In real life, the sleepy hamlet of West Memphis, Arkansas, was thrown into turmoil on May 5, 1993, when three eight-year-old boys — Steve Branch, Michael Moore, and Christopher Byers — were reported missing.
A Nevada inmate, Alexander Ewing, has been charged with murder in connection with the unsolved hammer-attack killings of 4 victims in Colorado in 1984.
The Alaska boy was three when went he went missing; the push to find the now-12-year-old Dashawn remains the top priority of the family that loves him.