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LaGrone talks to police at
Clinton Lake

July 19, 2019

Three days after the drownings of his girlfriend’s three children, Maurice LaGrone agreed to meet police at the scene of the incident and tell them what had happened. Here are excerpts of that interview as videotaped by detectives at Clinton Lake:

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Clinton Lake

The Unforgiven 911 call

July 12, 2019

This is the audio of the call for help Amanda Hamm made while her three young children, trapped in her car, were drowning in a lake. A warning: It’s not easy to listen to. Hamm is hysterical, to the point that the 911 dispatcher has great difficulty understanding her. About a minute into the call, …

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Another verdict possibility?
“Not proven”

June 30, 2019

I just received this email, presumably from a resident of Scotland, who had just read Reasonable Doubt: I have just finished this book tonight. You probably know that in Scots Law we have a third verdict of Not Proven. It is delivered by a jury when they assess that the prosecution have failed to prove …

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“Not proven”

About Dateline’s report on the Zimmerman case

June 18, 2019

The focus of the June 17, 2019 edition of NBC’s “Dateline” was a Bloomington, Ill., murder case. That meant my The Unforgiven co-author, a newspaper courts and crime reporter at the time, was among the case’s best-informed, objective observers. So that’s why Dateline interviewed Edith Brady-Lunny and used her clear-eyed description of the facts to …

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Lunch with a legend

May 14, 2019

A tributary of self-consciousness (is that trying too hard?) flows over me at this moment. That’s because I’m about to…well, we used to say, “put words to paper” about one of America’s very best sports journalists. Ever. It’s not just me saying that. Already long ago Dave Kindred was given the craft’s highest honor, the …

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Hendricks reviews The Unforgiven

May 12, 2019

One of the first reviews on Amazon of our new book, The Unforgiven, comes from David Hendricks. His story involving the ax murders of his wife and three children was the subject of our first book, Reasonable Doubt. Give Hendricks’s review (and those of others) a look at https://www.amazon.com/Unforgiven-Untold-Womans-Search-Justice/dp/1543962009/ref=sr_1_fkmrnull_1?keywords=the+unforgiven+vogel&qid=1557672020&s=gateway&sr=8-1-fkmrnull#customerReviews

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