'West of Memphis' -- 3 stars

( January 17, 2013 )

R; 2:27 running time

In 1993 in West Memphis, Ark., the bodies of three preteen boys were found naked and hogtied, in a drainage ditch. One of the boy's genitals had been mutilated. Three young men from area were convicted of murder, and the sinister overtones of the scene suggested a satanic ritual conducted by those who became known as the West Memphis Three. The three young men ¿ Jessie Misskelley, Jason Baldwin and Damien Echols ¿ were voted "most likely to have done it," as ex-probation officer Jerry Driver says on camera. But does that sound like ironclad evidence? -- Michael Phillips

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