Roy Dale Green lived with his mother in Marlin, Texas, the seat of Falls County. Charlie Butts remembered him as ''just a skinny kid." Larry Pamplin, the son of Falls County Sheriff Brady Pamplin, went to school with Roy Dale and remembers him as a quiet boy who had never been in trouble. Roy Dale was easily impressed with people and things because he was not very bright. He appeared to want to hang around with exciting people. In July of 1966, like many hundreds of others, Roy Dale went to the Bremond Street Dances, where he met Kenneth McDuff.
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The Bremond Street Dances were not teen events. They were family events similar to festivals, attracting people from all over Central Texas. By that time Kenneth was twenty and Roy Dale was eighteen. They had a mutual friend named Richard Boyd. According to Kenneth, he hung around Richard because he had a new Impala and an "in" with the girls.
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Shortly after they met, Roy Dale worked with Kenneth for. J. A.'s concrete business. They were made for each other. Kenneth needed a weak-willed, easily impressed audience for his immaturity; Roy Dale wanted to run with the "big boys."
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Both Richard and Roy Dale knew Kenneth kept a .38 caliber pistol in his car. It did not seem to bother either of them. Kenneth often talked to them about killing. Roy Dale later testified to horrified courtrooms that Kenneth boasted that "killing a woman is like killing a chicken; they both squawk." Roy once asked Kenneth if he had ever killed before and he answered that yes he had, and that he had buried them in shallow graves. Roy Dale never believed any of it. When Kenneth talked about going out and killing people, Roy thought it was another of Kenneth's tall tales. Had he been a little smarter he would have known better. Roy later admitted to federal agents that Kenneth enjoyed pinning a girl against a floor and squeezing a tube of Deep Heat or Ben Gay into her vagina.
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They were acquainted with a girl named Jo Ann, and on one trip to Hearne, Texas, they were walking back to Kenneth's car when Richard caught sight of a broken broomstick. Without thinking he picked it up, played around with it and threw it into the back seat. The broomstick with the jagged edge would stay in Kenneth's car for nearly three weeks.
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On Friday, August 5, 1966, Kenneth got on a motorcycle and visited his brother Lonnie. Later that night Roy spent the night with Kenneth in Rosebud. That evening they picked up Richard and went to Hearne where
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