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Best of True Crime Reporter® 2021 – Serial Killer Kenneth McDuff

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In this “Best Of True Crime Reporter®”, we take you back to the first episode in our series about serial killer Kenneth Allen McDuff.

It was a Webby Award Honoree for Best True Crime Podcast in 2021.

McDuff is the only criminal in Texas history to have received three death sentences.

Serial Killer Kenneth Allen McDuff being escorted to a holding cell in the Texas Death Chamber. McDuff, was believed to be the only condemned inmate in the nation ever paroled and then returned to death row for two more murders. He was sentenced to die in the electric chair in 1966 for killing Robert Brand, one of three teenagers he was charged with randomly killing. But McDuff was later paroled after the death penalty was overturned. He was sentenced in two different cases to die by lethal injection for the murders of Melissa Northrup and Colleen Reed. McDuff was executed shortly after this photograph was taking on November 17, 1998.
Serial Killer Kenneth Allen McDuff is being escorted to a holding cell in the Texas Death Chamber. McDuff was believed to be the only condemned inmate in the nation ever paroled and then returned to death row for two more murders. He was sentenced to die in the electric chair in 1966 for killing Robert Brand, one of three teenagers he was charged with randomly killing. But McDuff was later paroled after the death penalty was overturned. He was sentenced in two different cases to die by lethal injection for the murders of Melissa Northrup and Colleen Reed. McDuff was executed shortly after this photograph was taken on November 17, 1998.

Yet he got out of prison under a cloud of corruption after murdering three teenagers.

An FBI profiler, the late Roy Hazelwood, described McDuff to me as the Great White Shark of serial killers.

Yet most people have never heard of McDuff.

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  1. Doris says

    I’m 65 yrs.lived in Houston, TX. All my mostly west, south west of Houston, but I remember when I was 17,there was a killer inside of Houston killing women in mostly their apartments cutting their heads off, and it scared the heck out of me because my parents had just gave me my first car, I have tried to look this crime up eversence,but never found one ounce of that crime and I know it happened, it was on the news for weeks, so if you are familiar of the crime I’m speaking of I would love for you to speak about it, I’m sorry I don’t have much more info on this, but how many crime were going on in Houston that were cutting women’s heads off back in 1972 or 1973, good luck hope you’re able to find it and speak about it, because there was only one other person that scared the blank out of me and thank God he was caught and died in prison by a injection 💉, which I think is to dame easy for these murders, I really enjoy listening to your show, thank you, I love Texas with all my heart and to hear you talking about the criminals you caught makes me happy, I also want to thank you for your years of service to the crime department we were and apparently still are very proud of you and God Bless you and your family. God bless.

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    • Robert Riggs says

      Doris,
      Thank you for being a fan and we appreciate your encouragement. We are going to dig into records to find these cases for the podcast. Please leave a review on Apple or wherever you listen to podcasts.

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