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crime [Music] at the trial of kenneth mcduff who is charged with committing three murders in
1966 in texas we have two separate trials here captain because obviously roy green is going to
be the state's star witness against kenneth mcduff at mcduff's trial and at that trial
green takes the stand and mcduff took the stand as well now when green is on the stand his voice at
times he's barely audible you know he's very quiet seems very timid very shy very
scared but he tells the courtroom how kenneth mcduff had shot the two teenage boys and then raped and killed edna
sullivan greene admitted that he too participated in the crimes committed that night but
he told the jury that he feared for his life and he feared that mcduff would kill him too if he did not follow
mcduff's orders when kenneth mcduff took the witness stand he denied any knowledge of all at all of the killings
and suggested that roy greene acted alone and committed the crimes on his own after barring kenneth's car and the
roy green was simply trying to frame mcduff for these crimes well you gotta remember this is what green was telling
him mcduff told him to do deny everything don't talk don't even if they start to beat on you it'll be worse
in prison than whatever the cops will do to you present in the courtroom each day
so this trial really only lasted about a week and in my opinion i'm surprised it
lasted that long because it was it looks to me like a pretty open and shut case now mind you in 66 they didn't have the
technology that we have today one of the things that was a bit of a delay in this trial that really kind of drug
it out a lot longer than it needed to be was some of the and i want to be clear here that when i
say theatrics i'm talking about theatrics on behalf of the defense and people for the defendant so
a couple things that happened was kenneth mcduff's attorney his we already talked about what mcduff's
defense would be that he wasn't a part of it he was it was all a lie that the real killer took his car and
his gun and committed these crimes he's trying to frame him mcduff's attorney on multiple occasions tried to
push for a mistrial try to get the judge to agree to a mistrial i i think when i
observe it here today it looks to me like the defense attorney understood what they were up against that it was a
pretty open and shut case against his client and so i think that he really kind of threw his hands up in the
air and said what the hell do you do here all right i'll just i'll just attempt to get a mistrial i will attempt
multiple times to get a mistrial on one of those occasions it was because edna sullivan's parents had to be
removed from the courtroom they were so upset and and so distraught they they physically broke down right
there in the courtroom and had to be removed and that's when the defense attorney comes up and says
you know judge that we got to declare this a mistrial because the jury can't forget that you can tell them to erase
that from their memories and to not take that those acts into their consideration
but there's no way that they can't now in true form true to her form present in the courtroom each day of
this trial of mcduff's trial is his mother addie remember she thinks her son is a quote perfect little angel yeah and
she vouched for her son telling reporters that kenneth mcduff had an alibi for the time of the murders
she says that kenneth was on a date with a young woman from his church saying quote i think she's studying to be a
missionary okay so but we can't find this individual no we can't find this individual because the
mom and kenneth refuse to reveal this girl's name that he's supposedly on a date with
because she's studying to be a missionary and if he were to say that she was out on a date
right then that would ruin her reputation and that she would be kicked out of the church or not be able to go
on to study to be a missionary something like that so so i mean think about this
he's basically saying that hey green i let him borrow my vehicle i let him borrow my gun
and then he was able to control all three victims by himself and move vehicles two vehicles at a time
he was basically able to walk on freaking water and i had no i had no knowledge of this well and his mother
just drives me freaking nuts here because the way that she stands up for kenneth and this is again this is not
the first time this is what's been going on his entire life and if you want to you know it's easy to fault
family of these types of monsters and point out where they went wrong as well but with macduff's mom
she's constantly getting him out of trouble and sticking up for him and vouching for
him even when he does the worst of the worst here you know she's quoted in the paper
saying he's he's too good for his own good yeah i don't think he's good for his own
good he's too good for his own good she says look the reporters say but you know your son won't reveal the name
of this person who is his alibi he is on trial for three homicides he is going to
be executed by the state of texas via electric chair if he's convicted if he's if he's found
guilty in this case and yet he won't give up the name of his alibi what say you mrs mcduff and she says well if he's
