A terrible loss of a loved one is something that no one can ever forget. That is what Dallas star Patrick Duffy still thinks about today. Even though it’s been decades since his parents were murdered, the ghastly details of the event are still in his mind.
Duffy recently opened up about the “horrific” night in 1986 when his parents were murdered in cold blood and said he has now made his peace with it, thanks to his faith. In an interview with Closer Weekly, the former CBS primetime soap opera star said though he went through the motions he always felt close to his parents.
Patrick’s parents Marie and Terence Duffy owned a tavern in Boulder, Montana. On November 18, 1986, his parents were shot dead in the bar they owned in Boulder, Montana by two disgruntled teens who had been thrown out of the bar earlier in the evening. Because these killers were drunk and bent on revenge, they wanted to kill both parents of the actor. They brutalized them and ruined Duffy’s life.
Patrick Duffy recalled:
“When my parents were murdered, I went through all the emotions of the horrific event — shock and anger and everything — but I never felt disconnected from [my parents]. I never felt that immediate loss. I did not know why then, but in retrospect, it was a result of being Buddhist.”
Duffy said about the brutal killing in an interview:
“My father kicked these two young men out of the bar at some point in the evening. So they went and drank elsewhere… and came back to the bar to kick his a**. When they stepped in the bar with their guns, they shot him. There was nobody else in the bar, so they shot both my mother and my father.”
After his parent’s death, he leaned on his wife Carlyn Rosser. But when Rosser passed suddenly in 2017, his boys were his rock. “My boys were there as stalwarts. But I also realized that, as much as they were trying to buttress old dad up, I’m probably more adjusted to this set of circumstances than they are. You reach a certain age and you realize the road ahead is much shorter than the road behind,” he said.
He was married for 43 years, but even after her death, he considers himself taken. “I can hear her. I can see her. I know what she would expect of me, and I try and live up to that. I still consider myself a married man.”
It’s wonderful that Patrick Duffy’s sons were so hands-on in assisting their father with the death of both his parents and then his wife.
Find out more about the personal tragedy that Duffy had to endure in in this clip: RetroTVnStuff/Youtube
Sources: AWM, CloserWeekly
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