Posted on 07/25/2003 10:12:41 PM PDT by 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.
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.
Just a guess, mind you.
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
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.
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?
Ah. Now I am de-confused.
He was 18. Legal adult.
See So9's #15. That explains it.
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.
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