Did the ”West Memphis Three” get hoodwinked again?

From the moment I first saw the HBO special Paradise Lost, the whole case seemed flimsy and I thought the story was bogus. A heinous murder of three little all American apple pie kids and SOMEONE had to pay for it. Who do you pick? The strange goth-like kids who are said to have ties to Satanism. On top of getting 18 years of their life literally stolen they were extorted out of a confession so the state can skip out of paying them any settlement for botching the case. Isn’t that like bending them over and giving it to them twice?