willing to risk death in the electric chair to spare the girl's reputation i guess that's his business no the truth
is they couldn't find the girl if they named her and if they did find this person they would not this person would
not back up the story of this horrible monster because the truth of the matter and we all know it was he was there the
night he was responsible for this triple homicide not only responsible i believe
he was the driving force behind all of those crimes that were committed that night and then for his mother to stand
up for him at court in november of 1966 to me is just another great example of either stupid
or liar yeah i would go with uh both so of course we have kenneth mcduff who is found guilty and he is sentenced to
die by the state of texas and he was scheduled to be executed in the electric chair
and in fact he comes awfully close at least twice actually walking to the chair and gets a last-minute stay of execution
in both situations in fact he was scheduled i believe he was scheduled to die within
just a couple years of the conviction you know nowadays we know that people land on death row and
they can be there for 15 18 25 30 years sometimes they're never executed at all he was supposed to
be executed they had set the date he comes close several times but they never end up executing
kenneth mcduff in fact what ends up happening is very much the opposite roy green ends up getting 25
years his that is his sentence in the case mcduff gets the death penalty and then later
mcduff's sentence was commuted to life in prison this is after the united states threw out the death
penalty in 1972 so he commits these murders in 66 six years later what he's sentenced to is no longer even
an option so it's now commuted to a life sentence yeah i felt like he should have got
three life sentences but then it's even going to get worse so check this out well and then we have an issue here in
the state of texas that goes beyond getting rid of the death penalty they have overcrowding in the prison population in
texas throughout the entire state and this is an ongoing problem and so what they are forced to do
with the overcrowding problem is to increase their parole considerations of their inmates
and this is handed down by the by order of the governor so before long they are ordered to parole 750 of the
lowest risk inmates a week right 750 of the lowest risk inmates a week now think about that for a second
if you have the 750 750 most low risk of offending again criminals that you're releasing
well then that means that the following week you're releasing 750 more and they are
now considered the most low risk however they were a higher risk than the 750 that you released the
week before right and that trend continues week after week after week after week until you get to somebody
like kenneth mcduff who has killed three people again should be serving a life sentence no possibility of parole no
matter what no matter how crowded these prisons are individuals like this should not be
getting out of prison in the end the state of texas over the course of a a long period of time they end up
releasing over 60 000 inmates they are eventually forced to release somebody like kenneth mcduff i
shouldn't say forced he has to go before a parole board but by the time he goes before the parole
board they're pretty much rubber stamping these things through they're clearing these guys rather quickly and
his crimes are are certainly significantly more horrific than a lot of the other people that the parole
board would look at and that they would examine their case file and review their prison history right
but the problem one thing that comes into the favor of somebody like kenneth mcduff is by the
time they get to him you know they don't start releasing people even though that
they commuted his sentence in 1972 it was still believed in 1972 that he would spend the rest of his life in
prison we're talking about years and years later it wasn't until i believe that the mid 80s or late 80s
that they started releasing the inmates and rubber stamping these paroles but by the time they get to somebody
like kenneth mcduff he's been in their prison system for a long period of time he was sent there in 1966
he won't be released until december of 1990 so it's a considerable amount of time
and what he has on his to his advantage is that he's now older and for whatever reason they have
believed that he has been rehabilitated and that he will not be much of a threat
when he's released well because he also behaved himself pretty well when he was incarceration he broke a lot of the
rules but he didn't get caught for a lot of things um it's believed that he was paying off
some of the guards to sneak him drugs over the years he had a pretty healthy drug habit especially once he got out of
prison in 1990 but here's an interesting quote okay there there were people that came
out of the woodwork when kenneth mcduff was released to try to tell everybody look we're gonna have a big problem here
this is this is going to be a big problem letting this guy out so this is a quote from bill brand he's the
father of one of kenneth mcduff's victims robert brand from 1966 and when he was released when mcduff was
released bill brand said quote he was out on parole when mcduff killed our kids he
