Episode 10: Chatting with Dr Tom Watson about the West Memphis Three and the Paradise Lost trilogy.

This week Stella has a good long chat with Dr Tom Watson about a case that they both remember and both know in lots of detail: The West Memphis Three and their fight to get out of prison after being wrongly convicted of murder. Joe Berlinger's Paradise Lost trilogy of films is unpacked, alongside chats about the case and the heavy metal community, true crime documentary more generally, and Tom's weird connection between haircuts and true crime. 

 

Sources: 

Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills (Berlinger, 1996) 

Note: For UK listeners the three Paradise Lost films are currently on NowTV. 

 

Bien-Kahn, J. (2022). 'The Man Behind Netflix's Jeffrey Dahmer Docuseries is a True Crime Hit Factory,' Bloomberg, October 20,https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2022-10-20/the-man-behind-netflix-s-jeffrey-dahmer-docuseries-is-a-true-crime-hit-factory?leadSource=uverify%20wall&embedded-checkout=true 

Echols, D. (2012). Life After Death: Eighteen Years on Death Row. Blue Rider Press. 

Watson, T. J. (2013). 'Rethinking History through Documentary: Paradise Lost and the documented case of The West Memphis Three,' in Mee, L,. & Walker, J. (Eds). Cinema, Television and History, New Approaches, pp. 200-222. Cambridge Scholars Publishing

 

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