Bad Boy: The True Story of Kenneth Allen McDuff, the Most Notorious Serial Killer in Texas History
Gary M. Lavergne
ISBN 10: 0312981252 ISBN 13: 9780312981259
Published by St. Martin's True Crime, 2001
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The author of A Sniper in the Tower: The Charles Whitman Murders journeys into the dark life of brutal serial killer Kenneth Allen McDuff, his murderous crime spree before and after his release on parole in 1989, and the reactive "McDuff Rules," which were designed to restructure the failed Texas criminal justice system. Reissue.
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"Killing a woman is like killing a chicken; they both squawk."
A juvenile delinquent and bully as a child, Kenneth Allen McDuff was a notorious criminal by the age of 19. In August 1966, while on parole for burglary, he raped, tortured, and murdered three teenagers in an abandoned field far from his hometown of Rosebud, a peaceful Central Texas hamlet. He was tried, convicted, and condemned to death. Had his sentence not been commuted to life, that would have been the end of Kenneth Allen McDuff. But in 1989, only weeks after the twenty-third anniversary of his crimes, the bad boy from Rosebud walked out of prison a free man.
"I'm going to give them time to get off my back and then I'm going to show them the real McDuff."
McDuff took pleasure in outwitting the system, and his bloodlust was an impulse he had no intention of controlling. After decomposed corpses of more and more women were discovered, the worse nightmares of the authorities came true. But times were different. It took 32 years to bring his brutal and heartless crime spree to a fitting end. Texas had never seen such incredible brutality-and has never been the same since.
"MAY MAKE EVEN THE MOST HARDENED TRUE-CRIME FANS SWEAT."
-Booklist
WITH 8 PAGES OF HARROWING PHOTOGRAPHS
A juvenile delinquent and bully as a child, Kenneth Allen McDuff was a notorious criminal by the age of 19. In August 1966, while on parole for burglary, he raped, tortured, and murdered three teenagers in an abandoned field far from his hometown of Rosebud, a peaceful Central Texas hamlet. He was tried, convicted, and condemned to death. Had his sentence not been commuted to life, that would have been the end of Kenneth Allen McDuff. But in 1989, only weeks after the twenty-third anniversary of his crimes, the bad boy from Rosebud walked out of prison a free man.
"I'm going to give them time to get off my back and then I'm going to show them the real McDuff."
McDuff took pleasure in outwitting the system, and his bloodlust was an impulse he had no intention of controlling. After decomposed corpses of more and more women were discovered, the worse nightmares of the authorities came true. But times were different. It took 32 years to bring his brutal and heartless crime spree to a fitting end. Texas had never seen such incredible brutality-and has never been the same since.
"MAY MAKE EVEN THE MOST HARDENED TRUE-CRIME FANS SWEAT."
-Booklist
WITH 8 PAGES OF HARROWING PHOTOGRAPHS
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Title: Bad Boy: The True Story of Kenneth Allen ...
Publisher: St. Martin's True Crime
Publication Date: 2001
Binding: Unknown
Condition: Fair
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