As part of a visit to campus, Judge Dan Stidham will sign copies of his book, A Harvest of Innocence, about the West Memphis Three murder case from 3-5 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 16, at Giffels Auditorium in Old Main.

The book-signing is sponsored by the Department of Sociology and Criminology.

The book debuted as No. 1 in the True Crime and Serial Killers category on Amazon and has been a "top earning book across all formats and marketplaces," since its release.

On May 6, 1993, the bodies of three 8-year-old boys were pulled from a drainage ditch in West Memphis, Arkansas. Within a month of the brutal murders, the police department arrested three young men: Jason Baldwin, Damien Echols and Jessie Misskelley Jr., who would come to be known as the West Memphis Three and turned out to be innocent of the crime.

A variety of celebrities including Eddie Vedder, Johnny Depp, Metallica, Henry Rollins, Winona Ryder, Peter Jackson and Fran Walsh, plus the lawyers and forensic scientists, helped then-defense Dan Stidham keep his promise to free his client, in the West Memphis Three Murder Case, an innocent teenager, out of prison — 18 years and 78 days after his wrongful conviction.

In A Harvest of Innocence, Stidham breaks a self-imposed 30-year silence to unveil his account of the West Memphis Three — sharing new details in the book.