Hotch mentions the West Memphis Three's wrongful conviction.
The 1994 triple murder case generated widespread controversy from the start, with law enforcement jumping to conclusions and refusing to follow credible leads, police questioning one teenaged suspect for several hours without representation or any record of the questioning, a confession that didn't fit the facts and was quickly recanted, and all evidence pointing to alternative theories of the crime being kept from the jury.
Appeals and campaigns for the teenagers release began almost immediately.
Having spent half their lives in prison for crimes they did not commit, the three men were released after being forced to agree to pleading guilty to lesser charges.
As of January 2023, the fight to get justice for all 6 victims continues, the Supreme Court are considering an appeal to allow the testing of DNA evidence found at the crime scene and handed into police, and hidden (claimed to have been lost or destroyed) from the defence and jury.
At the beginning, there is a picture in the police department that is the Ponce De Leon Hall located in the heart of St. Augustine and part of Flagler College.