The Hendricks Family

All witnesses purchase of interest, and suspects are considered innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Warning. This episode contains graphic crime scene detail and may be sensitive for some listeners. Hey guys, welcome back to another episode of Primetime Crime and officially the first episode of twenty twenty four. I am so excited, Happy New Year. We are going to go ahead and jump right into right now in true crime and try to cover all of the things that are happening right now in our true crime world because it is a lot. Bringing you an update on a case I previously talked about, which was the unfortunate murder of Elizabeth Medina in Edna, Texas. She was the sixteen year old who was brutally murdered in her own home by a suspect who has been named as Raphael Rameiro, and there was some questions as to whether or not she knew him, if he was somebody that was familiar with her. But it appears that it is still looking like it is random. I will say, however, that they did have some surveillance video of him stalking her, like going through the apartment complex, driving around, obviously stalking his prey because he is a predator, and they also have surveillance footage of him leaving the scene of the crime in a silver for Taurus. And there's also a possible connection to a burglary that Elizabeth and her mother had at their apartment on November thirteenth, and then December fifth is when was killed, so it definitely could be connected. They are still looking into it. But that is the update. It is terrible, it's tragic, and we can only hope that he gets what's coming to him. They did charge him with capital murder, so it's going to be really interesting to see how this one unfolds. In Idaho News, Brian Coberger, he has a hearing on January twenty sixth at eleven am. He also has a public hearing at one pm. The first hearing is not open to the public and the second one is and that is a scheduling hearing and it will be streamed on Judge Judge's YouTube channel, which is just such a twenty twenty three thing, twenty twenty fourth thing, I guess now, is what I'm saying. But that is the update. Hopefully we will get a trial date and we are going to see from there what goes on. I am recording this on December thirtieth, and it is been exactly one year since they arrested and charged Brian Coberger with the murders of Mattie, Kaylee, Ethan and Xana, and we can only hope that soon enough all four of them and their families will get the justice they deserve. Moving on to Savannah Sodo News. She is the pregnant eighteen year old who was found brutally murdered along with her boyfriend and their unborn child. She was due to go have her baby and they were both found shot allegedly behind the ear. According to family members, They, like I said in the last episode, released the surveillance video and you can see a black truck pull up and they are talking to a person that was in the car that belonged to Matthew. But everyone is speculating that at this point Savannah and Matthew and the unborn child had already been killed and whoever is in this car and in the black truck had something to do with it. So I will keep you guys updated. It is probably going to be one of those cases where we don't hear anything until the cops come out and say that they've arrested a suspect or suspects. It's looking like it's probably more than one person in this case, or at least one main person and then accessories because it just seems too coincidental that there's, you know, two different vehicles and different people in those vehicles that could be involved in this. So we'll definitely keep you guys updated. In ELK Murdon News, they came out and said that they are going to auction off his Mozille property and they're going to start the bidding at one point one million dollars and this online auction is set to take place on February fifteenth. So honestly, there's a lot of people out there. I see all the comments where people are like, I would never own a place like that. I can never live there. I personally could. I don't know what that says about me. I like the paranormal, I like kind of weird stuff like that, So maybe it would be interesting to own a place like that. I don't know. But it is a really nice house, Like the actual property is nice despite what happened there, and the home itself is really pretty. It's like all wood like ranch style vibes, totally my vibe. I don't have one point one million dollars, so I will not be bidding. But you know, there's a heck of a lot of people out there who are going to be bidding, so it's going to be interesting to see what it ends up going for. Okay, So that is all I want to talk about right now, as far as right now a true crime goes. But I do want to highlight something that in the last week, just like really made me realize why I'm doing what I'm doing and how important it is. And if you listen to the podcast regularly, you know I am a big proponent of putting the word out there and spreading the message for the wrong convicted. And I did a story on Rashon Grant and the Instagram page for Rashaon had reached out and thanked me for doing the episode and bringing awareness, and they also shared with me that Rashon had listened to the episode as well and was very thankful for the support. And honestly, that is really all that matters to me, is that the