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An arrest has been made in the 1990 Lovers' Lane murders of Cheryl Henry and Andy Atkinson. More than 30 years after the killings, a DNA match led investigators to a suspect. Listen for the full update and to learn what investigators need your help with.
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Happy Friday crime junkies.
I know you don't normally hear from me today, but I had to make sure that you heard the
big news in the lover's lane murder case that we covered in March of 2025.
There has been an arrest.
Now if any of the details of this case are fuzzy to you, I've attached the whole episode
to this update and at the end, I'm going to pop back in to tell you who they've arrested,
what we know about the guy and what investigators are asking you to still help with.
Now if you remember the case well, check the show notes for a time code and then you can
jump right to the update.
When 19-year-old Shane Henry pulls up to give her older sister Cheryl a ride to work on
the morning of August 23rd, 1990, she does what most teenagers do in the pre-celled archages.
She lays on the horn and waits.
She's got to get to work herself so she's like a little peed when she has to go inside.
More peed when she realizes that Cheryl isn't even there.
If she was going to like catch a ride or not go or not be there, like a heads up would
have been nice.
But, now Shane is running late, so she kind of just like scoots without giving it much
more thought.
At least not until she gets a call at work that morning at around 10 a.m.
And it's a friend and a coworker of Cheryl's and she wants to know where Cheryl is because
she just hasn't shown.
And that's when Shane's stomach drops, although she's not quite sure why, because she knows
that Cheryl was out the night before with her new boyfriend Andy Ackinson.
Like Shane had actually been out with them too.
She dipped around 11 to give the love birds some like time alone in some space.
So in her mind, the most likely scenario is that her sister just overslept or something.
But still, Shane can't kick this uneasy feeling.
So she actually asks for permission to leave work early.
She's told no though, which I feel like is pretty messed up like if you think your sister
is missing.
And before long, like the whole family knows what's going on.
The whole family is worried.
And Shane just wants to join Cheryl's friends and family who are already out there looking
for her.
So, girl is out the door.
The second her shift is up, racing to the family home where her mom Barbara and her
stepped up Dan are waiting anxiously.
Now by now, ours have passed since everyone has realized that Cheryl was missing.
But where's Andy?
Well, so that's the thing, no one can find Andy either.
And by the time Shane gets home, she is ready to break glass.
Like look guys, we need to call the cops.
Something is wrong.
And Barbara doesn't need convincing.
So the police are called and a missing person's report is filed.
And then Shane is like right back out the door, ready to hit the city streets with Cheryl's
friends searching for the couple and for Andy's white Honda, which they were in the
night before.
But nearly four hours later, they are no closer to finding them.
So Shane's heart skips a beat when she walks back in and sees her mom on the phone looking
worried.
And she can only hear one side of the conversation, but it feels bad.
It's like, yes, yes, that's my daughter.
Where are you?
We'll come right now.
So what feels like an eternity, Barbara hangs up and announces that it was a security guard
on the phone.
And I guess this guy works for a local food distributor.
And he called because he found Cheryl's purse with her number inside.
And it was on the floor board of an abandoned white Honda.
So this place that they go to, it's this really undeveloped area near the Cisco office.
The Cisco is the building the security guard worked at.
And it's on this dark, desolate street, which is known to people because it's known
as lovers lane.
And it also runs along this big open field leading into a big wooded area.
And it's popular with young locals for obvious in the name reasons.
And Shane says that it doesn't strike her as super weird that the couple would have
gone there.
I mean, they're both living with family, 22 year old Cheryl with her mom, her stepdad,
and her little Brady Bunch like kind of family.
And 21 year old Andy, who is new to Houston, he's living with his grandmother.
So in less than two weeks, Cheryl was actually planning on moving in with Shane, like they're
going to move in together.
But until then, privacy was a hot commodity.
So heading out to lovers lane checks out for the couple.
But what the guard hadn't found anywhere near the car was Cheryl or Andy.
So the security guy is like, what's rummaging through a random car he found?
Like that feels weird to me.
I thought the same thing, but Shane actually gave us a rundown of the day.
And it makes a little more sense the way that she explains it.
I guess the guard had found the car for the first time, like way earlier in the day on
his rounds.
But he wasn't concerned until it was still there hours later, right?
