PSU unaware that professor murdered 3
All of us are guilty of some sort of teenage silliness, I suppose. But murder? You'd think that someone would want to know that the professor they were hiring was a paroled triple murderer...wouldn't you??
In 1965, Paul Eric Krueger unloaded 40 bullets from a rifle into three fishermen off the coast of Texas.
Nearly 35 years later, Penn State hired Krueger as a professor in the College of Education, completely unaware of his prior triple homicide conviction.
"We were shocked to learn of his past," university spokesman Bill Mahon said.
Penn State does not require background checks for employment, Mahon said....
In 1979, Texas paroled Krueger after serving four years for each murder conviction....
According to reports by the Corpus Christi Times, Krueger was a model inmate. He earned a bachelor's degree in psychology from Sam Houston University with high honors while in prison.
On April 12, 1965, Krueger, 18 at the time, and a 16-year-old childhood friend fled from boarding school in New Mexico, according to the Austin American-Statesman. The runaways planned to become "soldiers of fortune" by fighting in a revolutionary war in Venezuela.
Off the coast of Corpus Christi, Texas, the pair encountered the three fishermen. Krueger shot the men, all fathers, with no apparent motive. He then pled guilty to the charges.
Of course, this should make future job interviews at Penn State a lot more interesting: "So, any triple homicides in your past?"....
Well, OK, there was that one time at band camp....
