Journalist, author, and Restoration member Barb Bradley Hagerty considers reporting the story of Ben Spencer to be the most meaningful endeavor in her life. Join us on Wednesday evening, April 9, to hear her experience in writing this book – Bringing Ben Home: A Murder, A Conviction, and the Fight to Redeem American Justice – and the spiritual impact it’s had on her.

On March 26, 1987, Ben Spencer – 22 years old, newly married, with a baby on the way – was arrested for robbing and killing a wealthy white man in Dallas. Nothing connected him to the crime. But he was convicted on the testimony of three witnesses who lied for money and a jailhouse informant who lied for a shorter sentence. He was sentenced to life in prison. This is a true crime story, but it’s also a history of the modern innocence movement, which revealed how easy it is to convict an innocent person and how impossible it is to undo the mistake.