Reasonable Doubt, Steve Vogel
Reasonable Doubt, Steve Vogel
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Reasonable Doubt
A Shocking Story of Lust and Murder in the American Heartland

Author: Steve Vogel

Narrator: Keith Sellon-Wright

Unabridged: 16 hr 48 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 10/16/2018

Synopsis

A mother and her three young children are found hacked to death in their beds. The apparent weapons, an ax and butcher knife, are found nearby. A month later the husband and father, who was away on a business trip when the bodies were found, is accused of the killings. Police believe he methodically murdered his wife and children before he left. But why? A successful businessman and devoted member of a fundamentalist religious group, David Hendricks has the total support of his extended family. Police paint a darker picture, and prosecutors face the daunting task of convicting him on a case based on completely circumstantial evidence.

A New York Times bestseller, this book has now been updated with additional content. Readers often comment they must continually remind themselves that this story is real, that "Reasonable Doubt" is testament to the fact truth is stranger than fiction. The book has also been used in college-level criminal justice courses to explain and illustrate the legal concept of reasonable doubt.

About Steve Vogel

Steve Vogel is the author of Through the Perlious Fight and The Pentagon: A History. He is a reporter for the national staff of the Washington Post who covers the federal government and frequently writes about the military and veterans. Based overseas from 1989 through 1994 and reporting for the Post and Army Times, he covered the fall of the Berlin Wall and the first Gulf War, and subsequently reported on military operations in Somalia, Rwanda, the Balkans, Afghanistan, and Iraq. Vogel also covered the 9/11 attack on the Pentagon and its subsequent reconstruction. He lives in the Washington metro area.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Fishface on February 25, 2019

This was an even better read the second time around, with the new information added. This story followed me all the years after I read it when I first came out, because it was so odd and I just couldn't get it to fit together neatly into a picture of what must have happened to the Hendricks family.......more

Goodreads review by Rachael on April 05, 2022

** 4 stars** I feel like I am now almost an expert in a crime that I had never heard of before reading this book. I listened to the audiobook of Reasonable Doubt: A Shocking Story of Lust and Murder in the American Heartland, which was a recommendation after listening to many true crime audiobooks. T......more

Goodreads review by P on September 01, 2021

I'm not sure why I took this on, as I'm not really a fan of the true-crime genre - with the exceptions of Helter Skelter and Fatal Vision. Anyway, not surprisingly, this tome became tedious when the author included so much actual testimony from the trial, with the lawyers' endless questioning of 'ex......more

Goodreads review by Fishface on February 24, 2019

Even better on a second reading This story followed me all the years after I read it when it first came out, and with the updated re-release I have more to think about than ever. What a head-scratcher of a story this is. It never quite adds up as satisfactorily as I would like. Did he do it? If he di......more

Goodreads review by Ronnie on July 23, 2014

Good, solid account of an interesting case. More trial-based than many other true-crime books. I appreciated the fact that the author waited until the epilogue before inserting himself into the narrative.......more

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