got three death sentences and now he's out on parole again they are going to have blood on their hands those people
who turned him loose very good point that he brings up there kenneth mcduff was out on parole at the time that he
killed the three kids yeah i mean it makes zero sense to me that anybody that would be
originally sentenced to death by the state would be released is absolutely ridiculous and i get the
idea that okay okay maybe he's a model prisoner but like you said just a prisoner that didn't get caught
but records show he's a model prisoner we're gonna let him out but again this is a
this is a triple homicide where in fact then he went on and lied about it it wasn't like that he came forward and
confessed and turned himself in didn't show any sign of remorse i mean hell he was lying through his teeth
saying i was even there so for them to release a monster like that that's it's the most one of the
most irresponsible things i've ever heard of our prison system doing well and keep in
mind though it's state by state when we talk about the prison system so this is straight up the texas prison system
doing this and according to one of my favorite publications texas monthly the man who arrested
kenneth mcduff after the triple homicide sheriff paplin on the day that mcduff was released
he shared his opinion sheriff papillini says that he said quote i don't know if it'll be next week
or next month or next year this is him talking to fellow officers but one of these days dead girls are
going to start turning up and when that happens the man you need to look for is kenneth mcduff
i mean you can't make this stuff up this is this is incredible stuff here that people are saying these are almost
premonitions of of letting this evil this kind of evil back out on the streets and you have the sheriff who arrested
him saying one of these days dead girls are going to start turning up and when that happens the man we need to
look for is kenneth mcduff well think about that this guy was sentenced to death
mcduff was sentenced to death and now by releasing him you're sentencing innocent women to death within days of
kenneth mcduff being paroled released on parole the naked body of a woman did indeed
turn up and this was 31 year old parker she had been found to have been beaten strangled and dumped in a field near
temple texas according to records kenneth mcduff's parole officer was based in temple now
he's never been connected 100 percent to that homicide that's still an open homicide to this
day but given the location and given the proximity both in location to where his parole officer was and
the time that he gets out of prison you put two and two together here and he looks like a very good suspect for
seraphia parker's murder we do get lucky here for a little bit captain uh briefly
mcduff is returned to prison this is after he threatened a youth in uh rosebud it sounds like
we have this grown man here who was almost in like some kind of physical altercation with a boy
i don't know the details of the story but it's enough for him to have violated his parole he sent back the prison so
once again the state of texas gets the opportunity to keep this guy jailed forever
however that's not that's not to be and he ends up getting out once again then in 1991 kenneth mcduff enrolled at
texas state technical college in waco texas and soon after that we have central texas
women sex workers they begin to disappear there's one in particular of valencia joshua age 22 was last seen alive
february 24th 1991 and we have witnesses say that she was on campus looking for kenneth mcduff had
asked for kenneth mcduff or where people where she could find him and then later
she disappears her naked body is later discovered in a shallow grave behind that same college behind that same
technical college one so much more to get to and we'll get to that after this quick beer break
[Music] [Music] [Music] all right we are back cheers mates cheers to you colonel
let's get back into it back in early 1991 kenneth mcduff is back out on the streets again and this is when he
enrolled at texas state technical college in waco texas while he was in prison he actually completed his high
school degree and attended i believe like achieved 45 hours toward college credits while he was in prison
and so he's going to pick up and try to go to the school here but again we see a
recurring theme with kenneth mcduff as soon as he moves to an area as soon as we know that he is
in an area well then women start to disappear and in fact we get a young woman valencia joshua age 22
she is seen for the last time alive february 24th 1991 and we have multiple witnesses
who say that they saw her on the texas state technical college campus on that day and she was asking for
kenneth mcduff if she in fact found him then this is what likely led to her death in my opinion now
she's missing for a period of time but later her naked decomposed body was discovered in a shallow grave in the
woods and this area is located directly behind texas state technical college this will bring us to
later in the year in 1991 in fact around the chris around the christmas holiday of 1991 when a young woman named colleen
reed disappeared from an austin texas car wash witnesses reported hearing a woman
