‘Stranger Things’ Metalhead Eddie Munson Was Apparently Based on West Memphis Three’s Damien Echols!
"Munson, the Metallica-playing Stranger Things character, was inspired by Damien Echols, a writer who was part of the West Memphis Three, a group of teenagers convicted of murder in Arkansas in the '90s. Echols, now in his 40s, was released from death row in 2011 alongside West Memphis Three members Jessie Misskelley Jr. and Jason Baldwin."
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