Steve Vogel | Author of The New York Times Best-Selling book Reasonable Doubt
The official website of New York Times Best-Selling Author Steve Vogel
Here’s a riveting story from The New York Times Magazine about the role of dubious blood spatter evidence in an Illinois murder case. The Ed Parkinson mentioned in the story helped prosecute the second murder trial against David Hendricks. And coincidentally the location of the killing in this Times story, Lawrenceville, is only 15 miles …
Music has always been a big part of my life. One of my musical thrills occurred not long before Christmas in 2009 when I narrated a children’s book, A Christmas Bell for Anya by Chris Stewart, while the Illinois Wesleyan University Civic Orchestra played Alfred Reed’s famed Russian Christmas Music. I remember I arrived at the …
As noted in a previous “clipping,” David Hendricks was scheduled to appear on my radio talk show one week after he was acquitted in the brutal slayings of his wife and children. But a few hours before airtime, he called to say he was emotionally unable/unprepared to do a radio show at that time. Just …
On March 29, 1991, David Hendricks was found not guilty in his second trial of killing his wife and three children. A week later he was scheduled to be at the WJBC Radio studios for an interview on my afternoon talk show. We promoted his appearance heavily. You can imagine the letdown when I had …
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 been first published 17 months earlier) anchored Bloomington, Ill., radio station WJBC’s coverage. …
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 …