You have been found guilty of wearing black and listening to heavy metal, you are hereby sentenced to death by lethal injection

I would have never heard the tragic tale of The West Memphis Three where it not for Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky’s jaw dropping documentaries ‘Paradise Lost: The Childhood Murders at Robin Hood Hills’ and its sequel ‘Paradise Lost 2: Revelations’, which show that in fact sometimes truth is stranger than fiction. These films bring a blow by blow chronicle of a modern day witch-hunt where the basic tenet of the American legal system, the presumption of innocence, was discredited in order to satisfy a community’s call for revenge of the dreadful murders of three innocent children. It blew my mind. It broke my heart.