News and Events
Past & Upcoming Speaking Events:
October 1999 Academy of Behavioral Profiling - Pebble Beach, CA
March 2002 University of Arkansas at Little Rock
April 2002 Nebraska Wesleyan University- Forensic Science Program,
Lincoln, Nebraska
September 2002 International University, Naples, FL
March 2004 Equal Justice Works Symposium for the Wrongfully
Accused - University of Arkansas School of Law
October 2005 Mississippi Society of Radiologic Technologists, Tupelo, MS
November 2005 Fort Hays University, Fort Hays, KS
April 2006 University of Central Arkansas, Conway, AR
November 2006 Blackman High School, Murfeesboro, TN
November 2006 Arkansas Tech University, Russellville, AR
April 2006 University of Central Arkansas, Conway, AR
April 2007 University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR
April 2008 University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR
April 2008 Arkansas State University, Heber Springs, AR
April 2009 West Virginia School of Law - Morgantown, WV
March 24, 2011 University of Memphis
April 2011 Arkansas State University, Jonesboro, AR
November 2011 Northwestwern School of Law- Chicago, IL
April 2012 William Bowen School of Law- Little Rock, AR
February 2013 National Association of Legal Investigators, Memphis, TN
October 2013 LSU Law School - Baton Rougue, LA
April 10, 2014 Catonsville High School, Baltimore, Maryland
October 25, 2014 Oregon Paralegal Association Annual Meeting, Seaside, Oregon
December 5, 2014 Catonsville High School, Baltimore, Maryland
October 16, 2015 Arkansas Legal Services Partnership Statewide Conference
November 12, 2015 Catonsville High School, Baltimore, Maryland
February 23, 2016 Paragould High School, Paragould, Arkansas
November 18, 2016 Catonsville High School, Baltimore, MD
February 1, 2017 University of Arkansas School of Law, Fayetteville, Arkansas
March 21, 2017 National Association of Legal Professionals (WebEd Seminar)
April 19, 2017 University of Arkansas at Fayetteville, Arkansas
November 10, 2017 Catonsville High School, Baltimore, MD
April 6, 2018 Catonsville High School, Baltimore, MD
April 18, 2018 University of Arkansas at Fayetteville, Arkansas
April 28, 2018 The Association for Arkansas Legal Support Professionals
July 1, 2018 Interview with Bob Ruff on the Truth & Justice Podcast: Dan Stidham Speaks
November 12, 2018 Catonsville High School, Baltimore, MD
March 15, 2019 Interview with Mark Sevi, Dan Stidham Joins Mark Sevi: Plotpoints Podcast
March 30, 2019 Interview with Mark Sevi: Whoever Writes Monsters Podcast
April 25, 2019 University of Arkansas at Fayetteville, Arkansas
July 19, 2019 Guest Speaker: The WM3 Case- Retired Law Enforcement Officer Banquet, Paragould, Arkansas
September 27, 2019 National Association for Legal Professionals (NALS), Little Rock, Arkansas
November 2019 Catonsville High School, Baltimore, Maryland
April 15, 2020 Web Seminar- Catonsville High School, Baltimore, Maryland
October 30, 2020 Web Seminar- Catonsville High School, Baltimore, Maryland
September 2, 2022 Paragould Podcast, Paragould, Arkansas
November 21, 2023 Kiwanis Club Meeting, Paragould, Arkansas
November 21, 2023 Book Signing at the Crossing, Paragould, Arkansas
December 1st, 2023 Paragould Podcast on A Harvest of Innocence
December 9, 2023 Book Signing at Weber's Book House, Paragould, Arkansas
December 16, 2023 Book Signing at the Joe Wessell Building, Paragould, Arkansas
December 22, 2023 Book Signing at the Joe Wessell Building, Paragould, Arkansas
December 29, 2023 Book Signing at Sandestin Resort, Destin, Florida
January 5, 2024 Recorded Podcast for Radio Sweden
January 6, 2024 Book Signing at Weber's Book House, Paragould, Arkansas
January 26, 2024 Book Signing at the Greene County Library, Paragould, Arkansas
Publications:
Satanic Panic and Defending the West Memphis Three:
How Cultural Differences Can Play a Major Role in
Criminal Cases, The University of Memphis Law Review,
Volume 42, Number 4 (Summer 2012)
John Grisham meet Dan Stidham
Fiction pales against a Paragould lawyer's real life trial in a
triple child slaying.
Today, three years later, you walk into the Stidham law office in Paragould and so much has changed. For one thing, on this day in midweek the place is quiet. The phone rings regularly, but not incessantly the way it did back then. The reception area has been refurbished, and the lawbook-lined conference room straight ahead is neat and unoccupied--no half-eaten sandwiches, no takeout cartons, no crumpled paper and chewed pencils. The only obvious sign to events past is the large stack of storage boxes marked "J.M." on the conference room floor just inside the door. There are, however, some less-than-obvious signs. One is that the name on the outside of the building is simply Stidham Law Firm instead of the former Stidham & Crow. Beyond that, the signs grow even less obvious. To notice those, you'd have to spend some time with the attorney-in-residence here, Daniel T. Stidham. He's a big man, a former high school football player, and he's much younger than you might've expected.
Ryder to the Rescue
Winona headlines celebs at art show for West Memphis Three
LOS ANGELES (2003)—Overlooking a crowd of thousands in downtown Los Angles, Winona Ryder didn’t mince words. “We believe a terrible injustice happened 10 years ago,” the doe-eyed celeb, a cordon of lights illuminating her in the darkness. “An injustice that involved six young lives. Three are dead. Three are holed up in prison for crimes that we and millions across America believe they did not commit.”
Three at Last
Gentleman's Quarterly (December 2011)
By: Sean Flynn
They are notorious for, and can never escape, a crime they didn’t commit. Eighteen years ago, three teenagers in Arkansas were falsely accused of the murders of three young boys. It was an astounding abuse of justice, and it was all caught on film, in a series of HBO documentaries that gained a cult following and led celebrities like Johnny Depp and Eddie Vedder to take up the cause. Suddenly released this summer, the west memphis three are now free to pick up their lives—if they can even find them.
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Tipped Scales
By Justin Sayles Ringer.com June 9, 2021
‘Paradise Lost’ debuted on HBO, bringing the story of the West Memphis Three to TV sets and showing the power of the camera in the courtroom. A quarter-century later, what does the documentary tell us about citizen activism, the criminal justice system, and the Satanic Panic of the 1980s and ’90s?
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Vanity Fair Magazine
By: Joanna Robison
January 13, 2019
The West Memphis Three: True Detective Season 3 centers on the case of 12- and 10-year-old siblings Will and Julie Purcell, who, on the day Steve McQueen died and a harvest moon rose, disappeared while riding their bikes in fictional West Fingers, Arkansas... Given the striking tableau of three young men in a purple Volkswagen, the discussion of Satanic references in teen music, and the setting of rural Arkansas, there can be no doubt of the clearest true-crime parallel in this first episode of Season 3.