A Shocking Story of Lust and Murder in the American Heartland.
"Got a problem down here." Bloomington, Illinois, police officer Hibbens didn't sound like himself. His voice cracked. 'There's something you ought to see."
The scene awaiting the other policemen as they entered the charming suburban house at 313 Carl Drive was one they would never forget. Three children and their mother lay hacked to death in their beds, their sheets and walls soaked in blood. A butcher knife and an axe lay nearby.
Could David Hendricks, the grief-stricken father, away on a business trip, have methodically killed his wife and children before he left? And why would a successful businessman and devoted family member of a fundamentalist religious group want his family eliminated?
Convicted by his first jury, awarded a new trial, a second jury has not concluded that David Hendricks had not been proven guilty - beyond a reasonable doubt.