 | "I don't know why people got so excited; I was just standing there with my knife."
Kenneth McDuff
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At the time of the Broomstick Murders, Bill Miller was a law enforcement officer in the Fort Worth area. He remembers vividly the horrible deaths of Robert, Marcus, and Louise at the hands of Kenneth McDuff. Later, he had firsthand experience with the McDuffs when he assisted in the investigation of Lonnie's murder. One day in October 1989, while at his office at the Bell County Sheriff's Department, he took a call from a friend who owned a convenience store:
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"Guess who just came in my store? Kenneth McDuff," said the caller.
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"Well, there's going to be problems," Bill said.
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On October 14, 1989, only three days after Kenneth McDuff walked out of prison, a pedestrian strolling the 1500 block of East Avenue N in Temple came upon the body of a black female lying in a field of tall grass. She was in her twenties, about 5'6" and weighed about 115120 pounds. She had been beaten and strangled, no more than twenty-four hours before her body was found. Within days, she was identified as a suspected prostitute named Sarafia Parker. Texas Ranger John Aycock later located and interviewed a witness who could allegedly place Parker in a pickup truck driven by McDuff on or about October 12, 1989. On that day, Kenneth McDuff had reported to his parole officerin Temple. No other connection between the murder of Sarafia Parker and McDuff has ever been established or made public. Although the case is still open, at least officially, and McDuff was never accused of any crime involving
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