
At this point, according to Green's statement, McDuff said he would have to "knock 'em off" he proceeded to fire six shots into the trunk of the Ford in spite of Dunman and Brand's pleas not to. Here he ordered Edna Sullivan out of the trunk of the Ford and instructed Green to put her into the trunk of his Dodge Coronet. With Green following in McDuff's car, McDuff drove the victims' Ford along a highway and then onto a field. Once they arrived at the vehicle, he ordered the occupants into the trunk of their car. Green, in a statement he gave to the police when he turned himself in on August 8, stated that he and McDuff parked around 150 yards away from their victims' car. The trio consisted of Robert Brand (aged 18), his girlfriend Edna Louise Sullivan (aged 16) and Brand's 16-year-old cousin Mark Dunman. were parked on a baseball field in Everman, Texas, in Tarrant County. Their soon-to-be victims had spent the evening at a drive-in movie, and at 10 p.m. They bought a six-pack of beer from a 7-11 store and visited a mutual friend, Edith Turner, at around 7 p.m.



On August 6, 1966, McDuff and new friend Roy Dale Green, whom he had met around a month earlier through a mutual acquaintance by the name of Richard Boyd, spent the day pouring concrete for John McDuff, Kenneth's father.Īt approximately 5 p.m., once they had completed their work, McDuff and Green decided to drive to Fort Worth in McDuff's new Dodge Coronet.
