Untying The Knot: John Mark Byers And The West Memphis Three - Plot & Excerpts
They’re gonna talk about me for years. People in West Memphis will tell their kids stories. It’ll kind of be like I’m the West Memphis boogeyman.—Damien Echols, 1994 Mark Byers may be one of the most amazing characters ever to be put on film.—Bruce Sinofsky When they were first alerted to the story, documentary filmmakers Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky of New York wasted no time getting their film crew down to West Memphis, Arkansas, for what they hoped would be a repeat of Brother’s Keeper, the pair’s award-winning 1992 documentary of the trial of Delbert Ward, an illiterate farmer who was tried and acquitted for the murder of his brother in their Munnsville, New York, home.92 Berlinger and Sinofsky’s plan was to use the same style of documentary for Paradise Lost, in which they would “let the story unfold” rather than narrate the action. The unparalleled access they gained to the accused killers, the victims’ families, and the courtroom proceedings—while they were happening—was a first for many of the principals, including presiding judge David Burnett.
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