensic scientists to collect DNA and other evidence that had never been tested during the 1994 trials in hopes of getting a new trial. The defense teams and supporters of Echols, Jason Baldwin, and Jessie Misskelley have uncovered new details that occurred during the trial that led to guilty verdicts against them.
Central are the allegations of jury misconduct with the jury foreman discussing the case with an attorney during the Echols-Baldwin trial and bringing Misskelley's confession into deliberations even though it was not let into evidence. The forensic experts have uncovered DNA and new witnesses that focus suspicion toward Terry Hobbs, the stepfather of one of the murder victims.
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