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 … [Read more...] about Steve on “The 21st”
Reasonable Doubt
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
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