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Southwest of Salem: The Story of the San Antonio Four

Southwest of Salem: The Story of the San Antonio Four

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Status

Released

Release Date

Apr 15, 2016

Runtime

1h 31m

Genres

Documentary

User Score

57%

Original Title

Southwest of Salem: The Story of the San Antonio Four

Director

Deborah S. Esquenazi

Description

In 1994, four women were accused, tried, and convicted of the heinous sexual assault of two young girls—as one newscaster puts it, “the modern version of the witchcraft trials.” Twenty years later, the four women have maintained their innocence, insisting that the accusations were entirely fabricated, and borne of homophobic prejudice and a late-’90s mania about covens, cults, and child abuse.