As he got closer, officers saw he was holding onto Bettys feet. McAlpine was not convinced as there were some inconsistencies to the boys statement. He and his wife were pleased to send both of their children to St. Ann School. . Mack was born in Sampson Co and moved to Fayetteville as a small boy. "Kiss and Kill" refers to the March 20, 1961 homicide of Betty Williams, a teenager from Odessa, Texas, United States. Worse, she learned that Mack would be playing one of Wintersets lead roles, a remorseless killer named Trock Estrella. He showed them where his and Bettys footprintshis large, hers smallled down a steep incline to a stock tank. Sullivan tried to establish jealousy as a motive by calling to the stand Bill Rose, the popular football player whom Betty had parked with when she was dating Mack. Betty held anti-cultural attitudes while attending Odessa High School. HerringForAG While dropping Betty off at home after rehearsal, she asked if he could meet her at 10:30 PM in the alley behind her house. Betty, who had always enjoyed being outrageous, talked about wanting to die to whoever would listen. Few of his former classmates still see him; most have moved away or fallen out of touch. Mack Herring was duly charged with the first-degree murder of Betty Williams. The jury pool was the largest that had ever been called in Winkler County; the last murder to get much attentiona stabbing at a hotel in Winkhad happened in 1947. I said, Give me a kiss to remember you by. She gave me a kiss and then said, Thank you, Mack. John Williams was a devout Baptist who opposed sinful and immoral acts such as dating. While Burnett had been careful not to malign Bettys character during the hearing, some details of the case, like her sneaking out of her house in her nightclothes to meet Ike Nail, had tarred her as a loose, immoral girl. I dont know, Mack stammered. Although Mack was near the top of the high school caste system and Betty was at the bottom, they managed to strike up a friendship when she was a junior and he was a sophomore. Mack led officers to his fathers hunting lease, 26 miles northwest of town, on a lonely piece of scrubland studded with pump jacks. According to the police officers present at the time, Mack showed no emotion during the process. The case is even sadder than it seems: the ex, fellow teen high schooler John "Mack" Herring, claimed that Betty was so despondent over their break-up that she begged him to kill her. Arguing for the state was 32-year-old district attorney Dan Sullivan, an earnest, if not particularly seasoned, lawyer who was out of his depth; in his sixteen months in office, he had prosecuted mostly oil-field theft cases and DWIs. Mrs. & Mr. The Tennessee native & Virginia resident since he moved with his family as a child admitted he wore blackface during a college party in the 80s, In 1980, when I was a 19-year-old undergraduate in college, some friends suggested we attend a party dressed like rappers we listened to at the time, like Kurtis Blow, and perform a song, Herring said. Amid several dark days, Herring was fortunate to have his wife, Jennifer Dickerson Herring, all the time. Mrs. & Mr. More Stories for you On the drive out to the hunting lease, she was cheerful and chatted about how happy she was going to be when she was dead, Mack explained. Custodian. pic.twitter.com/V0xDrFiopV, Tom Fitzgerald (@FitzFox5DC) February 2, 2019, On Saturday, Mark Herring released a statement saying that it was no longer possible for Northam to lead the Commonwealth of Virginia. Arrangements entrusted to Charlet Funeral Home Inc., Zachary. The pre-trial took place in the nearby town of Kermit. Ike was confused but didnt think Betty had been serious about convincing Mack to kill her. At seventeen, Betty was pretty in an unremarkable way, with sandy-blond hair that brushed her shoulders and big, expressive blue eyes that could feign sincerity when talking to authority figures but were alive with irreverence. Northam initially said that he was one of the people in the photograph, but later said he was not in the photo at all. After 11 hours of deliberation, Mack was deemed to have been insane at the time of pulling the trigger. At a time when Betty felt marginalized by those around her and forsaken by the one boy she loved, death seemed to hold its own allure. You might say she has become a witness for the defense, Burnett quipped. son. She was killed by her ex-boyfriend John Mack Herring (September 23, 1943 [1] - January 5, 2019) at her own request in Winkler County, Texas. The former football player had been dethroned of his reasoning by Bettys pleadings, Grice said, and, in his estimation, had been temporarily insane when he put the shotgun to her head. Mack, who had once worried aloud to a reporter that he would be sent to the electric chair, was a free man. Betty dreamed of becoming a Broadway star and always took part in her high schools plays. He worked as a dock foreman at a chemical company, a carpenter, a welder, and, for at least the past 25 years, as an electrician. They were the parents of at least 9 sons and 2 daughters. John was eventually charged for murder but was promptly acquitted. She would hold the gun to her head, she said, while he pulled the trigger. They allegedly went to a stock tank on his parents property. When football season ended and there was nothing much to do on Friday nights except drink beer and stare up at the wide-open sky, teenagers used to park their pickups across the street from Odessa High School and wait to see the ghost they called Betty. Burnett then asked Mack to explain why he killed Betty. He has attracted growing attention in recent days, because of the growing scandals engulfing both the governor and the lieutenant governor of Virginia. He didnt have an answer. Birth of Heron "Mack" Herrin. 