Martin D. Yant is a journalist and a licensed private investigator. He has worked for the Pittsburgh Press, Chicago Daily News, Chicago Sun-Times, the Mansfield, Ohio, News Journal, and the Columbus Dispatch. He has discussed wrongful convictions and other forms of injustice on numerous TV and radio talk shows and had his investigations featured on NBC-TV's Unsolved Mysteries, The CBS Evening News, 48 Hours, A&E's American Justice, the Discovery Channel, and a German TV network. He is the author of Presumed Guilty; Desert Mirage: The True Story of the Gulf War; Tin Star Tyrants: America's Crooked Sheriffs; Rotten to the Core: Crime, Sex and Corruption in Johnny Appleseed's Hometown; and a follow-up book called Rotten to the Core 2.