person that is wrongfully incarcerated for something that they didn't do feels that they're supported because it's hard enough. First of all, he has been thrust into being in prison for something he didn't do, taken away from his family. His family has been raped over the cools, and you can probably feel the most alone that you'll ever feel in a situation like that, and just having someone take the time to listen to your story, believe your story, and then share it has to be so so powerful. So when I heard that he had listened to the episode, it honestly made me realize why I do what I do, And I think it's just so important to keep sharing these episodes and keep living my truth. And I knew when I got into the wrongfully Convicted Allegedly in my opinion podcasting space that it was going to be maybe something that wouldn't be well received from a lot of people. But I have received so many different people who have supported these different cases that I've covered and at least have been willing to listen to another perspective, because when someone is incarcerated and they're charged and convicted and thrown in jail, no one ever wants to hear the other side of it, which the other side of it could be the side of innocence. Because the Innocence Project exists for reason, and that is because innocence in prison exists. So I've been really grateful that I have an amazing audience who is willing to take that into account and listen to a different perspective on these different cases. So I seriously just want to thank everyone for supporting and being there and being willing to accept and listen and understand that there are real people behind these cases. I've also been contacted by the daughter of another story that I did on the podcast, and we have been corresponding back and forth, and I'm getting a lot more information than I originally had when I did the episode, and I'm hopeful, so so hopeful that we can reunite this case and get justice for this woman who was murdered so so long ago. It really just makes me really that I'm doing it for the right reasons, and I'm only eight months into this and I'm already starting to see the ripple effects of what I'm doing, And to me, that's all that matters. I don't care about how many downloads I get, how many likes on a post I get, how many Instagram and Facebook followers I have. That does not matter. What matters is that the right person hears the story that they need to hear in order to help solve a case, because at the end of the day, that is what we're trying to do. We're trying to bring awareness and trying to spread the word on some of these lesser known cases that don't get any attention. So I thank you guys for being here with me for the journey and partaking in it and helping me tell these stories and sharing the podcast. So with all of that being said, we'll go ahead and get started with today's episode, and I thank each and every one of you for being here and supporting as always. All right, guys, jumping into today's episode. This is a case that I was made aware of through another podcast that I listened to. Somebody had written in and asked this podcast if they have heard of the case covered it, and they had not, So I decided that I was going to look into it, and holy moly, it did not disappoint. So today we are going to be talking about the unsolved nineteen eighty three murders of a family, the mother Susan and three children, Rebecca, Grace, and Benjamin. There is another important key player in the story, and that is the husband of Susan and the father of the children. His name is David Hendricks. He and Susan lived together in Illinois and they raise their three kids. Now, David was a very prominent person in the community. He was a very important person in the community, very well respected. He had created a back brace and it was a patented back brace at the time of these murders, and he was doing all of the footwork to try to get this back brace in the hands of people all over and try to really make profit off of this back brace. So he was working really hard, going to business conferences, working in the community to try to basically sell this back brace. He was an entrepreneur and it was his creation and he was proud of it. And of course, since I come from the therapy world, I wanted to see what this back brace was all about, what kind of brace it was, And I went down this rabbit hole of looking up David Hendrix and this back brace. And we'll get more into that later. But basically, David was a businessman. But he was a twenty nine year old living in Illinois, working hard, trying to provide for his family. His wife Susan stayed home with the kids, and everything changed for them on November seventh of nineteen eighty three, and we are going to talk about that a little bit. David and his family were members of a strict fundamentalist church, and they pretty much mostly kept to themselves and really didn't bother anybody. They would spend time with other members of the church, but for the most part, they just kind of kept to themselves. They didn't bother anybody, They didn't have any beef with anybody in the community. They were well liked, but also very reserved and just kind of did their own thing. So it was election day, November seventh of nineteen eighty three, and it was like any other day. So David had gone to work, Susan stayed home