A Harvest of Innocence:
Dan Stidham
In a case based on a lie, only one man knows the truth. Attorney Dan Stidham breaks his self-imposed 30-year silence to expose details only he knows about the infamous West Memphis Three murders. Exposing what happened will allow him to close the door on a case that tormented him for years and to help exonerate the three innocent young men who spent decades in prison because of the malevolence of the police, prosecution, and judge. The West Memphis 3 Murder case, which captured the world's attention in the 1990s to such an extent it remains one of the most discussed true crime stories even today, has become synonymous with injustice. The details of the case were lurid—horrifying beyond description. On May 6, 1993, the bodies of three eight-year-old boys were pulled from a fetid drainage ditch in West Memphis, Arkansas. Their hands bound with their own shoelaces, the boys had been beaten and sexually mutilated, police said. Deep in the Bible Belt, townspeople began to speak of Satanic ritualistic killings and demanded immediate arrests. Within a month of the brutal murders, a beleaguered police department served up three young men from the wrong side of the tracks. Jason Baldwin, Damien Echols, and Stidham's client, Jessie Misskelley Jr., were rounded up, arrested, tried, and sent to prison with lengthy sentences—Echols to Death Row. Other than a false confession, there was no other evidence linking the three to the crimes. A Harvest of Innocence is an intimate, unsettling, and balanced look at what the case did to Stidham himself, to the victim's families, and to the West Memphis Three themselves. It is a no-holds-barred exposition of the politics and unbridled ambition of a few men who destroyed so many lives.
Duration - 10h 35m.
Author - Dan Stidham.
Narrator - Michael Feeney.
Published Date - Friday, 12 January 2024.
Copyright - © 2023 Dan Stidham ©.
Location:
United States
Description:
In a case based on a lie, only one man knows the truth. Attorney Dan Stidham breaks his self-imposed 30-year silence to expose details only he knows about the infamous West Memphis Three murders. Exposing what happened will allow him to close the door on a case that tormented him for years and to help exonerate the three innocent young men who spent decades in prison because of the malevolence of the police, prosecution, and judge. The West Memphis 3 Murder case, which captured the world's attention in the 1990s to such an extent it remains one of the most discussed true crime stories even today, has become synonymous with injustice. The details of the case were lurid—horrifying beyond description. On May 6, 1993, the bodies of three eight-year-old boys were pulled from a fetid drainage ditch in West Memphis, Arkansas. Their hands bound with their own shoelaces, the boys had been beaten and sexually mutilated, police said. Deep in the Bible Belt, townspeople began to speak of Satanic ritualistic killings and demanded immediate arrests. Within a month of the brutal murders, a beleaguered police department served up three young men from the wrong side of the tracks. Jason Baldwin, Damien Echols, and Stidham's client, Jessie Misskelley Jr., were rounded up, arrested, tried, and sent to prison with lengthy sentences—Echols to Death Row. Other than a false confession, there was no other evidence linking the three to the crimes. A Harvest of Innocence is an intimate, unsettling, and balanced look at what the case did to Stidham himself, to the victim's families, and to the West Memphis Three themselves. It is a no-holds-barred exposition of the politics and unbridled ambition of a few men who destroyed so many lives. Duration - 10h 35m. Author - Dan Stidham. Narrator - Michael Feeney. Published Date - Friday, 12 January 2024. Copyright - © 2023 Dan Stidham ©.
Language:
English
Opening Credits
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Front Matter
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Chapter 1
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Chapter 2
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Chapter 3
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Chapter 4
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Chapter 5
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Chapter 6
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Chapter 7
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Chapter 8
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Chapter 9
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Chapter 10
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Chapter 11
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Chapter 12
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Chapter 13
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Chapter 14
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Chapter 15
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Chapter 16
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Chapter 17
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Chapter 18
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Chapter 19
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Chapter 20
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Chapter 21
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Chapter 22
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Chapter 23
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Chapter 24
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Chapter 25
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Chapter 26
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Chapter 27
Duration:00:09:27
Chapter 28
Duration:00:05:47
Chapter 29
Duration:00:07:04
Chapter 30
Duration:00:10:40
Chapter 31
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Chapter 32
Duration:00:13:42
Chapter 33
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Chapter 34
Duration:00:12:35
Chapter 35
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Chapter 36
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Chapter 37
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Chapter 38
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Chapter 39
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Chapter 40
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Chapter 41
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Chapter 42
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Chapter 43
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Chapter 44
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Chapter 45
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Chapter 46
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Chapter 47
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Chapter 48
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Chapter 49
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Chapter 50
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Chapter 51
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Chapter 52
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Chapter 53
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Chapter 54
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Chapter 55
Duration:00:10:50
Chapter 56
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Chapter 57
Duration:00:14:51
Chapter 58
Duration:00:11:10
Chapter 59
Duration:00:11:03
Chapter 60
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Chapter 61
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Chapter 62
Duration:00:16:43
Chapter 63
Duration:00:11:38
Chapter 64
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Chapter 65
Duration:00:18:54
Chapter 66
Duration:00:02:56
Chapter 67
Duration:00:02:59
Chapter 68
Duration:00:09:14
Chapter 69
Duration:00:16:46
Chapter 70
Duration:00:05:11
Chapter 71
Duration:00:15:29
Acknowledgements
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Ending Credits
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