Texas Ranger Stan Guffey 1946 - 1987
Courtesy Texas Ranger Hall of Fame and Museum, Waco, Texas
In the previous episode of True Crime Reporter™ Texas Ranger Files, we told the story of brave Rangers who kept up the pursuit of kidnappers while their car was being riddled with gunfire and was engulfed in flames.
Thirteen-year-old Amy McNiel the daughter of the pioneer in the development of the first hand-held calculator, was kidnapped by five men on the way to school in January 1985
Retired Ranger Captain Bob Prince recalled the tension-filled 48-hour, 600-mile game of cat and mouse and a 100 mph running gun battle that ended in the safe rescue of the teen.
During the pursuit of the kidnappers, Texas Ranger Stan Guffey maintained surveillance from an aircraft.
Two years later, when a doped-crazed criminal out on parole kidnapped a two-year-old girl, Guffey did not want to stand by and watch as he had before.
Guffey insisted on replacing another Ranger in a plan to surprise the kidnapper