Penn State professor a Texas parolee (for triple murder)

Houston Chronicle ^ | July 25, 2003 | Associated Press

[Recourse]

July 25, 2003, 10:52PM

Penn State professor a Texas parolee Associated Press

STATE COLLEGE, Pa. -- Last month, Penn State University officials learned something about professor Paul Krueger that wasn't on his résumé -- his parole for a triple murder committed in Texas nearly 40 years ago.

University spokesman Bill Mahon said Friday that officials knew nothing about Krueger's conviction until late last month. Texas only notified Pennsylvania parole officials in February.

Now a spokesman for National University in California confirmed that Krueger had accepted a teaching job there, and Texas parole officials said they already are working on that move.

"We are, as a matter of fact, to meet with him at our headquarters here today to do some of that paperwork," said Kathy Shallcross, deputy director of Texas' parole division said Friday.

Hoyt Smith, spokesman for National University, the La Jolla-based college where Krueger will be associate professor of business, said the conviction wouldn't necessarily affect his employment.

Krueger, who has been at Penn State for four years, has no telephone listing in the State College area. He did not immediately respond to an e-mail from The Associated Press.

In 1965, when he was just 18, Krueger and a 16-year-old friend left San Clemente, Calif. The two passed through Texas and rented a motor boat hoping to travel to Venezuela, where they intended to become "soldiers of fortune," according to a 1979 story in the Austin American-Statesman.

Along the Intracoastal Waterway near Corpus Christi, they encountered a fishing boat. Kreuger shot the three fishermen the night of April 12, 1965, unloading a total of 40 bullets into their bodies.

Two parole commissioners, in 1977, called Krueger, "probably the most exceptional inmate" in the entire state. He was paroled two years later.

Among other credentials, he graduated summa cum laude from Sam Houston State University; earned a master's degree from California State University-Los Angeles; a Ph.D. in sociology from South Dakota State University; and an Ed.D. from the University of Southern California.

[StupidQuestions]

So he is about 58 years old now. He murdered three people when he was 18 and was paroled 4 years ago? So he did 36 years in prison? Is my read of this right, so far?

[Recourse]

He was paroled in 1979 after 14 years in prison.

[StupidQuestions]

No, he was paroled in 1979 so he did 14 years.

[Paleo Conservative]

STATE COLLEGE, Pa. -- Last month, Penn State University officials learned something about professor Paul Krueger that wasn't on his résumé -- his parole for a triple murder committed in Texas nearly 40 years ago.

Sounds like he should still be at the state pen rather than Penn State.

[dennisw]

Triple murder is triple murder. He never paid the price and should have been executed decades ago.

[dennisw]

Paul E. Krueger, Ph.D., Ed.D.

 

 

Assistant Professor of Workforce Education and Development Program
 

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Dr. Paul Krueger is the Director of the Institute for Research in Training and Development, and is a member of the Workforce Education and Development Program faculty. He has over 18 years of diversified experience in the practice, teaching and research of human resources management, training and organizational development. He has managerial experience in manufacturing, insurance and business services industries, including two multi-national corporations: Johnson & Johnson and Bio-Rad Laboratories. His current research interests include human resource training, development and ISO 9000 international quality assurance standards.

Education:
Ed.D., Policy, Planning & Administration, University of Southern California, 1999. Dissertation: Human Resource Training and ISO 9000 International Quality Standards.
Ph.D., Sociology (Organizational), South Dakota State University, 1988. Dissertation: Structural Differentiation, Technology and Employee Fringe Benefits: A Model of Formal Organization.
M.A., Psychology (Industrial/Organizational), California State University, Los Angeles, 1983.
B.S., Psychology, Sam Houston State University, Texas, 1979.

Experience:
Director, Institute for Research in Training and Development, and
Assistant Professor, Workforce Education and Development, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, August 1999 to present.
Director, Small Business Institute and Assistant Professor of Business, Augustana College, SD, September 1994 to July 1999.
Division Human Resources Manager, Bio-Rad Laboratories, Anaheim, CA, July 1992 to July 1994.
Senior Human Resources Administrator, Johnson & Johnson, Claremont, CA, July 1990 to July 1992.
Assistant Professor (Visiting), Idaho State University, January 1989 to July 1990.
Teaching Assistant (and doctoral student), South Dakota State University, 1985-1988.
Director of Human Resources, Cal-Surance Associates, Inc., Torrance, CA, 1984-1985.
Human Resources Administrator, Tower Industrial, Norwalk, CA, 1982-1984.

Honors:
Summa Cum Laude, Sam Houston State University, 1979.
McNamara Graduate Studies Award, South Dakota State University, 1987.
Richardson Memorial Scholar, University of Southern California, 1993-1994.

Affiliations:
American Society for Training and Development
District Export Council, U.S. Department of Commerce
Phi Delta Kappa

Contact with Dr. Krueger:
Address: 310A Keller Building, University Park, PA 16802
Telephone: 814-863-5795 (from campus 3-5795)
Email: pek4@psu.edu

[jf55510]

Sounds like he should still be at the state pen rather than Penn State.
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Among other credentials, he graduated summa cum laude from Sam Houston State University;

That is true, and look where he got his BA, SHSU commonly known as State Penn because in Huntsville (home of SHSU) is where all inmates on death row stay.

