Over the course of 22 years, I had two letters and one email from David Hendricks after he read the book I wrote about his family's murders, his arrest, his conviction and subsequent retrial and release. And then last spring, I received two short … [Read more...] about The Hendricks letters (post-Reasonable Doubt)
Brad Murphy press conference
David Hendricks had been behind bars more than six years when the Illinois Supreme Court overturned his conviction and left it up to McLean County prosecutors to determine whether he should face a re-trial. The problem was the man who was then … [Read more...] about Brad Murphy press conference
Live radio coverage of David Hendricks’s acquittal
Get ready for a rather remarkable flashback to the acquittal of David Hendricks on charges that he was responsible for the ax and butcher knife slayings of his wife and three young children. Steve Vogel (whose book about the Hendricks case had … [Read more...] about Live radio coverage of David Hendricks’s acquittal
A timely Flick Fact
https://www.pantagraph.com/blogs/flick/flick-fact/article_9288da54-d7af-53ad-bd1a-029d3280208c.html … [Read more...] about A timely Flick Fact
The Judge Richard Baner interview
On March 29, 1991, David Hendricks was found not guilty in his second trial of killing his wife and three children. A week later he was scheduled to be at the WJBC Radio studios for an interview on my afternoon talk … [Read more...] about The Judge Richard Baner interview
Reasonable Doubt becomes audiobook
"Reasonable Doubt"—a recently-updated book about one of the Midwest’s most notorious crimes—has just been published as an audiobook. Tantor Audio released an unabridged version of author Steve Vogel’s New York Times best-seller about the Hendricks … [Read more...] about Reasonable Doubt becomes audiobook