Although the murders occurred 25 years ago and the case was officially closed seven years later after the second trial of David Hendricks, evidence taken at the scene in November 1983 remains in a vault at Bloomington Police headquarters. | Read the full list of evidence (PDF)

Included among the 300 items in the collection, simply cataloged "The Hendricks Case:"

• Three sealed containers of stomach contents of the Hendricks children;

• A negligee set;

• Ashes from the fireplace;

• Crime "debris";

• Three Chuck E Cheese tokens (where his children ate their last meal);

• 14 books found in a sack, including "Christ Is Coming Again," "The Act of Marriage/The Beauty of Sexual Love" and "Preaching to the Spirits in Prison;"

• The door lock and door knob of the Hendricks' home;

• Four reel-to-reel tapes (believed to be a tape of then State's Attorney's Ronald Dozier's "private" conversation with Hendricks just after the murders were discovered);

• A copy of a video with WHOI-Channel 19 and a taped interview at WEEK, Channel 25;

• A handwritten note from Nov. 8, 1983;

• 15 color photos of room 110 of the Red Roof Inn in Madison, Wis. (where Hendricks allegedly stayed the night of the murders);

• A tool box;

• An empty bank bag;

• A synopsis of the books of the Bible.