Teenage Tragedy

ID: 2808 ~ Source: Lake Waco 82. "Victims Jill Montgomery 17 (left) and Raylene Rice 17 (right)," photograph. Facebook, September 14, 2016. https://m.facebook.com/1268632756504353/photos/victims-jill-montgomery-17-left-and-raylene-rice-17-right/1269536136414015/.
This file appears in: Lake Waco Murders
Teenage Tragedy

Jill Montgomery (left) and Raylene Rice (right) were only seventeen when they were murdered in Speegleville Park. Though many might debate who committed the crimes that 1982 night, all should recognize the tragic loss of young lives.

This file appears in: Lake Waco Murders

By Allie Roberts
On a muggy, Texas summer night in 1982, tragedy struck. Three Waxahachie teenagers—Raylene Rice, Jill Montgomery, and Kenneth Franks—were murdered in Speegleville Park, near Lake Waco, on July thirteenth. In the following months, a complex criminal…