Robert Riggs
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The nationwide manhunt for McDuff ended this afternoon with his arrest in Kansas City. McDuff is the prime suspect in the recent abductions or murders of six women in Waco and Austin. Channel H's Robert Riggs has been following this story. He joins us now from our Austin newsroom. Robert?
John, six Kansas City police officers armed with shotguns surprised McDuff as he was entering a landfill after lunch today. McDuff had been in Kansas City for a month. 46-year-old Kenneth McDuff was caught working on a privately operated trash truck under the alias of Richard Fowler. Police received a tip from a viewer of last week's episode of America's Most Wanted.
McDuff had been arrested under his alias by Kansas City police in April for soliciting prostitution and were able to match fingerprints. Police say McDuff tried to flee but surrendered without a fight when he realized he was surrounded. U.S. Marshals led a manhunt for McDuff, who was a fugitive on federal gun and drug charges.
But law enforcement officers suspect the parole killer of three Fort Worth teenagers is involved in the disappearance of at least six Central Texas women. McDuff's alleged accomplice in the abduction of Colleen Reed from an Austin car wash last December says McDuff planned to kill the young woman after they sexually assaulted her. Reed's body has not been found.
Last week, police found the body of 22-year-old Melissa Northrup in a southeast Dallas gravel pit. Police suspect McDuff abducted Northrup from the Waco convenience store in March where she worked as a clerk. Kansas City police say that McDuff insisted he was Richard Fowler when he was arrested, but changed his story and admitted he was McDuff when shown fingerprints.
He is now being taken to the federal marshal's office. Federal marshals from Waco are en route to Kansas City to bring him back to Texas.
Vince, Waco police suspect that McDuff killed a Waco woman here just four days after he was paroled in October 1989. Tonight, the people in the Central Texas community are relieved that McDuff is behind bars. Waco truck stop waitress Barbara Miller prays that the arrest of Kenneth McDuff will provide clues to find her daughter. Miller personally hunted down and confronted McDuff last October.
Miller's daughter, 21-year-old Regina Moore, was a drug addict who became a prostitute to support her habit. Moore was last seen alive with McDuff.
Last week, a southeast Dallas County gravel pit yielded the body of another of McDuff's suspected victims. 22-year-old Melissa Northrup, the pregnant mother of two, was abducted March 1st from the Waco convenience store where she worked. Northrop's husband had trained McDuff for a clerk's job at another quick-pack store.
McDuff is a strong suspect of the disappearance of six women, including 28-year-old Colleen Reed, who an alleged accomplice of McDuff says McDuff randomly abducted from an Austin car wash last December. U.S. Marshals led a massive seven-week manhunt for McDuff.
On tonight's update, an exclusive interview as part of a two-month investigation into the parole of Kenneth McDuff. Tracy has the night off. I'm John McKay.
U.S. Marshals led a nationwide manhunt for the murderer known as the Broomstick Killer. Kenneth McDuff returned to Waco last month in chains under heavily armed guards. Did you kill anyone, Mr. McDuff? McDuff was convicted in 1966 for the abduction and murder of one of three Tarrant County teenagers.
A grisly confession by his accomplice described how McDuff strangled the teenage girl with a broomstick after raping her. But McDuff escaped his date with the electric chair and was released on parole in 1989. Now, McDuff has been charged with the early 1992 murder of 22-year-old Valencia Joshua of Fort Worth.
Joshua's body was found in a shallow grave near where McDuff attended trade school in Waco. And McDuff is also a suspect in a string of sadistic sexual murders of other young women, all committed since his parole date. Police sources say McDuff may be responsible for the murders of four teenage girls in an Austin yogurt shop last December.
And McDuff has been named by an accomplice as the killer responsible for the kidnap, rape, and torture murder of 28-year-old Austin accountant Colleen Reed. McDuff is also suspected of kidnapping and killing Waco convenience store clerk Melissa Northrup on March 1st of this year. The body of the pregnant mother of two children was found in a southeast Dallas County gravel pit.
In all, McDuff is a suspect in at least 15 brutal murders, all allegedly committed since he was released from state prison. The question of how Kenneth McDuff got parole troubles victims' families and law enforcement officers. Kenneth McDuff's estranged daughter believes her father bribed his way out of prison.
Teresa Allen says that in 1987 she was privy to family conversations about paying a $25,000 bribe to an unidentified person in the parole system. According to Allen, the family wanted McDuff moved to an East Texas prison because he would have a better chance of getting out. A few months later, in September 1987, McDuff in fact got transferred to the newly opened Michael unit outside Palestine.
McDuff was on the road to freedom. Do you think he bribed his way out? Do you think that's the way he got out?
Allen started visiting McDuff at Retrieve Prison in the spring of 1986. Allen says she is McDuff's daughter from a 1964 rape in which McDuff tried to kill her mother. Parole board panels repeatedly denied McDuff parole while he was in retrieve in other Houston area prisons. McDuff had a reputation here as a quiet, passive inmate who did what he was told to do, who said, yes, sir, and no, sir.
McDuff knew how to do his time. McDuff made leather goods in the prison craft shop. He completed a graphic arts printing course and took college correspondence courses. For 10 years, McDuff's house was a small concrete cubicle inside a prison dorm built in 1933. Allen says McDuff did the right things to try to fool the parole board into thinking he was rehabilitated.
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