Dallas star Patrick Duffy fights back tears as he recalls night both his parents were murdered by two teenagers in tavern they owned

Dallas actor Patrick Duffy fought back tears as he recounted the night both of his parents were murdered 40 years ago.The 77-year-old actor's parents, Terence and Marie Duffy, were shot and killed in the tavern they owned in Boulder, Montana, on November 18 1986 after two teenagers armed with shotguns ambushed them.Sean A Wentz and Kenneth A Miller, then both 19, were charged with deliberate homicide and later convicted.Wentz, the one who fired the fatal shots, was sentenced to 180 years in prison but released on parole in 2015. Miller, his accomplice, was released on parole in 2007.Appearing on the Still Here Hollywood podcast with Steve Kmetko, an emotional Duffy recounted the final few moments of his parents' lives. He said: 'My dad had thrown these two boys out because they were, you know, drunk and boisterous and he just threw them out of the bar and they went somewhere, finished whatever they were drinking and the anger boiled up and they went back in. It was very late at night. Dallas actor Patrick Duffy fought back tears as he recounted the night both of his parents were murdered 40 years ago - (source: YouTube/Still Here Hollywood Podcast w/ Steve Kmetko) Duffy's parents, Terence and Marie Duffy, were shot and killed in the tavern they owned in Boulder, Montana, in November 1986. The family are seen together in an undated photoThere was nobody in the bar except my father and my mother. And they walked in with their shotguns. And as soon as my dad saw them, this is in the testimony that came out in the court is that my dad turned to them and apparently took a step towards him saying, "I told you to." 'And then that's when uh they opened up on him and killed him. And then my mother was at the other end of the bar doing a crossword puzzle and took a couple of steps running towards dad and they shot her too. 'If that wasn't stupid enough and instead of just running, they jumped over the bar to the cash register, took the money and a couple of bottles of booze and then left. So what they did was compound what could have been, you know, manslaughter. 'I don't know the legalities of this, but it was in the commission of a felony. They were robbing a bar and committed murder. So they went off to prison.'Asked how he dealt with his grief, Duffy revealed being a devout Buddhist helped him realize the loss of his parents did not mean the end of his connection to them. He said: 'By that time I had been chanting my practice of Buddhism for 15 years and I had... the Buddhist philosophy is one of the continuous life cycle of your entity if for the want of a better word. 'I remember this also very well is I got the news in the morning, and my sister had called and she was completely devastated and she was a police woman and she was on her way to Montana.Duffy also recalled breaking the news of the murders to his young sons Padraic, then 11, and Conor, then six.Sean A Wentz (left) and Kenneth A Miller (right) were convicted of murder in 1986 slayings. The men are seen in undated mugshots - the pair have both since been released Appearing on the Still Here Hollywood podcast with Steve Kmetko, an emotional Duffy recounted the final few moments of his parents' lives (source: YouTube/Still Here Hollywood Podcast w/ Steve Kmetko) Asked how he dealt with his grief, Duffy revealed being a devout Buddhist helped him realize the loss of his parents did not mean the end of his connection to them - pictured as Bobby Ewing in Dallas in 1986 In 2017, the actor faced another devastatingly sudden loss when his beloved wife of 43 years Carlyn Rosser died aged 77 from cancer - pictured 1987, months after his parents murders'The first thing I did was it was just as the boys were getting up to go to school. I said, "Padraic, Conor, we have to go in now. I'm going to chant with you." 'Because we always chanted before they went off to school. I said, "We have to chant for grandma and grandpa because they've both been killed and we have to chant for them because they're going to understand it and hear.'And they went, "Okay." In 2017, the actor, who played Bobby Ewing on the popular CBS television series Dallas, faced another devastatingly sudden loss when his beloved wife of 43 years Carlyn Rosser died aged 77 from cancer.He said: 'This is not the end of... well this is the end of something but it's not the final of anything you know everything that I held dear continues. 'The best way I can describe it is the philosophy taught me by osmosis, not by study but by osmosis that other than the violence of the act, there was no difference between the fact that when my parents were alive in Montana and I was in Los Angeles, I knew where they were. 'I knew where my wife was if she was in another room. I didn't mourn her. I knew I could communicate, might not be the right word, but I could feel the presence of her, of them, of anybody, just because I can't see or be in their environment was secondary to something much more profound, much more significant, and much more central to what I then started to reconsider what Buddhism had been teaching me all this time. Since 2020, Duffy has been in a relationship with Linda Purl - pictured 2023'That, you know, that it goes on. We accumulate our life experiences.'After Miller's release in 2007, Duffy previously said: 'I'm okay with that. My point of view is he's already been punished. You know, whether he's in prison or out of prison.' When he lost his parents, whom he described as 'very social' and 'pretty ordinary, pleasant people', Duffy leaned on his wife.'It was a surprise when she passed,' Duffy said in a 2019 interview. 'There was no indication. So that was the big adjustment.' He said the couple's sons, now aged 51 and 46, served as his biggest supporters after he lost his wife.'My boys were there as stalwarts,' Duffy said. '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.'Duffy said he still feels 'close to her all the time.' 'I can hear her. I can see her,' he said. 'I know what she would expect of me, and I try and live up to that. 'I still consider myself a married man.' While he works to move forward for the sake of himself and his family, Duffy vowed to continue cherishing his wife's memory. 'There are no mistakes in life,' he said. 'I can mend every fence I've broken and create value out of everything I've done if I’m given enough time. I have done it and I still am doing okay. 'I have worked hard to make the best of life, and it's been good to me.'Duffy has been in a relationship with actress Linda Purl, 71, since 2020. Duffy became a reigning 1980s sex symbol on Dallas, sending viewers wild by baring his sculpted figure during the famous shower scene where his character Bobby Ewing was revealed to be alive after previously being killed off.Meanwhile, Purl won the hearts of American TV viewers in the same decade as Ashley, the girlfriend of Henry Winkler's character Fonzie on Happy Days.