And so that's when he decided to check it out.
And the windows were rolled down.
The seats were reclined.
And the key was in the ignition in the idle position.
Those are all very bad signs.
Right.
Which is why he called them.
So that's the scene when Cheryl's family and friends start showing up desperate to find
some sign of the missing couple.
And right away, they zero in on some cigarette butts, stained with lipstick on the ground
near the car.
The lipstick looks a whole lot like it was Cheryl's.
And when they peek inside the car, they see something that the security guard hadn't
mentioned.
And more ominous than lipstick stains on cigarette butts.
They see deep, dark stains on the inside of the driver's door.
Blood?
They're not sure, but it looks an awful lot like blood.
So much so that they do a kind of like back away, slowly kind of thing.
Like the last thing they want to do is contaminate what could be evidence.
But how did the security guard miss that?
I mean, wasn't he in the car?
Well, in this area, there are no street lights.
But it's dark by now, so my guess is that the headlights from all the cars that are
now there from everyone who came, maybe he's making it easier to see, they're also probably
are like bringing lights and I don't know, whatever they have is definitely more light
than like a lone patrol car would have provided.
And Andy's car battery is dead from the car being left in idle, so they're probably
were no overhead lights like at the time.
Now in 1990, no one has a cell to call 911 and by the time they see all of this, the
security guard is like on the other side of that big field, walking the tree line with
one of Cheryl's friends.
They're just like searching over there.
So Shane races to the Cisco building with Cheryl's best friend where they ask the front
desk person to call 911 and then they wait and wait and wait for like 30 or 40 minutes.
But no one shows up.
What?
No cops, no first responders, no fire trucks, nada.
So the girls have to actually go back and have them call 911 a second time.
So this time, the response is immediate and overwhelming.
A response like, oh, there are two missing kids in a bloody car like that, yeah.
So this army of cops and first responders get to work.
They search with helicopters up in the sky.
They have sent tracking canines on the ground like the works and a little after 11 p.m.
Shane watches a scene unfold and she told us it to this day, it like plays out in her
mind.
It is pure chaos.
There's just so many people bustling around.
She was like walking up to her dad in a daze went out of the corner of her eye.
She sees an officer say something to her mom and then she just hears this blood curdling
scream.
And to Shane, it looks like the officer like catches her mom from falling when she
howls and it's like there are no words.
It's just these like guttural primal shrieks and Barbara actually says later in reporting
for KHOU11 that the officer holding her up is also holding her back from running towards
the area across the field where there's just this like sudden flurry of activity.
And Shane can't even process at all.
She turns to ask her dad what's wrong, like what happened?
Why is everyone so upset all of a sudden?
And I don't know if he's been briefed or if he's just like putting two and two together.
But he responds with the last two words that Shane is prepared to hear.
She's gone.
And then the blink of an eye investigators surround them like corralling them towards their
car saying like listen we're so sorry but like you have to leave now this is a crime scene.
And the entire family is thinking like how how can they leave Cheryl out there but they
don't have a choice so they go and investigators have to get to work.
Jill Tyra reported for Wilmington Morningstar that Cheryl's body had been found by a scent
tracking dog about 200 yards from Andy's car just barely into the wooded area past
the field.
When she's found she's naked lying face down on the ground and her hands are actually
bound behind her back with rope and she has what looks like jagged wounds to her head
and her neck and her throat has been slashed and her killer it seems made a half-hearted
attempt to conceal her body under some pieces of like wood from this like rotting fence
and then they find her clothes nearby a single $20 bill as well her pretty turquoise
summer dress with like red accents had actually been cut from her body and Shane thinks maybe
her underwear had been too she told us which suggests to investigators that whatever
horrors Cheryl had been met with probably involved this actual assault.
Now at this time that they find Cheryl there's still no sign of Andy though as they secure
the scene and get Cheryl to the morgue searching for him does continue but by the wee hours
of the morning they decide they need to break till sunrise.
This is all absolute torture for Andy's dad Garland.
He got to the scene not long before Cheryl's body was found and he like set out walking
the tree line to only to be hustled away almost without explanation.
