Who Was Mr. Bojangles?

H. Allegra Lansing
23 min readApr 8, 2021

The mystery suspect in the West Memphis Three killings

In 1994, three teenagers were convicted of the murder of three boys in West Memphis, Arkansas. The convictions were successful largely based on the admissions of one of those teens, Jessie Misskelley. Misskelley admitted to helping kill the boys and told police that he saw Damien Echols, the eldest teen, sexually assault one of the children. Jessie also identified…

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