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Authors: Gary M. Lavergne

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self-centered setting. Dozens of people mingled within inches of one another, but there was no sense of community. There, Kenneth McDuff felt he belonged. He was totally self-centered. He had no allegiance to anyone or any groupnot even the subculture. McDuff even approached the Waco Police Department and offered himself as a snitch to identify drug connections.
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Had WPD been foolish enough to take him up on his proposal, he would likely have gone to the Cut and demanded "protection" money from the dealers. After a thorough search of official and unofficial records, and testimony of dozens who knew him, only his mother, Addie, and Kenneth himself, ever alleged a single episode or moment in which McDuff showed kindness or selflessnesseven as a child.
Does that make him mean, or crazy? In that debate Kenneth McDuff is extraordinarily resilient. Surely, someone so void of virtue has to be crazy? Maybe that is what insanity is? On the other hand, shouldn't conscious acts of wrongdoing demand justice? Is it not true that creatures like McDuff think before they act? Isn't it enough that he knew what he was doing was wrong? Just recently, in a television special about Ted Bundy, his former defense attorney wondered aloud how someone who brutally murdered at least seventeen women could
not
be crazy. Is that an acceptable defense? The more people murdered, the stronger evidence of insanity? If McDuff had killed only Louise he would have been sane, but since he would kill many others he has to be crazyright?
"They think I'm a civil citizen now. . . . I'm going to give them time to get off my back and then I'm going to show them the real McDuff," he said to a prostitute. Society, he added, owed him for the time he spent in prison.
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And who was the "real" McDuff? After admitting to his parole officer that he had smoked marijuana, McDuff was ordered to attend individual and group sessions at the Mental Health and Mental Retardation Heart of Texas Center in Waco. In yet another dismissal of direct instructions from his parole officer, he announced at the center that he would not attend the group sessions. His counselor believed that McDuff had no remorse for what he had done. McDuff also seemed concerned about whether women would be at the group sessions, but his counselor did not note whether or not he wanted to attend with the women. In these sessions, as in most of his other interviews, his lies were oxymoronic. During a session about AIDS, he proudly asserted that he did not use condoms
 
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and that after the session, he would chase down a prostitute. But he also claimed to want to buy a house, join a church, meet a decent woman, marry her, and then quit going to church.
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McDuff offered to become all informant for the Waco Police
Department. They took his picture and wisely turned him down.
Author's Collection.
 
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1 APD Files: Interview of Alva Hank Worley, April 30, 1992;
State of Texas v Kenneth Allen McDuff,
SOF in Cause #93-2139, Volume 24, pg. 189; Interviews of Mike McNamara, Parnell McNamara, and Bill Johnston by the author on June 16, 1998.
2 Tim Steglich; J. W. Thompson; Charles Meyer; APD Files:
Incident Report,
by Scott James Cary, July 4, 1992.
3 Ibid.
4 Kenneth Allen McDuff; County of McLennan:
Sworn Statement of [Michael],
June 18, 1992.
5 Kenneth Allen McDuff.
6 County of McLennan:
Sworn Statement of [Michael],
June 18, 1992; Charles Meyer.
7 Kenneth Allen McDuff.
8 County of McLennan:
Sworn Statement of [Michael],
June 18, 1992; APD Files:
Statement of [Linda],
July 7, 1992.
9 County of McLennan:
Sworn Statement of [Michael],
June 18, 1992.
10 WPD Files:
Offense Report,
by Officer Trantham, February 12, 1992, and
Supplement,
by Officer Shaw, February 13, 1992.
11 Ibid., by Officer Raup, February 25, 1992.
12 Kenneth Allen McDuff; Charles Meyer.
13 APD Files:
Statement of [Linda],
July 7, 1992.

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