scream that night and seeing two men speeding away in either a yellow or tan thunderbird we know that mcduff is
involved so it's going to be a horrific scene but we have a really good news report on this crime
yeah captain you're exactly spot on there and i wanted to make sure that we read this article that came out shortly
after colleen reed disappeared because it's just it's full of doom and gloom there's no hope
as you will hear in this article and this article is just two days after she went missing so the headline here
from the austin american statesman newspaper out of austin texas says police think woman was abducted while
she washed her car and the reporter hears kimberly garcia who writes police continue their search
for a missing west lake hills woman who they believe was abducted from a central
austin car wash colleen reed age 28 was abducted at 9 15 pm sunday possibly by two men while washing
her car and then it gives the address for the car wash and this is according to the austin
police department's assault unit sergeant don martin here's one thing that i want to point out i'm going to
jump in as we go through this article here when you have a report from police that is saying this person was abducted
at 9 15 pm that means it's beyond question by that time it's beyond question if this person is
missing or if they were abducted police are telling you this woman was abducted and oh yeah not
just abducted we have the time stamp of when she was abducted and it was at 9 15 p.m
right so the officer goes on to tell the reporter quote i don't feel good about this at
all generally speaking you kidnap someone to take their car money or to sexually
assault them reed's purse was in her car which was found covered with soap suds at the car
wash after her disappearance the vehicle's door was open suggesting reed may have sensed danger and tried to
return to her car martin said four witnesses one two three four witnesses around the corner from the car wash told
police that they saw two white or hispanic men in their thirties with dark skin and hair
drive the wrong way on powell street before the abduction the passenger may have had a beard
witnesses told police they heard a scream followed by the slamming of two car doors well i think what the
eyewitnesses are hearing is her fighting for her life and then they saw the same
men drive the wrong way down fifth street again all according to the officer the suspects lacked a familiarity with
the street directions that makes police think that the men did not know reed or did not know the area the men were
driving a late 1980s model two-door tan car with rounded tail lights and a low rear
end quote it appears at this time that this is going to be a genuine random kidnapping end quote that's according to
the assault unit officer sergeant martin he goes on to say there's no doubt in my
mind that she went unwillingly police fears shocked reed's friends and co-workers they say this is
real weird because she's street smart said her friend heather bailey you can be as street smart as you want to be if
somebody has a weapon they can control you and her friend goes on to describe reed
and saying that not only was she street smart but she was in the army reserve so she's been
trained to defend herself the newspaper article points out that colleen reed is five feet three inches tall weighs 115
pounds was a certified public accountant at the time she's really interesting to me here
captain she was actually a louisiana native and from my understanding she graduated high school
early and started attending college at the young age of 16 so a very bright individual that we are talking about and
then the police go on to describe her further in this article because of course they are still looking for her
at this time and they say that reed has shoulder length dark hair and brown eyes
when she was abducted she is believed to have been wearing gold frame wire glasses a pink and ivory
plaid hip length jacket and an ivory wool scarf and they said that reed our victim
appeared to be running errands on that sunday night and they based this off of receipts that were found in her car that
revealed that she had deposited some money in a cash machine and bought food before going to the car
wash to wash her car and then we believe her to have been abducted from that haunting scene at the car wash and
so we have a lot of eyewitnesses claiming that they saw two men is it a similar situation with like mcduff and
green where mcduff is going to be the leader of this crime well it's it again it it's similar in the way that it
depends on who you talk to right because mcduff in the first set of murders says that he's innocent and roy
green says otherwise well in this situation it is similar that we end up getting a confession from
an accomplice but this accomplice doesn't come forward in the way that roy green did this
accomplice comes forward because he's figured out by police he's picked up by police and eventually he caves in
with his story what's weird here again you know we talked about the texas tower shooting
and charles whitman but kenneth mcduff has always been connected to the yogurt shop murders as well
so the abduction of colleen reed takes place in the same city in the same month as the yogurt shop quadruple homicide
