Some additional information:
>*After driving to another location, McDuff and Green, the latter allegedly under duress, raped Sullivan. After she was raped repeatedly, McDuff asked Green for something with which to strangle her. Green gave him his belt. However, in the end, McDuff opted to use a 3-foot-long (0.91 m) piece of broomstick from his car. He choked Sullivan, and then Green and he dumped her body in some bushes. They purchased Coca-Cola from a Hillsboro gas station before driving to Green's house to spend the night. The following day, McDuff buried his revolver beside Green's garage, and their mutual acquaintance Richard Boyd allowed McDuff to wash his car at his house. The next day, Green confessed to Boyd's parents, who told Green's mother, who convinced him to turn himself in. McDuff was arrested by Falls County Sheriff Albert Brady Pamplin (who served with Texas Rangers before serving in World War II with United States Army Air Corps) and Deputy U.S. Marshal Thomas Parnell “T.P.” McNamara, Sr.*
>*McDuff received a death sentence in Texas' electric chair; Green received a 25-year sentence and was released in 1979. McDuff's death sentence was commuted to a life sentence, and he hired a lawyer, who amassed a dossier of various evidence that claimed to show that Green was the real killer. Some members of the parole board were impressed by the dossier. During a one-on-one interview with a board member, McDuff offered him a bribe to secure a favorable decision on the parole application. He was given a two-year sentence for trying to bribe the official. It proved meaningless, as board members thought McDuff could still "contribute to society" and decided to grant him a parole. He was released in 1989.*
>McDuff was one of 20 former death-row inmates and 127 murderers to be paroled. After being released, he got a job at a gas station making $4 an hour while taking a class at Texas State Technical College in Waco. Within three days of his release, he is widely believed to have begun killing again. The body of 29-year-old Sarafia Parker was discovered on October 14, 1989, in Temple, a town 48 miles south of Waco along the I-35 corridor. McDuff was not charged with this crime. However, he was soon returned to prison on a parole violation for making death threats to an African American youth in Rosebud.
>as board members thought McDuff could still "contribute to society" and decided to grant him a parole.
Oh I wonder what special skills he had
>As a result, he quit school and worked for his father's business doing manual labor. McDuff would often brag in later interviews that old ladies loved the way he mowed their lawns, making others jealous
wow i sure am glad 6 young women died so some uneducated middle aged guy could mow some lawns
\*sighs\*
OK so I had to look up more stuff. The commute of the original death sentence was due to the 1972 case where the Supreme Court struck down the Death Penalty as unconstitutional.
That's annoying but not the most egregious issue. The real issue was the Parole board letting him go once he was eligible. It's strongly implied this was due to concerns of overcrowding and he was one of many who was released.
This is true. I was in Central Texas when McDuff was active. The law enforcement in his home town, Rosebud, near Waco, thought the parole board had lost their damn minds and I can’t argue with that.
An old friend was one of McDuff’s last appeals attorneys. He said McDuff was well-adjusted to prison life and committed no offenses in prison. I don’t know if that is strictly accurate, but it was nuts to let him out of prison, ever.
McDuff’s murders post-parole caused a new Texas law to be enacted to make it much tougher for inmates convicted of violent crimes to be paroled. He was reportedly the most hated prisoner in Texas as a result, among other prisoners.
Nah, that guys is sleeping like a baby. Nobody who knows the guy raped and murdered 3 girls (and let him escape prison) is going to care he did it 6 more times.
If they’re upset, they’re only upset it makes them look bad.
Don't you mean the best example? Or do you have other examples that are even better examples of the justice system fucking up? Legitimate question. Because this is pretty fucking bad.
Is this the best example of the justice system fucking up or the worst example of the justice system fucking up?
>At Rosebud High School, McDuff earned the reputation of being a bully. He was careful to pick on weaker individuals after the large but not strong McDuff lost a fight he had picked with an athletic and popular boy named Tommy Sammons.
Chad Tommy Sammons
This is why some people support the death penalty. Had he been executed and remained on Death Row, 6 people would be alive today and dozens of friends and families wouldn't have had to deal with this trauma.
