goth look or the notion of a romantic teenage vampire became fashionable. and this was a crime so horrendous it was easy to believe it was committed by a monster. when you're hearing all of this, what's going through your mind? >> exactly the same thing, that that's what happened. that the devil actually come and got my baby. everybody was a suspect. i would have thought you did it back then. i mean, anybody i looked at i was mad at. i went into a world of my own and i hated people. >> damien echols tells me he was also in his own world. just beginning, he says, to hear about the three young boys found in west memphis. >> tonight investigators found the children beaten to death. >> do you remember the first time you heard about this murder? >> getting up that morning. i mean, it was everywhere. you couldn't not hear it. it was on every news channel, the newspaper, the radios. >> what were you thinking?