18 years in prison studying magick. In 2005, he self-published his autobiography Almost Home with a foreword written by Margaret Cho. Marriage In 1996, Echols met his future wife Lorri Davis, a landscape architect who learned about the case after seeing Paradise Lost, in New York, and she wrote him a letter. They began a romantic relationship, and in 1997 Davis quit her job, moved to Little Rock, Arkansas, and began working on Echols's case. In December 1999, they married in a Buddhist ceremony, held in the prison visiting room. Release from prison In November 2010, after Judge Burnett had retired from the bench, the Arkansas Supreme Court ordered new evidentiary hearings for all three defendants based on the new DNA evidence. The state's high court rebuked Burnett's 2008 decision not to grant Echols a new trial based on the DNA evidence. In 2010, after DNA evidence raised the possibility that they had not committed the crime, they were granted an evidentiary hearing. In August 2011, Echols's lawyers, Steve Braga and Patrick Benca negotiated an Alford plea, which allows the defendant to maintain their innocence while conceding that there is enough evidence to possibly convict them at trial. Under the plea deals, all three were resentenced to time-served for the murders (18 years and 75 days) and immediately released from prison. Life after release After the release from prison, Echols and his wife moved to New York City and lived in Peter Jackson's apartment. They next moved to Salem, Massachusetts, and finally settled in Harlem, New York City. In 2012, Echols published the book Life After Death, which became a New York Times Best Seller. Also in 2012, West of Memphis, a documentary film directed and co-written by Amy J. Berg, and produced by Peter Jackson and Echols, was released in the US by Sony Pictures Classics. It has been reported that Jackson and Fran Walsh started to work on this project in 2005 and conducted their own private investigation. The film received a nomination for Best Documentary Screenplay from the Writers Guild of America. In 2014, Echols and Lorri Davis co-authored a book Yours for Eternity, which consists of their letters while Echols was in prison. Echols has had a number of art exhibitions, showing pieces of art that he created in prison. He has also held a number of events devoted to ceremonial magick. In 2018, he published