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Satanic panic and false convictions

2 mentions in 1 episode

The phenomenon in the 1980s and 1990s where unfounded fears about satanism led to wrongful convictions, exemplified by the West Memphis Three case.

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Should Capital Punishment Be Put to Death?

  • 41:31

    they'd used Satanism as the reason that saying these people were like satanic worshipers and they murdered these boys

  • 42:37

    This was right on the tail of the satanic panic of the 80s and 90s