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[Music] crime [Music] see 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 states 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 is 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 solivan Green 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 green acted alone and committed the crimes on his own after borrowing Kenneth's car and that
Roy green was simply trying to frame McDuff for these crimes well you got to 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 so a couple things that happened was Kenneth mcduff's attorney his we already
talked about what mcduff's defense would be that 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 Tred 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 distract 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 and 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 M 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 mcduff'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 so too good for his own good 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 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 throughout the death penalty in 1972 so he commits these murders in ' 66
six years later what he sentenced to is no longer even an option so it's now commuted to a life sentence yeah I feel
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 [Music] 750 the
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 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 the 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
the 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 in 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 going to 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 bran 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 Absol 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 going to let him out but
again this is a this is a triple homicide where in fact then he went on and lied about 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 lock Ling
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 byst
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
omde sheriff paplin on the day that McDuff was released he shared his opinion Sheriff papini 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 are 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 sarapa 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% 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 sarapa Parker's murder we do get lucky here for a little bit Captain uh
brief 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 to 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 199 1 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 want so much more to get to and we will get to that after
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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 but again we see a reoccurring 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 aged 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 Tex 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 in this area is located directly behind Texas State Technical College this will bring to
later in the year in 1991 in fact around the 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 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 here
is 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
p.m. 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 GNA 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 p.m. 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 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 30s with dark skin and hair Drive the wrong way on pal
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 re 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 Reeds 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 3 in tall weighs 115b was a certified public accountant
at the time she's really interesting to me here Captain she was actually a u 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
wied glasses a pink and ivory plaid hip length jacket and an ivory wool scarf and they said that Reed our victim
appear to be running errands on that Sunday night and they base 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 mc mc Duff 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 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 Witman 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 shop 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 a Dodge with her and toe 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 victim's 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 pared serial killer and this man he was a he was a killer when he was apprehended and 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 Reed
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 warley is the man who breaks down what happens is 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 figure out that he had been hanging out with this Hank warley guy
they pick up Hank warley 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 oneway
street right and that's what the police thought all along that the the abductors
were from 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 McDuff that they were going to Austin Texas that night so that they could score some drugs that 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 going to I'm gonna find
somebody and I'm gonna take them 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 warly story McDuff gets out of the
vehicle and we get gave you a physical description of Colleen Reed we gave you a physical description of Kenneth McDuff
he's 13 in taller yeah that's a big boy than Colleen Reed and according to warley
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 warley 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
warley right before McDuff grabs her Reed 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 them 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 ala Hank warley 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 off and ask warley for a knife and he said hey I this you know this is where I'm going to go and then
he used these words I'm going to 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 that 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 Fantasy 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 what the other victim 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 McDuff 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 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 19 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 High tailed
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 stff 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 warley 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 McDuff will also face a trial in the Northrup case this
man is the only man to my knowledge that has been sentenced to death by 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 piece of [ __ ] 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 with warley 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 warley and Roy green is a liar and he goes on to say that uh the the statements contradict one another
because Hank warley 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 uh 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 right 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 own up to and
essentially they get it right in the end but if it wasn't for green one of the things that we learn
from Green that's the most important out of all this is McDuff is going to commit horrible
crimes and 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 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
fullblown no matter how thorough the studies of the T Bundy 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 dat he's a rather physically sick individual by this time he has I believe hepatitis
C and sorosis A A he is 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 War'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 in remain 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 p.m. central natural 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-colas
with all the fixen 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 McDuff 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] to see 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 and Los Angeles by Dale
Pearlman built during Los Angeles's 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
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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 reveals a flawed justice system that allowed a convicted murderer to reoffend after his release from prison.

Key points

Kenneth McDuff's Trial. Kenneth McDuff is charged with three murders in Texas, with conflicting testimonies.
The Warning Before Release. Bill Brand warns of the consequences of releasing McDuff, who had previously killed.
Sheriff's Premonition. Sheriff Paplin predicts that dead girls will start turning up after McDuff's release.
Kenneth McDuff's Return. In 1991, Kenneth McDuff was released from prison and soon women began to disappear. His pattern of violence re-emerged, leading to a series of abductions and murders.
The Disappearance of Colleen Reed. Colleen Reed, 28, was abducted from a car wash in Austin, Texas, on February 24, 1991. Witnesses reported seeing her last moments, raising fears of a random kidnapping.
Eyewitness Accounts. Witnesses reported seeing two men speeding away from the scene of Colleen Reed's abduction, raising questions about their identities and motives.

Episode highlights

Episode quotes

I think she's studying to be a missionary.

Kenneth McDuff's mother defending him in court.

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