yeah and so he's always been connected to that he's been thought of by some to possibly be
a suspect another way that he's connected is that the great show america's most wanted
featured a segment on the yogurt shop murders this was in march of 1992 they were still trying to figure
out who had committed that crime they were still trying to figure out who had abducted colleen reed
in march of 1992 so there was a segment about her case on that same episode well this guy
definitely has the ability to commit a horrible crime like the yogurt chop murders what we have here
too is that segment ran in march of 1992. that same month melissa northrup who was pregnant with her third child at
the time she vanishes from a waco convenience store where she was working so she's the only attendant that night
she vanishes kenneth mcduff's beige thunderbird broke down and was discovered one block
from the waco convenience store where this woman vanished from it took a little over 50 days later that fisherman
found melissa's body floating in a gravel pit in dallas county this is 90 miles north of waco
from my understanding captain his car breaks down and it looks like to me he goes to this
convenience store abducts melissa abducts melissa northrup and takes her car and then gets out of
dodge with her in tow right this car situation is going to make kenneth mcduff the target of a nationwide manhunt
again to some people to the people that were closest to the triple homicide case the
law enforcement officers and the victims families this is not a surprise to them
kenneth mcduff out abducting killing women not a surprise to them you know the three scariest words that i can
imagine hearing together or seeing or reading together paroled serial killer paroled serial killer and this man he
was he was a killer when he was apprehended and put into prison and he left prison a killer again and he
continued to kill after he was released now this is where our story really starts to ramp up again
you had asked did the colleen read abduction did it go the same way as the triple
homicide did back in 66 i said in a lot of ways it was similar because yes you end up having an accomplice who breaks
down and confesses to being a part of the crimes and says that kenneth mcduff was the person that was in control
of the crime colleen reed her abduction is i mean is it's something that sounds like it's straight out of a horror flick
hank worley is the man who breaks down what happens is the police get some kind of idea
that kenneth mcduff was in the area in the austin city the day that colleen reed was abducted and killed
and they figured out that he had been hanging out with this hank warley guy they pick up hank worley and
after a pretty lengthy session with him he ends up confessing and he says that he and mcduff
abducted colleen reed warley was 34 years old at the time he says that he thought
or was told by mcduff keep in mind neither man is from the area and that makes sense when we read
that article the newspaper article when they kept turning down and going the wrong way on on more than one wrong
one-way street right and that's what the police thought all along that the the abductors were from not from that area
and likely didn't even know the victim warley story backs that up he says that he was told by
macduff that they were going to austin texas that night so that they could score some drugs
they were going to meet up with somebody and the details are a little sketchy on
that but he says that they they went there from his knowledge to score drugs and at some point
they're now in austin they're driving around and mcduff tells him i'm going to take a girl tonight i'm
gonna i'm gonna find somebody and i'm gonna take him right and he said it's a short period of time
after that that they spotted colleen reed who was alone at the car wash and according to worley's story
mcduff gets out of the vehicle and we gave you a physical description of colleen reed we gave you a physical
description of kenneth mcduff he's 13 inches taller yeah that's a big boy than calling reed
and according to worley mcduff walks very quickly up to her doesn't say a word and he grabs her by the throat and lifts
her up off of the ground she's kicking her legs and worley said that he could see her feet not even her
toes would touch the ground and mcduff just picked her up walked her over to the vehicle
and forced her into the back seat of the car and then off the three of them went
into the night and very hauntingly and just again just like a horror flick according to worley
right before mcduff grabs her reid is saying please not me please not me and he throws her into the back of that
car and that's the last time anybody saw colleen reed alive so he breaks down tells him the story
now he also tells them that yes he was involved in the abduction yes he was involved in some assaults on reed
and mcduff insisted on torturing her and to the point that at one point the victim begs
alva hank worley to to kill her so she doesn't have to go through any more pain and suffering
warley says that he while he did commit these crimes and was a participant in some of these crimes he
was not an actual participant in the the murder of colleen reed as mcduff dropped him off
and asked worley for a knife and he said hey i this you know this is where i'm gonna go and then he use these