Garland passed away actually recently in October of 2024 but I found this interview he did
with Linda Sheldon-Fell for a series that she hosts called Moments of Hope and he's
talking to her he gets choked up because he talks about this HPD officer who actually
asked to stay at the scene until the search could pick back up at sunrise and he explains
that at the first hint of daylight that officer starts walking the same tree line that Garland
walked multiple times the night before taking things in looking for anything that might
have been missed in the dark and looking for Andy.
And out there all alone it's that officer who stumbles on this grisly scene because
there Andy is sitting at the base of this enormous tree tied to the tree with rope.
His legs like stretch out in front of him and he's facing the woods and like Cheryl his
throat was slit so deeply though that he was nearly decapitated.
And I hear all of that my mind instantly goes to like the lake wake of it all right.
I thought this same thing and listen for anyone who hasn't listened to our lake wake
of episode so it was like a two-parter that we did recently all try and link out to it
in the notes.
But I agree it's got some like eerie similarities to this case like the second I heard
about Andy that's what I thought about but you got to think about this no one at the
time is thinking there's a possibility of a connection because by the time Cheryl and
Andy were murdered they already had people in prison for the lake wake of the time right
now knowing what I know now to me that means nothing but back then no one is screaming
serial killer but to go back to Andy and we can touch on this the wake of stuff maybe
later Andy's fully clothed his hands are bound behind his back and where the injuries
to Cheryl's neck were kind of like jagged and imprecise I guess Andy's throat had
just like one clean slash and how far is he from where Cheryl was found I don't know exactly
I've seen like everything from like 75 yards to 150 yards I don't know for sure what I do know
is that Jill Tire's report says there aren't any obvious defensive wounds on Andy it says the same
about Cheryl actually but we actually reviewed both autopsy reports and I don't think that's actually
accurate for her like girl went down fighting and there's this weird thing about the crime scene
that I haven't mentioned I'm not sure when investigators notice it like before after Andy's
body is found I mean but reporting for KHOU11 says that a golf club and golf balls from Andy's car
had been like laid out in the field in like this line that was pointing to Cheryl's body which to
me is just like extremely weird and clearly like someone wanted them to be found yeah now I think it's
helpful at this point if we talk through the scene in terms of like likely series of events because
spoiler alert answers are hard to come by in the coming years and there's not a ton of reporting
on how it all would have unfolded the broad strokes are this the thinking is that there's some kind
of blitz attack when the two are in the car and somehow they're then taken to the tree that Andy
was tied to so theoretically it could have just been one guy but my money is on two that's something
that investigators are going to debate for years it could be either I think again I think the thing
that's clear is that it started with the attack on Andy in the car because of all the blood that's
on the door either they would have had to hurt him enough to like prove a point like I'm not messing
around follow me cooperate I have a weapon like I'm gonna walk you out or maybe Andy was fully
incapacitated by whatever happened to him in the car which to me that definitely means you
would need multiple people to get him out to the tree and keep Cheryl cooperating right one way or
another their hands get tied behind their back remember Andy doesn't have defensive wounds so either
he's cooperating because again there's a threat to her Cheryl or him or he's incapacitated and can't
even fight back and then Cheryl either makes a run for it and they catch up to her or they walk
her to a different area but when they get her over there they cut off her clothes a soldier and
kill her there where she was found according to reporting for KHLU 11 investigators tell Garland that
they do think for some reason that she was killed first I don't know their reasoning that's never
fully explained but that's the theory did they get any biologics from the autopsies like anything
that they can get DNA from yes and yes even though 1990 is super early for DNA science the detective
who works this case the longest this guiding detective Billy Belk he knows what a powerful tool
DNA is shaping up to be so from like day one he asks the higher ups to have evidence processed
at this special lab that has the tech to detect DNA which has to be a long shot and super expensive
right you're not wrong but you know the saying you miss a hundred percent of the shots you don't
take so detective Belk decides to shoot his and it works he gets the okay the lab hits
pader they're able to build a suspect profile from the semen in Cheryl but downside of early days
DNA no database there's nothing to compare it to right no amount of evidence is gonna replace the
grueling work of boots on the ground investigating so detective start interviewing family and friends
and they start working their way out from there now neither family knows of anyone who would
want to hurt Cheryl or Andy they're both really good kids they weren't wrapped up in anything shady
