Three Strikes and You're Dead: Kenneth Allen McDuff

Once Upon A Crime | True Crime

Esther Ludlow

True Crime, Society & Culture, Crime, Truecrime, Criminology, History, Criminals

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🗓️ 5 February 2019

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

A man murders three innocent teens in 1966, is sentenced to death and later is released from prison to kill again. This is the case of Kenneth Allen McDuff aka "The Broomstick Killer".

Resources:
Articles: "Free to Kill" by Gary Carthwright, Texas Monthly, August 1992. "McDuff Likely to Take Grisly Secrets to Grave" by Mike Cochran for the Associated Press, published in the Lubbock-Avalanche Journal, 1996.

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0:00.0	This podcast details true crime cases.
0:03.1	It contains adult themes and may contain descriptions of violence.
0:06.8	It is not intended for children.
0:08.8	Listener discretion is advised.
0:15.7	Thank you for joining me for today's episode of Once Upon a Crime.
0:19.7	Before you started following true crime cases, like me, you may have thought that the justice
0:24.4	system worked the way it was portrayed on TV.
0:27.4	A crime is committed, police investigate, the bad guy is caught, a trial is held, and justice
0:33.0	is served.
0:34.2	But as you started learning the details of stories involving crime and punishment, you probably
0:38.3	noticed that things rarely work out that simply.
0:41.3	You probably learned that most arrests don't even go to trial.
0:45.3	They're often pled out, or even dismissed for one reason or another.
0:49.3	And even cases that do go to trial, sometimes don't end in what we would call justice.
0:56.4	Sometimes a person you might consider clearly guilty is acquitted of the charges.
1:01.5	Even worse, you may have discovered that sometimes people are wrongly convicted
1:05.5	and may spend years of their lives behind bars for something they didn't do.
1:10.8	Fortunately, this is not the norm, but terrible mistakes, or even misconduct on the part of
1:16.5	prosecutors or investigators, can occur.
1:19.7	But as unfair and unjust as wrongful convictions may be, there is an outcome that you may consider
1:25.7	even worse.
1:27.2	That is when a known criminal, even a murderer, is set free and then kills again.
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