Trial Begins in 24-Year-Old KFC Mass Murder Case
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}Opening statements are under way in the trial of a man charged in one of the longest-unsolved mass murders in Texas history.
Prosecutors have begun outlining their case in a Northeast Texas courtroom against Romeo Pinkerton of Tyler. He's charged with capital murder in the 1983 slayings of five people from a Kilgore restaurant in what's come to be called "the Kentucky Fried Chicken Murders."
Pinkerton pleaded not guilty five times as a prosecutor read each of the five capital murder counts.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}State District Judge J. Clay Gossett ordered the trial was moved from Rusk County to Bowie County to escape potentially prejudicial pretrial publicity surrounding the 24-year-old murder case.