A documentary that picks up the story of the 1996 film
Paradise Lost and its two sequels;
West of Memphis, however, was produced by New Zealand director Peter Jackson and was made independent of the three other films.
Paradise Lost and the two subsequent films following it focus on the court trials of the West Memphis Three, the group of West Memphis, Arkansas teenagers who were accused and served 18 years in prison for the horrific 1993 murders of three eight-year-old children, but whose innocence or guilt has been consistently called into question by ongoing revelations of forensic evidence, most recently in 2007, when genetic material was found at the crime scene that was linked neither to the victims nor to the West Memphis Three.
West of Memphis focuses on new evidence that points to a new suspect in the decades-old case - the stepfather of one of the victims.
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