and spent time with the kids, and then David was planning on coming home and Susan was supposed to be going across town to attend a baby shower. So while Susan was at the baby shower, David took his three children to Chuck e Cheese and they played games while they waited on their food to come. And they ate pizza and did their thing, played games until about eight o'clock and then they left to go home. By nine thirty pm that evening, the children were sleeping in their beds. So Susan had returned home from the baby shower about ten thirty and spent a little bit of time with David before she went to bed, which was about thirty minutes later. And David was set to leave for a business trip that night, so he proceeded to do that. He got everything ready, Susan went to bed, the kids were in bed, and he left for the business trip. He checked into his hotel in Wisconsin, and he was preparing to spend the next day trying to sell his back brace to different medical professionals. That next day, he tries to call his wife a few times during the day. At first he called and nobody answered, and then he decided, well, I'm just going to call back in the afternoon, So he does that, no luck, and then he asked his assistant to try to get in touch with a neighbor to see if they can reach out and see if anyone is home, go over and knock on the door, and eventually David is realizing that something might be wrong. It was unlike Susan not to pick up calls and them not to answer the door if someone were to knock. That was very out of the ordinary. So David, it was growing concerned at this point. So he made a call to the Bloomington Police Department, and there is several transcripts of phone calls because he had to go through several different channels before he could get in touch with somebody that was able to help him try to figure out what was going on with his family. So I'm going to read the transcripts because I feel like they are so so so important in this case to kind of realize what David was going about doing in order to try to locate his family. So the first call is November eighth of nineteen eighty three at six thirty five pm Bloomington Police. Yeah, this is Dave Hendricks calling from I'm up in Madison, Wisconsin. I live in Bloomington, and I'm on a business trip right now. I'm a little concerned about my wife and kids because I've been trying to call them all day and I haven't gotten dot dot dot. The dispatressayes, where do you live, and he says, any answer, I live at three one three Carl Drive. Now here are the circumstances. I've tried to call them periodically through the day and haven't gotten them. I'm sure it's no big deal, no big emergency, but they're supposed to be at a dinner date tonight at five point thirty. So I called there to talk to her and they never showed up there. Dispatcher, what's your wife's name, Susan Hendricks. And they're not at home because I called a neighbor who's gone over to the house and knocked. So I think they might have been in an accident between Bloomingdale and Delvin, probably took Stringtown Road. Dispatcher, Okay, we can go out to Carl Drive and check on that. And then David said, well, the neighbor's been out there, they're not home. Dispatcher, well, then you should be calling the county. David, oh, I see, do you have their number? And the dispatcher gives him the number and if they can't help you, you should contact the state. And David asked for their number. The dispatcher gives the number, and David said, Okay, I'm making these calls long distance. There wouldn't be any way you could check this out for me. And the dispatcher says just a moment, and then a sergeant gets on the line. Who is Sergeant Aiken? And he ends up being transferred to Sergeant Aiken, and David Hendrick says, Hi, is this the Bloomington sergeant. Sergeant Aiken says, yes, it is is again he goes through it all right, This is Dave Hendrix. I asked her if she could check it out. I guess she just transferred the call. This is Dave Hendricks calling. I live at three p one to three Carl Drive. I'm calling from Madison, Wisconsin and I live in Bloomingdale, and I'm a bit concerned about my wife. I think she may have been involved in an accident and I've been wondering about that. I've been trying to call her all day, no answer, no response. Called the neighbors, their kids, don't even remember our kids being on the school bus this morning. And my wife was supposed to be at a dinner appointment at five point thirty in Delevan and she hasn't gotten there. I called there earlier. The sergeant asked for his wife's name, our last name, and he says Hendrix. And the sergeant says and you think she was involved in automobile accident, And Dave says, well, I'm guessing she probably took off for the dinner date and didn't get there because she's not at home. The neighbor's gone and knocked on the house and she's not there. Sergeant Aiken, OK, well, I wouldn't have any idea if we hadn't had a call of an accident here recently. You might check the county or I can call over there for you and find out, but we haven't had any report of an accident. And there's somebody in the background who was talking about another instance that happened where two cars struck each other at Washington Street, and they were talking about who she was. Did you get her name? And the person in the background said she was driving a black