Ken Starr, former Baylor president and Clinton investigator, dies at 76

Ken Starr at The Texas Tribune Festival on Sept. 23, 2017. (Credit: Bob Daemmrich for The Texas Tribune)

Ken Starr, a former Baylor University president who was best known for his role in the investigation that led to the impeachment of President Bill Clinton has died at the age of 76. He was born in Vernon and died in Houston of complications related to surgery, according to a statement from the family.

In the 1990s he was tasked with investigating the real estate investments of Bill and Hillary Clinton and their associates in the Whitewater scandal in the 1990s. That investigation branched into then-President Bill Clinton’s alleged affair with staffer Monica Lewinsky.