Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills

Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills displays perfectly the impact a documentary or in this case set of documentaries can have. Released in 1996 covering the case of three young boys Christopher Byers, Michael Moore and Stevie Branch who were murdered and sexually assaulted in West Memphis, Arkansas three years earlier.As the film begins three people Jessie Misskelley, Damien Echols and Jason Baldwin had been arrested and charged with the murders. We get to hear from the family of the boys and people connected before the documentary goes on to cover the trials of the three accused of committing the crime as a Satanic ritual.The film has two not to be missed sequels you can watch here Paradise Lost 2: Revelations and Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory.