Steve Vogel | Author of The New York Times Best-Selling book Reasonable Doubt
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In July of 1986, less than a month after an Illinois Appellate Court upheld David Hendricks’s conviction on charges that he murdered his wife and three young children in 1983, Hendricks held a press conference inside Menard Correctional Center, the maximum-security prison where he was serving a sentence of natural life. It was a lengthy …
Well, I can’t restrain myself from pointing this out. Quite a lot is being made of former Secretary of State Rex Tillerson’s commencement address today at the Virginia Military Institute, a theme engagingly and happily aligned with the last paragraph in my final newspaper column 10 months ago. Today Tillerson said: “If our leaders seek …
If you haven’t read Reasonable Doubt — but especially if you have — I think you’ll find this 22-minute piece of audio interesting. It’s a special report Bloomington, Ill., radio station WJBC did in January of 1985 after the sentencing of David Hendricks for the murders of his wife and children. I had covered the …
The relatively modest size of Bloomington, Ill., narrows the definition of “coincidence.” But wasn’t it quirky that just an hour after a recent book signing, when I joined my family for dinner at a local pizza joint, in walk Ron Dozier, who prosecuted David Hendricks in his first murder trial, and Charlie Crowe, the first …
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In Reasonable Doubt, I wrote about three family murders with similar modus operandi that occurred within a few months of the Hendricks murders. I didn’t write about an ax murder case that occurred in nearby Springfield, Ill., two and a half years earlier because it was significantly different. It, however, is in the news these days. The State Journal …
