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* DistantFinale: Dylan is released from prison some time later. Teddy's mom Myrna is the only one left for him.

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* DistantFinale: Dylan is released from prison some time later. later and meets Teddy's mom Myrna is the only one left for him.mom, Myrna.



* LikeASonToMe: Myrna picks up Dylan from prison. His parents abandoned him long ago so they now have no one but each other.

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* LikeASonToMe: Myrna picks up Dylan from prison. His parents abandoned him long ago so they now have no she is the only one but each other.left for him.
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* BittersweetEnding: Henry is arrested for the murders while Dylan and Teddy are exonerated. However, Mrs. Raymes has to live with the fact that she knew that her husband killed the children for years but did nothing. Also, Teddy is sill dead, and his mother and Dylan have no one now but each other.

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* BittersweetEnding: Henry is arrested for the murders while Dylan and Teddy are exonerated. However, Mrs. Raymes has to live with the fact that she knew that her husband killed the children for years but did nothing. nothing, and is left to grieve her son all over again. Also, Teddy is sill still dead, and his mother and Dylan have no one now but each other.
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* BittersweetEnding: Mrs. Raymes has to live with the fact that she knew that her husband killed children but she did nothing. Dylan and Teddy's mother have no one now but each other.

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* BittersweetEnding: Henry is arrested for the murders while Dylan and Teddy are exonerated. However, Mrs. Raymes has to live with the fact that she knew that her husband killed the children for years but she did nothing. Dylan Also, Teddy is sill dead, and Teddy's his mother and Dylan have no one now but each other.
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* DistantFinale: Dylan is released from prison some time later. Teddy's mom Myrna is the only one left for him.


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* LikeASonToMe: Myrna picks up Dylan from prison. His parents abandoned him long ago so they now have no one but each other.
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* CrazyHomelessPeople: Job is a homeless man who saw Dylan standing over the bodies of the three boys. He thought Dylan was Satan.
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* {{Troll}}: Henry Raymes jeered Teddy and Dylan outside the courthouse after they were sentenced to life for the murders that he committed. He then sent Teddy a note confessing to the murders.
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* BittersweetEnding: Mrs. Raymes has to live with the fact that she knew that her husband killed children but she did nothing. Dylan and Teddy's mother have no one now but each other.


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* TheGhost: Present day Teddy is never seen. He is only remembered as a teen.


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* NeverLearnedToRead: A note confessing to the triple murder was sent to Teddy in prison. The police thought that he wrote it but his mother said that he never learned to write.


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* ToxicFriendInfluence: While Jack Raymes was the most innocent of the three boys, his friends George and Sean were shown to be very mean and and bullied Jack into doing things. They were even shown laughing in the final flashback, [[spoiler: when they turned off the basement light to scare Jack's dad Henry. [[KarmicDeath Which causes him to kill them in a state of rage]].]]

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* ToxicFriendInfluence: While Jack Raymes was the most innocent of the three boys, his friends George and Sean were shown to be very mean and and bullied Jack into doing things. They were even shown laughing in the final flashback, [[spoiler: when they turned off the basement light to scare Jack's dad Henry. [[KarmicDeath Which causes him to kill them in a state of rage]].]]
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* AttentionWhore: Heidi, who lied about having cancer to get attention, then helps spread the idea that Dillon and Teddy committed the triple murder. Dillon even uses the expression "attention whore" to describe her.

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* AttentionWhore: Heidi, who lied about having cancer to get attention, then helps spread the idea that Dillon and Teddy committed the triple murder. Dillon Dylan even uses the expression "attention whore" to describe her.



* HardTruthAesop: The graffiti message first states "Evil triumphs" but Dillon lets the investigation team know it's incomplete, the finished message is "Evil triumphs when good men do nothing".

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* HardTruthAesop: The graffiti message first states "Evil triumphs" but Dillon Dylan lets the investigation team know it's incomplete, the finished message is "Evil triumphs when good men do nothing".



* WrongSideOfTheTracks: Dillon says he and Teddy were convicted because someone had to pay and people from the wrong side of the tracks are the perfect scapegoats.

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* WrongSideOfTheTracks: Dillon Dylan says he and Teddy were convicted because someone had to pay and people from the wrong side of the tracks are the perfect scapegoats.
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* ToxicFriendInfluence: While Jack Raymes was the most innocent of the three boys, his friends George and Sean were shown to be very mean and and bullied Jack into doing things. They were even shown laughing in the final flashback, [[spoiler: when they turned off the basement light to scare Jack's dad Henry. [[KarmicDeath Which causes him to kill them in a state of rage]].]]

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* AttentionWhore: Heidi, who lied about having cancer to get attention, then helps spread the idea that Dillon and Teddy committed the triple murder.

