West Memphis Film Analysis

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Even though The documentary "West Memphis" showed that people and as well the judge denied the newly evidence showed to them, due to them originally having evidence form the scene, because Based on the documentary "West Memphis" it shows that three teenage boys were convicted of murders because of how the way their actions were and as to how their appearance made them look more of troublesome boys. The documentary also shows the lacking evidence of Terry Hobbs (one of the murders child's father), afterwards they started realizing that the evidence wasn't making sense, so they investigated on the murder's relatives. Which concluded for Terry Hobbs to be more suspicious due him saying where he was, which resulted to be a lot of hearing as to

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