On Sept. 29, 1995, a trio of kidnappers killed, dismembered, and buried American Atheists founder Madalyn Murray O'Hair, her son Jon Murray, and her granddaughter Robin Murray O'Hair. Police in Austin, Texas, did little to investigate the abduction, torture, and murder of the person who had become known as "the most hated woman in America" as a result of her efforts to have prayer expunged from public schools.
While state and federal investigators initially assumed the O'Hair family members had been murdered by religious fanatics, they eventually learned that victims had been abducted and slain by a former employee and his accomplices. They did not benefit from their crimes, however, as one of them was killed by another and they lost the half million dollars they had extorted.
The demise of O'Hair is the subject of "The Most Hated Woman in America," a chapter in the "Murder" section of Texas Confidential: Sex, Scandal, Murder, and Mayhem in the Lone Star State.
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