Steve Vogel | Author of The New York Times Best-Selling book Reasonable Doubt
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Ken probably had a joke for this. But we don’t feel like laughing. Ken Behrens died last night. A household name because of his 30-plus years on Bloomington, Ill., radio station WJBC, Ken was occasionally an actor and stand-up comedian but always a loving husband, father and grandfather. His death was not unexpected, cancer finally …
Three years after she was charged with murder in the drowning deaths of her three children, Amanda Hamm was sentenced to prison. But just before the 10-year sentence was imposed by Judge Stephen Peters, she read from a two-page statement she had prepared. Here’s what she said: Your Honor, since September second, 2003, I have …
Two days after three children drowned at Clinton Lake, the driver of the vehicle voluntarily returned to the scene with police to describe how the incident occurred. (Elsewhere in this “Clippings” section we posted part of the video recorded by police.) Here’s a transcript of that entire discussion: http://secureservercdn.net/72.167.25.126/199.016.myftpupload.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/Maurice-Lake-Transcript-63-95.pdf
The focus of the June 17, 2019 edition of NBC’s “Dateline” was a Bloomington, Ill., murder case. That meant my The Unforgiven co-author, a newspaper courts and crime reporter at the time, was among the case’s best-informed, objective observers. So that’s why Dateline interviewed Edith Brady-Lunny and used her clear-eyed description of the facts to …
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 …