Damien Echols Letter & Envelope September 1995

I first became aware of the triple murderers of the very first West Memphis Three (Stevie Branch, Chrisopher Byers, and Michael Moore) the way many others did back in 1993/94 ----- from Geraldo Rivera. The macho murder mogel of the media Geraldo presented Damien Echols as the apprentice to Satan.  Viewing from the shadows of the outside this then teenybopper took the next step and bought and read 'The Blood of Innocents' where devil boy Damien shared the cover with his three alleged victims.  The book took up where Geraldo left off --- Damien did it.  Next move, reach out to Damien.  Shortly thereafter Damien answered the call.  The items in this listing is that answer.

One quick sentence..... To all the weirdos, loners, misunderstood, misjudged, outcast, different, unique, strange, troubled, gothic type young people out there, especially if you're living in a small town for sure, if you are not familiar and well versed with Damien Echols, the West Memphis Three, The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills in West Memphis, Arkansas and all the injustice, ignorance, prejudice, sadness, loss and sorrow associated with it, to put it like Cat Williams might, "I really don't know what you're doing with your life, I don't".  Hip yourself to it, because this kind of injustice will happen again.

Description cont.: So the content shown has been obscured on purpose.  Damien actually has great penmenship.  No as a good friend explained to me, many of these items are intimate, private and personal, and the communications and intentions of both writer and receiver did not include an outside audience.  To share the actual contents with the entire world makes the items depreciate a great deal.  This letter was written, addressed and sent to me and to the best of my knowledge the only eyes that have fell on the words on these pages are my own and Damien Echols, no one else, and has been that way for nearly thirty years.

Now this is from 1995, years before Hollywood, Eddie Vedder, and the Dixie Chicks took up the cause.  This letter is from a condemned Damien with very few options on his side.  Various subjects are mentioned and discussed: books, the FBI,  mainly on his current state in the judicial system in Arkansas.  He addresses his guilt/innocence in the crimes he had been convicted of the year earlier and shares what he was guilty of.  The whole atmosphere and vibe of the letter with the words being used finds the writer in a place with very little hope, doom lingering, a notorious and convicted weirdo sharing a couple pages with a few ideas to another like-mindedand fellow weirdo sharing a mutual understanding for a few ideas and concepts, all of which having some Association with being a weirdo from the dark side.