[inaudible] >> kenneth allen mcduff was a texas serial killer who was released on parole in 1989. shortly after leaving prison he began killing again. c-span recently spoke with the author of the book "bad boy from rose bed -- rosebud." >> kenneth allen mcduff almost single-handedly brought about one of the largest constructions of prisons in the free world. he became the

c-span recently spoke with the author of the book "bad boy from rose bed -- rosebud." >> kenneth allen mcduff almost single-handedly brought about one of the largest constructions of prisons in the free world. he became the face of what everyone thought was wrong with texas criminals. 10 is allen mcduff was a serial killer who first committed murder in 1966 and was sentenced to death for the brutal murders of three teenagers in the fort worth area. 23 years later, he was paroled even though he had been on death row. the story is long and sordid but in the end, after he got parole he began murdering people in the waco and austin area and got captured again, got convicted again, and got sent back to death row a second time. he is one of only one or two people in the history of the united states who has ever had two different death row numbers. when kenneth allen mcduff was in prison the first time for his murders in the 1960's, the texas prison system did not grow, but the population did. in the 1970's and 1980's, a federal judge ruled that texas's prison system was unconstitutionally overcrowd