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CBS News Anchor Bob Schieffer Shocked By Broomstick Killer’s Brutality
Kenneth McDuff "The Broomstick Killer"
Retired CBS News Anchor Bob Schieffer was the first reporter to interview Kenneth McDuff and cover his crimes in 1966.
Fort Worth Star-Telegram police beat reporter Bob Schieffer; appeared in "The Anatomy of a Newspaper" article dated 01/12/1964
Back then, Schieffer was the police beat reporter for the Fort Worth Star-Telegram.
Fort Worth Star-Telegram reporter Bob Schieffer in combat helmet while reporting from Vietnam, spring 1966
Schieffer had just returned from a combat assignment covering the Vietnam War when the call came in from homicide detectives.
The bullet-riddled bodies of 17-year-old Robert Brand and his cousin, 16-year-old Mark Dunnam, had been found in the trunk of their abandoned car on a remote farm road south of Fort Worth, Texas.
Sixteen-year-old Edna Louise Sullivan, who had been out with the boys, was missing.
Hundreds of law enforcement officers and residents started a widespread search of rough terrain.
Kenneth McDuff Dubbed "The Broomstick Killer" Gives Menacing Stare During Court Hearing
The triple slaying would bring Schieffer face to face in exclusive interviews with 20-year-old Kenneth McDuff, who became known as the “Broomstick Killer,” and his accomplice, 18-year-old Roy Dale Green.
Investigative reporter Robert Riggs would follow Schieffer's lead 27 years later.
Their journalism careers came full circle.
Robert Riggs Reporting From Capitol Hill 1987
In 1978, Schieffer helped Riggs move from the staff of a congressional committee to television news.
Both reporters covered wars for CBS during their careers but never witnessed brutality like serial killer Kenneth McDuff inflicted on young women.
Robert Riggs Interviews Retired CBS Anchorman Bob Schieffer About The Broomstick Killer
Besides appearing on the True Crime Reporter™ podcast, Schieffer sat down in front of a TV camera to talk with Riggs about what it was like to cover McDuff.
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