McDUFF, Kenneth Allen

Teenagers Robert Hugh Brand, cousin Johnny "Marcus" Dunnam and Edna Louise Sullivan are hanging out at a baseball diamond when Kenneth Allen McDuff and an accomplice, Roy Dale Green, arrive. Brand and Dunnam were placed in the trunk of the car. The boys were driven to a hay field and shot. The shooting was witnessed by the home owner, who did not realize anyone was in the trunk. It was not immediately reported.

McDuff and his accomplice Green return to Sullivan. Edna Louise Sullivan is abducted, raped and strangled with a  pink broom handle. She is left in a field. This is the murder that earns McDuff his nickname, "The Broomstick Killer."

Accomplice Roy Dale Green confesses to police and is arrested. McDuff is arrested and Sullivan's body is found in the next few days. McDuff is indicted.

McDuff is found guilty and sentenced to death. Death sentences for McDuff and other death row prisoners are commuted in 1972, when the Supreme Court rules the penalty is unconstitutional. He gets life with parole, and is out in 23 years.

McDuff is released on parole. The board chairman James Granberry cast a favorable vote that paroled him. Granberry would later go on to have a a federal court issue a five year probated perjury sentence against him. The Texas House Corrections Committee later creates a new internal guideline, known as the McDuff Rule. This forces the entire 18 person committee to vote on parole eligibility. 

McDuff strangles prostitute Sarafia Monnetta Parker, 29, and dumps her in a field in Temple, Bell County, Texas. He is never charged with her murder.

Denise "Jan" Janine Mason, 28, is murdered in Travis County, Texas. McDuff was suspected but never charged in her death.

Just one year into his parole, McDuff is arrested for violating his parole.

McDuff is released on parole again.

Trudy Jean Darby, 42, works as a night clerk at K and D Country Corners. She called her son, worried about a "strange man" lurking about. He arrives in 5 minutes. She is gone. Darby is abducted and killed in Camden County, Missouri. Her body is found in Macks Creek. McDuff would later be a suspect, but never charged.

Cheryl Kenney, 31, disappears after closing a convenience store in Nevada, Missouri. McDuff is suspected but never charged.

Angela Hammond disappears from a store parking lot in Clinton, Missouri. McDuff is suspected but never charged.

Vernia Blunson is killed in Temple, Texas. McDuff is suspected but never charged.

Cynthia Renee Gonzalez is found dead in a creek bed in heavily wooded terrain in Arlington, Texas. She was on a call for a "strip-o-gram" when she was shot in the chest. McDuff is suspected but never charged.

Prostitute and drug addict Brenda Thompson is bound and abducted. While McDuff is driving, he sees a police roadblock, and stops before he gets there.  She almost survives when she kicks at the windshield. However, McDuff manages to evade the checkpoint by driving directly at them, and getting past. Thompson, already bound, she is sexually assaulted and tortured to death. Her body is not found at the time.

Regenia "Gina" DeAnn Moore argues with McDuff at Waco motel, and is killed. She is only 21 years old. Her body is not immediately found.

Colleen A. Reed is abducted from an Austin carwash. McDuff is considerably larger than the petite woman, making it easy for him to simply "muscle" her into the car. McDuff has an accomplice for the abduction, Alva Hank Worley. Reed is sexually assaulted and tortured. Her body is not found immediately.

Valencia Kay Joshua, a 28-year-old prostitute, is last seen knocking on McDuff's door.  It was later determined that both the killer and the victim went to same college. He strangles her to death and buries the body.

Melissa Ann Northrup, 22, is abducted from the Waco Quik-Pak where she works. McDuff was once a coworker. He leaves his car behind, takes hers and drives away with Northrup. McDuff's car found is found March 6, 1992.

Joshua's remains are found buried in the woods behind Texas State Technical College, Waco, Texas. The case for her murder is not pursued because McDuff would end up facing the death penalty anyway.

Police in Bell County contact the investigator in Waco to say Worley confessed he and McDuff kidnapped and killed Reed. However, McDuff is in hiding. He has taken the name Richard Fowler. He has even managed to be arrested under that name, but is not in jail for long.

Northrup's decomposed body is found in water in a Waco gravel pit. McDuff used shoestrings and a sock to bind her, but she was killed with rope.

A coworker sees Richard Fowler on America's Most Wanted and called police. Police check Fowler's arrest record and compare his fingerprints to McDuff.

McDuff is arrested for the murders of Reed and Northrup.

McDuff is found guilty of the murder of Northrup. The killer's mother testifies that he charged her Visa card on February 29, 1992. This places him in the city on the date Northrup was killed.

He is sentenced two days later, to death. This makes McDuff the first death-row paroled inmate to be sentenced again to death.

McDuff is convicted of the capital murder, aggravated sexual assault and aggravated kidnapping of Colleen Reed.

McDuff is sentenced to death for the murder of Reed, whose body has still not yet been found.

Regenia Moore's remains are found in a remote area near Highway 6, Waco Texas.

The remains of Brenda Thompson are found in Waco, Texas. She had been sexually assaulted and tortured to death. McDuff was never charged.

Colleen Reed's skeletal remains are found on the banks of the Brazos River near Marlin, Falls County, Texas. She was buried beneath a tree.

McDuff is executed. His family never claimed his body and he was buried at the prison.