Falls County
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Oct 30, 2026
Trevor McDonaldNARRATOR
He had previously locked him up for burglary, robbery, and assault at the age of 17.
Trevor McDonaldNARRATOR
Today, 25 years later, Sheriff Brady Pamplin's son, Larry Pamplin, is the retired sheriff of Falls County.
Trevor McDonaldNARRATOR
A young deputy at the time, he remembers the day Roy Dale Green walked into his father's office.
Larry PamplinSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
My dad had been in law enforcement all of his life, and he said that Kenneth McDuff was probably the most vicious, violent individual that he had ever come into contact with.
13 MINS LATER
Trevor McDonaldNARRATOR
It didn't take long for word to reach the sheriff's office in his hometown.
Trevor McDonaldNARRATOR
Sheriff Brady Pamplin, who'd arrested McDuff in 1966 for the shooting of the three teenagers, had retired.
Trevor McDonaldNARRATOR
And his son Larry was now the new sheriff of Falls County.
speaker_14UNKNOWN
When I first found out that Kenneth Allen McDuff had been released from prison, The first thing I did was call Parnell McNamara in Waco, Texas, Deputy U.S.
Greg TepperHOST
In V&A, let's go to the Ballogy Hotline.
Greg TepperHOST
Let's go to Falls County, Texas.
Greg TepperHOST
Central Texas area.
Greg TepperHOST
Talk with the head coach of the undefeated state ranked 9-0.
speaker_0NARRATOR
He had previously locked him up for burglary, robbery, and assault at the age of 17.
speaker_0NARRATOR
Today, 25 years later, Sheriff Brady Pamplin's son, Larry Pamplin, is the retired sheriff of Falls County.
speaker_0NARRATOR
A young deputy at the time, he remembers the day Roy Dale Green walked into his father's office.
Larry PamplinSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
My dad had been in law enforcement all of his life, and he said that Kenneth McDuff was probably the most vicious, violent individual that he had ever come into contact with.
12 MINS LATER
speaker_0NARRATOR
It didn't take long for word to reach the sheriff's office in his hometown.
speaker_0NARRATOR
Sheriff Brady Pamplin, who'd arrested McDuff in 1966 for the shooting of the three teenagers, had retired.
speaker_0NARRATOR
And his son Larry was now the new sheriff of Falls County.
Stephen DowdySOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
When I first found out that Kenneth Allen McDuff had been released from prison, The first thing I did was call Parnell McNamara in Waco, Texas, Deputy U.S.
speaker_0NARRATOR
He had previously locked him up for burglary, robbery, and assault at the age of 17.
speaker_0NARRATOR
Today, 25 years later, Sheriff Brady Pamplin's son, Larry Pamplin, is the retired sheriff of Falls County.
speaker_0NARRATOR
A young deputy at the time, he remembers the day Roy Dale Green walked into his father's office.
Larry PamplinSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
My dad had been in law enforcement all of his life, and he said that Kenneth McDuff was probably the most vicious, violent individual that he had ever come into contact with.
12 MINS LATER
speaker_0NARRATOR
It didn't take long for word to reach the sheriff's office in his hometown.
speaker_0NARRATOR
Sheriff Brady Pamplin, who'd arrested McDuff in 1966 for the shooting of the three teenagers, had retired.
speaker_0NARRATOR
And his son Larry was now the new sheriff of Falls County.
speaker_7SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
When I first found out that Kenneth Allen McDuff had been released from prison, The first thing I did was call Parnell McNamara in Waco, Texas, Deputy U.S.
Julie MorrissGUEST
We're also touching counties that touch us.
Julie MorrissGUEST
So Falls County, I'm just naming a few, Falls County, Bosque County, Hill County, just some of the ones that touch McLennan County.
Julie MorrissGUEST
We're also reaching out because we have some funding for those folks for our spay and neuter services.
Julie MorrissGUEST
We have low cost spay and neuter.
Cal HunterNARRATOR
Then came pain, scarring, and strange masses of tissue surgeons kept finding when they had to go back in, and there was no explanation for any of it.
Cal HunterNARRATOR
The person who worked out the answer was a farm girl from Falls County, Texas, May Owen, came up hard, worked her way through school, settled in Fort Worth as a pathologist, and then she saw this, and she said, "What the heck is going on?" And so she sought for a common denominator.
Cal HunterNARRATOR
She looked to find the thing that everybody used, every surgeon, every assistant.
Cal HunterNARRATOR
What do they have in common? What's making this happen? Patients got very upset.
speaker_4SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Yeah.
Josh EinigerCORRESPONDENT
Now, I mean, we were in Falls County a few months ago, which is about an hour and a half from here.
Josh EinigerCORRESPONDENT
That's where I met Clayton.
Josh EinigerCORRESPONDENT
We were at the home of a lifelong Christian conservative who had a whole bunch of her conservative friends over to meet Clayton and support him for agriculture commissioner.
Diana ElderHOST
Well, today let's talk about the two cemeteries that we visited.
Diana ElderHOST
So the first one is called the Moorville Cemetery in Falls County, Texas.
Diana ElderHOST
And this was so fun because we were driving south from Dallas towards Austin.
Diana ElderHOST
We would end up in Austin.
Diana ElderHOST
And we were driving along, and I saw this sign that said Falls County.
Diana ElderHOST
And I thought, I know we have somebody in Falls County.
Diana ElderHOST
And I had this feeling that it was our Hickman Monroe Schultz, that that was where he lived out the rest of his life.
Diana ElderHOST
Looked up his...
speaker_6NARRATOR
In 1998, information supplied during the final phase of the investigation led authorities to remains connected to several long-unsolved disappearances, including Brenda Thompson, Virginia Moore, and Colleen Reed.
speaker_6NARRATOR
Colleen's remains were found in a shallow grave near the Brazos River in Falls County.
speaker_6NARRATOR
Kenneth Allen McDuff was executed by lethal injection in Huntsville on November 17, 1998, for the murder of Melissa Northrup.
speaker_6NARRATOR
He was 52 years old.
Jordan Jo HollabaughHOST
Mm-hmm.
Sharon BeachGUEST
And so the Monday morning, um, after I escaped on Thursday night, I walk into the Falls Count, Texas, Falls County Sheriff's Department in Marlin, Texas.
Sharon BeachGUEST
The sheriff has been informed who I am, what's happened, that I'm coming in.
Sharon BeachGUEST
He confirms all that, and then he sits down and he says, "I've got a couple questions for you." And I said, "Sure." So I sit down, and the first question he asked me, he goes, "Well, how were you dressed the night you were kidnapped?"
Sharon BeachGUEST
You know? And then ultimately in that sheriff's office, they decided not to believe me, not to pros- prosecute, so I had to go back to the county of abduction.
Jordan Jo HollabaughHOST
Wow.
Sharon BeachGUEST
That county said, "Yes, we're going to help you." They call Falls County.
Sharon BeachGUEST
"Oh, we've misplaced her statement as well as her pistol."