[StupidQuestions]

Sorry about that. I'm slow on the keyboard tonight.

So he was about 32 when he was paroled and the next info we have is that he's teaching in PA at age 54 and that he has a boatload of degrees.

[timydnuc]

I was an Associate Professor at the premier medical school of the midwest. I was upstanding and pure, solid science. This puke couldn't pick the gum off of my shoes, what the hell is he doing with a faculty appointment? This is the skum we are allowing to teach in the highest educational environment in our nation? We are in deep human excrement!

[proudofthesouth]

And what do you want to bet that it was the taxpayers that paid for all of his degrees? I'd like to know if he took out any student loans and repaid them. Oh and BTW, I wouldn't want this "man" teaching MY kid!

[Servant of the Nine]

Philly and California PING

So9

[adamyoshida]

Uhhh... How did someone in Texas get fourteen years for a triple murder? That doesn't sound right.

[Mo1]

Last month, Penn State University officials learned something about professor Paul Krueger that wasn't on his résumé -- his parole for a triple murder committed in Texas nearly 40 years ago.

Let me guess .. he earned his degree while in prison?

[Servant of the Nine]

Triple murder is triple murder. He never paid the price and should have been executed decades ago.

When he was convicted in the 60s the death penalty was unconstitutional.
In the 70s and 80s the Texas State prison System was under the personal supervision of Federal Judge William Wayne Justice, as left wing a man as ever sat as a Federal Judge. He forced massive early paroles because he found "overcrowding"

He was very lucky in his timing.

So9

[nmh]

I don't buy this ... in Texas they kill you for murder. Not parole the murderer.

[Paleo Conservative]

Uhhh... How did someone in Texas get fourteen years for a triple murder? That doesn't sound right.

In 1965. In 1972, the US Supreme Court ruled that all existing death penalty laws in the US were unconstitutional. So, even if he had been sentenced to death, he would not have been executed.

[dennisw]

Thanks for the explanation. And here I thought Texas was rock ribbed conservative back then.

[Paleo Conservative]

In the 70s and 80s the Texas State prison System was under the personal supervision of Federal Judge William Wayne Justice

More like a feral judge.

[MEG33]

Kenneth Alan Mc Duff was the catalyst that finally made Texas clean up it's parole system.Small town boy who committed murder of two teenagers,sent to prison,paroled during the federal mess and then committed several particularly gruesome torture murders of young women..I believe he's met his maker in Huntsville by now.

[AlaskaErik]

Paul E. Krueger, Ph.D., Ed.D. Assistant Professor of Workforce Education and Development Program -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dr. Paul Krueger is the Director of the Institute for Research in Training and Development, and is a member of the Workforce Education and Development Program faculty. He has over 18 years of diversified experience in the practice, teaching and research of human resources management, training and organizational development. He has managerial experience in manufacturing, insurance and business services industries, including two multi-national corporations: Johnson & Johnson and Bio-Rad Laboratories. His current research interests include human resource training, development and ISO 9000 international quality assurance standards.

Education: Ed.D., Policy, Planning & Administration, University of Southern California, 1999. Dissertation: Human Resource Training and ISO 9000 International Quality Standards. Ph.D., Sociology (Organizational), South Dakota State University, 1988. Dissertation: Structural Differentiation, Technology and Employee Fringe Benefits: A Model of Formal Organization. M.A., Psychology (Industrial/Organizational), California State University, Los Angeles, 1983. B.S., Psychology, Sam Houston State University, Texas, 1979.

Experience: Director, Institute for Research in Training and Development, and Assistant Professor, Workforce Education and Development, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, August 1999 to present. Director, Small Business Institute and Assistant Professor of Business, Augustana College, SD, September 1994 to July 1999. Division Human Resources Manager, Bio-Rad Laboratories, Anaheim, CA, July 1992 to July 1994. Senior Human Resources Administrator, Johnson & Johnson, Claremont, CA, July 1990 to July 1992. Assistant Professor (Visiting), Idaho State University, January 1989 to July 1990. Teaching Assistant (and doctoral student), South Dakota State University, 1985-1988. Director of Human Resources, Cal-Surance Associates, Inc., Torrance, CA, 1984-1985. Human Resources Administrator, Tower Industrial, Norwalk, CA, 1982-1984. Inmate, Texas Prison System, 1965-1979

Honors: Summa Cum Laude, Sam Houston State University, 1979. McNamara Graduate Studies Award, South Dakota State University, 1987. Richardson Memorial Scholar, University of Southern California, 1993-1994.

Affiliations: American Society for Training and Development District Export Council, U.S. Department of Commerce Phi Delta Kappa

Contact with Dr. Krueger: Address: 310A Keller Building, University Park, PA 16802 Telephone: 814-863-5795 (from campus 3-5795) Email: pek4@psu.edu

He forgot something. I thought I'd add it on.

