Steve Vogel | Author of The New York Times Best-Selling book Reasonable Doubt
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In 2012 David Hendricks authored a book about his former cellmate at the Menard Correctional Center, hoping it might enhance Henry Hillenbrand’s chances of being paroled. (I wrote about the book in my newspaper column at the time. You can find that column elsewhere in this “Clippings” section.) Yesterday Hendricks received word that Hillenbrand is …
The science of DNA has resulted in freedom for many wrongly-convicted people. But this story from The New York Times confirms fingerprints–even old fingerprints—can be of great consequence.https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/21/us/fingerprint-database-archie-williams.html
California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s moratorium on capital punishment in his state removes some of the urgency surrounding the case of Kevin Cooper, convicted in one of three other family murder cases that had striking similarities with the Hendricks family murders. In my original reporting for my book, Reasonable Doubt, I came across those killings that …
A Nevada prison inmate is fighting extradition to Colorado where he now stands accused of committing the long-unsolved murders of a couple and their seven-year-old daughter I cited in Reasonable Doubt. The killings of Bruce and Debra Bennett and their daughter Melissa in their Aurora, Colo., home occurred two months after the Hendricks family killings …
Some of my most satisfying relationships have been with people I’ve worked with—teammates, if you will, in a common, perhaps even worthy purpose. That thought came to mind as I was enjoying the movie “Stan & Ollie” which focuses on the comedy pair’s declining years. Steve Coogan plays the head-scratching Stan Laurel and John C. …
A Canadian friend placed a copy of former Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s new book, “Right Here Right Now,” in my hands for Christmas. Harper writes a lot about what’s happening in the United States these days, acknowledging its impact on his home country. The urgency reflected in the book’s title can be summarized as “economic …