car, And the sergeant asked Dave what kind of car that Susan drove, and he said a yellow seventy two Cadillacs. So Sergeant Aiken said he was going to go check the file on that other case real quickly, but he was pretty sure that they didn't have anything. So he went and checked, and he said, I've got both here and the county, and they have no report of any accident for her. So Dave said, all right, if you could notify them that she would have taken Stringtown Road. I'm sure that's the route she would have taken from Bloomington to Delavan, and Sergeant Aiken says, okay, Delevan is not in our State Police district and you might call Director's Directory Assistance for this area code, and you might want the State Police headquarters because I don't have any way to contact them. So Dave said, can I leave you my number? And Sergeant Aikens says okay, And he said, just in case anything turns up. I haven't been able to call her at all. This is the phone number that I'm at. I'm at this hotel in room one ten on Madison Street. And again they go over the address three thirteen Carl Road, and again he gives the description of Susan's car, which is a yellow Cadillac nineteen seventy two with a green top, and that is the conversation. So at six forty one, David called the Illinois State Police headquarters and he gets a Corporal Sarah on the line and asked if this is the State Police, and they confirm that it is. He goes through the scenario again and said, I was told to call you because I was concerned about my wife. I think she might have gotten into an accident. She hasn't gotten to her destination and she's not home. And he said there has been nothing in her area at all, not even an accident, and Dave said, there's been nothing, and he says, in fact, we haven't even had a car report of a car broke down tonight. Of course, I'm not saying that's anything. She's not broke down somewhere. Now. This was in nineteen eighty three, before cell phones, before anything like that existed, so if something had happened to Susan, she really wouldn't have had a way to really get in touch with anybody. And she didn't have the contact information for where Dave was staying, because he was staying out of town at a hotel. So they go kind of back and forth, and he asked for his last name, and he gives him the last name, Hendrix, and the guy gets back on the phone and says he checked with the different counties and they don't have anything. They exchange phone numbers again, and he said, if I hear anything later, I will give you a call and that is that. So this man went through this story probably a total of like I want to say, four times, trying to get in touch with somebody who could help him try to figure out where his family was. So with all of that happening, eventually a officer Mike Hibbins and a detective named Dennis O'Brien went to the house to check on Susan and the children. When they made entrance into the home, they found all of them inside of the house and they have been brutally, brutally murdered. And trigger warning because we're going to talk about the manner in which they were killed. They had been killed with a combination of an axe and a butcher knife, and there was not really any sign of force entry. However, the back door was unlocked, but that was not uncommon back in those days for them to leave their back door open. And there wasn't hardly any sign at all of a struggle. And even though the killings were super super brutal, to kill anyone in that manner, especially children, you're a horrible person. Even though it was a very brutal crime scene, the weapons that were used to kill them had been cleaned and placed next to the bodies. Again, we're talking about a really sick individual to have done something like this, not only to go through with that, but then to sit there and clean the items that you used to completely murder this family. It's insanity. David was set to return home from his business trip that day, and he did return, of course, and came upon the fact that his family had been brutally murdered. They did say that his demeanor when he arrived at the scene was calm. And again, he is twenty nine years old. He had a gut feeling that something was wrong, and then his family, his wife and his children, were brutally murdered in their own home. And I don't think there's a quote unquote appropriate way to react to something like that. You are going through all of the stages of trying to figure out what is going on. You're probably in shock. There's no textbook response for something like that. Some people are probably disassociating and going through the motions just because they have to go through the motions because now they're going to be thrust into the middle of a police investigation. There is no way that you can look at somebody and say that they're not responding appropriately to trauma, because you don't know what trauma does to a person until you're in the middle of that trauma. We all respond to trauma differently. Me walking into a situation like that versus you walking into a situation like that might be two completely different things. And for anyone to judge somebody based on that initial reaction of being introduced to trauma is a really shitty thing to do. And unfortunately it happened in nineteen eighty three in David Hendrick's case, and it's still happened in today, in twenty