Authors: Gary M. Lavergne

Tags: #Biography & Autobiography, #General, #Law, #True Crime, #Murder, #test

Bad Boy From Rosebud (69 page)

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name and number. Then he gave her Tim Steglich's name and number and asked her to give him a call and tell him to come by the motel. At the time, Diane did not know who Tim was. He also asked Diane to go by later to check on his daughter.
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At the Bell County Sheriff's Office, Tim Steglich had his keys in his hand and was headed out the door of his office when the phone rang. It was 5:05
P.M.
and he was going home. Diane told Tim that Hank wanted to talk to him immediately and that he would be waiting at Bloom's. Tim thought that it might be a breakthrough, but he learned long ago not to raise his hopes. He arrived five minutes later and saw Hank standing outside of his room talking to his daughter.

Tim drove his car near where Hank stood, rolled down the window of his 1989 Chevrolet four-door sedan, and said, "Did you want to talk to me?"

"Yea," Hank said as he nervously and hurriedly walked over to the passenger side of Tim's car. Tim had to reach over and unlock the door, thinking that they must be going somewhere. Hank opened the door, bent over, and said, "McDuff is the one who took that girl from the car wash in Austin."

Tim controlled a body-wide adrenaline rush. A flurry of thoughts raced through his mind. Everything had to be done right, and it was not even his case. He had to get a statement from Hank, a statement about a case he was not familiar with. The first statement does not have to be definitivethat can come later. Hank was now a suspect and was involved in a kidnappingat least. Hank had rights which, if violated, could have messed up the case.

"Don't say anything else. Can you go with me to the sheriff's office?" Tim would have preferred to let Hank drive himself. That way a defense attorney could hardly argue that Hank had been coerced into a statement. But Hank had no car and Tim did not want to let him go. He told Hank to go talk to his daughter and let her know where he was going. (It was a very shrewd move on Tim's part. Hank's daughter became a potential witness to Hank's voluntarily getting into a car with Tim for the purpose of making a statement.)

On the way to the sheriff's office, Tim kept telling Hank not to talk about the abduction. "I have got to get this shit straight; I am not sleeping at night."

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"Wait, Hank," Tim said. Then Tim started doing most of the talking in order to keep Hank quiet until he could be read his rights.
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Tim knew he was going to be with Hank for a long, long time.

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Bloom's Motel was the down-and-out place where Hank Worley lived with his
fourteen-year-old daughter at the time he implicated Kenneth McDuff in the
abduction of Colleen Reed.
Author's Collection.

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1 APD Files:
Incident Report,
by Donald O. Martin, April 8, 1992; BCSO Files:
Supplement Report,
dated March 3, 1992.

2 Tim Steglich.

3 Ibid.; BCSO Files:
Supplement Report,
by Tim Steglich, dated March 3, 1992.

4 BCSO Files:
Statement of Alva Hank Worley,
April 8, 1992, and
Supplement Report,
by Tim Steglich, dated March 3, 1992.

5 APD Files:
Incident Report,
by Donald O. Martin, April 27, 1992; Tim Steglich; BCSO Files:
Supplement Report,
by Tim Steglich, dated March 3, 1992.

6 When I met Mr. Aycock I suggested that I would like to return for an interview for more complete descriptions of his investigations. I explained that official reports often lack detail and emotion. He answered that his reports were complete and detailed. He was absolutely right.

7 Texas DPS Files:
Report of Investigation,
by John Aycock, April 18, 1992.

8 Dan Stoltz; Mike McNamara; Parnell McNamara;
Austin American-Statesman,
April 30 and May 2, 1992;
Waco Tribune-Herald,
April 16, 1992.

9 Dan Stoltz; Mike McNamara; Parnell McNamara.

10 Mike McNamara; Parnell McNamara.

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