I did it! (Well … maybe not)

On May 5, 1993 three eight year-old boys went miss­ing in an Arkansas sub­urb. Rel­a­tives, friends and neigh­bors searched for them through­out the evening and overnight. In the morn­ing, under the light of day, law enforce­ment teams expanded the search. By mid-afternoon the bod­ies of the three boys had been located in a drainage ditch. One of the boys died of exten­sive blood loss. The other two had drowned. They had com­mit­ted no crime, done no wrong. They were the inno­cent vic­tim of the most heinous crime.