Steve Vogel | Author of The New York Times Best-Selling book Reasonable Doubt
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David Hendricks had been behind bars more than six years when the Illinois Supreme Court overturned his conviction and left it up to McLean County prosecutors to determine whether he should face a re-trial. The problem was the man who was then state’s attorney, Charles Reynard, had a conflict of interest, having represented two people …
Shortly after Reasonable Doubt was first published as a hardcover book, I invited David Hendricks to identify factual errors. I received this letter from him in December of 1989: Dear Steve: I haven’t reread the book yet and I am too busy to do so now, so I’ll just correct the errors I noticed on …
Thirty years ago, on the 50th anniversary of Kristallnacht, a Holocaust survivor spoke publicly for the first time about the horrors he had seen and what he had done as a teenage guerilla/partisan, fighting German Nazi invaders in what is now Belarus, very close to Poland’s eastern border. Sol Shulman later immigrated to the United …
Over the course of 22 years, I had two letters and one email from David Hendricks after he read the book I wrote about his family’s murders, his arrest, his conviction and subsequent retrial and release. And then last spring, I received two short emails about the updated version shortly after it was published. You’ll …
When Reasonable Doubt was first published, Steve was hosting a talk show on Bloomington radio station WJBC, regularly interviewing special guests. So the tables were turned when Steve became the interviewee on his own show with local radio icon Don Munson posing the questions and fielding the phone calls. The interview was timely–and not only because …
Charlie Crowe had been a detective for 12 of the 17 years he had been on the Bloomington, Ill., Police Department and the lead investigator on most of the 30 murders the city had recorded in his time as a detective. These are his hand-written notes from his first two interviews with Hendricks—first in a …
