Steve Vogel | Author of The New York Times Best-Selling book Reasonable Doubt
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It was October of 1982. Jefferson Starship–complete with Kantner and Grace Slick–was launching a 20-day tour with a concert at Illinois State University. A local minister, Rev. Wesley Ates of the First Pentecostal Church in Bloomington, Ill., had claimed the devil spoke backwards on Beatles records and urged people to attend his prayer service rather …
Whether you’re a big fan of libraries or just like to fantasize about the “Room of Requirement” in the Harry Potter books, I promise you’ll love this episode of “This American Life.” If you’re a librarian, it’s “must” listening. A children’s librarian? Especially Act Three. https://www.thisamericanlife.org/664/the-room-of-requirement
In late spring of 1991, a few months after David Hendricks was acquitted in his second trial in the murders of his wife and children, Hendricks and his second wife Pat moved from Illinois to Ohio. Hendricks opened a new orthotic-prosthetic practice in Sylvania (a suburb of Toledo) with a partner and sent this letter …
“We’re having to eat some humble stew.” That assessment came from Noah, sitting a couple bar seats away as the clock wound down on Alabama’s scoreless second half and Clemson was about to complete a stunning rout of the Crimson Tide and be crowned as the nation’s best. The final score on the big TV …
I was flattered by the large turnouts for the various programs I presented about the Hendricks case over the past couple months. The highlight for me came last month when among those in the overflow audience was retired Judge Richard Baner, who presided over both murder trials. I actually interviewed him briefly as part of …
In my original reporting leading to my book Reasonable Doubt, I encountered three other family murder cases with striking similarities to the Hendricks family murders that occurred within a few months of one another. One of them is in the news this week. Here’s a link to a CBS Television News report (it begins with …