Charles A. Farquhar State Cattle Ranch was an Alabama Department of Corrections state prison for men, located south of the town of Greensboro in unincorporated Hale County, Alabama. History The ranch was purchased by the state of Alabama in 1940 and had been operated by director and warden Charles A. Farquhar as a working cattle ranch and catfish hatchery in 1956, in part to contribute to Alabama's "perennially underfunded corrections budget". It was originally named the State Cattle Ranch. In 1982 Governor of Alabama Fob James issued a proclamation renaming the prison ranch in Farquhar's honor. In 1994 Farquhar was the oldest warden in Alabama. His wife, Doris, worked for the corrections department since 1972 as a clerk. Murder of Farquhar On October 23, 1994, the 74-year-old Farquhar was murdered on the grounds, along with his wife Doris and two trusties. The killer, a 27-year-old prisoner named Kelvin O'Neal Washington, had been previously convicted of first degree attempted theft and attempted murder of a police officer and had two concurrent 20 year sentences. He bludgeoned the warden, and shot dead two prisoners. They were 60-year-old Paul Leverett of Mobile County, Alabama and Clifton Dale "Kipp" Martin Jr. of Lawrence County, Alabama. Both of the deceased inmates were convicted of murder and were serving life sentences. Jimmy Evans, the Attorney General of Alabama, stated that the gun used to shoot the prisoners was also used to beat the Farquhars. Initial reports stated that the wife was beaten to death. The killer confessed to the crimes and stated that he beat, and then tied up, 68-year-old Doris Farquhar inside the warden's house and set the house on fire while Doris was still inside. According to Washington, he burned the house to cover up evidence of the crime. The bodies of both Farquhar and his wife were in the house. One inmate's body was in the carport and another was in the house. The sons of the warden, Robbie and Andy Farquhar, gave their condolences to the dead prisoners. The killer was held in the Montgomery County Jail and given a capital murder charge; he was denied bond. Larry Johnson, the sheriff of Hale County, stated that the Farquhar murders were "possibly" the state's deadliest incident of prison violence and, as far as he knew, the largest mass murder in the county's history. Post-murder Charles Thompson, a man from Huntsville, Alabama, replaced Farquhar