Paradise Lost 2: Revelations (2000)

Director
Joe Berlinger; Bruce Sinofsky

Main cast
Kathy Bakken; Steven Branch; Christopher Byers; John Mark Byers; Melissa Byers

Genres
Documentary

Description
Paradise Lost 2: Revelations revisits the 1994 Arkansas murder of three 8-year-old boys and the three teenagers convicted of the crime. A follow up to Paradise Lost, Revelations features new interviews with the convicted men, as well as with the original judge and police investigators.


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