Steve Vogel | Author of The New York Times Best-Selling book Reasonable Doubt
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As we approach Memorial Day, I offer a column I wrote three years ago about a remarkable family of patriots who came from my hometown. I’m sorry to report that Norbert “Nubs” Petri, quoted in this 2015 column, died in February of 2018. And sadly, the last of the Petri brothers, Virgil, died seven month …
Well, I can’t restrain myself from pointing this out. Quite a lot is being made of former Secretary of State Rex Tillerson’s commencement address today at the Virginia Military Institute, a theme engagingly and happily aligned with the last paragraph in my final newspaper column 10 months ago. Today Tillerson said: “If our leaders seek …
It was 50 years ago tonight a tornado struck DeWitt County, Ill., killing four people and causing extensive damage. It was also 50 years ago tonight I “cut my eye teeth” as a journalist. As a college student (I was still a couple weeks away from graduation), my newspaper work had been confined almost exclusively …
If you haven’t read Reasonable Doubt — but especially if you have — I think you’ll find this 22-minute piece of audio interesting. It’s a special report Bloomington, Ill., radio station WJBC did in January of 1985 after the sentencing of David Hendricks for the murders of his wife and children. I had covered the …
The relatively modest size of Bloomington, Ill., narrows the definition of “coincidence.” But wasn’t it quirky that just an hour after a recent book signing, when I joined my family for dinner at a local pizza joint, in walk Ron Dozier, who prosecuted David Hendricks in his first murder trial, and Charlie Crowe, the first …