twenty three, and I feel like we have to be better about it, We really really do. So of course police start their investigation. They are questioning David, They checked his clothes for any bloodstains, and they really didn't have any thing else to go off of. There was not really much more to go off of. They did, of course, know that two different weapons were used to murder this family, and they were very focused on David at this point, probably because they didn't have any other leads and this was a brutal murder of a normal family, so they very much focused in on David. From the get go, and they decided to kind of rego over his story that he had told. So they of course sent the bodies for autopsy to the medical examiner, and the medical examiners concluded that the story that David told did not fit. And the reason that they said that it didn't fit is because they had pointed out that there were some issues with the children's last meal, which was the pizza from Chuck E Cheese. So typically the food will leave the stomach and move into the small intestine within two hours, but all three of the children still had the different pizza toppings that they had consumed that night, and those pizza toppings were still in the stomach. So investigator had estimated that the time of death was somewhere around nine thirty, which meant that David was still at home and hadn't left yet for his business trip. And they went ahead and charged him with murdering his family. And they really didn't have any evidence of why he would do this, what the motive was for him to do this, other than the kids still had pizza toppings in their stomach and history can't be right, so we're going to charge him with murder. This is in nineteen eighty three, and sadly, this shit is still happening to this very day. And I don't know if it's lazy police work or the urgency to solve a case like this where it's really high pro file in the community and there's a horrible person out there and we're under pressure. We're just gonna go with the first thing that makes sense, And of course it's the husband. Of course, it's this father of three and husband and pillar in this community that just decided to randomly wipe out his family while he was on a business trip. It just doesn't make any sense. And we're going to get into all of that because there is a lot here that really rubs me the wrong way, and it's not right and it's not fair, and it really did a lot to David having to deal with this, and we're going to talk about all of that. So David's case went to trial and he was found guilty of four counts of murder. The trial lasted about nine weeks and he ended up being sentenced to life in prison. And all of this officially happened on December twenty first of nineteen eighty eight, and of course he appealed the case, but the initial appeals were all denied, so David sat in prison. The twenty nine year old who had his family completely stolen away from him, was thrown in jail and no further thought was given to this case or if they maybe got it wrong, who potentially could have done it. So David sat in jail and attempted to try and clear his name and appeal after appeal after appeal, so none of the appeals ever went through. But there was a journalist named Steve Vogel, and he followed the case very closely and took it upon himself to do a little research into the case, and he published a book that was entitled Reasonable Doubt. And in this book he discusses all of the things, all of the evidence, all of the circumstances. I'm going to read the description of it. And this book came out in nineteen eighty nine. A compelling account of murder and its aftermath. The author takes readers through the experience of a father charge with the brutal killing of his wife and three children. He reveals, in almost novelistic detail, the character and motives of a man convicted of committing a crime so horrible as to be almost beyond belief. And when I read the transcripts earlier of Dave's call to the police to try to get in touch with his wife and his family, those were from the book that Steve wrote, so just wanted to give credit there. I'm going to link the book as well, because I think it is a really really interesting read with a lot of information, and it really helped propel this case forward and helped Dave in a huge, huge way. So the book came out and it was pretty well received. In nineteen ninety one, the Supreme Court of Illinois decided to retry the case of David Hendrix, and after seven weeks of a new jury, new trial, everything, the jury found him not guilty and David was officially released from prison. Now, this man had had everything ripped away from him. His family had been taken from him, He had been arrested, charged, convicted, thrown in prison. His name had been tarnished in the community, his entrepreneurship, his back race that he was working so hard to get out there, everything had been snatched away from this man at twenty nine years old, and still there was no answers as to who killed his family. He now had his freedom, but he didn't have answers as to what happened to his family, And that I think is the hardest thing day to dayta just keep going knowing that you took the fall for someone else. And nobody has ever been charged because they basically thought that David was the one that did it, and they just locked him up and threw away