Steve Vogel | Author of The New York Times Best-Selling book Reasonable Doubt
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After what I had read, heard and seen about Bob Woodward’s “Fear,” I never actually expected to find anything positive in the book about President Trump. Okay, there’s not much. But there is some. Yet in the end our president comes off as ill-informed, unprepared and impulsive. Not a good combination in the Oval Office. …
David Hendricks had been behind bars four years (three of them at Menard, a maximum security prison) in the deaths of his wife and three children when, in December 1987, he sent a year-end newsletter to family, friends and, I gather, media contacts: The last three months have offered me more excitement than most months …
Many court observers were surprised when the Illinois Supreme Court agreed to review the conviction of David Hendricks in the murders of his wife and three children. That’s because the state’s Fourth District Appellate Court had already unanimously upheld the the decision. Now behind bars for more than three years, Hendricks tried to help himself …
Shortly after David Hendricks’s July 8, 1986 news conference inside the Menard prison, McLean County State’s Attorney Ron Dozier, who had convicted Hendricks of killing his wife and three children, appeared on my WJBC radio talk show. I played some of Hendricks’s more salient statements from the media event and gave Dozier the opportunity to …
Just a couple months after David Hendricks had been convicted of killing his wife and three children, I wrote him at the Menard prison, asking him for an interview for the purposes of a book that I was planning. He sent a hand-written response dated April 4, 1985: I don’t have a copy of my …
Katy Steinmetz writes one of the better articles I’ve seen about the challenges we all face in deciding what to believe on the Internet. Her article, “The Real Fake News Crisis,” is in the current (Aug. 20, 2018) issue of Time magazine. If you’re among those concerned about the effect wide-spread untruths can have on …
