The Hendrickses’ new baby
Those of you who’ve read the updated version of my book know David Hendricks and his wife were expecting a baby girl this summer. She’s arrived! https://www.facebook.com/david.hendricks.39395
Defense attorneys after Hendricks sentencing
Moments after Judge Richard Baner spared David Hendricks the death penalty in the murders of Hendricks’s wife and children, I did a one-on-one interview with one of Hendricks’s attorneys, Hal Jennings. At about the same time, Hendricks’s other attorney, John Long, was telling reporters:
One hundred years ago
It was 100 years ago today that my father was born. He died nearly five years ago. We’re grateful for his birth and for his long life. I invite you to read a newspaper column I wrote about him shortly after his death at: https://www.pantagraph.com/news/opinion/editorial/vogel-a-long-life-well-lived-on-a-family-farm/article_39b2ce78-1893-11e3-9f9f-0019bb2963f4.html
The Clapper book
I’ve finished reading former U.S. Director of National Intelligence James Clapper’s book, “Facts and Fears,” just as President Trump is about to hold his first bilateral summit with Russian leader Vladimir Putin. I picked up this thick and sometimes ponderous book because I’ve always been fascinated by spy craft and recently made even more curious …
Michael Campion on Hendricks’s mental state
Chicago psychiatrist Richard Rappaport had been hired by David Hendricks’s defense lawyers to assess Hendricks’s mental condition. Dr. Rappaport, who had gained some notoriety as an expert witness in the John Wayne Gacy trial four years earlier, wound up becoming prosecutors’ sole witness in the sentencing hearing in which they sought the death penalty in …
Defense attorney John Long
Digital version of original cassette tape audio recordings by journalist and author Steve Vogel. The day after a jury found David Hendricks guilty of killing his wife and children, defense co-counsel John Long told Judge Richard Baner that Hendricks had decided he would ask the judge, rather than the jury, to impose the sentence. Only …