the key, and they didn't care to properly investigate. And it had now been so many years past the time of the killings that there wasn't a whole lot more to go off of because they just solely focused on Dave. And that is, in my opinion, what I think is what's wrong with our legal system, because yes, sometimes it is evident who the primary suspect is, but what if it's not that person, Then you're in a situation like this, where years down the line, he gets out of prison and the case is still unsolved and this heinous murderer is still roaming the streets. That is not justice. That's injustice, and it's not right. Vid was, however, able to restart his life. He renounced his fundamentalist religious ties. He decided to relocate to Florida, and he got back into the orthopedic business. He remarried, and he just tries to live his life. He is a really interesting guy. I started to do some research on him because I feel like his story is a really interesting one. He started a blog and he also wrote a book, which is very interesting, and we're going to talk about that book now, because he, truly, to me, is somebody that took a really crappy circumstance that he was thrust into and he turned it into something that I feel like a lot of people couldn't have turned it into. He befriended another inmate that was in prison with him for murder, friended this guy, and this guy befriended him, and they formed this amazing bond, which I just think it's it's a wild concept, but he formed this amazing bond with this guy, and he ended up writing a book about his interactions with this person. And we're going to talk a little bit about that, and then we're going to circle back around to where the case stands today. And I just think it's a really interesting, full circle kind of story. And I feel like Dave's involvement in this is important and just the route that this whole thing took is very interesting to me. So this is from David's website, which is author Hendrix dot com. When I tell people I'm writing Tom Henry, they usually ask the same question, why would you write this story? Let me start with the synopsis of my story. In nineteen eighty three, I was a family man of twenty nine with a wife and three children, a successful businessman, and a Christian who had done ministry work in Bolivia. I was a Bible reading fundamental believer. My charmed life was abruptly shattered when I returned home from a business trip to discover my wife and children brutally murdered in our home. From the moment I arrived, I was the first and only suspect, and one traumatizing year later, I found myself convicted of a quadruple murder and given a never get out of prison sentence. I would suffer through more than seven years of incarceration before the legal system would figure out I was not guilty. Meanwhile, the best selling book Reasonable Doubt by Steve Vogel was published about my case. One of the first guys I met in prison, and he was memorable in a place filled with criminals. Tom Henry stuck out as a guy you could count on for sound advice, a helping hand, or a lighthearted witticism just when you needed it. At a time when I was struggling not to lose my faith, Tom Henry was a testimony of God's love in a sea of moral darkness. Not the kind of witness who drums his religion into you, but one who lives his faith even in the depression condition, depressing conditions of prison life. Yet I found it difficult to reconcile this goodness with the fact that this guy had brutally murdered two people, and one of them was the mother of his child. It's easy to label someone like Tom Henry as a monster, to suggest that he doesn't share our humanity. This is a comfortable but dangerous fiction. Comfortable because it allows us to feel superior to the bad man, Dangerous because it enables us to ignore the truth that within each of us resides the capacity for evil, the truth in there's a man inside of the monster. I wrote this book because I discovered in Tom Henry a man who demonstrates violence yet gentleness, cruelty yet kindness, selfishness yet benevolence, and the only way to show the full complexity of the man was to write the whole story of the man. And how better than in his own words. Listening to him gave me an insight into his character. And it is my hope that you, my reader, will garner a similar perspective. And I wrote this book because Tom Henry's story is a darn good one, so really interesting. This guy was thrust into prison and he met this guy named Tom Henry who was in prison for murder, and he was convicted of murdering his family as well. And even though David was innocent, he was able to establish his relationship with Tom and kind of embraced the situation and was able to find this good person inside of Tom, which I think it's a really interesting perspective. And I always can admire someone that can take a situation like that that happens to them and turn it around and turn it into a positive. So he wrote this whole book about Tom Henry, and it's a really interesting read. There's a lot of a lot of interesting things in there. And he wrote the book in twenty fourteen. He and his wife now live in Orlando, Florida. Like I said, he owns a company called Blue Diamond Orthopedic and he customizes and designs orthotics and he is the owner of five patents. He is an expert in spine orthopedics, medical devices, business development. He