In the second episode of "Wrongful Convictions & Cold Cases," Andy interviews award-winning journalist and author George Jared about one of the most famous criminal cases in U.S. legal history, the case of the "West Memphis Three." No journalist has covered the West Memphis Three saga more extensively than George Jared, who is the author of the book "Witches in West Memphis," which chronicles how three men - Damien Echols, Jason Baldwin, and Jessie Misskelly, Jr. - fought the Arkansas judicial system after they were convicted in the horrible deaths of three 8-year old boys in West Memphis, Arkansas over two decades ago.
George Jared
Award-winning journalist George Jared has covered numerous crime cases throughout the years. He's won coveted accolades with the Associated Press Managing Editors and the Arkansas Press Association. Stories written by him have been published worldwide.
He is an author and investigative journalist who has written two, true-crime books, “Witches in West Memphis … and another false confession,” and “The Creek Side Bones … reality is more horrifying than fiction.” Witches chronicles the West Memphis Three case and another murder case involving a false confession in Gosnell.
“I've written more news stories about WM3 than any journalist in the world. I was cited in the Academy Award nominated documentary about the case, “Paradise Lost Three: Purgatory” and I was also cited in Damien Echols' New York Times best-selling autobiography, “Life After Death.” I interviewed him while he was still on Arkansas' Death Row, and I broke the story when he and his cohorts were released from prison in 2011.
I've won numerous accolades including 11 first place awards with Associated Press Managing Editors and Arkansas Press Association for investigative journalism, feature writing, spot news, headline writing, and others. The front cover of Creek Side was selected in 2017 by the Arkansas library system for its poster chronicling the best works produced in the state during the last year. I've been interviewed by numerous newspapers, and media outlets for my coverage of that case and other capital murder cases I've covered through the years.”
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