and everyone loved them but Cheryl's loved ones do offer up a couple of names that peak detectives
interest let's call them Lance and Aaron so Lance is the boyfriend of a friend that Cheryl had been
kind of on the outs with recently dude like I guess skip town the morning after Cheryl was found
more than the town he skipped the whole country like took off for St. Lucia and it seems like
this was no planned holiday either Lance's girlfriend tells him that she didn't even know anything
about this trip like he didn't even mention that he was gonna go to St. Lucia what yeah so
when detectives end up reaching him on the island he agrees to come back to Houston he sits down
for an interview and when they ask him for a DNA sample he's cool with that too when the comparison
gets run Lance is rolled out he's not their guy which leaves me to Aaron who ironically enough
is the kid of a cop or maybe a former cop not totally sure he is Cheryl's ex from like
middle school and high school and he doesn't share Lance's cooperative spirit I'm not sure if he
officially lawyers up or if he talks to investigators or any of that all I know is that when they
ask him for a DNA sample he refuses doesn't give a reason just no Shane told us that the cop
dad is straight up offended that they even would ask so there's that she also told us this
weird story about Aaron showing up at their house like the day after Cheryl died and kind of just
standing there like at the end of their driveway like didn't say a word didn't come any closer just
stood there that's so weird and kind of creepy detectives think so too so does Barbara Shane said
she actually kind of got it she told us she always liked Aaron he'd always been decent to her sister
and she's like I think he was in shock like kind of like the rest of us this standoff between detectives
and Aaron over his DNA this goes on for years and like on the one hand totally his right but on the
other hand like you gotta know this is gonna look bad and what are you hiding why not give your DNA
right because of all the male friends and acquaintances that they approach during their investigation
it in these years and there are a lot he is the only one who won't give a sample and they're not
getting hits on anyone else that they're testing and so for years everyone is sideying this guy
but you can't hide forever though in a lot of cases we've covered actually you can but it like
it's very frustrating but not here not with this case detectives again years later finally get a
warrant for Aaron's DNA hopes are high that they're about to solve this case that has haunted the
city once and for all when the results come back everyone is probably holding their breath
but Aaron is not a match okay but if there was more than one killer that's a big if isn't it
and to state the obvious that same logic applies then to all the men who have been ruled out
like so far through DNA comparison right like unless you've got an airtight alibi or something
which I'm sure some of them do but I don't have insight into any of that who was ruled out
through alibi who had an alibi when their DNA was ruled out I don't know all I know is at some
point in the 90s the suspect profile does get entered into codeus when codeus becomes a thing
but there are no hits in codeus and then activity on the case it kind of just like ebbs
and flows them throughout the years like it picks up a little bit in the mid 90s when a reward
is announced but like nothing happens it's just like dead end after dead end and in all this time
there are no like really viable suspect no like that's what makes this case so challenging it
truly felt completely random like this killer blew into town committed one of the most heinous
crimes these officers would see in their careers and then was gone before the sun came up
never to return again or at least that's how it seemed for many years but one day in early 2001
detectives get this very strange letter in the mail and it's addressed to HPD but the return
address says Cheryl Henry and Andy Atkinson no address but I'm going to have you read it for us
because I mean this is wild the letter says HPD if you want to know who killed see Henry and A
Atkinson it will cost one hundred thousand dollars reply Hugh Chronicle personal column
none three twelve oh one only a lawyer will be hired to make sure you play straight a non and Hugh
Chronicle is like the Houston Chronicle and one is Monday I think so and a non I think it's just
supposed to be anonymous but it's weird right please tell me they play along with this though they do
they do exactly as they're told they publish their reply in the Houston Chronicle basically like
we hear you we want to play ball tell us what to do next kind of thing yeah they keep all of this
on the download like the public doesn't know a thing about this letter at the time so like even when
they publish their reply the the public like doesn't even know what they're looking for or to look
for it but when they publish this it's just radio silence they never hear from that letter writer
again they even try having the envelope process to like see if there's DNA or fingerprints whatever
that's a dead end too and the case is more than ten years cold by this point and once again like
with after this letter when this leads nowhere like they're out of leads now I haven't touched on
this yet but detective Belk remember he has been on this case from like day one over the years
he builds a super solid relationship with Cheryl's family and what are solid relationships based on
trust how do you earn trust transparency and that's what he's been giving them like he doesn't
