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Earlier this week I caught the last couple of minutes of Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory on HBO, and it reminded me that I had neglected to track down and watch the series when the West Memphis Three were actually released last summer. I don’t remember what I was quite so busy with at the time—I think probably figuring out if I was going to lose my job or not—that I didn’t actually drop everything and devote myself obsessively to learning everything about the case I could like I usually do when an interesting new true-crime story catches my attention, particularly one that touches on so many of my interests (one of these days I might have to give up on the idea that I have particular interests and just admit that I’m fascinated by everything except higher math).

Anyway, I have much less going on this week, so I’ve watched all three Paradise Lost documentaries and read a bunch of stuff about the case online (note: the CrimeLibrary entry for this case kind of sucks). The Paradise Lost documentaries were all made by HBO and were released in 1996, 2000, and 2012. They are deeply disturbing, to put it mildly.