In October of 1989, the State of Texas set Kenneth Allen Mc Duff, the Broomstick Murderer, free.
He is the author of A Sniper in the Tower: The Charles Whitman Murders and Worse Than Death: The Dallas Nightclub Murders and the Texas Multiple Murder Law, both published by the University of North Texas Press..
Lavergne is Director of Admissions Research at the University of Texas at Austin.
About the Author: GARY M.
Equally compelling are the lives of remarkable law enforcement officers determined to bring Mc Duff to justice, and their seven-year search for his victims.
Lavergne goes beyond horror into an analysis of the unbelievable subculture in which Mc Duff lived.
Drawing from dozens of interviews, a careful review of primary documents, and recounting his personal involvement with law enforcement officers in efforts to recover victims, Gary M.
Bad Boy from Rosebud is a chilling account of the Life of one of the most heartless and brutal serial killers in American history.
The spasm of prison construction and parole reforms collectively called the "Mc Duff Rules," resulted from anenormous display of anger vented towards the system that allowed Mc Duff to kill, and kill again.
He brought about the restructuring of the third largest criminal justice system in the United States.
By choosing to murder again while on parole, Mc Duff became the architect of an extraordinarily intolerant atmosphere in Texas.
Thirty years after he had dropped out of school, Kenneth Mc Duff was still scaring school children and giving principals trouble.
Schools took precautions, and bus drivers were warned to be on the alert for the Bad Boy from Rosebud.
Calls came in from housewives afraid to leave their kids by themselves during broad daylight.
All of a sudden fear returned.
Mc Duff was paroled.
It was not a trial error, or a ruling by some judge.
In October of 1989, the State of Texas set Kenneth Allen Mc Duff, the Broomstick Murderer, free
