Steve Vogel | Author of The New York Times Best-Selling book Reasonable Doubt
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In the weeks and months following the Hendricks family murders, there was interest, curiosity—maybe even controversy—about why a space on the large family tombstone reserved for an epitaph had never been filled in. Some family members explained that given the circumstances, whatever words appeared—even a phrase from the Bible—would be open to misinterpretation and speculation. …
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
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:
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 …
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 …
Nobody loves a coincidence more than long-time columnist Bill Flick. He wrote about one relating to the Hendricks case (even included a photo) at the end of a recent column. Find it at https://www.pantagraph.com/blogs/flick/flick-stealing-the-judge-s-parking-place/article_d928638c-64f0-5948-938d-6b24a7d6d03d.html
