EVERMAN, Texas — Kenneth McDuff should never have walked free. He’s one of the worst killers I have ever covered.
The convicted murderer was paroled three times, and each release left more victims. His case remains one of the darkest failures in Texas’ criminal justice system, a collision of overcrowded prisons, bribery, and catastrophic decisions that cost innocent lives.
“He’s a killing machine,” a prosecutor said. “I don’t think I have ever seen or heard of anybody who more thoroughly embodied more of what we think of as evil than Kenneth McDuff.”…