18: Daughter: Eloise Herring. Or was she just acting, pushing the boundaries in another bid to catch Macks attention? She too liked to get a rise out of people, and she thrived on attention, whether she got it by arriving at Tommys Drive-In dressed entirely in black but wearing white lipstick or in jeans and a T-shirt, under which she didnt bother to put on a bra. Had she really wanted to die, or was she still hoping, somehow, to win Mack back? As promised, at ten-thirty Betty had snuck out the back door and slipped into his car. We report on vital issues from politics to education and are the indispensable authority on the Texas scene, covering everything from music to cultural events with insightful recommendations. [3], Odessa High School staff did not provide counseling after the homicide occurred. Mack sat behind the defense table in a dark suit, his head often bowed. Her work as a dancer allowed her to meet John F. Kennedy and his wife Jackie, and she was good friends with Rita Hayworth. Nonetheless, his reputation around town did not suffer. The entire proceeding was a perversion of the law, says Sullivan, who is still a practicing lawyer in the nearby town of Andrews. The couple regularly fought and Betty was not allowed to meet his parents or go to parties with him. I have to fight it! The defendant was a good-looking boy, and all these clean-cut girls came out from Odessa to ooh and aah over him. Nicknamed Macks girls, they made up only a fraction of the spectators whose sympathies were with the defendant. . .Mr. But outside the circle, he is a loving father, husband, and role . Macks own confession painted a picture of a methodically planned murder; before driving Betty half an hour out of town and shooting her, point-blank, in the head, he had, by his own admission, procured lead weights, rope, shotgun shells, and even a miners helmet to light his way so he could submerge her body in the stock tank. Herring. John Mack Herring was one of the popular kids at Odessa High School. When he reached the center, Mack oriented himself by looking at the mesquite trees on either side; then he dove under the water and came back up. Because of the intense publicity, the second trial was moved nearly six hundred miles away, to Beaumont. We figured that if Mack did it, then there had to be a good reason., After the arrest, the gossip centered less on Mack than it did on Betty. Next, nine character witnesses testified. If anything, he became more popular than ever even gaining a group of fangirls who were dubbed Macks Girls. I remember seeing how she struggled with some of the hardships raising my sister and I, he told Richmonds Style Weekly. Mark Rankin Herring (born September 25, 1961) [1] is an American lawyer and politician who served as the 47th Attorney General of Virginia from 2014 to 2022. What most people remember about Betty Williams is that they hardly noticed her at all. As a young man, Herring worked to pay his way through college, taking on construction jobs and odd jobs. Early life and education. All around town people spoke ill of the victim. 40: Daughter: Goodys Herring. John Mack Herring was found not guilty by reason of insanity in the 1961 murder of his ex-girlfriend Betty Williams who, its reported, asked him to kill her. However, no one took her request seriously and shrug it off as attention seeking. The 17-year-old was now telling her schoolmates shed rather be dead. But the next afternoon during rehearsal, Betty pulled Mack into the prop room backstage. She said she wanted to die if she couldnt be with Mack, remembers her cousin Shelton, who was a year her junior at Odessas Permian High School. Betty Williams body was discovered in a stock pond.https://t.co/Gb2DfQzcOt pic.twitter.com/RQg9pQI3hF. She had roped him into doing it. According to legend, she would appear at the windows of the school auditorium at midnightprovided that students flashed their headlights three times or honked their horn and called out her name. She lived in a small, well-worn frame house on an unpaved street not far from the oil fields west of town, where gas flares burned and drilling-rig lights illuminated the desert at night. She tricked that boy into killing her. Bettys classmates in Winterset, which was canceled after the news of Macks arrest, puzzled over her intentions on the last night of her life. Its surprising that after killing someone, he didnt spend a single second in prison. Super featherweight elite Jamel Herring may be a treacherous persona in the ring. John Mack Herring Today Kiss and Kill: Revisit Betty Williams Murder. . He stripped off his red-and-white varsity letter jacket, sport shirt, loafers, blue jeans, and socks and waded into the water until it came to his chest. Mrs. I say this to make sure that no blame falls on anyone other than myself.I have depressing problems that concern, for the most part, myself. Mack