# The Murder of Sharon McLane Part Two: The Fast Food Killer

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Podcast: [Gone Cold - Texas True Crime](https://stenobird.com/podcast/gone-cold-texas-true-crime-414092)
Published: 2026-05-26T01:00:02+00:00
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In December of 1996, 32-year-old Sharon McLane was found brutally murdered inside her Bedford, Texas apartment, stabbed and slashed more than fifty times in a crime that shocked the Mid-Cities area between Dallas and Fort Worth. Police quickly focused on Sharon’s acquaintance, John Earl Nolley, and within months he was arrested, charged, and eventually convicted of her murder. But while investigators in Texas built their case against Nolley, another terrifying series of murders was unfolding hundreds of miles away in Tennessee. As Nashville-area detectives investigated what became known as the “Fast Food Murders,” authorities began connecting multiple brutal restaurant killings tied to a violent drifter and former fast-food employee named Paul Dennis Reid Jr. The murders stretched from Captain D’s in Donelson to a McDonald’s in Hermitage and eventually to the abduction and murder of two Baskin-Robbins employees in Clarksville. The crimes shared disturbing similarities: restaurant workers targeted during opening or closing shifts, robbery mixed with extreme violence, and victims executed by firearm or repeatedly stabbed. As Reid’s history and alleged crimes came to light, Sharon McLane’s defense attorneys began noticing troubling overlaps between the Tennessee murders and Sharon’s killing in Bedford. Witnesses reportedly placed Reid at Sharon’s apartment complex around the time investigators believed she was murdered. Others claimed Reid had previously been seen at Sharon’s workplace. Hair recovered from Sharon’s clothing reportedly did not belong to either Sharon or John Nolley, and witnesses later described Reid appearing with cuts on his hands shortly after the murder. The rise and fall of Paul Dennis Reid was at the expense of several lives, the horrifying Tennessee…

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