David Allen Gardner v. State Texas

On August 26, 1980, two fourteen year old runaways, Rocky Allen Crecy and Kandi Kae Reynolds, were hitchhiking along an interstate highway near Weatherford. Appellant, who was driving by, stopped and picked the teenagers up. Appellant drove the pair down the interstate and eventually turned down a gravel road. He pulled off the road beside a bridge and told the teenagers to get out of the car. The trio walked down the embankment. There the appellant stabbed Crecy numerous times and left him there. He took Reynolds to a location near Lake Weatherford where he stabbed her numerous times, hit her in the head with a rock and then abandoned her. Meanwhile, Crecy had made his way to a farmhouse. Help was summoned and he was taken to a hospital. He survived his wounds. Reynolds died from her wounds. On August 29, 1980, appellant was arrested. After his arrest, he led officers to Reynolds body. Appellant was charged with killing Reynolds in the course of a kidnapping.