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-Messenger photo by Kelby Wingert Fort Dodge Police Department Sgt. Evan Thompson points toward bruising he observed on defendant Josh Pendleton’s face the night he was arrested for assaulting and killing the Rev. Al Henderson. Thompson testified in Pendleton’s jury trial on Wednesday morning. -Messenger photo by Kelby Wingert First Assistant Webster County Attorney Ryan Baldridge holds up the zip-up sweatshirt defendant Josh Pendleton was wearing when he was arrested on Oct. 2, 2019, to show the jury during FDPD Evidence Technician Brandi Webb’s testimony on Wednesday. ...

kwingert@messengernews.net The final details for an upcoming jury trial of a Fort Dodge man accused of killing the Rev. Al Henderson were hashed out in a Webster County courtroom on Friday afternoon. Joshua Pendleton, 37, of Fort Dodge, is accused of killing Henderson in the parking lot of St. Paul Lutheran Church on the evening of Oct. 2, 2019. He was charged with first-degree murder and first-degree robbery. Pendleton’s jury trial is scheduled to start April 19 at the Scott County Courthouse in Davenport. The venue for the trial was moved to Scott County by order of the court in July afte...

Joshua Pendleton Some incriminating statements made to law enforcement by the man accused of murdering the Rev. Al Henderson will not be admissible during the jury trial for the crime, a District Court judge ruled on Friday. According to the motion to suppress filed by the defense in March, defendant Josh Pendleton, 37, of Fort Dodge, was denied his constitutional rights when law enforcement obtained his statements in violation of the Fourth, Fifth, Sixth and 14th Amendments of the U.S. Constitution. The defense argued that because of those violations, all statements made by Pendleton to law ...