Brutal KFC Massacre Finally Solved After Twenty-Two Years?

Five people were executed, while one was raped and then killed.

Murderers convicted for the KFC massacre | Photo credits: Murder Minute

On the night of September 23, 1983, a very curious and deathly case of murders shocked Kilgore, Texas. One of its KFC chains had been broken into. The employees there were kidnapped, killed, and raped. To this day, the victims’ families struggle to make sense of its terror, fear, and viciousness.

Armed Robbers Broke Into KFC

The victims of the KFC Massacre: (from left) Mary Tyler, Opie Ann Hughes, David Maxwell, Joey Johnson, and Monte Landers| Photo Credits: Chron.

Late at night, armed robbers broke into the KFC at Kilgore, Texas. The restaurant was just about to close. All those inside it didn’t make it out alive. The armed robbers kidnapped the five people inside KFC and took them to a nearby abandoned field on County Road 232.

37-year-old Mary Tyler, 20-year-old Joey Johnson, 19-year-old Monte Landers, and 20-year-old David Maxwell were lined up there and shot in the back of their heads. It was execution-style shooting, humiliating and dehumanizing to its very core. Rusk County District Attorney’s investigator William Brown later remarked:

“They all have their faces down, which is, to say the…