| 词条 | David Hendricks |
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David Hendricks is an American businessman convicted of killing his wife and three children in 1984 but acquitted in a retrial in 1991. LifeDavid James Hendricks was born in Morton Grove and raised in Oak Park, Illinois. He was a member of the Exclusive branch of the Plymouth Brethren, a conservative Christian sect. He started and ran a business in Bloomington, Illinois, selling a back-brace he had patented.[1] On November 7, 1983, while Hendricks was out of state on a business trip, his wife Susan, 30, and the couple's three children — Rebekah, 9; Grace, 7; and Benjamin, 5 were found murdered in their Bloomington home. An axe and a butcher's knife were the murder weapons. TrialHendricks was tried the following year — the trial was moved to Rockford, Illinois, 133 miles away from Bloomington and he was found guilty. Doubts were raised as to his guilt, however, due to the prosecution's reliance on circumstantial evidence and anti-religious bias.{{Citation needed|date=December 2007}} Among other factors, the prosecution attempted to link the murders to Hendricks's belief that divorce was a sin.{{Citation needed|date=December 2007}} The prosecution argued that since Hendricks did not believe in divorce, his only way out of his marriage was to kill his wife and children.{{Citation needed|date=December 2007}} Although two weapons were found and the blood spatters pointed to two perpetrators, the prosecution argued for Hendricks's sole guilt and his lawyers missed some key pieces of evidence (one was the proposed order of killings). There were also some clear signs of bungled evidence, such as the containers of the children's stomach contents (one of the children's "stomach content" vials contained food that she disliked). Despite the inconsistencies and the prosecution's circumstantial case, Hendricks was found guilty and was sentenced to four consecutive life sentences. He served seven years in Menard Correctional Center in Illinois. While incarcerated Hendrick befriended his cellmate, convicted murderer and prison fugitive Henry Hillenbrand. Using a tape recorder and with Hillenbrand's blessing Hendricks used his jail time to pen a novel about Hillenbrand's life. Hendricks married a second time while in prison. In 1991, he was acquitted and released after a retrial at the McLean County Law and Justice Center in Bloomington. He is in his fourth marriage, and currently lives in Orlando, Florida with his wife Gazel. He sold his last business within the last three years. In popular culture
References1. ^Cult Help and Information - Roots of Hendricks' religion traced http://www.pantagraph.com/news/hendricks-nov-the-day-that-changed-bloomington/article_16451c8c-6eb9-598a-887e-30421254cbd9.htmlSee also
7 : American Plymouth Brethren|Living people|People acquitted of murder|People from Bloomington, Illinois|Mass murder in 1984|1984 murders in the United States|Year of birth missing (living people) |
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