Everyone thought was wrong with texas criminals. 10 is allen mcduff was a serial killer who first committed murder in 1966 and was sentenced to death for the brutal murders of three teenagers in the fort worth area. 23 years later, he was paroled even though he had been on death row. The story is long and sordid but in the end, after he got parole he began murdering people in the waco and austin area and got captured again, got convicted again, and got sent back to death row a second time. He is one of only one or two people in the history of the United States who has ever had two different death row numbers. When Kenneth Allen mcduff was in prison the first time for his murders in the 1960s, the texas prison system did not grow, but the population did. In the 1970s and 1980s, a federal judge ruled that texass prison system was unconstitutionally overcrowded. The state of texas at the time chose not to spend an awful lot of money building more prisons and so instead resorted to her rol
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….so here we are…it’s October 1989 and Kenneth “The Broomstick Killer” Allen McDuff has just been paroled. He heads back to his hometown of Rosebud where the residents are out of their minds afraid of once again having to live with this bully of man and absolutely floored that he was released after what he did to those innocent teenagers. But he’s been in prison “reforming” since his arrest and conviction in 1966 right? Isn’t that what prison if for, punishment and reform? Besides it’s not like he had done anything like this before or already had an escalating criminal history with a family history of disfunction and violence right? About that town in Rosebud….. (I like to tell some of a story and then go back, like movie directors these days seem to keep doing things, which I’m totally ok with)
365 Days of Texas True Crime: Broomstick Killer
Tawny the Rock Chick here, your resident true crime aficionado. As interesting as I find true crime from all over to be, it’s the local stuff that I can really dig into. You could say I’m a bit obsessed with researching stories of murder and missing persons from this area. I’ve spent countless hours reading old newspapers articles, requesting files on cases and sifting through data cases online regarding homicide cases that you probably didn’t even know existed. This area holds more sordid secrets than you may know and I’m going to tell you about all of them, one day at a time. It’s 365 Days of Texas True Crime and todays story goes like this…..