234: Back to Our Roots

Published: Nov. 2, 2022, 11:34 a.m.

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This episode should feel like an old, familiar tune. Kristin starts us off with an old timey love triangle and Brandi covers a family annihilator\\u2026?\\xa0
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\\nRobert Miller was a celebrated criminal defense attorney in Washington DC. He was buddies with Herbert Hoover and Franklin Roosevelt. He\\u2019d been the law partner of vice president Charles Curtis. He even had a nickname! It was: Judge, not guilty. He was pretty content. But his much younger wife, Marguerite, was not. Soon, she and her psychiatrist, Dr. John Lind began having an affair. It didn\\u2019t take Robert long to decide that he needed to get even.\\xa0
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\\nThen Brandi tells us about David Hendricks, who was out of town on a business trip when his wife, Susan, and their three children, Rebekah, Grace and Benjamin were found dead in their home. David quickly emerged as the prime suspect. (Isn\\u2019t it always the father?) But there wasn\\u2019t much evidence tying him to the crime. The DA\\u2019s office moved forward, undeterred.
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\\nAnd now for a note about our process. For each episode, Kristin reads a bunch of articles, then spits them back out in her very limited vocabulary. Brandi copies and pastes from the best sources on the web. And sometimes Wikipedia. (No shade, Wikipedia. We love you.) We owe a huge debt of gratitude to the real experts who covered these cases.
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\\nIn this episode, Kristin pulled from:
\\n\\u201cDeadly love triangle,\\u201d by Mara Bovsun for the New York Daily News
\\n\\u201cWoman testifies husband killed in self defense,\\u201d Associated Press, May 24, 1944
\\n\\u201cMiller acquitted in killing after hearing wife assailed,\\u201d by Jack Doherty for the Daily News, June 1, 1944
\\n\\u201cLawyer\\u2019s erring wife says Lind extorted $5,000,\\u201d The Chicago Tribune, May 24, 1944
\\n\\u201cWife supports husband who killed rival,\\u201d Associated Press, May 24, 1944
\\n\\u201cSlain doctor altered will for killer\\u2019s wife,\\u201d by George Dixon for the Daily News, February 29, 1944
\\n\\u201cProsecution calls 50 for Miller trial opening Monday,\\u201d The Evening Star, May 12, 1944
\\n\\u201cMiller jury due to be completed by noon today,\\u201d The Evening Star, May 16, 1944
\\n\\u201cA kiss but not a happy ending,\\u201d the Daily News, February 23, 1944
\\n\\u201cCharges capital slayer planted gun,\\u201d by George Dixon for the Daily News, February 23, 1944
\\n\\u201cCrime: One of the best,\\u201d Time Magazine, March 6, 1944
\\n\\u201cMiller carried 2 guns before Lind slaying, prosecution charges,\\u201d by Norman A. Kahl for the Evening Star, May 16, 1944
\\n\\u201cMiller denies he intended to kill Dr. Lind,\\u201d by Norman A. Kahl for the Evening Star, May 26, 1944
\\n\\u201cAged lawyer acquitted in murder case,\\u201d The Morning Herald, June 1, 1944
\\n\\u201cThe story of murder on Valentine\\u2019s 1944 in front of Woodies department store,\\u201d The House History Man
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\\nIn this episode, Brandi pulled from:
\\n\\u201cGuilty or Innocent: The Hendricks Family Murders\\u201d by Gina Glaub, The Midwest Crime Files
\\n\\u201c1983 Bloomington quadruple-homicide remains unsolved\\u201d by Samira Kassem, The Argus
\\n\\u201cReasonable Doubt: The Hendricks Family Murders by Fiona Guy, crimetraveller.org
\\n\\u201cDavid Hendricks\\u201d wikipedia.org
\\n\\u201cQuestions and Answers\\u201d authorhendricks.com
\\n\\u201cPeople v. Hendricks\\u201d justia.com\\n
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