18. The Lake Waco Murders: Kenneth Franks, Jill Montgomery & Raylene Rice
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18. The Lake Waco Murders: Kenneth Franks, Jill Montgomery & Raylene Rice
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Our case begins in Waco, Texas in the summer of 1982 on the afternoon of July 13th when a trio of friends, 17 year old Jill Montgomery, 17 year old Raylene Rice, and 18 year old Kenneth Franks headed out that Tuesday summer evening for some fun in a park near Lake Waco.
The next day, two men had first noticed the what they believed to be a drunk young man propped up against a tree near the shore line of Lake Waco. When they called out to the man and approached closer, they realized that the young man had been badly beaten with his hands tied behind his back. The young mans clothes were soaked in blood from what would later be discovered the result of 27 stab wounds all over his body.
Officer Simons was quickly able to identify the young man as Kenneth Franks. Just a few minutes later, Raylene was found with her hands bound behind her back, gagged, she was naked and had been stabbed 9 times. Not far away, Jill’s body was found. Jill’s throat had been slashed. She was also found bound, gagged and naked and had been stabbed 17 times.
Case Sources:
texasmonthly.com
wacohistory.org
kwtx.com
wikipedia.org
wacotrib.com
kcentv.com
Book: Careless Whispers
findagrave.com
google maps