Authors: Gary M. Lavergne

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to the McLennan County Sheriff's Office where they were allowed to look over items that had been removed from the car during the original inventory by Larry Abner. A piece of notebook paper caught their attention. It was a map with directions to a home in Del Valle, a suburb south of Austin. Kenneth McDuff had been in the Austin area, and it appeared that he had visited someone named Beverly. There was also a business card; it belonged to H. Copitka and Associates, parole consultants.
²⁶As they motored home, Don Martin and Sonya Urubek both knew they had things to do and people to find.

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Flyers for missing McDuff victim Colleen Reed.
Courtesy Travis County District Attorney's Office.

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Sonya Urubek, of the Austin Police Department, was
the first at APD to seriously consider McDuff a prime
suspect in the abduction of Colleen Reed. She also
gathered almost all the physical evidence used in the
Reed Trial.
Author's Collection.

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The trunk of McDuff's car during the search at Big Boy's Wrecker Service.
Courtesy Travis County District Attorney's Office.

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On March 8, Addie called, Tim Steglich. "There's really no hope for me. He would have seen his parole officer and he would have taken his test," pleaded Addie McDuff over the phone as she continued to insist to Tim that Kenneth was dead. The mind games continued. Addie made clear that Gloria Jackson of Justice for McDuff, Inc. had contacted her, but she was never very clear as to why the contact was made. "Did you ever get in touch with Mrs. Jackson?" Addie asked. "She's been trying to crowd him out," she added. Addie seemed very concerned that Gloria Jackson's business card had been found in a car in Dallas. In fact, no such thing had happened. Addie continued: "You haven't heard nothing about Kennethhis car or nothing?"
²⁷Tim hung up the phone and decided that it was time to revisit the McDuffs.

On March 11, Tim made his second visit. Addie still insisted that Kenneth was dead. She again allowed a search of her residence. Tim found it odd that there were two pairs of binoculars on the dining room table in the front of a bay window facing the main entrance of the property Addie readily admitted that one of them belonged to Kenneth. In the garage, Tim saw the GMC pickup truck with a new windshield, and this time it meant something to him. Addie repeated to Tim that J. A. had lent Kenneth the truck, only to have Kenneth return it with a shattered windshield and without the camper that used to be on the back.

Tim asked her if Kenneth had ever had a girlfriend or if she had ever seen him with a woman. Addie stated that he had once brought a girl to her house. She was a short blonde who claimed to be a TSTI student taking computer classes. (Addie is almost certainly describing Linda, McDuff's sometime companion and a long-haul truck driver. On the same day Linda met Addie, she had described herself to someone else as a "titty dancer.") When Tim asked Addie if the woman's name could have been "Melissa," Addie showed no emotion and said it could not have been.

As he drove out of the long driveway connecting the McDuff residence to Cedar Creek Road, Tim had a feeling, however unscientific, that McDuff had been there. He knew enough about McDuff to know that "if he was there he'd kill me." During that visit Tim did his best to keep his back to the wall. After briefing his supervisor, Bill Milleran experienced investigator who knew of the McDuffs and had predicted

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trouble the moment he heard McDuff had been paroledTim accepted Miller's clear instructions not to go back to that house alone.
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1
Texas Monthly,
March, 1998.

2
Texas Monthly,
August, 1992.

3 Ibid.

4 Parnell McNamara; Mike McNamara;
Marlin Daily Democrat,
November 7, 1966.

5 Bill Johnston; Mike McNamara; Parnell McNamara; Confidential Documents.

6 FBI Files: Untitled report of Special Agents James P. Fossum and Freddie Vela, March 27 and 30, 1992; Texas DPS Files:
Report of Investigation,
by James E. Ray, Sr., March 9, 1992; Richard Stroup.

7
Waco Tribune-Herald,
May 7, 1992; Crawford Long; Mike Freeman.

8 Bill Johnston.

9 Ibid.; United States District Court, Western District, Waco Division,
United States v. Kenneth Allen McDuff,
Warrant for Arrest, March 6, 1992 and Grand Jury Criminal Complaint, March 9, and 10, 1992; Confidential Document.

10
State of Texas v Kenneth Allen McDuff,
SOF in Cause #93-2139, Volume 4, pg. 45, and Defendant's Pre-Trial Exhibit #13.

11 BCSO Files:
Supplement Report,
by Tim Steglich, dated March 3, 1992; Tim Steglich; Bill Miller.

12 Texas DPS Files:
Report of Investigation,
by John Aycock, March 6, 1992; BCSO Files:
List of Items Found in Kenneth McDuff's Briefcase,
u.d.

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