Apr 10, 2021 Apr 10, 2021 Take a look back at crimes that will be forever etched into Central Illinois' collective psyche.   The Hendricks murders In a case that sent shockwaves through Bloomington-Normal, Susan Hendricks, 30, and her three children, Rebekah, 9, Grace, 7, and Benjamin, 5, were axed to death in the bedrooms of their east Bloomington home in November 1983. A short time later, husband David Hendricks was charged with the grisly deaths, still known today as "the Hendricks murders." (Stunned by the brutal deaths, residents kept locksmiths busy securing their own homes.) Convicted and sentenced to life in prison in  1984, Hendricks was later acquitted in a 1991 retrial. Bloomington police closed the case seven years after David Hendricksâ acquittal; today Hendricks lives in Florida with his fourth wife.