Happy Twentieth Anniversary of the Satanic Panic, everybody! Philip Jenkins is pinning the date of the first case of "Satanists are raping our children and drinking the blood of newborns (hey, where did all of those newborns come from anyway?)" madness to 1984 and the McMartin case. And he has a short piece talking about the West Memphis Three and how we're still recovering from all of that, while collectively deciding not to remember anything about it.
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