Steve Vogel | Author of The New York Times Best-Selling book Reasonable Doubt
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I’ve finished reading former U.S. Director of National Intelligence James Clapper’s book, “Facts and Fears,” just as President Trump is about to hold his first bilateral summit with Russian leader Vladimir Putin. I picked up this thick and sometimes ponderous book because I’ve always been fascinated by spy craft and recently made even more curious …
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, wound up becoming prosecutors’ sole witness in the sentencing hearing in which they sought the death penalty in …
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 had decided he would ask the judge, rather than the jury, to impose the sentence. Only …
Nobody loves a coincidence more than long-time columnist Bill Flick. He wrote about one relating to the Hendricks case (even included a photo) at the end of a recent column. Find it at https://www.pantagraph.com/blogs/flick/flick-stealing-the-judge-s-parking-place/article_d928638c-64f0-5948-938d-6b24a7d6d03d.html
In “The President Is Missing,” the new novel co-authored by former President Bill Clinton and James Patterson, Clinton uses parts of this fast-paced fiction to say what he really thinks through the voice of a fictionalized President Duncan. To wit: “Participation in our democracy seems to be driven by the instant-gratification worlds of Twitter, Snapchat, …
In July of 1986, less than a month after an Illinois Appellate Court upheld David Hendricks’s conviction on charges that he murdered his wife and three young children in 1983, Hendricks held a press conference inside Menard Correctional Center, the maximum-security prison where he was serving a sentence of natural life. It was a lengthy …