Steve Vogel | Author of The New York Times Best-Selling book Reasonable Doubt
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David Hendricks had been behind bars four years (three of them at Menard, a maximum security prison) in the deaths of his wife and three children when, in December 1987, he sent a year-end newsletter to family, friends and, I gather, media contacts: The last three months have offered me more excitement than most months …
Many court observers were surprised when the Illinois Supreme Court agreed to review the conviction of David Hendricks in the murders of his wife and three children. That’s because the state’s Fourth District Appellate Court had already unanimously upheld the the decision. Now behind bars for more than three years, Hendricks tried to help himself …
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 …
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 …
