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Northshore October 2025
Once a death row inmate, Damien Echols learns to live a life of freedom in Salem. By Calvin Hennick // Photographs by Fawn Deviney   When Damien Echols was an 18-year-old on trial for murder in 1994, the prosecutor who claimed he’d killed three little boys as part of a Satanic ritual didn’t ask him about hairs and fibers from the crime scene. Instead, he asked about the teen’s interest in the occultist writer Aleister Crowley.   The verdict: Guilty. The sentence: Death.   Echols was released from death row in 2011 after DNA collected at the crime scene was tested and showed no connectio
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