At this point, according to Green's statement, McDuff said he would have to "knock 'em off"; he proceeded to fire six shots into the trunk of the Ford despite Dunnam and Brand's pleas not to.

During a one-on-one interview with a board member, McDuff offered him a bribe to secure a favorable decision on the parole application.

It proved meaningless, as board members thought McDuff could still "contribute to society" and decided to grant him parole.

After being released, he got a job at a gas station making $4 an hour while taking a class at Texas State Technical College in Waco.

However, he was soon returned to prison on a parole violation for making death threats to an African American youth in Rosebud.

[1] Addie McDuff paid $1,500, plus an additional $700 for expenses, to two Huntsville attorneys in return for their "evaluating" her son's prospect of release.

The police officers gave chase, but McDuff eluded them by turning off his lights and traveling the wrong way down one-way streets.

Five days later, on October 15, 1991, McDuff and a 21-year-old sex worker named Regenia DeAnne Moore were witnessed arguing at a Waco motel.

Shortly thereafter, the pair drove in McDuff's pickup truck to a remote area beside Texas State Highway 6, near Waco.

McDuff is also believed to have murdered Cynthia Renee Gonzalez, 23, who was found dead in a creek bed near County Road 313 in heavily wooded terrain 1 mile west of I-35 on September 21, 1991, some six days after she was reported missing in Arlington.

[4] McDuff and an accomplice, Alva Hank Worley, murdered Colleen Reed, a Louisiana native, on December 29, 1991.

McDuff and Worley drove to an Austin car wash and kidnapped Reed in plain sight of eyewitnesses before driving away.

Worley admitted in an April 1992 interview with the Bell County Sheriff's Department that he had raped Reed and tortured her with cigarettes, but he stated that he did not participate in her murder.

During the investigation, before the body was found, a college friend of McDuff's told police officers that he had attempted to enlist his help in robbing the store.

McDuff had moved to Kansas City, Missouri, where he was working at a refuse collection company and living under the assumed name of Richard Fowler.

After discussing the matter with another coworker, Smithee telephoned the Kansas City Police Department, which searched Fowler's name and found he had been arrested and fingerprinted for soliciting sex workers.

Marshal Mike McNamara, and Falls County Sheriff Larry Pamplin, whose fathers had arrested McDuff in 1966.

In Texas, juries determine whether or not an individual convicted of capital murder receives life imprisonment or the death penalty.

Journalist Gary Cartwright expressed the hope he would be executed, saying: "If there has ever been a good argument for the death penalty, it's Kenneth McDuff.

Following several delays while appeals were heard, the Western District Court denied habeas corpus relief and rescheduled the execution date for November 17, 1998.