In the weeks and months following the Hendricks family murders, there was interest, curiosity—maybe even controversy—about why a space on the large family tombstone reserved for an epitaph had never been filled in. Some family members explained that … [Read more...] about The non-existent epitaph
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Hendricks’s December 1987 newsletter
David Hendricks had been behind bars four years (three of them at Menard, a maximum security prison) in the deaths of his wife and three children when, in December 1987, he sent a year-end newsletter to family, friends and, I gather, media … [Read more...] about Hendricks’s December 1987 newsletter
Steve interviewed on own talk show
When Reasonable Doubt was first published, Steve was hosting a talk show on Bloomington radio station WJBC, regularly interviewing special guests. So the tables were turned when Steve became the interviewee on his own show with local radio icon Don … [Read more...] about Steve interviewed on own talk show
Hendricks’s corrections to Reasonable Doubt
Shortly after Reasonable Doubt was first published as a hardcover book, I invited David Hendricks to identify factual errors. I received this letter from him in December of 1989: Dear Steve: I haven't reread the book yet and I am too busy to do … [Read more...] about Hendricks’s corrections to Reasonable Doubt
The Hendricks letters (post-Reasonable Doubt)
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