“I have not killed anyone…”

ID: 2811 ~ Source: David Wayne Spence booked in jail, photograph, 1982. 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/image_a5ef129c-d8b0-5829-b0bf-39a36dac4579.html.
This file appears in: Lake Waco Murders
“I have not killed anyone…”

In his final words, David Wayne Spence remained steadfast in his claim of innocence. Though multiple lawyers found discrepancies in the handling of the case and in Spence’s conviction, the State executed him by lethal injection on April 3, 1997.

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…