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Necronomipod

Kenneth McDuff Part 2

Necronomipod

Cool Down Media

Comedy, True Crime

4.73.6K Ratings

🗓️ 12 April 2026

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

Grab a beer and join us tonight as wrap up our series on Kenneth McDuff! Last week we covered the Broomstick Murders and the series of decisions that put him back on the street in 1989. Tonight we follow what happened next. We'll walk through the early 1990s killing spree that included the abduction of Melissa Northrup from a Waco convenience store and the abduction of Colleen Reed from an Austin car wash, the investigators who refused to let the cases go cold, and how a fugitive warrant and an appearance on America's Most Wanted finally brought McDuff down working as a garbage truck driver in Kansas City. Then we'll cover the trials, the 1998 execution, and the legislative fallout that followed — because the McDuff case didn't just end with a lethal injection. It blew up the Texas parole system and changed the way the state handles violent offenders to this day. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

After being released not once, but three times, a convicted triple murderer returned to the streets, and almost immediately, women began disappearing along the Texas I-35 corridor.

0:16.0

What followed was a brutal killing spree, a multi-agency manhunt, and a case that exposed deep

0:23.2

corruption inside the parole system. By the time it ended, the body count was still uncertain,

0:28.7

and the damage was already done. This is the conclusion of our series on Kenneth McDuff.

0:34.9

I'm Mike. I'm Ian. And I'm Dave. If you thought ending up on death row was pretty final, what about ending

0:41.4

up there a second time? Stick around. If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. This

0:47.6

is Necronomopod. The

0:57.0

The Gentlemen, March Madness is over, and I'm once again victorious in our pool in our bracket minus the winning bracket

1:30.0

that's right as it was a couple years ago I'm not back to back but I've won a couple

1:34.4

times in the past few years I will tell you that chat GPT did my entire winning bracket

1:40.7

gave me a little help the bracket that I actually did by hand came in the last place in the tournament.

1:48.0

You bookended the entire thing.

1:50.0

I did.

1:51.0

At one point we almost like swept the top three spots.

1:55.0

Yeah, we're in first, second, third and fourth for a while.

1:58.0

I think two of Ian's were in the top four. So you both

2:02.3

did two. See, I didn't, I just did one. No. Yeah. By hand. What did I end up? Michigan winning

2:09.4

fucked me out of a place, out of a pay. You ended up in fourth. With a team that was eliminated in the

2:15.3

second round. I don't understand how that works no my last

2:19.9

place when i had yukon winning and even yukon getting to the finals didn't save that bracket from coming

2:25.4

in the last from in last place i told you how bad it was i wasn't how shit is your bracket

2:30.3

well you had a correct final i wonder what your final four correction was on that't remember. Like, if you tell me you had two or three out of the final four correct. Hmm. I had you kind of Duke. Duke didn't make it, right? No. They were elite eight. They got out. Eliminated. Oh, that doesn't track. You can't have Yukon and Duke in the final.

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