Texas Massacre

A robbery ends in five murders

When Mary Tyler, the assistant manager of the Kentucky Fried Chicken outlet in the East Texas town of Kilgore, failed to return home, her worried 16-year-old daughter notified police. They were unable to help her. But around 9:30 the next morning, an oilfield worker in the area thought he saw something in the weeds along State Highway 323, 14 miles south of town. When he investigated, he found the bodies of Tyler, 37, another woman and three men.

As the police reconstructed it, all five were abducted from the...

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