share anything that could jeopardize the investigation of course but he has been keeping them in
the loop step by grueling step which has given them like all along this sense of like yes
Cheryl's case is actually being actively worse by one of the best yes which is like so many families
want and all honesty this case is like his great white whale and he really wants to solve it before
he retires and you know because of all this transparency that he was giving them Shane actually
shared a 2005 email chain with us it was between them and detective Belk or detective Belk
and in this detective Belk lists out all of the men who have been excluded based on the DNA
evidence which at that time was 17 names deep he even assures them that in this list the infamous
railroad killer Rafael rescindes has been ruled out thanks to codeus now just for clarification
like no one has placed this guy in Houston at the time of the murders as far as I know but like
I know he was in the state in July of 91 when he killed a man in San Antonio and that's like
three and a half hours away from Houston but like duh he's the railroad killer right like dude got
around I don't have any context about like how or why or when he slid on like the investigation's
radar so giant grain of salt here I was just like I was surprised to see his name on that list I
thought was worth mentioning but here's his name of people who are ruled out they're obviously
trying their working hard by 2007 though detective Belk has come to terms with the fact that his dreams
of solving the case before he or tires actually might elude him he's been with HPD by that point for
20 years and like it's his time so he turns in his badge and gun admitting this kind of defeat
for him like his great white whale got away but to be a fly on the wall when his phone rings the
very next week and he's told that this could be it they finally got to hit encoders after all
these years except there's always an accept right yeah the hit isn't a person that they've linked
to his case they've linked his case to another case a brutal like with a capital B sexual assault
case also there in Houston so this guy is still there not so fast the sexual assault wasn't recent
in fact it happened two months before Cheryl and Andy were killed I'm sorry the backlog is that
deep I have no idea why but the victim sexual assault kit was never processed for 17 years yes and
it wasn't the only one sitting untested either I mean far from it although that's like a whole
another podcast now the good news in this though is the victim in that sexual assault case was still
alive when detectives went and tracked her down in Galveston County her story is this so basically she
got off work as a dancer at a club at around two o'clock in the morning one morning in June of 1990
according to reporting by Lindsay Wise in the Houston Chronicle she was staying at her pilot
boyfriends place and he was off like flying a plane somewhere so she came home to an empty house
apartment whatever or at least it should have been empty so she walks in kicks off her shoes has a
bite to eat downstairs and then heads upstairs to go to bed and that's when this man lunged out at
her from a dark room I mean it is the stuff of actual nightmare yeah and here I think the best
thing to do is just have you read the count from Wise's reporting the man wore a fishnet stocking
over his face black gloves and a dark shirt and pants that matched possibly a uniform
he held a long barreled handgun in his left hand where's Randy he asked referring to her boyfriend
by name he taunted her putting the gun to her head and cocking it he bound her hands behind her
back with gray duct tape before taking cash from her purse then he duct taped her eyes and mouth
through her on the bed and shoved a bag or pillowcase over her head when the whole thing was over he
forced her down onto the floor and told her that she better stay there because he might be gone in
minutes he might not be and it would be bad for her basically if she like got up while he was
still there so when she finally does work up the courage to get up she finds that her phone line
had been disconnected so when they're piecing this together from this victim like 17 years later
there's something like weird that pops out in her interview because they learn that she had
actually worked for Andy's dad Garland and this is at a different club than I believe that she
like the one at the time but guess who worked as a bouncer at Garland's club every so often
Andy there was also this mention in kjou that the first victim said the perp had this quote like
very forceful military type stance so people start to wonder if maybe this guy was a bouncer maybe
he was a security guard like Andy is there a reason though I mean to me it's just as likely that he
was a customer at the club totally I mean I think I think the reason they're coming up with this is
like the combo of like the dark or uniform like clothes but I mean like absolutely he could have
just been a customer or maybe he wasn't part of the club scene at all I don't know except as far
as investigators are concerned the possible connections only get stronger when they factor in that
Cheryl had worked at another club for a short period of time like she and a close friend had
applied to be bartenders like cocktail waitresses or whatever like I think it was like kind of like a
mutual dare I'm sorry there's no way that all of this is coincidental that's what I thought too like
the suspect pool just got like so small and so the media goes wild with this when they find out