[SAJ]

As to your question, and without any prior knowledge, I'd guess that he was a blind, one-legged, homosexual dwarf, related to the governor at the time, had pictures of the lt. governor doing various obscure things with a sheep, had Johnnie Cochran for an attorney, and was tried in one or another of Texas' counties where English is spoken only occasionally.

Just a guess, mind you.

[Bonaparte]

Oh boy...

[TomB]

ahem............

[mewzilla]

Wonder if all that info is accurate.

[hellinahandcart]

Amazing, he kills three strangers for no reason at all, and the parole board decides he's not a danger to the community.

[goldstategop]

A triple murderer as a distinguished professor? That's not something you see every day.

[dennisw]

Wonder if all that info is accurate.................


It's his webpage at Penn St. What campus I forget

[csvset]

Along the Intracoastal Waterway near Corpus Christi, they encountered a fishing boat. Kreuger shot the three fishermen the night of April 12, 1965, unloading a total of 40 bullets into their bodies.

Typical piss poor reporting. Three fishermen? That's it? How about their names? How about contacting the victim's relatives and getting their take on this story?

If he'd killed a member of my family, I'd want the guy in jail.

Perhaps what the Professor needs is to have someone shoot him for no good reason

[goldstategop]

I wonder why the Democratic Party hasn't recruited him yet. He seems a Felon Vote magnet.

[Between the Lines]

Uhhh... How did someone in Texas get fourteen years for a triple murder? That doesn't sound right.

He was serving three concurrent life sentences. In Texas you are eligible for parole on a life sentence in seven years. He will have to be on parole the rest of his life under Texas law.

[pitinkie]

"He was a model prisoner"

[maxwell]

Now waitaminute.

He committed a triple murder in TEXAS, and got PAROLED???

Something don't make sense here. I understand this article to say that he murdered three fishermen in cold blood. How the hell did he get by death row?

[pitinkie]

He was young. Maybe they felt sorry for him.

[maxwell]

When he was convicted in the 60s the death penalty was unconstitutional. In the 70s and 80s the Texas State prison System was under the personal supervision of Federal Judge William Wayne Justice, as left wing a man as ever sat as a Federal Judge. He forced massive early paroles because he found "overcrowding" He was very lucky in his timing.

Ah. Now I am de-confused.

[maxwell]

He was young.

He was 18. Legal adult.

See So9's #15. That explains it.

[AEMILIUS PAULUS]

You foul wretch. How dare you be moral and upstanding? Give me the vice ridden, criminal, political types every time!

[writmeister]

If he had committed these offenses today, he would have received an automatic life sentence (if not a death sentence), and would not be eligible for parole for forty years.

As an earlier poster noted, the Texas prison system came under the control of Judge (In)Justice in the 1970s who is very pro-criminal. Plus, throughout the 1970s and 1980s, there was rampant corruption in the Texas parole process.

In the 1990s, after Kenneth McDuff, the legislature toughened up the parole eligibility requirements and the standards for actually being rewarded parole.

This guy has good timing.

[pitinkie]

I was being sarcastic.

[pitinkie]

He got 3 life sentences that ran concurrently not consecutively. So he got parole unfortunately.

[Between the Lines]

He forced massive early paroles because he found "overcrowding".

The early release program mandated by W.W.Justice prohibited the early release of anyone convicted of a violent crime.

[deport]

In Texas you are eligible for parole on a life sentence in seven years.

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Not true today, but back then it was a totally different story with Judge William Wayne Justice controlling the Texas Penal system......

[Between the Lines]

This guy has good timing.

It was not timing at all. He was a modle prisoner. The law in Texas at the time he was convicted said that anyone doing a life sentence was eligible for parole every seven years. This was his second time to be up for parole. The "massive early paroles" you speak of were not applicable to convicts with violent offences, muder is a violent offence.

[writmeister]

I meant that he had good timing in that he did not commit these offenses today.

[lonestar]

Thanks for the explanation. And here I thought Texas was rock ribbed conservative back then.

If I remember, we can thank LBJ for Judge William Wayne Justice.

[Spok]

Okay, anybody can make a mistake-alright, 3 mistakes. And I'm sure he was sorry, which is the main thing.
On a related note, there is a lawsuit in Washington state to permit convicts to vote from prison. Can you imagine political candidates pandering to parasites, drugees and perverts...oh, wait a minute...never mind.

[Churchjack]

I'm as hardcore Texan death-penalty advocate as they come. In 1980, I might have said the same about the guy. But...look at the guy's resume and behavior? Looks like he reformed successfully.

[ValerieUSA]

It should be a goal to reform burglars and young people who commit minor crimes - but MURDERERS?? NO! They need to be punished. There is no point in letting a convivcted cold-blooded murderer attend Sam Houston College while serving time- time which ought not end until his death.
This is wrong.

[RGSpincich]

He was 17 when the crime was committed. April 1965.

[wildbill]

Actually, there are several prison units located in Huntsville, not just the death row unit.