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Mary Tyler, a 37-year-old woman, was one of the victims in the tragic Kentucky Fried Chicken murders that occurred in Kilgore, Texas, on September 23, 1983. On that fateful evening, armed robbers held up the KFC restaurant just before it closed. The five people present at the time—three employees and two friends—were abducted and taken to a nearby field. There, they were executed with shots to the back of the head. Mary Tyler, along with Opie Ann Hughes , Joey Johnson , David Maxwell , and ...Read More
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Mary Tyler
Female
White / Caucasian
Kilgore
TX
1983-09-23
37
Mary
Tyler
11/24/2025




