(August 20, 2008)--A capital murder trial will start next month in Brazos County for a man charged in connection with one of Texas' longest unsolved and most notorious mass murders.
Darnell Hartsfield is scheduled to go on trial on Sept. 15 in the 1983 murders of five people abducted from a Kentucky Fried Chicken restaurant in Kilgore.
The trial will be held at the 85th District Court in Brazos County where it was moved from Rusk County because of pre-trial publicity.
Hartsfield is charged in the murders of David Maxwell; Mary Tyler; Opie Ann Hughes; Joey Johnson and Monte Landers, who were found dead at the restaurant.
All of them except for Landers worked at the restaurant about 25 miles east of Tyler and 115 miles east of Dallas.
Landers was a friend of Maxwell and Johnson and was visiting them as the restaurant was closing for the night.
Hartsfield's cousin, Romeo Pinkerton of Tyler, pleaded guilty in October to his role in the deaths of the five.
He received five life prison terms.
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