Steve Vogel | Author of The New York Times Best-Selling book Reasonable Doubt
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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 …
Shortly after he was arrested for the slayings of his wife and three children, David Hendricks was taken to the McLean County Jail, only a block away from the Bloomington, Ill., Police Department. He would spend the next nine months there, awaiting trial. He was placed in a brightly-lit cell in direct view of the …
One of my few disappointments with the 20/20 on ID “Homicide” retelling of the Hendricks family murders and investigation story is that the national TV show did not include something first reported in my book: that McLean County State’s Attorney Ron Dozier and David Hendricks met for an off-the-record discussion just four days before Hendricks’s …
In the weeks and months following the Hendricks family murders, there was interest, curiosity—maybe even controversy—about why a space on the large family tombstone reserved for an epitaph had never been filled in. Some family members explained that given the circumstances, whatever words appeared—even a phrase from the Bible—would be open to misinterpretation and speculation. …