Herring was a handsome football player with all the right friends. So many teenagers made the late-night pilgrimage to see Betty that the high school deemed it prudent to paint over the windows of the school auditorium. Three classmates testified that Betty had also asked them to kill her. . This is pure hell!, Betty was crushed to discover that fall that Odessa Highs new drama teacher did not see much promise in her and had relegated her to the role of stage manager for the spring production of Maxwell Andersons Winterset, a gloomy 1935 play based loosely on the Sacco-Vanzetti case. And no, he hadnt waited to see that shed gotten inside safely. After a few moments, he began to drag something to the edge of the pond. I couldnt believe what I was hearing, he says. In his cross-examination, the district attorney pressed Mack to explain at what moment, exactly, he had decided to kill Betty. Mack recounted the event and the next day the whole town knew about the kiss and kill murder. Im waging a war within myself, a war to find the true me and I fear that I am losing the battle. If I am to live I have to fight [or] else it will pull me down, down, down into that thankless pit of fear, pain, and agonized loneliness. Maxine Alice McCune Mack Herring, died at her residence in Baker on Monday, July 26, 2010, at age 73. Betty had begged him to kill her, he told McAlpine; all he had done was carry out her wishes. They belonged to the informal sororities called Tri-Hi-Y clubsCapri, Sorella, and Amicaewhich cherry-picked the most popular high school girls. Now!. Shivering, Betty had hurried back to the Jeep to retrieve her duster. Odessa police youth officer Bobby McAlpine sat Mack down to answer a few questions. According to the Texas law, an offender was allowed to be set free if proven they had been temporarily insane at the time of the crime. I want everyone to know that what Im about to do in no way implicates anyone else. Bettys life had never been worse. She said she would take her own life, except she didn't have the courage. She was happy, he recalled. ODESSA, TX-- The "Kiss and Kill" killer, John Mack Herring, died on Saturday at the age of 75, CBS 7 reports. With the 17-year-old now the main suspect in Bettys disappearance, Mack was taken to the Winkler County Jail for further questioning. When he broke up with her during her senior year at Odessa High School, her world fell apart. Interestingly, he was prosecuted for murder again, and this time he was acquitted. Betty was known to have strong opinions on social issues. She hoped to one day become an actress, and in her bedroom, where movie posters and playbills covered the walls, she devoured magazines like the Hollywood scandal sheet Confidential. In terms of his romantic life, he was married twice, both of which ended in divorce. . May they forgive me . Maybe its better that waytheyll never be exposed to the critics or the public. On June 27, 1962, the court sided with Sullivan, vacating the judgment and ordering a new trial. It was the week before Wintersetwas scheduled to premiere, and students were busy running their lines and painting the set as they readied for the final dress rehearsal. Mack laughed at the absurdity of the idea, and Betty laughed with him. [4] Herring and Williams went next to a stock tank on his parents' hunting property in Winkler County, 26 miles (42km) from Downtown Odessa. When she returned to the spot where Mack was waiting for her by the water, she took off her shoes. A lot of kids were cruelthey would shoot something and watch it hobble offbut Mack was different. You can read his full statement about that here. Mack Herring was a handsome football player with all the right friends. Not only is she still talked about, but many people believe her spirit still lingers in the high schools auditorium. No other event in my life impacted me the way this did, he says. She even went so far as to write out a wildly melodramatic note clearing him of culpability were he to be apprehended for her murder, a note that Howard would later say had seemed like a joke. You got the feeling with Betty that she was always straining against that leash, even when it choked her. So rather than admit defeat Im going to beat a quick retreat into the no mans land of death. People around the nation were fascinated by the case, especially since Herring came out and admitted to killing his then girlfriend. Two days later, on March 22, 1961, the Odessa Police Department received a frantic phone call from Mary Williams, who reported that her daughter was missing. According to Ike, she had been wearing only pale-pink shorty pajamas and a blue-and-white-striped dusternot the kind of clothes a boy would leave a girl standing in on her front porch at midnight. Mr. Until some evidence is brought to show the psychiatrists were wrong, Id be inclined to believe them. Jurors agreed, and twelve days before Christmas, they found Mack not guilty by reason of insanity. Mack was the one, and without him, life wasnt worth living. Youve made me realize that instead of being smart and sophisticated like I thought, I was only being cheap and ugly and whorish.Forgive me for writing this last note and thank you for reading it. I will always remember you for that. Then she said, Now. I raised the gun barrel up, and she took ahold of it with the back of her hand and