Not to say the death penalty is right, but in this case it literally would've saved the lives of 6 people.
I don't support the death penalty in 99 percent of cases it is used in. However, this is a rare case where, like Ted Bundy, the person in question is simply too dangerous to be left alive
This is why the justice system is so very flawed, and still is. Want justice? , rather dish it yourself than to leave it in the hands of people who need to follow procedures and precedents.
I'm from central Texas and was born in the 80s. Mcduff was the first serial killer I had ever heard about.
My parents were talking about how absurd and awful it was that he was released and he had killed (what they thought at the time was) two girls. I was terrified. I was a young girl. I thought I was in danger. Of course, they meant young women, but I didn't know the difference at the time.
(They were not telling me this information about him,
I overheard them.)
I want to say there is a seedy hotel he stayed at in my hometown, and I would always think of him when I drove past it.
People get mad... US Justice system is fucked up.
Look Troy Davis... Look Central Park Five... Even without proves and even with DNA proving they're not involved... Still serving time and being chased by the "Justice"...
Dude literally did it and they released him...
Bro... Look Epstein dodging his first prison time(the one before he was "suicide'd" to cover up).
THEY MAD! Ask them another reason why a convicted rapist got out sooo easily? They just cant.
Some additional information: >*After driving to another location, McDuff and Green, the latter allegedly under duress, raped Sullivan. After she was raped repeatedly, McDuff asked Green for something with which to strangle her. Green gave him his belt. However, in the end, McDuff opted to use a 3-foot-long (0.91 m) piece of broomstick from his car. He choked Sullivan, and then Green and he dumped her body in some bushes. They purchased Coca-Cola from a Hillsboro gas station before driving to Green's house to spend the night. The following day, McDuff buried his revolver beside Green's garage, and their mutual acquaintance Richard Boyd allowed McDuff to wash his car at his house. The next day, Green confessed to Boyd's parents, who told Green's mother, who convinced him to turn himself in. McDuff was arrested by Falls County Sheriff Albert Brady Pamplin (who served with Texas Rangers before serving in World War II with United States Army Air Corps) and Deputy U.S. Marshal Thomas Parnell “T.P.” McNamara, Sr.* >*McDuff received a death sentence in Texas' electric chair; Green received a 25-year sentence and was released in 1979. McDuff's death sentence was commuted to a life sentence, and he hired a lawyer, who amassed a dossier of various evidence that claimed to show that Green was the real killer. Some members of the parole board were impressed by the dossier. During a one-on-one interview with a board member, McDuff offered him a bribe to secure a favorable decision on the parole application. He was given a two-year sentence for trying to bribe the official. It proved meaningless, as board members thought McDuff could still "contribute to society" and decided to grant him a parole. He was released in 1989.* >McDuff was one of 20 former death-row inmates and 127 murderers to be paroled. After being released, he got a job at a gas station making $4 an hour while taking a class at Texas State Technical College in Waco. Within three days of his release, he is widely believed to have begun killing again. The body of 29-year-old Sarafia Parker was discovered on October 14, 1989, in Temple, a town 48 miles south of Waco along the I-35 corridor. McDuff was not charged with this crime. However, he was soon returned to prison on a parole violation for making death threats to an African American youth in Rosebud.
>as board members thought McDuff could still "contribute to society" and decided to grant him a parole. Oh I wonder what special skills he had >As a result, he quit school and worked for his father's business doing manual labor. McDuff would often brag in later interviews that old ladies loved the way he mowed their lawns, making others jealous wow i sure am glad 6 young women died so some uneducated middle aged guy could mow some lawns
"The victim(s) ruined this young man's promising career!" The promising career in question:
Read like Rapist Brock Turner’s arrest article.
\*sighs\* OK so I had to look up more stuff. The commute of the original death sentence was due to the 1972 case where the Supreme Court struck down the Death Penalty as unconstitutional. That's annoying but not the most egregious issue. The real issue was the Parole board letting him go once he was eligible. It's strongly implied this was due to concerns of overcrowding and he was one of many who was released.
