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ID Network Show Set for March 21

March 13, 2019

For those of you who missed last spring’s Investigation Discovery Network report on the Hendricks family murders, set your DVRs. ID has scheduled what I believe is its first re-run of the hour-long program since it first aired last April. The re-broadcast is set for 9 a.m. (eastern time) Thursday, March 21. The show, titled …

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Hendricks’s letter of introduction

January 9, 2019

In late spring of 1991, a few months after David Hendricks was acquitted in his second trial in the murders of his wife and children, Hendricks and his second wife Pat moved from Illinois to Ohio. Hendricks opened a new orthotic-prosthetic practice in Sylvania (a suburb of Toledo) with a partner and sent this letter …

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Judge Baner in 2018

December 28, 2018

I was flattered by the large turnouts for the various programs I presented about the Hendricks case over the past couple months. The highlight for me came last month when among those in the overflow audience was retired Judge Richard Baner, who presided over both murder trials. I actually interviewed him briefly as part of …

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Blood spatter evidence

December 24, 2018

Here’s a riveting story from The New York Times Magazine about the role of dubious blood spatter evidence in an Illinois murder case. The Ed Parkinson mentioned in the story helped prosecute the second murder trial against David Hendricks. And coincidentally the location of the killing in this Times story, Lawrenceville, is only 15 miles …

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The questions I never got to ask Hendricks

December 14, 2018

As noted in a previous “clipping,” David Hendricks was scheduled to appear on my radio talk show one week after he was acquitted in the brutal slayings of his wife and children. But a few hours before airtime, he called to say he was emotionally unable/unprepared to do a radio show at that time. Just …

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Live radio coverage of
David Hendricks’s acquittal

December 2, 2018

Get ready for a rather remarkable flashback to the acquittal of David Hendricks on charges that he was responsible for the ax and butcher knife slayings of his wife and three young children. Steve Vogel (whose book about the Hendricks case had been first published 17 months earlier) anchored Bloomington, Ill., radio station WJBC’s coverage.  …

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David Hendricks’s acquittal
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