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Cecil Boren

Case from Varner, AR dated Oct 03, 1999

Victim Details

Cecil Boren

Male

White / Caucasian

Varner

AR

1999-10-03

57

Cecil

Boren

07/08/2026

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On a quiet Sunday, October 3, 1999, in Varner, Arkansas, the life of 57-year-old Cecil Boren, a retired prison warden, was tragically cut short. That day, an inmate named Kenneth Dewayne Williams, who was just under a month into a life sentence for a separate murder, managed to escape from the Cummins Unit prison by hiding in a 500-gallon barrel of pig slop being transported out of the facility. After his escape, Williams made his way to Boren's nearby home. Boren was in his yard at the time, as ...
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