held it up [to her temple]. Wife: Ada Herring. He complied and entered the water. I cant explain. He had difficulty understanding it all himself, he told the jury in a halting voice. After Betty realized she lacked the courage to commit suicide she began asking her schoolmates if theyd be willing to kill her. It sure does feel funny to be on the top of every thing looking down. He died on January 5, 2019, at the age of 75, according to CBS. They have an apartment in Richmond and a house in Leesburg, Virginia. Universal Studios Is Coming to Frisco. Several sources, however, allege that Betty asked her ex-boyfriend to murder her. Students still talk of a presence in the auditorium, one that is to blame for a long list of strange occurrences, from flickering lights and noises that cannot be explained to objects that appear to move on their own. A former principal has even claimed to have seen a glimpse of Betty after hours in the study hall as a result, he refused to ever be in the school alone again. Herring said he and his friends put on wigs and brown make up and dressed up as their favorite rappers. To combat the ghost story culture, the administration later painted the windows of the school auditorium. So she became not the victim but the villain., Sullivan appealed the verdict to the Texas Supreme Court, on the grounds that Judge Olsen did not have the authority to grant a hearing that only evaluated Macks sanity at the time of the crime. She is the pretty wife of Attorney General of VirginiaMark Herring. The oldest son of a homemaker and a World War II veteran who owned an electrical-contracting business, Mack grew up in the solidly middle-class neighborhood that was home to many of his teammates and the Tri-Hi-Y girls they dated. I have stayed awake at night trying to think so I could explain it to other people, he said. Mary called the school but she hadnt arrived yet. By the winter, Betty had started telling friends that she would be better off dead. Anyone who had suffered the unrelenting scrutiny that Mack hadthe Odessa American alone ran nearly two dozen front-page stories on the casemight have pulled up stakes and started a new life somewhere else. One night he gave her and Howard a ride home from rehearsal, and she made the request of him: Would he be willing to kill her? According to legend, by parking across the street from the school at midnight and either flashing the headlights three times or honking and calling out her name, Betty would appear in the auditoriums windows. Historical records and family trees related to Mack Herring. Williams, who had counter-cultural views, was not considered popular, while Herring, an American football player, was considered to be popular. Herring had previously announced he would seek the democratic nomination for Governor following Northams term. 1770 1770. On January 5, 2019, Mack Herring died at the age of 75. I remember her saying, in a very ugly way, That girl was nothing. To some observers, it seemed as if Bettys transgressions had eclipsed those of the teenager whod killed her. Two days earlier, Mack and Betty had planned how he would kill and dispose of her body. It didnt move him when he pulled her body out of the water or when he said that hed put a shotgun to her head, remembers retired highway patrolman E. C. Locklear. Mark Herring has been married to his wife, Laura, for 27 years; they met the summer before he began law school. Eisenhower had been president during most of our years of growing up, and kids were kept on a very short leash, remembers classmate Dixon Bowles. While they talked, a jeep pulled up beside them it was Mack. Williams asked multiple individuals to kill her, requests they took as jokes. At Kiss and Kill, John Mack Herring was the primary character. His past was no secret, he was even introduced as the famous kiss and kill murderer in one of his classes. . Nothing suggested that he had once been sharply handsome or held a great deal of promise. . A smattering of applause broke out in the courtroom when the verdict was announced, and once again, Mack was mobbed by jubilant supporters. I suspect most of us would rather let the thing stay in the past, one Odessa High School alumna wrote me in an e-mail. She is the daughter of the late Thomas Dale Huff and Margie Huff. It was Burnett, with the sleeves of his suit jacket pushed up to his elbows, who commanded the courtroom. In 2006, when Herring was a state senator, he voted in favor of Virginias law on same sex marriage. She wore whatever clothing she wanted, did not accept her fathers religion, and had several relationships with boys from her school. A few classmates also confessed that Betty had asked them to kill her. Mack Herring was duly charged with the first-degree murder of Betty Williams. Ive never been so humiliated and torn to pieces as I am now, Betty wrote to a friend. We should most likely treat her death as a homicide. After his graduation, John attended Texas Tech University. Genealogy profile for Alfred Mack Herring Alfred Mack Herring (1890 - 1962) - Genealogy Genealogy for Alfred Mack Herring (1890 - 1962) family tree on Geni, with over 230 million profiles of ancestors and living relatives. But inconsistencies in his account led McAlpine to believe that the seventeen-year-old knew more than he was letting on. A strict Baptist, her father often