Steve Vogel's Clippings

Shortly after he was arrested for the slayings of his wife and three children, David Hendricks was taken to the McLean County Jail, only a block away from the Bloomington, Ill., Police Department.  He would spend the next nine months there, awaiting … [Read more...] about Hendricks’s early hours, days behind bars

One of my few disappointments with the 20/20 on ID “Homicide” retelling of the Hendricks family murders and investigation story is that the national TV show did not include something first reported in my book:  that McLean County State’s Attorney Ron … [Read more...] about The Hendricks “read-out”

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

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

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

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