Kenneth McDuff has a unique place in the annals of Texas crime, and indeed there can't be many murderers anywhere who have earned a place on death row twice. In 1966 when he was only twenty years old he kidnapped three teenagers at gunpoint. The boys were shot dead, the girl was first raped - with a broomstick, if you can believe that - then murdered with the same instrument. This earned him the appellation of The Broomstick Killer. His teenage accomplice turned himself in and testified against McDuff, who in spite of his young age was sentenced to death, but when he had not been executed by 1972 he got lucky along with every other death row inmate in the United States by the ruling of the Supreme Court that the death penalty was unconstitutional.
This now infamous moratorium did not last long, but another and far more infamous murderer also benefitted from it - Charles Manson. Having said that, Manson murdered fewer victims personally than McDuff. In spite of the enormity of his crimes, McDuff was parolled in 1989, and went on to commit further horrors. He was executed by lethal injection in November 1998, and is rightly described as both a sexual sadist and totally without either remorse or conscience.
This documentary speaks to some of the major players in his crime sprees including the families of victims, lawmen and lawyers. It also includes archive footage of the monster himself. A man who witnessed him die, but who does not appear herein, said of McDuff he could "Burn in Hell" suffixing his comment with a compound word, of which mother is the polite half.