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Nadine Palmer’s phone call

October 12, 2018

Approximately three hours after David Hendricks called police, telling them he was worried about the whereabouts and well-being of his family, his mother-in-law, Nadine Palmer, called Bloomington police, too. She lived about 45 minutes away and had been expecting her daughter and grandchildren at a family dinner, but they never showed up.  Her son and …

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The Hendricks phone calls

October 3, 2018

There has been a lot of debate over the years about phone calls David Hendricks made in the hours before the bodies of his wife and three children were found inside their home.  While in Wisconsin, Hendricks called his home and those of neighbors and relatives–and eventually police.  Was it an effort to check on …

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Hendricks news release about coming marriage

September 16, 2018

In May of 1988, David Hendricks, Menard Prison inmate N-50478,  distributed a news release to announce he was about to marry.  Here’s the release: NEWS RELEASE    May 1, 1988     From:  David Hendricks, Menard My natural inclination is to keep this news private.  I present it, however, with a two-fold purpose:  1) Out of …

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The Woodward book

September 15, 2018

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. …

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Hendricks’s December 1987 newsletter

September 7, 2018

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 …

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Hendricks Supreme Court hearing

August 31, 2018

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 …

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