words i'm gonna use her up well that's because mcduff is a piece of [ __ ] so warley doesn't know exactly
what happened after that but it you know it doesn't take much to figure out that
that mcduff killed colleen reed that night a short time after dropping off warley it's almost like mcduff has
part of the fantasy is to have somebody involved with him as he's committing these horrible crimes
it's very strange yes i agree with you but there seems to be a lot of crimes that he committed on his own
i wondered that and have been thinking a lot about that as well and i feel like with mcduff that it's more of a case of
whenever the mood should strike him he doesn't care if somebody's with him or not
when he decides that he's going to go for it he goes for it because we read off the speculation the
speculation is that he could have nine victims 14 victims or more that goes beyond the four victims that
he killed with another person present and you're right captain i don't know either it's part of his
sick twisted fantasies or it's just when whenever the urge takes him over that he's going to do this no
matter what and what what is clear though it could be both but what is clear to me is
he seems to believe and the record might show this to be the case as well it seems to me like once he's made up
his mind that he's going to abduct and kill he doesn't think that there's anything
that can stop him well and we don't know with other victims if there was somebody
that was with him or not because there could have been somebody that's just never come forward well and you
know what's weird too and i don't want to get too mystical here i don't want to get too spiritual on everybody
but in a lot of ways you wonder you wonder both sides of the coin at least i do one
had macduff been by himself that night would he have on either of these nights 66 or 1991
would he have committed these horrible crimes personally i believe he would have
whether he was had an accomplice or or not i agree so then the flip side of that coin is in
some way was it a godsend that he had help back in 66 and that was our opportunity to lock up this evil forever
to snuff it out forever right and we failed big mistake and it's only because of
well i shouldn't say it's only because of because it sounds to me like police were pretty hot on the trail of kenneth
mcduff in 1992 right even before hank warley broke down but it doesn't seem like they had
connected mcduff to the reed abduction and murder 100 and then once they had warley they they
have what is now some of their evidence to arrest this guy and and god bless america's most wanted that great program
because it was their coverage of kenneth mcduff their coverage of colleen reed's case
that ultimately led to kenneth mcduff being arrested so he had actually hightailed it out of
texas it was getting too hot there for him one he's racking up too many bodies on his trail
and two police are now on his trail so at some point he leaves texas and he goes to
where were we just a a week or so ago captain too hot in the hot tub kansas city missouri
old kansas city here we come yes he takes he he takes on a fake name and identity in kansas city
and he's working for the trash collecting company there and one of his co-workers
saw the segment of america's most wanted sees kenneth mcduff on there calls america's most wanted and says
i'm pretty sure the guy i'm working with is actually kenneth mcduff and we said before
you look up a picture of this guy there's no mistaking him he's he he's easily recognizable he has devil eyes
and a big old beak so on may 4th 1992 in kansas city missouri kenneth mcduff is arrested thank you to the
america's most wanted program and that individual who called in with that hot tip that led police and
authorities to kenneth mcduff he ultimately will go and face trial two more times
so he's going to be charged with the abduction and murder of colleen reed which is a difficult case for the state
of texas because when he's sent to trial they don't have her body what they do have is
hank worley state star witness to explain and tell the judge and the jury what kenneth mcduff did and what he
assisted kenneth mcduff in that night macduff will also face a trial in the northrop case
this man is the only man to my knowledge that has been sentenced to death by three different counties three different
juries in the state of texas he's the only person in the history of the state of
texas to have two death row inmate numbers yeah pizza [ __ ] number one and piece of [ __ ] number two
and of course mcduff stands by his original statements from 1966 and he continues to make similar
statements in 1992. he simply says he wasn't with worley and that roy green is a liar that's his that's his short
statement to to the general public even after he is tried and convicted three times for
homicides and he's been convicted of five homicides in total and in an interview
while he is on death row he says the same thing i wasn't with worley and roy green is a liar and he
goes on to say that the the statements contradict one another because hank worley gave multiple statements to
police and the reason why he gave more than one statement to police is because he was telling them what they wanted to
