In 1966, McDuff and an accomplice kidnapped and murdered three teenagers who were visiting from California. He was given three death sentences for these crimes but avoided execution after the 1972 U.S. Supreme Court ruling Furman v.
Who was Kenneth Allen McDuff?Kenneth McDuff was a convicted killer and former death row inmate who was “surprisingly” paroled two and a half years before Northrup’s disappearance, according to Siegler. He and an accomplice, Roy Dale Green, had been convicted of the 1966 slayings of teenage girl Edna Sullivan and teen cousins Robert Brand and Mark Dunnam. The youngsters had been hanging around their car at a local high school’s baseball field when McDuff and Green — armed with a revolver and a broken broomstick handle, respectively — approached the vehicle. “McDuff forced the two boys into the trunk of his car,” said Riggs. “He then took Edna Sullivan in Robert Brand’s car and drove it down these country roads with Roy Dale Green following in McDuff’s car.” They parked in a desolate area, McDuff shot both boys in the trunk, telling his accomplice they could have too easily identified them. McDuff then dragged Sullivan from the car and sexually assaulted the victim before using the broomstick to crush her larynx and kill her. The act would help McDuff earn the moniker “The Broomstick Killer,” according to Riggs. Green, stricken with guilt, later went to authorities and confessed to the crimes, which ultimately led to McDuff’s arrest. Green turned state’s witness and pleaded guilty to Sullivan’s murder in exchange for a 25-year sentence. McDuff was found guilty of all three teens’ murders and sentenced to death. However, the landmark 1972 supreme court case Furman v. Georgia (which ruled that execution violated constitutional rights for being cruel and unusual) had McDuff commuted to life in prison. But, due to overcrowding, he was paroled after serving 23 years. “Everyone in the criminal justice system was wondering, ‘How can this happen?’” Siegler said. Flash forward to March 8, 1992, one week after Melissa Northrup’s disappearance, and the missing mother’s car was found abandoned near a gravel pit south of Dallas, as described by Deputy U.S. Marshal Parnell McNamara. “No fingerprints were found in Melissa’s car, but the seat was pushed all the way back,” said McNamara, adding that expanding their search got them no closer to finding Northrup. Initially, there was not enough evidence to merit a warrant on McDuff until federal prosecutor Bill Johnston stepped in. He asked around, and after learning that McDuff had sold a tab of L.S.D. to another, it was enough to issue a federal warrant and pursue a nationwide manhunt.
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