Digital version of original cassette tape audio recordings by journalist and author Steve Vogel. The day after a jury found David Hendricks guilty of killing his wife and children, defense co-counsel John Long told Judge Richard Baner that Hendricks … [Read more...] about Defense attorney John Long
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Michael Campion on Hendricks’s mental state
Chicago psychiatrist Richard Rappaport had been hired by David Hendricks’s defense lawyers to assess Hendricks's mental condition. Dr. Rappaport, who had gained some notoriety as an expert witness in the John Wayne Gacy trial four years earlier, … [Read more...] about Michael Campion on Hendricks’s mental state
Radio report on Hendricks’s sentencing
If you haven't read "Reasonable Doubt"--but especially if you have--I think you'll find this 22-minute piece of audio interesting. It's a special report Bloomington, Ill., radio station WJBC did in January of 1985 after the sentencing of David … [Read more...] about Radio report on Hendricks’s sentencing
Defense attorneys after Hendricks sentencing
Moments after Judge Richard Baner spared David Hendricks the death penalty in the murders of Hendricks's wife and children, I did a one-on-one interview with one of Hendricks's attorneys, Hal Jennings. At about the same time, Hendricks's … [Read more...] about Defense attorneys after Hendricks sentencing
The Hendricks letters (pre-“Reasonable Doubt” Part One)
Just a couple months after David Hendricks had been convicted of killing his wife and three children, I wrote him at the Menard prison, asking him for an interview for the purposes of a book that I was planning. He sent a hand-written response dated … [Read more...] about The Hendricks letters (pre-“Reasonable Doubt” Part One)
The Hendricks letters (pre-“Reasonable Doubt” Part Two)
Shortly after David Hendricks's July 8, 1986 news conference inside the Menard prison, McLean County State's Attorney Ron Dozier, who had convicted Hendricks of killing his wife and three children, appeared on my WJBC radio talk show. I played some … [Read more...] about The Hendricks letters (pre-“Reasonable Doubt” Part Two)