hear and he didn't know the details of that case he says i was convicted by the news media the facts of the case
didn't warrant my convictions and at the time of this interview that i'm referencing here
he still had appeals in both of his cases and he believed that he would get out on those appeals well he got out before
and the person get conducting the interview says so the news media convicted you kenneth
mcduff replies none of the cases independently should have been convictions the news media accused me of
having tie-ins in all of them essentially what he's saying is that you wouldn't get a conviction
if if these cases were just completely separate from one another right you wouldn't be able to convict me if they
didn't know these other things that you suspected me of and so the reporter probes a little bit
more and says so are you saying that you've been convicted in three separate murder cases that you are a suspect in
half a dozen more that you've been given three death penalties and that in fact you're as innocent as the fresh fallen
snow to which mcduff replies no i'm telling you what the evidence is there wasn't
sufficient evidence in any of these cases for a conviction what a grade a [ __ ] because he's you you
can hear and see in his words he doesn't mind being the monster big ass he doesn't mind you believing that
he's killed all these people he doesn't mind that you believe that he's done all
these horrible things but he wants to point out that even if they got the right guy the
evidence isn't there there's not sufficient evidence to convict me i am the monster but i'm better
than your system i'm better than your law enforcement they didn't do their jobs well
looks like they did he ended up in the right place in the end yeah a big mistake
you know by texas one that they have owned up to and essentially they get it right in the end
but if it wasn't for green one of the things that we learned from green that's the most important out of
all this is macduff is going to commit horrible crimes and do and deny deny deny deny
deny never admit to be in there never never admit to anything and that will always leave some doubt in
people's mind one of the victims or believed to be a victim of kenneth mcduff one of their
family members told the newspapers when talking about kenneth mcduff's release from prison
and then he goes on to kill other people he says the the victim's family member says
they'll never convince me that what they did was right or ethical the only way he
meaning mcduff knows how to have a relationship with a woman is to abduct them rape them and murder them she goes
on to say that he went to prison a killer came out a killer and will kill again if given the opportunity quote
they'll try to convince me in a few years that he's 70 years old and will never hurt anybody again that's [ __ ] he'll
find a way to rape and murder none of us will be safe until he is dead which i absolutely agree and that's why
he is the texas monster so one of those trials captain was in 1992 in houston and that was for the abduction and
murder of melissa northrup at that trial we end up with the current sheriff from
falls county remember falls county sheriff's department was the sheriff's department that arrested
kenneth mcduff for the triple homicide back in 1966. so the current day sheriff in 1992 is at
the trial and goes on record saying quote kenneth mcduff is absolutely the most vicious and savage individual i
know he has absolutely no conscience and i think he enjoys killing he goes on to say had kenneth mcduff
been executed as scheduled from his conviction in 1966 there's no telling how many lives that
would have saved then we have some interesting insights from a dallas psychologist his name is
fred labowitz who after examining kenneth mcduff's crimes says mcduff is a guy that has no soul
he says there is little in the history of criminal science or the study of the criminal mind to account for kenneth
mcduff's sadistic conduct it goes on to say that this guy goes beyond the study of human behavior
the good doctor goes on to say in some people we can find behavior in their childhood
an absent father a drunken mother an abusive home but it appears there was none of these
it seems his incredible lust for evil appeared spontaneously and full blown no matter how thorough the studies of
the ted bundys and charles manson's of the world none of this can prepare us for an
encounter with kenneth mcduff i don't think we'll ever know how many victims in total he actually had it's hard to
say and i agree with a lot of these comments and a lot of these quotes here that we're citing
today because i agree i think that if he's out there if he's a free man if given the opportunity he would kill and
kill again and unfortunately he was rather efficient at doing it and it's very difficult to say how many
victims that we have we do know that later in life as it got closer to his execution date
now keep in mind texas is not going to get this wrong twice and they are going to make sure that
they execute this monster and as they're getting closer to his execution date he's a rather
physically sick individual by this time he has i believe hepatitis c and cirrhosis
he's having considerable liver problems at this point in his life he did leave the prison on at least one
