![]() ![]() Devil’s Knot was followed in 2014 by Dark Spell: Surviving the Sentence (co-written with Jason Baldwin, one of the West Memphis Three), the second volume in a planned series called the Justice Knot trilogy. Mara Leveritt, a contributing editor to the Arkansas Times, won Arkansas’s Booker Worthen Literary Prize for her book The Boys on the Tracks(1999) and would later receive the same award for Devil’s Knot. ![]() The book provoked a larger discussion about the nature of the trial and its evidentiary bias, while the subsequent movie offered a fictionalized-and some said oversimplified-account of the events. The book depicts a bleak picture of small-town Arkansas in the 1990s, providing background for how, in the author’s view, this case assumed a level of hysteria that in many ways equaled the Salem Witch Trials. One of the teenagers of the so-called West Memphis Three convicted in the case was sentenced to death, while two others were condemned to life in jail without parole the three were freed in 2011. ![]() Mara Leveritt’s 2002 book Devil’s Knot: The True Story of the West Memphis Three focuses on the facts of the 1993 murder of three eight-year-old boys in West Memphis (Crittenden County) and the controversial court case that followed. ![]()
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