WEST MEMPHIS THREE FREED AFTER 18 YRS. IN JAIL

IT WAS a decision bound to trigger a flurry of emotions. It seems no one was neutral on the  West Memphis Three: sinister killers or a miscarriage of justice. Friday, they were let free after 18 years in jail. But to one of the parents of the two three boys who were murdered, it was "crazy." In 1993, Damien Echols, Jason Baldwin and Jessie Misskelley Jr. entered an Alford plea on murder charges for which a jury had found them guilty. By doing so, the three maintained their innocence even as they acknowledged that prosecutors have enough evidence to convict them. They were accused of killing Christopher, Steven Branch and Michael Moore. The boys' bodies were mutilated, then left them in a ditch, hogtied with their own shoelaces. EMOTIONS RUN SKY HIGH IN WEST MEMPHIS THREE CASE