Posted on Thursday, September 18, 2008

Davidson and Attorney General Prosecutor Lisa Tanner confer during media day in the Darnell Hartsfield trial.

By KENNETH DEAN
Tyler Morning Telegraph Staff Writer

BRYAN -- A longtime investigator testified Wednesday he believed the victims of the KFC murders of September 1983 were marched down an oil field road to the location where they were executed.

Rusk County District Attorney William Brown told jurors in the capital murder trial of Darnell Hartsfield that he was at the scene and worked the scene from midmorning the day the bodies were found until late afternoon when evidence was taken to the Rusk County Jail.

Hartsfield is accused in the slayings of David Maxwell, 20; Mary Tyler, 37; Opie Ann Hughes, 39; Joey Johnson, 20; and Monte Landers, 19. All but Landers worked at the restaurant. The restaurant was about 25 miles east of Tyler and 115 miles east of Dallas. Landers was a friend of Maxwell and Johnson, and was visiting them as the restaurant was closing for the night.

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