Three eight-year-old boys are found murdered in West Memphis, Arkansas, and within weeks police charge teenagers Damien Echols, Jason Baldwin, and Jessie Misskelley, who become known as the West Memphis Three. Correspondent Erin Moriarty revisits the case built largely on Misskelley's coerced confession and on Echols' interest in heavy metal and the occult, evidence that supporters say amounted to little more than small-town prejudice. Damien Echols spends sixteen years on death row before his wife, Lorri Davis, who married him during his imprisonment, leads the legal campaign that reopens the case. The film tracks how celebrity advocates, including Johnny Depp, Eddie Vedder, and Natalie Maines, brought national attention and money to the defense, and how new DNA testing eventually undercut the original evidence. It follows the case to August 19, 2011, when all three men are released under an Alford plea, a deal that frees them while letting their convictions stand. The report treats their innocence as still unresolved and asks what the case exposes about how small-town justice can go wrong.