Steve Vogel | Author of The New York Times Best-Selling book Reasonable Doubt
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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 trial. He was placed in a brightly-lit cell in direct view of the …
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 Dozier and David Hendricks met for an off-the-record discussion just four days before Hendricks’s …
In the weeks and months following the Hendricks family murders, there was interest, curiosity—maybe even controversy—about why a space on the large family tombstone reserved for an epitaph had never been filled in. Some family members explained that given the circumstances, whatever words appeared—even a phrase from the Bible—would be open to misinterpretation and speculation. …
Those of you who’ve read the updated version of my book know David Hendricks and his wife were expecting a baby girl this summer. She’s arrived! https://www.facebook.com/david.hendricks.39395
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 other attorney, John Long, was telling reporters:
It was 100 years ago today that my father was born. He died nearly five years ago. We’re grateful for his birth and for his long life. I invite you to read a newspaper column I wrote about him shortly after his death at: https://www.pantagraph.com/news/opinion/editorial/vogel-a-long-life-well-lived-on-a-family-farm/article_39b2ce78-1893-11e3-9f9f-0019bb2963f4.html
