Much of the audience for 6-Down's show on 2/9/64

Usage examples of teenagers.

At worst, specialists in the new field of SRA warned, teenagers who started out innocently playing with Ouija boards or reading books on paganism and magic could be drawn into rites involving the use of dangerous symbols, and from there into vandalism, animal mutilations, ritualistic abuse of children, and suicide, or even murder.

Many filmgoers assumed that since release of the documentary, all three defendants had appealed, and that if the problems revealed in the film were real, they were now being corrected and the teenagers would soon walk free.

They pointed out that twenty-four jurors had sat through the trials, had heard and seen all the evidence, and had found the teenagers guilty.

During their discussions of the murders, Driver had written the names of eight teenagers on a piece of paper.

As Driver saw it, Damien was part of an alarming trend in the county, one that was drawing not just Damien Echols but many teenagers toward Satan.

An anonymous informant reported that the pastor of a local Baptist church was concerned about some teenagers at Lakeshore trailer park, who allegedly worshiped the devil.

And police had questioned all three of the teenagers without a hint of threat.

With the three teenagers in custody, the West Memphis police entered the second phase of their investigation: a scramble to find evidence against them.

A second eyewitness account, even if it contradicted the first and was growing more fantastic by the day, might be invaluable, especially since it named the three teenagers who were in custody.

For much of the public, the matter was not so complex: three teenagers who worshiped Satan had sacrificed three younger boys.

The first ruling Burnett made was that Jessie would be tried separately from the two teenagers whom he had accused.

By then it had been decided that none of the teenagers wanted to plead not guilty by reason of insanity.

And to establish that Damien and Jason were close enough friends of Jessie Misskelley that they would have included him in their murderous orgy, he called Jerry Driver, who testified that he had definitely seen the three teenagers together, walking down a street in Marion.

The three teenagers went to the woods, where they were sitting in the water, when they saw the three young boys at a distance.

Gary Gitchell watched as police led the convicted teenagers into unmarked cars.