preached to Betty about sin and eternal damnation, and on more than one Sunday morning, he prayed that she might learn to be a more obedient daughter. She had been partially decapitated by a single shotgun blast to the head. He had parked his Jeep a short distance from the stock tank, and he and Betty had sat there for a while and talked. Betty had enlisted himthis worthy young manto do what she didnt have the courage to do herself. Unsure of the exact location of the body in the tank, officers asked Mack if he would retrieve it. He became so mixed up and so sick that he felt pulling the trigger was what he should do for her, Grice testified. Herring, youre a wonderful man. I mean, the defendant had admitted he kissed the girl, then blew her away, weighted her body, and buried it in the pond: What else did the state need? So King was confounded when his good friend Warren Burnett, an Odessa defense attorney, decided to take the case. The pre-trial did not change anyones opinion on Mack, but peoples perception of Betty worsened. Mack Herring was not one of the elite football players at Odessa High School on whose shoulders rested the hopes for the 1960 season; as a back for the Bronchos, and one of average abilities, he was just another guy on the team. Think of me once in a while and know that Im glad we met.Gayle . The notoriety of the case has long since faded, yet 45 years later, something lingers. Would love your thoughts, please comment. Ike Nail recounted to police what had happened the night before. [3] In 2019 CBS 7 Odessa stated "Many believe her ghost still haunts the halls of Odessa High School to this day. If both the governor and lieutenant governor of the state step down, Herring would be next in line to become governor of Virginia. But to the astonishment of courthouse observers and over the strenuous objections of the prosecution, Judge Olsen granted Burnetts motion for the pretrial hearing. He is survived by his wife of 63 years, Evelyn Page Herring of the home; a son, Mack B. The murderer is no longer among us. As word spread around Odessa that afternoon that Mack had been arrested for Bettys murder, the news was greeted with incredulity. During this time, she also won $10,000 on a game show . The football player told a plausible-enough story: He had dropped Betty off outside her parents house at midnight and had not seen her since. I hope shes the best.BettyP.S. On March 22, 1961, she was reported missing, and Herring took police to the body after he was interrogated. Herring studied at FTCC after high school and began working as a Tire Specialist for Kelly Springfield through Goodyear. Herring was born Laura A. Huff, on August 6, 1960. The couple got divorced when Herring was young, and he, his mother, and his sister moved to Loudoun County. . .I love you Dick, for all that you have meant to me. The family settled in North Carolina.Mack's father ran a wholesale grocery, clothing . The first person Burnett called to the stand was Macks father, O. H. Herring, who told the jury that on the day of his sons arrest, Mack had handed him a letter Betty had written. Herring spent most of his childhood in Loudoun County, Virginia. The first person Burnett called to the stand was Macks father. Some nights, Betty would slip out the back door after her parents had gone to bed and walk the four blocks to Tommys Drive-In, where there were always boys to talk to. The strain of the proceedings sometimes showed, as when he laid his head in his hands during jury selection; otherwise, he was impassive. Coach Alexei Popyrin Former player Xavier, Florida Gov. Shelton Williams assisted the making of the program. I take upon myself all blame, for there it lies, on me alone! When he had dropped Betty off at ten oclock, he said, she had suggested that he return in half an hour and meet her in the alley behind her house. Under Texas law, if jurors found a defendant temporarily insanethat is, insane only when he committed the crimehe would walk free. Heron was also granted 100 acres of land in Camden County in 1814. In his melodious baritone, he peppered his arguments with Shakespeare and Scripture and won over jurors with his down-home charisma, so much so that no jury had ever sent a client of his to prison. We have left it as it was originally published, without updating, to maintain a clear historical record. . She died as a teen in 1961, according to reports. Forrest Wilder writes about politics and the outdoors. He made a quiet life for himself, and he steered clear of trouble with the law. It sounds ridiculous even now writing it. He has vowed not to step down as governor. The attorney general talked about his work on gun control, health care, and pushback on the Trump administration, and said that he would like to continue to work on those issues as governor. O.H. As I have only the will and not the fortitude necessary, a friend of mine, seeing how great is my torment, has graciously consented to look after the details.His name is Mack Herring and I pray that he will not have to suffer for what he is doing for my sake. Why dredge it up again? But others refuse to forget. I thought, Good Lord, they must be talking about Betty Williams., . Grice claimed that Bettys imploring had impaired Macks judgment leading him to go insane and shoot her. . 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