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SATANIC PANIC EXONERATIONS: The DNA Evidence That Is Now Overturning 1980s Ritual Abuse Convictions — And What the Original Investigators Actually Believed They Found The Lore: Between 1983 and 1995, more than 12,000 Americans were accused of Satanic ritual abuse in a moral panic that destroyed hundreds of lives, dismantled families, and sent innocent people to prison for decades. The McMartin Preschool trial — the longest and most expensive criminal proceeding in American history at that point — ended in acquittal after seven years. The West Memphis Three served 18 years before DNA evidence and Alford pleas secured their release. But the exonerations have not stopped. A quiet wave of post-conviction DNA testing, now accelerated by advances in touch DNA analysis, is reopening cases that w...