is a pilot, an investor, and author, a lecturer, and he has a lot of published articles and he is just a really interesting person. And I think it is really neat that he was able to pick up where he left off business wise, didn't let everything that happened to him in his life dictate his future, and he was able to get back into doing what he enjoyed doing, which was orthotics embraces, and it pretty much came full circle for him. And I think that's a really cool thing that he was able to do that after being incarcerated and charged with murder. So I need to go back. Initially, the prosecutor in the first trial was very much just arguing that Dave was leading like this double life and he didn't want to be married anymore, and he had, you know, had all of these beliefs and divorce really wasn't an option for him because of his devout faith, but murder was an option. Question Mark, I'm confused. That doesn't make sense to me. It makes no sense. So this is what the prosecutor argued. Divorce isn't an option because of his devout faith, but murder is okay. Allegedly makes no sense. Prosecutors don't always be thinking correctly, in my opinion, So he basically wanted to portray Dave as a obsessed woman I sir, who had allegedly sexually harassed the models that he hired to pose and wear his orthotic devices for like advertisements. None of that was ever proven to be true, and it was basically just a ploy that was used by the prosecution to kind of paint him as this womanizer who no longer wanted to be married. And David still to this day realizes that there are people out there who are going to think he's guilty and think that his actions are odd and bizarre, especially with the writing of his book, but he said that it's not really up to him to try to convince them and change their minds, and that has to be super, super frustrating. And also, on the other hand, if David didn't do it, and I do believe that David is innocent of this crime, nothing fits there was no physical evidence found to tie him to the murders, nothing at all. If he is innocent, there is someone out there who did this to this family. And again, it's a situation where the lack of effort by the police department, initially because they were so focused on Dave, took away from everything else that they could have potentially found to figure out who this person was. They zero done on Dave pretty much immediately, and that was that no other suspects, no other persons of interest, nothing, And that is a huge disservice in a case like this to not really follow through with anything else because you're sure that it's this person. So all these years later, the case still remains unsolved. There is little to no action in regards to any of it. There is apparently still the contents of the children's stomach stored in a vault in the Bloomington Police evidence vault, and that is pretty much that. There are people that speculate that it was targeted because David was successful and it was a competitor that came after his family because of the things that he was doing in the orthopedic community. It could have been somebody who is jealous, very easily. The one interesting thing though, the butcher knife and the acts were both from the Hendrick's home. One was stored typically in the garage and the other was stored in the kitchen. But the fact that two different weapons were used, some investigators say they do believe that it was more than one person who struck the house was ransacked. However, nothing was really taken. But it's just a really interesting set of circumstances and it's unfortunate either way you slice it, it's unfortunate. It's unfortunate that if David is truly innocent, that he went through everything he went through and the case is still unsolved because they couldn't focus on anyone but him, and the family still doesn't have justice. David has very much tried to move on from them and just try to live his life and not let it define him. And that's got to be a really hard thing to do every single day of life, to try to just rationalize what happened when you were twenty nine years old. But that is a story of the Hendricks family. There is a lot there. I understand there's a lot, and there's a lot to unpack, and I know that there's probably going to be people listening to this that think that David got away with it, and that's fine, You're entitled to your opinion. I just think, looking at the evidence of it, it was a very rush judgment, and unfortunately, because of that rush judgment, we don't really have any other potential suspects because all they focused on was David. So that is the story. I'm going to be posting all of the pictures on my Instagram and Facebook pages and sharing more about the book that David wrote, and also the book that Steve wrote in regards to David's case that kind of helped propel things forward for him to get a new trial and eventually get that conviction overturned. There's a lot of interesting aspects of this case, and once I dived into it, I was just like enthralled with it and I needed to find out all of the info and there is a lot of course going on with this case. So I appreciate you guys, Thank you so much for listening. I hope you guys have a fantastic new year. Here's to twenty twenty four and it being way better than twenty twenty three, and I will see you guys on Friday for a new episode. Bye