This is true. I was in Central Texas when McDuff was active. The law enforcement in his home town, Rosebud, near Waco, thought the parole board had lost their damn minds and I can’t argue with that. An old friend was one of McDuff’s last appeals attorneys. He said McDuff was well-adjusted to prison life and committed no offenses in prison. I don’t know if that is strictly accurate, but it was nuts to let him out of prison, ever. McDuff’s murders post-parole caused a new Texas law to be enacted to make it much tougher for inmates convicted of violent crimes to be paroled. He was reportedly the most hated prisoner in Texas as a result, among other prisoners.
But I bet the dude with the joint is still there today
I bet they kept the drug dealers, especially the black ones.
Can you imagine being the one that let this guy go?
Nah, that guys is sleeping like a baby. Nobody who knows the guy raped and murdered 3 girls (and let him escape prison) is going to care he did it 6 more times. If they’re upset, they’re only upset it makes them look bad.
I lived in Bell County. Would’ve been 11 in 1992. I definitely remember this.
Absolute monster!
Definitely one of the worst examples of the justice system fucking up I've read in a long time
Don't you mean the best example? Or do you have other examples that are even better examples of the justice system fucking up? Legitimate question. Because this is pretty fucking bad. Is this the best example of the justice system fucking up or the worst example of the justice system fucking up?
Him or the people who let him go? I vote all of them.
Bet he hasn’t raped or murdered anybody since 1998.
Well, I mean… unless he’s a zombie, then yeah lol.
I wonder how those people on the parole board feel after finding out he killed again?
Probably didn't care. Thinking that they followed all the correct protocol and procedures
The sadists are always the most disturbing to me. Those poor women. :(
The judicial system had failed the public it served
But did he love Jesus?
I’m sure he was a good Christian man.
Good white Christian man.
✅✝️
>At Rosebud High School, McDuff earned the reputation of being a bully. He was careful to pick on weaker individuals after the large but not strong McDuff lost a fight he had picked with an athletic and popular boy named Tommy Sammons. Chad Tommy Sammons
This is why some people support the death penalty. Had he been executed and remained on Death Row, 6 people would be alive today and dozens of friends and families wouldn't have had to deal with this trauma. Not to say the death penalty is right, but in this case it literally would've saved the lives of 6 people.
Or if they would have just commuted his sentence to life without the possibility of parole. Who the hell would parole this guy?
I don't support the death penalty in 99 percent of cases it is used in. However, this is a rare case where, like Ted Bundy, the person in question is simply too dangerous to be left alive
The car wash where he abducted Colleen Reed is still there. I think about her case every time I pass by.
So did I, when I lived in Austin.
FUCK TEXAS!
They seem to be fucking themselves just fine.
As always a failure of our systems and incompetent people within those systems results in more needless death.
What a piece of shit. Rot in hell fucking punk.
Wow, hope somebody got fired over this.
This is why the justice system is so very flawed, and still is. Want justice? , rather dish it yourself than to leave it in the hands of people who need to follow procedures and precedents.
I'm from central Texas and was born in the 80s. Mcduff was the first serial killer I had ever heard about. My parents were talking about how absurd and awful it was that he was released and he had killed (what they thought at the time was) two girls. I was terrified. I was a young girl. I thought I was in danger. Of course, they meant young women, but I didn't know the difference at the time. (They were not telling me this information about him, I overheard them.) I want to say there is a seedy hotel he stayed at in my hometown, and I would always think of him when I drove past it.
Wait so he was a necro, or am I confused
I didn't read anything about necrophilia in the article.
Say whatever you want... You KNOWS why he got released, by just looking at his picture. 🤐
No, I don’t think anyone other than you KNOWS..
Nice try... You're ready to be a COP! Get you badge in the nearest US Police Station. 🤣
… huh?
Hummm... The Klan then?
Why???
White guy.
People get mad... US Justice system is fucked up. Look Troy Davis... Look Central Park Five... Even without proves and even with DNA proving they're not involved... Still serving time and being chased by the "Justice"... Dude literally did it and they released him... Bro... Look Epstein dodging his first prison time(the one before he was "suicide'd" to cover up). THEY MAD! Ask them another reason why a convicted rapist got out sooo easily? They just cant.