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* AttentionWhore: Heidi, who lied about having cancer to get attention, then helps spread the idea that Dillon and Teddy committed the triple murder. Dillon even uses the expression "attention whore" to describe her.


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* WrongSideOfTheTracks: Dillon says he and Teddy were convicted because someone had to pay and people from the wrong side of the tracks are the perfect scapegoats.
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* AcquittedTooLate: Only one of the two wrongfully convicted defendants lives to see the day the real culprit [[spoiler: the father of one of the victims]] is caught.

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* AcquittedTooLate: Only one of the two wrongfully convicted defendants lives to see the day the real culprit [[spoiler: culprit, the father of one of the victims]] victims, is caught.
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** In addition, Lilly only gets the truth by very harshly confronting the mother of one of the victims on her cowardice.

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* AttentionWhore: Heidi Jenner, who lied about having cancer to get attention, then helps spread the idea that Dillon and Teddy committed the triple murder.
* HardTruthAesop: The Graffiti message first states "Evil Triumphs" but Dillon lets the investigation team know it's incomplete, the finished message is "Evil Triumphs when good men do nothing".
* RippedFromTheHeadlines: Based on the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Memphis_Three West Memphis Three]].

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* AttentionWhore: Heidi Jenner, Heidi, who lied about having cancer to get attention, then helps spread the idea that Dillon and Teddy committed the triple murder.
* BreakTheCutie: The two misfit teens were wrongly convicted and jailed for the murders, and Teddy, the quieter of the two, decided to take his own life on his 30th birthday.
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HardTruthAesop: The Graffiti graffiti message first states "Evil Triumphs" triumphs" but Dillon lets the investigation team know it's incomplete, the finished message is "Evil Triumphs triumphs when good men do nothing".
* RippedFromTheHeadlines: Based on the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Memphis_Three West Memphis Three]].Three]], who were only released after 18 years in prison.
* ThenLetMeBeEvil: The two wrongfully convicted defendants decide to act out for the cameras, after realizing that the police extracted a false confession, used a lying witness, and they face a lifetime stay in prison.
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* RippedFromTheHeadlines: Based on the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Memphis_Three West Memphis Three]].
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* AcquittedTooLate: Only one of the two wrongfully convicted defendants lives to see the day the real culprit [[spoiler: the Father of one of the victims]] is caught.

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* AcquittedTooLate: Only one of the two wrongfully convicted defendants lives to see the day the real culprit [[spoiler: the Father father of one of the victims]] is caught.



* HardTruthAesop: The Graffiti message first states "Evil Triumphs" but the surviving convict lets the investigation team know it's incomplete, the finished message is "Evil Triumphs when good men do nothing".

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* HardTruthAesop: The Graffiti message first states "Evil Triumphs" but the surviving convict Dillon lets the investigation team know it's incomplete, the finished message is "Evil Triumphs when good men do nothing".

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The team reinvestigate the horrific 1994 murder of three young boys when one of the two men who was convicted of the crime commits suicide in prison.

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The team reinvestigate the horrific 1994 murder of three young boys when one of the two men who was convicted of the crime commits suicide [[DrivenToSuicide committed suicide]] in prison.



* AcquittedTooLate: Only one of the two wrongfully convicted defendants lives to see the day the real culprit is caught.

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* AcquittedTooLate: Only one of the two wrongfully convicted defendants lives to see the day the real culprit [[spoiler: the Father of one of the victims]] is caught.


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* HardTruthAesop: The Graffiti message first states "Evil Triumphs" but the surviving convict lets the investigation team know it's incomplete, the finished message is "Evil Triumphs when good men do nothing".

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The team reinvestigate the horrific triple murder of three young boys in 1994 when one of the two men who was convicted of the crime commits suicide in prison.

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The team reinvestigate the horrific triple 1994 murder of three young boys in 1994 when one of the two men who was convicted of the crime commits suicide in prison.



* AttentionWhore: Heidi Jenner, who lied about having cancer to get attention, then helps spread the idea that Dillon and Teddy committed the triple murder.

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* AttentionWhore: Heidi Jenner, who lied about having cancer to get attention, then helps spread the idea that Dillon and Teddy committed the triple murder.murder.
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The team reinvestigate the horrific triple murder of three young boys in 1994 when one of the two men who was convicted of the crime commits suicide in prison.

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* AttentionWhore: Heidi Jenner

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* AttentionWhore: Heidi JennerJenner, who lied about having cancer to get attention, then helps spread the idea that Dillon and Teddy committed the triple murder.
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* AcquittedTooLate: Only one of the two wrongfully convicted defendants lives to see the day the real culprit is caught.
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* AttentionWhore: Heidi Jenner

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