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Authors: Gary M. Lavergne

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16 Ibid.; MCSO Files:
Continuation Report,
by Richard Stroup, March 19, 1992.
17 BCSO Files:
Missing Person's Report,
by Ralph Howell, March 3, 1992.
18 Tim Steglich; Charles Meyer.
19 Tim Steglich; BCSO Files:
Supplement Report,
by Tim Steglich, March 3, 1992; TDCJ Files:
Kenneth Allen McDuff, Synopsis,
compiled by John Moriarty, pg. 24.
20 Ibid.
21 MCSO:
Continuation Report,
by Larry Abner, March 9, 1992; Richard Stroup; Tim Steglich;
State of Texas v Kenneth Allen McDuff,
SOF in Cause #93-2139, Volume 3, pgs. 8890,13235, Volume 22, pgs. 128, 130, 13744 and in Cause #643820, pg. 185.
22
State of Texas v Kenneth Allen McDuff,
SOF in Cause #93-2139, Volume 1, pg. 236, Volume 3, pgs. 13539, 178, Volume 4, pgs. 512, Volume 22, pgs. 106108, 146.
23 Dallas County Sheriff's Department Files:
Offense/Incident Report,
by Aletha Jesttes, March 6, 1992;
State of Texas v Kenneth Allen McDuff,
SOF in Cause #93-2139, Volume 2, pgs. 5358, Volume 30, pgs. 7, and 10, and in Cause #643820, Volume 2, pgs. 18, 20, 8384, and 12025.
 
Page 193
24
State of Texas v Kenneth Allen McDuff,
SOF in Cause #643820, Volume 2, pg. 89.
25 Parnell McNamara; Mike McNamara.
 
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The Boys
"These guys would fight the devil on the steps of hell!"
Gary M. Lavergne
I
The three men sometimes call themselves "The Boys." Two of them are brothers and the third might as well be. Deputy United States Marshals Mike and Parnell McNamara are the sons of Thomas Parnell ("T. P.") McNamara. T. P. ran the United States Marshal's Office in Waco for thirty-seven years, a record that is now out of reach because of age requirements and mandatory retirement. So great was T. P.'s reputation as a lawman that he has been enshrined in the Texas Rangers Hall of Famequite a feat for a U.S. Marshal. From 1902 until his death in 1947, Mike and Parnell's great-uncle, Guy McNamara, was a McLennan County Constable, Chief of the Waco Police Department, a Deputy U.S. Marshal, and finally a full United States Marshal.
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Law enforcement is as much a part of Mike and Parnell's genetic makeup as their blue eyes are.
William "Bill" Johnston, an Assistant United States Attorney, is the son of Wilson Johnston, an Assistant District Attorney of Dallas County during the heyday of District Attorney Henry Wade. Wilson Johnston was a pivotal figure in the prosecution and conviction of Jack Ruby, Lee Harvey Oswald's assassin. The elder Johnston handled about 40,000 cases before grand juries. Henry Wade grinned when Bill said publicly that, "If Henry Wade and Bill Decker (the Sheriff) cleaned up Dallas after the Bonnie and Clyde Era, it was Wilson Johnston who kept them straight while they did it." But what made Wilson Johnston unique was that he

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