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Authors: Gary M. Lavergne

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18 APD Files:
Incident Report,
by Jeffry Adickes, January 2, 1992.
19 BCSO Files:
Statement of Alva Hank Worley,
5:45
P.M.
, April 20, April 21, and April 24, 1992; APD Files:
Incident Report,
by Donald O. Martin, May 7, 1992;
State of Texas v Kenneth Allen McDuff,
SOF in Cause #93-2139, Volume 24, pgs. 18992, Volume 25, pgs. 2328, 137.
20 BCSO Files:
Statement of Alva Hank Worley,
5:45
P.M.
, April 20, 1992, and Interview of May 13, 1992.
21
State of Texas v Kenneth Allen McDuff,
SOF in Cause #93-2139, Volume 7, pgs. 2932.
22 Charles Meyer; J. W. Thompson.
 
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23 APD Files:
Interview of Alva Hank Worley,
May 13, 1998; BCSO Files:
Voluntary Statement of [Mark],
June 25, 1992;
State of Texas v Kenneth Allen McDuff,
SOF in Cause #93-2139, Volume 25, pgs. 28-39; BCSO Files:
Statement of Alva Hank Worley,
5:45
P.M.
and 7:10
P.M.
, April 20, 1992, and April 21, 1992.
24
State of Texas v Kenneth Allen McDuff,
SOF in Cause #93-2139, Volume 4, pg. 237; County of Travis:
Sworn Statement of [Kari],
December 30, 1991; APD Files:
Incident Report,
by Sonya Urubek, July 1, 1992.
25 Ibid.;
State of Texas v Kenneth Allen McDuff,
SOF in Cause #93-2139, Volume 2, pgs. 5061, Volume 3 pgs. 2432, Volume 4, pgs. 203206, Volume 20, pg. 262, Volume 21, pgs. 29, 32, 11719; County of Travis:
Statement of Michael J. Goins
and
William Ray Goins, Jr.,
December 30, 1991.
26
State of Texas v Kenneth Allen McDuff,
SOF in Cause #93-2139, Volume 3, pgs. 3233, Volume 4, pg. 208, Volume 21, pgs. 12021, Volume 22, pg. 30; County of Travis:
Sworn Statement of William Ray Goins, Jr.,
and
[Kari]
December 30, 1991.
27 The following account of what happened to Colleen Reed at the hands of Kenneth Allen McDuff and Alva Hank Worley is taken from the many interviews, statements, and sworn testimonies of Alva Hank Worley. He has related the tragedy so many times that thorough footnoting would be heartless and pedantic. Additionally, I have interviewed all of the detectives who interviewed and conducted field trips with Worley in the course of investigating the abduction and murder of Colleen Reed. Throughout his many statements, Worley's accounts of what McDuff did to Colleen are largely consistent, but his candor relative to his own actions and complicity vary significantly. Thus, for the rest of this chapter, my reconstruction of what happened to her is based on the reasonable assumption that Worley's most complete and candid statements are the most accurate. Admittedly, his statements are self-serving, and at times, contradictory. Sadly, what follows is most likely a minimal account of what happened to Colleen Reed.
 
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11
Cowboy
"Something is wrong with that man."
[Bruce] a.k.a. "One-Arm"
I
Before December of 1991, the people of Austin, Texas, did not consider going to a yogurt shop, or washing their car, a dangerous activityand for good reason. The overall crime rate for Austin had fallen by two percent from 1990 to 1991, and although the murder rate rose by seven percent, the actual number of victims rose from only forty-six to forty-nine. Additionally, the Austin Police Department's Homicide Detail was particularly good at solving its cases. Nationally, about sixty-six percent of homicide cases were solved; in cities with more than 250,000 people the "clearance rate" was slightly over half; in Austin, the rate was an impressive eighty-six percent. The Yogurt Shop Murders and the abduction of Colleen Reed, however, spread fear throughout the Austin metro area. "I guess the public's attitude is developed by high visibility crimes, and certainly during the latter part of the year [1991] we had those high visibility crimes," said Assistant Police Chief George Phifer.
Austin's rapid, nearly uncontrolled growth contributed to crimes consistent with "growing pains." Residents in the northwest part of town learned of a serial rapist, crack houses cropped up in once-quiet neighborhoods on the north side (one of which was a crack house Jackie and his landlord thought they could use McDuff to rob, and thus, remove). There was a sense in Austin that if the price of prosperity and growth included crime and traffic jams, and if being in a big city included getting

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