Down by the Lake

ID: 2810 ~ Source: Lake Waco Murders, photograph. Waco Tribune-Herald, July 14, 1982, on “The Murders at the Lake” by Michael Hall, Texas Monthly. April 2014. https://www.texasmonthly.com/articles/the-murders-at-the-lake/.
This file appears in: Lake Waco Murders
Down by the Lake

The Waco Police Department recovered the bodies of the teenagers from Speegleville Park on July 14, 1982. At the far right, Truman Simons assists with the recovery of the victims. He would later take the lead on the investigation.

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…