NY Times on Matamoros Murders; West Memphis Three

The Matamoros Cult murders in 1989 were major news story that lent fuel to the Satanic panic of the last 1980s. The New York Times covered the story. The convicted killers claimed to have been influenced by the Hollywood film The Believers.

By 1993 the iconography and rumors of Satanic panic was widespread and the setting was fertile for an occult interpretation of the West Memphis child murders. This story found some degree of closure in 2011 when the West Memphis Three were released from prison, but the crimes remain unsolved and the killer or killers are still unapprehended.