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No Remorse

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Bob Stewart can write! I'm a retired Chgicago Police Sgt. and I could not put this book down! The writer glues you to every page - it's like your there and you can feel everything as if you were on the scene...This is a must read for everyone who loves a fine investigation, and who wants the "real stuff" and not fluff from some "wanna bee who done it nut". Having conducted my own investigations for many years, I can say the author, Bob Stewart could have had my job any day he wanted! The man can write real life and make it all feel like your in the car with this criminal...This Book should be made into a FILM! Andy Murcia

Unfourtanitly, this book shows us just how our justice system has failed us. I read true crime books avidly, and have for many years,this book has stuck with me mainly because it made me angry that someone could continue to get away with murder so many times,and slip through the fingers of justice whithout notice. The book is brilliantly written and takes the reader to places they may not want to go. I belive that if you read this book you will agree.

Assuming Bob Stewart is not one of the probably justifiably obscure Bob Stewarts found in a search of Amazon which yielded 34 items listed, this is either a terrific first foray into true crime, or "Bob Stewart"'s a pseudonym, and, because this is a terrific read, I, for one, would like to know whose. Either way, fans of the genre daren't miss 'No Remorse.' Especially brilliant is Stewart's reconstruction of a 1966 triple murder; wonderful and often chilling anecdotal information from the victims' families highlights fine reporting of the killings, and Stewart's account of the stay of execution granted Kenneth McDuff--which had unexpected and tragic consequences twenty years later--is highly entertaining. This is a book which proves the rule of my liberal, anti-death penalty resolve, and such tests are always welcome. And yes, it's suitably gory.

Bob Stewart has done it again. To put it simply...outstanding! I found his literary performance riveting. I stayed up until 4 in the morning unable to put this one down. For fans of this genre, dont resist!! Let Stewart ingulf you in the web of intricate story-telling that only he can create!!

This book is a rarity in the true crime genre' and gives methodically researched details in the most interesting format. The story reads like a novel, a fiction, and you keep reminding yourself that yes, there really was someone as truly evil and sociopathic as McDuff. Fortunately he will never harm another person.

Kenneth Allen McDuff was one of Texas's worst serial killers. Though convicted at one point for "The Broomstick Murders" and sentenced to death, this was later overturned in 1972 when the Supreme Court abolished the death penalty for a time.

McDuff was eventually let out of prison due to severe overcrowded prison conditions and he committed nine more murders, for which he was eventually executed in 1998.

After McDuff's second arrest in 1992, Texas completely overhauled its prison system to prevent violent offenders from winning early parole.

Stewart's book, available by paperback, gives so many details as to be confusing. After a few chapters, one doesn't know the good guys from the bad guys. On the plus side, it reads like a crime novel and keeps you on the edge of your seat.

Not for the faint-hearted.

In Texas, Kenneth Allen MacDuff was another word for terror. On June 6, 1966, he became infamously known as the broomstick killer. He shot two young boys who were cousins and raped and murdered the young girl with a broomstick. He showed no mercy. In fact, his sidekick was equally terrified of him. He would testify against him for a reduced sentence. But even the hardest criminals would be terrified by MacDuff. He was sentenced to death for those crimes. In a few years, he was released from death row for the first time and remained in prison until he was paroled thanks to the state's crooked parole board. Once free, Macduff would terrorize other women, prostitutes, mothers, and anybody he was willing to kill them for pleasure and sport but never locate their bodies with the help of cowardly accomplices who he threatened at will. Macduff was caught after a few more dead women were linked to him. He was sentenced again for the death penalty which he got but the book ends before he was executed. The families of the first three victims remembered the horror knowing of his release. Thank God, we will never have to know the horror of Macduff.