Lorri Davis is an American Film producer and the spouse of Damien Wayne Echols. Lorris her husband Damien Echols is an American producer and writer. He is accurate known for being a part of the West Memphis Three which was a group of teenaged criminals who were infamously accused of being responsible for a triple murder. Following his release from prison in the year 2011 as part of the conditions of an Alford guilty plea, Echols authored several autobiographies as well as spiritual books. Echols has been included in many documentary films, books as well as podcasts that discuss his spiritual work as well as The West Memphis Three investigation. Lorri Davis was the key to the case of getting Damien out.
Lorri Davis is a landscape architect, but she is now a filmmaker who is famous as the producer of West of Memphis (2012), Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory (2011) and 48 Hours Evidence of the Hard Evidence (2005). She is engaged with Damien Wayne Echols since December 3rd 1999.
Lorri Davis, her husband and first met in 1996 when Lorris watched the documentary on television after which she decided to write him while he was in prison. They started a relationship and then got married in December of 1999. They exchanged more than five thousand letters. Her husband, Lorri’s father was granted release from jail after evidence proved his innocence in the year 2011.
Damien Echols spent more than 18 years in prison for a crime that he didn’t commit. He was known as one of the West Memphis Three He was found guilty in 1994 together with two other teens who were who were dubbed “Satanists” due to their passion in metal music and their black clothes, in connection with killing three eight-year-old boys from West Memphis, Ark. The documentary focused on the poorly treated case and the absence of evidence from the physical and character of a small Southern town’s rush to judgement.
Lorri Daviswas born and was raised at home in West Virginia as I said earlier. She was introduced to Damien Echols in 1996 and they were married in the Buddhist ceremony at the Tucker Maximum Security Unit in Tucker, Arkansas, in 1999. An architect of the landscape She worked in England as well as New York City until relocating to Little Rock, Arkansas, in 1998. For over 10 years, Davis spearheaded a full-time campaign to secure the Echols’s discharge from the prison which included every aspect of the legal proceedings and an investigation into forensics. Davis was instrumental in obtaining money for defense, and was also the an editor (with Echols) of West of Memphis. Together with Echols she is also the creator of Yours for Eternity. Davis and Echols reside with their families in New York City.
This is the way Lorri Davis told the storyof how they came to meet.
The winter of I was a single female who lived within New York, with a excellent job and a rental apartment located in Park Slope that I loved. I was a landscape architect for an architectural firm. We were working on these incredible work in Connecticut, the Hamptons and Connecticut. I was making a great pay and truly enjoying my job. One day in February my friend invited me to attend the New York premiere of this documentarycalled “Paradise lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills.” It was part of the MoMA New Directors/New Films program and I saw Damien’s long-haired mugshot in the commercial. I assumed it was an innocent girl. I thought, “I don’t want to watch a film about this girl who killed all these children.”
In the theater , when I watched Damien in the theater for the first time I felt a sense of kinship instantly. Growing in a similar world within West Virginia, I knew that something was wrong at every level: the society and the case, as well as the sentences. I was thinking, “There’s no way he would have been able to commit this crime.” Lorri Davis was quoted as saying, ” Lorri Davis stated
I thought about him often following the film. One week later I decided to write him a letter.
Then I efforts to be polite and then I admitted that I’d seen the film and it left a lasting impression on me. I asked if he required any assistance.
I was thinking about it, maybe he won’t reply.
A week later when my parents were in town I received the letter. We were leaving to the park, and it was within my letterbox. I put it into my bag, and carried it all day. In the evening, I tore it open. I was so shocked by the manner in which he responded. It was truly gracious. “From the beginning of this crisis I’ve believed there must be some reason behind all this,” he told me. This was the part that truly affected me. He did not write like a man who is on death row, but rather as an ordinary Southern gentleman.
We wrote letters over the course of a few months, long before “love” could be written. I believe that it was Damien who first wrote it but we both came to that point at the exact same at the same time. We just slid into love.
My work was beginning to slow down because my brain was elsewhere. I wrote letters throughout the day long. I’m extremely private, which is why I didn’t talk about it with anyone. I shared with a close friend, “Do you remember that documentary? I’ve reached out to the young man who was in the documentary.”Lorri Davis shared the documentary with me. Lorri Davis told me.
Damien and I spoke via telephone for the very first time around four months after the time we began writing. He called me from the out of the blue. I had seen his voice in the film however I was stunned to hear his real voice first. We continued to talk every day following that.
In the end, I was convinced that I had been living a double life. I didn’t inform my family members for many years. I did tell only a few close friends. No one efforts to convince me of it. People who know me well know that I’m quite strong-willed, and I’m able to discern my own thoughts.
I’ve have never felt the same way for anyone as I have for Damien. I’ve had relationships before but this was a completely different experience.– Lorri Davis said.
