Arkansas Times photographer Brian Chilson and reporter David Koon made trips to Varner and Tucker prisons yesterday to interview the WM3 — Damien Echols, Jessie Misskelley and Jason Baldwin. Despite previous arrangements, the Department of Correction only allowed an interview with Baldwin. Here, their interview, in which Baldwin says the police knew Jessie was innocent despite his confession, which he says was bullied out of him, and knew none of them were guilty.

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