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Linda Tant Miller
RUDY DELGADO
MURDERED BY TEXAS
Rudy Delgado’s body was misplaced by Texas Dept. of
Corrections for almost a week in May of 2000. At the family’s insistence
and with the help of a funeral home in Dallas, the body was located and
brought back home. These photos were taken by the horrified funeral
director to show the family why Rudy’s casket could not be opened at his
funeral. The funeral director tried in vain to restore his face but had to
give up. One of his eyes was not even located. The face was disfigured to
the point that it was hard to even tell his face from the back of his
head. The first photo shows that his face was ripped off his skull, only
his throat is visible.
Rudy was forty years old. According to a
news story about Rudy's murder, it was witnessed by 26 prisoners and two
Correctional Officers. What was done to Rudy took time to accomplish. The
fact that this atrocity occurred in front of two officers who let it
happen makes Texas Dept. of Justice as much responsible for his death and
mutilation as is the perpetrator.
Rudy's family feels that
distribution of these photos may help justice to be served for Rudy and
for the others in his situation.
Please click the top button on
this page to send a message to the Governor of Texas and ask him to
investigate Rudy's brutal murder while guards stood and watched. Ask him
to STOP PRISON MURDER.
Thank you.
LETTER FROM THE CHAPLAIN TEXAS DEPARTMENT OF CRIMINAL JUSTICE May 28, 2000 LETTER FROM A PRISONER FRIEND OF RUDY'S
I received the following message from someone who wishes to remain anonymous, for personal reasons. I would like to ask that person to write to me again, as I had a computer virus at the time I received it and it deleted their name and email address from the message. I would like to ask for better copies of the photos of Rudy for this site.
Thank you.
I personally investigated the way Rudy was Murdered and sent that information to an organization Del something... in Dallas, to get to his family... I still retain the same photos that you have on your website... I was asked by the Italliana Coalizion against the Death Penalty to do this investigation.
He was hit in the face with a rock in a pillow case... Other inmates had to
clean the blood and brains off of the walls later... This man was beaten and
kicked and stabbed 20 minutes before other guards could get there to stop this fight... I do understand there was only a woman guard to try to stop the fight and all she said was Stop, you have already Killed him but she did nothing to intervene. TDC policy when only one guard is present.
The person who killed him was a phsyco who had been to the shrink a week before needing medication or something and had told her that he was feeling homocidal. It has been such a while that I have forgotten said inmates name... Rudy was watching TV in the dayroom when this other inmate came up behind him and stabbed Rudy with a homemade knife to Get his Attention, and then blasted him in the face with the rock in the pillow case. And then proceeded to further beat and stab Rudy with no intervention from anyone for 20 or so minutes. Blood splattered the walls like someone took a can of spray paint to them, is what I was told...
At the time I wished to keep my name out of it... Still kind of do. So I will not reveal my name at this time... All I know is that I relayed the pertainent information of this case to those who would get it to the family since I have a first hand informant on Telford that relayed all the information to me in explicit detail. I wish for that man to remain safe as retaliation upon him would occur.
As far as TDC losing the body... Just underscores the horror of what prison
life is all about... Been there, done that. And I hope you add this to your
website, for Rudy's sake.
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Francis Delgado (Aunt of Rudy Delgado)
Dallas, Tx
Re: Rudy Delgado
Mrs. Delgado, On behalf of
Warden Cooper, the administrative staff of the Barry B. Telford Unit, and
the Texas Department of Criminal Justice, allow me to express our sincere
condolences to you and other family members in regards to the death of
your nephew, Rudy. I know that it is painful to accept and believe the
news at first, but death is rarely easy to accept. We realize our life
here, and in eternity, is in the hands of a just God. May the God of peace
comfort you and yours during this of hour of pain. In Psalm 23 we find
this Great God of heaven is our most reliable source of comfort during a
time of grief. So, lean on Him, and He will carry you through. Once again,
on behalf of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice and the
administration of the Telford Unit, please accept our condolences. Our
thoughts and prayers are with you during your time of grief. If I can be
of any further assistance or per chance if I may answer any questions that
may arise, please do not hesitate to contact me. May God bless and
strengthen you in your time of need.
Obediently Christ's, Tom West
- TDCJ 'Chaplain West'
Telford Unit
POB 9200
New Boston, TX
75570-9200
5-29-2000
Dear Mrs. Frances Delgado,
Hello there Ms. Delgado. I know you may not remember who I am, so
please let me introduce myself to you. This is not very easy for me to
write, but I feel like it needs to be done. I knew Rudy and I used to make
sure he had food to eat when I had it and I would make sure he had hygiene
items. Rudy was a good person and I enjoyed knowing him very much. He
loved you all so very very much. There are things about him that you all
do not know yet, but you need to know. I need to tell you that I was
locked in my cell and could not do anything to help Rudy except to scream
out for this other person to stop! I know and understand that this is not
an easy time for you and your family over the loss of Rudy. I hope that I
will get a chance to talk to you and to meet you and talk to you about
some things he had to go through in here. But remember this.he always
loved his family and he always spoke of going home. He wanted so badly to
be able to hug his sister again. He was very grateful that yo all took
flowers to his Mother and Dad's graves for him. This was a horrible and
senseless tragedy - it should not have happened. I knew both Rudy and the
man that killed him. I am greatly saddened by the loss of Rudy. It will
take some time to heal your wounds.
God Bless Your Family, A
fellow inmate at TDC living in fear here.
Linda Tant Miller
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