I used to think they were innocent, but not any more....
I've seen all the movies, read a few books, gone to several websites. When I first heard of the WM3 I thought they were innocent and a major injustice had happened. Thinking they were innocent I started doing research to confirm what I had believed at the time. From what I've gathered, there wasn't any concrete physical evidence that proved it was them that did it. Also by the time police and investigators had arrived to the crime scene, the crime scene had been contaminated to the point where almost anything found could be disputed by a good defense team. Basically they were convicted on two things:
Jessie Misskelly's confession and the eye witness account stating Damien had been in the area of the murders at around the time it had happened.
Those two things could easily be contested, and I contested them myself at the time I thought they were innocent.
But the more I read and researched, on thing became strikingly obvious and changed my opinion from innocent to guilty:
Not one of the three has an alibi for them time in which the murders occurred.
Yes I know JM states he was at wrestling when the murders happened. Although he was at wrestling the evening of the murders, the time of his arrival to wrestling was actually later in the evening at a time later than the murders had occurred. There was sufficient time between the time of the murders and his arrival at wrestling for him to have been able to present at the time of the murders and participate.
JB's alibi was so weak, his defense lawyers didn't even enter it into the trial because they knew the prosecution would be able to tear it apart, and in doing so making it more incriminating to enter his alibi than by leaving it out altogether.
And finally, DE's alibi. Actually DE offered more than one alibi, each proven to be wrong, with some of them contradicting previous alibis he had given.
Now I don't know about everyone else, but if I were arrested and accused of murdering three 8 year old boys, and I in fact, did not do it, you can be PRETTY DAMN SURE I would have an alibi that would clear myself, and I'm PRETTY DAMN SURE if I were indeed innocent, the alibi I offered would check out and therefore clear me from any suspicion whatsoever!
Now on the other hand, if I were accused of such a heinous crime and actually was a participant, then my alibi would probably be very weak to begin with, be easily disproved and upon further questioning at a later time, and it may vary and contradict what I had said previously. Kinda like the alibis given by the WM3.
This is NOT investigating 101! This is simple, basic and elementary. If you are innocent, you can state where you were during a certain time on a certain day, no problem, and it will check out and be proven true, thus clearing you from suspicion.
That is why I am now CONVINCED the WM3 did it. If even one of them could offer an airtight alibi, I would believe at least that one person was innocent, but since none of them can.......well you have to find it hard to believe they didn't do it!