Alton Logan served 26 years of a life sentence in prison for a crime he did not commit. He was formally declared innocent on April 17, 2009. Alton currently lives with his wife, Terry, in Chicago.

BERL FALBAUM’s career includes ten years as a political reporter for The Detroit News, four years in state politics as administrative aide to Michigan’s lieutenant governor, and fifteen years in corporate public relations. He also taught journalism part–time at Wayne State University in Detroit for 45 years. He is the author of eight books, including Shanghai Remembered, the story of how 20,000 Jews escaped to Shanghai from Nazi Europe during World War II, which received an award from the Independent Publishers Association.