Behind Bars

ID: 2815 ~ Source: Anthony Melendez, photograph, on "Lake Waco Murders: Efforts Underway to Exonerate Man Convicted of Famed Slayings" by Cindy V. Culp. Waco Tribune-Herald. July 15, 2020. https://wacotrib.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/lake-waco-murders-efforts-underway-to-exonerate-man-convicted-of-famed-slayings/article_f61a89cf-36ca-56df-bceb-3458aa0a9d28.html.
This file appears in: Lake Waco Murders
Behind Bars

Though Anthony Melendez confessed early in the investigation, he later retracted his statements and maintained his innocence. His lawyers continued to try to prove his innocence, even sending evidence to be tested for DNA. The lab did not yield any useable results at first and later, refused to release the results.

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…