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H5N1 Donating Member (777 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-24-05 10:49 AM
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Deadly Daddy?

David Hendricks sobs at funeral services for his family in 1983. His wife, Susan (below, right), and kids — Rebekah (below, rear), Grace and Ben — were all found hacked to death in their beds. Hendricks was found guilty but later cleared in the killings.
It was dad's night to watch the kids, so on the evening of Nov. 7, 1983, David Hendricks, 29, bundled his brood into the car for a treat - dinner at the Chuck E. Cheese's Pizza Time Theater in Bloomington, Ill.

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In the eyes of detectives, this all seemed too calm, too accepting for a man whose entire family had just been wiped out by an ax murderer, wrote Steve Vogel in his book on the case, "Reasonable Doubt."

Hendricks noted that police said the killer was probably a burglar, giving details he could not possibly have known unless he had been inside the house. But the crime scene had been sealed off, even to Hendricks.

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime_file/story/339080p-289568c.html


This fellow sure looks guilty to me.
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txaslftist Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-24-05 10:56 AM
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1. Well, I sure ain't letting you on any of my juries, then.
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H5N1 Donating Member (777 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-24-05 11:01 AM
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3. I will never serve on a jury, worry not
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txaslftist Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-24-05 11:07 AM
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5. That felony conviction slow you down?
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Ravy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-24-05 10:58 AM
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2. Even the judge in the FIRST case where he was found guilty...
... was not convinced beyond a reasonable doubt. And said so.

There must be more to this for a judge to say that. I think you don't have the whole story.
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H5N1 Donating Member (777 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-24-05 11:03 AM
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4. I think he fooled them
Unless the facts presented are not the facts, I think he is
a world class 'salesman.'
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Ravy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-24-05 01:54 PM
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6. You are certainly welcome to that opinion, and you may be right..
... however, it takes more than suspicion, or even PROBABLILITY, to convict someone.
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