Steve Vogel | Author of The New York Times Best-Selling book Reasonable Doubt
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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 state’s attorney, Charles Reynard, had a conflict of interest, having represented two people …
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 so now, so I’ll just correct the errors I noticed on …
Retired Judge Richard Baner, who presided in both Hendricks trials, was among those in the audience when Steve Vogel presented a program about the case on the 35th anniversary of the crime’s discovery. https://www.pantagraph.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/judge-juries-in-hendricks-murder-trials-got-it-right/article_be946677-d3e0-58e2-8f87-68bfbd024a30.html#tracking-source=home-top-story-1
Steve was superb interviewer Niala Boodhoo’s guest on Illinois Public Media’s “The 21st”–the public affairs program heard on several of the state’s NPR affiliates. Find the interview at https://will.illinois.edu/player/audio/soil-carbon-and-cowboys-documentary-bloomington-murder-case-revisited-colle
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 emails about the updated version shortly after it was published. You’ll …
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