occasion i believe it was maybe two or three occasions and led them to the remains of some of his victims
now he appeared to be trying to extort money from law enforcement prior to leaving the prison and showing
them where the remains were because he was requesting 700 be placed into his personal
inmate account and once the check cleared he would give them a body those were his
words right um there's no indication that anybody paid him a dime he may have just simply done this
because he was sick he was getting close to his execution date may have bought him a couple of extra days he may have
just wanted the field trip if you will out of prison one last time for a day or two he
did ultimately lead them to colleen reed's remains so he can say as much as he wanted
back then that warley made up the story i wasn't with warley well you were able to lead them to
colleen reed's remains and worley's part of the story was he committed some of these crimes with
you but was not with you when you killed her so it's obvious to me that he's guilty
of a lot of these crimes that he's suspected of he's guilty of every crime that he was convicted of and as you said
captain it's difficult to say how many people he killed it's also difficult to say how
many lives would have been spared had he been locked up and remained locked up after his crimes in 1966 yeah an
absolute monster good title for this texas monster it's also interesting to hear about when
they're on death row and captain you know me i try to be a positive guy try to be a positive thinker
and i want to be a positive person for everybody else out there but there are occasions when one
celebrates snuffing out of evil we talked about that with joseph duncan when he passed
away there was a little garage party that occurred that day we didn't have the garage back in 1998 but on november
17th in 1998 texas state executed kenneth allen mcduff at the age of 52 at their huntsville unit in huntsville
texas he was pronounced dead at 6 26 pm central time after receiving a lethal injection
before he was injected mcduff was offered the opportunity which many of his victims were not offered
the opportunity to have a last meal a request for last meal at which he requested two t-bone steaks
coca-cola's with all the fixins um it's been stated that the prison chef prepared hamburger and shaped it into
what a steak would be would look like and that's what they served him instead of the two t-bone stakes that he
requested i've seen other reports that state that he that he received exactly what he requested
but the other opportunity that he was afforded was to give a final statement or some last
words to which macduff said quote i'm ready to be released release me after the execution
one of kenneth mcduff's victim's mothers said i'm glad this is over my children are going to rest in peace now and he's
going where he ought to go i know where he's released [Music] i want to thank you so much for joining
us here in the garage you are our buddies you are our pals you join us here every week and we love
you for that colonel do we have any recommended reading for the beautiful beautiful
listeners we do and this is actually a captain inspired recommended reading because you mentioned this case you
brought it up a couple weeks ago here on our big show and it reminded me of this
fantastic book and it's called death at the cecil hotel in los angeles by dale pearlman
built during los angeles rapid growth in the roaring 20s this cecil hotel was briefly a
glimmering downtown landmark until it became one of the most infamous sites of violence and murder in this country
check out this great book death at the cecil hotel in los angeles you can find that great title and many more
recommendations on our recommended page at truecrimegarage.com and until next week be good be kind and
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www.TrueCrimeGarage.com This week we take a look at a triple homicide case from the greater Fort Worth, Texas area. This is the case that should have stopped a Serial Killer and shut him down for good. A killer that one Sheriff said has absolutely no conscience, and he enjoys killing. With a gun and a broomstick, Kenneth McDuff took the lives of three teenagers back in 1966. Then a little more than twenty years later Texas paroled him. The paroled killer was now free to kill again and again. Join us in the Garage for a cold beer and a chilling conversation about true and pure evil.

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Brief Summary

Kenneth McDuff's trial, release, and further murders highlight systemic failures in the Texas justice system.

Key points

Welcome to True Crime Garage. Nick and the Captain introduce the show and their beer of choice.
Kenneth McDuff's Trial. The trial of Kenneth McDuff begins, with Roy Greene as the star witness.
McDuff's Release and Consequences. Kenneth McDuff is released on parole, leading to further crimes.
Colleen Reed's Abduction. Witnesses report seeing two men before Colleen Reed's abduction at a car wash.
Kenneth McDuff's Arrest. Kenneth McDuff is arrested in Kansas City after a tip from a co-worker.
Trial Without a Body. Kenneth McDuff faces trial for Colleen Reed's murder without her body as evidence.

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