Robert Riggs
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Sharpe took the unusual step of asking District Attorney Ronnie Earl to assist and investigate any allegations of criminal wrongdoing. Robert Riggs, Channel 8 News, Austin.
Investigators say they may have found the remains of a Waco woman abducted seven years ago by notorious serial killer Kenneth McDuff. McDuff, who was once the target of a nationwide manhunt, recently received a stay of execution for the murder of another Waco woman. A forensic anthropologist from Baylor University uncovered the partially clothed skeleton.
It's believed to be 21-year-old Regina Moore, who was last seen struggling in McDuff's car in 1991. The shallow grave was hidden beneath boulders beside Highway 6 east of Waco. Federal prosecutor Bill Johnston, who led the dragnet for McDuff, says a confidential informant guided them to the gravesite.
McDuff's violent temper flared after he received two death sentences four years ago. He is the first ever Texas death row inmate to have been paroled and then sentenced again for another capital murder. McDuff abducted Colleen Reed, a 28-year-old accountant from an Austin car wash in 1991. Her body was never found. McDuff also kidnapped Melissa Northrup.
a 22-year-old pregnant mother of two children from a Waco convenience store in early 1992.
McDuff received parole even though he had killed three Fort Worth area teenagers in 1966. News 8's investigation of McDuff's release uncovered a bribery scandal involving the Texas Parole Board. As a result, outraged lawmakers passed a McDuff law. It requires capital murder inmates to serve 40 years before they're eligible for parole and violent offenders to serve one half of their sentences.
It had appeared that Kenneth McDuff would take his horrible secrets to his grave. But now investigators say they are a step closer to unearthing what happened to the many women who disappeared in McDuff's deadly hands. Robert Riggs, Channel 8 News, outside Waco.
The U.S. Marshals and prosecutor who vowed that Colleen Reed would someday receive a decent burial with flowers kept their promise. After searching for the body of the murder victim for seven years, they brought Colleen Reed home to Austin. At last, a packed church of family and friends could pay their final respects.
Colleen Reed's sister and former fiancee placed a rose in honor of the other victims claimed by her killer. The memorial list started with the three teenagers killed in Tarrant County back in 1966 by Kenneth McDuff. McDuff abducted Colleen Reed from an Austin car wash seven years ago.
He had carried her secret burial place to death row until last week when a confidential informant led officers to the graves of Reed and two other women murdered by McDuff.
Friends remembered Colleen Reed as a loving daughter, loyal sister, doting aunt, animal lover, practical joker, fundraiser for needy children, a CPA, and proud Marine reservist. Although the recovery of her body will help the family heal, it also reopened painful wounds.
It is indeed, Chip. Prison guards moved Kenneth McDuff to the death house here at the Walls Unit in downtown Huntsville shortly after noon. Prison officials described his mood as both docile and joking. He is scheduled to die by lethal injection one hour from now.
Inside the Texas prison death house, investigators continued trying to pry information out of Kenneth McDuff about a string of unsolved murders. They will remain there until McDuff's hour of execution scheduled for 6 p.m. News 8 has learned that a prison internal affairs investigator and FBI criminal profilers interviewed McDuff for more than 100 hours starting last week.
Federal law enforcement sources say McDuff revealed that he cruised every major city in Texas looking for women to abduct. He also made frequent trips into Mexico while out on parole for three years until his arrest in 1992. Investigators suspect he could be responsible for dozens of murders. But McDuff turned angry and quit talking.
McDuff claimed he would give a full confession in a taped interview to a documentary film producer from Austin. But the prison system was concerned that McDuff's family might later profit from the production. And there was concern that McDuff was just trying to manipulate the system one last time.
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