however like all these years on there hasn't been anyone in particular that has popped out from
that scene and actually Cheryl's family swears that too much has been made of this whole thing
Jane told us that Cheryl worked like a few shifts the summer before she was killed at a club so
like this is like a year plus prior and she decided really fast it like just wasn't for her wait
so that part might be coincidental but when this guy attacked the first girl he was looking for
her boyfriend calls him out by name maybe Cheryl and Andy's attack was about Andy possibly
except there's something that confuses me about that so the dancer the thing I've told you she
got a good look at the guy like I'll be ahead like a smushed face because of what he was wearing
she definitely heard his voice but she didn't recognize him either like not as an employee at the
club not as like a regular customer in fact she tells HPD that she had always assumed her attacker
was someone from a moving company that she had beef with so who knows what we do know is she
sits down with HPD's forensic artist she has a composite sketch drawn of the man that she can still
picture all these years later she says he's tall he has olive skin dark hair and as Michelle Homer
and Sherman chow report she thinks he was somewhere in his like late 20s maybe early to mid 30s hold
up how old was that security guard that found Andy's car you know for I'm always skeptical of
security guards who are like the first on the scene so and HPD was too like he was actually one of
the guys who was ruled out with Dean so probably one of the first I would assume so not him but whoever
this guy is who attacked our first victim and then Cheryl and he's a ghost the sketch that's
published in 2008 doesn't generate any promising leads and that in 2008 was the last real update
in this baffling case so when everything with Lake Waco basically unraveled did anyone go back
to see if they're like could have been a connection if they did it never made it into reporting
and keep in mind like just how much Lake Waco unraveled is in the eye of the beholder and if the
beholder is the great state of Texas it never unraveled at all make sure Munir D won his appeal
he was acquitted at a retrial but the convictions of the other three defendants were upheld and
the official party line is that they all died in prison guilty men including David Spence who
was executed in 97 for his supposed involvement and if you remember like there have been a few attempts
pushed by like private parties to test DNA evidence in the Lake Waco case which there is DNA
evidence in the Lake Waco case but all of those have either been unsuccessful or have stalled for
reasons that are like too convoluted to get in here again go listen to the episode the long
and the short of it is as far as I can tell no DNA profiles from Lake Waco have ever been
entered into codeus I don't even know if they were fully processed because again there was no
codeus when Andy and Cheryl murdered Lake Waco is even years before that at that point it was closed
yeah and to me this is like baffling I can't even understand why they wouldn't but this goes back
to like the whole first case where it's like they they want to be right more than they want to find
the truth but Cheryl and Andy's case this case is still unsolved today before you ask yes they
have considered genetic genealogy it might even be in the works or not IGG exactly a lot of
reporting seems to conflate familial DNA with genetic genealogy and the HPD declined to give us
a comment so like I couldn't get a ton of clarity and actually to be exact they told us they had
to respectfully decline to comment due to the sensitivity of the investigation they didn't
elaborate on that choice of words so we tried reaching detective Belk too who was retired we couldn't
get a hold of him and in all the years like since Belk left I think things have kind of broken
down between HPD and Cheryl's family so they're not even in the inner circle at the moment
which to me doesn't feel like an option like you don't have to be on the inner circle but I think
they deserve a yes or no like are you using this new technology to solve my family members case
or not that seems like it should be a basic right for a family to get okay this is 2026 actually
now and while I still can't tell you what new technology they might have tried or we're trying
I can confirm that it was a DNA match that led to this arrest an old school one at that
sometime in the past year apparently police received a tip that led them to a now 64 year old man
named Floyd William Parrot now this guy was never on their radar for this case but he had an
interesting past he was a suspect in a 1996 sexual assault and this is really chilling
he was charged multiple times with impersonating a police officer this was in 1988
1990 and again in 96 and investigators now say that he kept doing all of that through the 1990s
and into the 2000s so here's how I think they made the connection they mentioned that it had to
do with putting evidence from that 1996 sexual assault case into codeus so they must have still
had evidence in that that had just been sitting there for all these years once they got it submitted
to codeus voila it matched the unidentified profile from the lover's lane case that had just been
sitting there for years now they had never convicted him of the 96 assault so I'm thinking that
basically they had to unidentified profiles now that matched together but they at least had a
suspect in the 96 case and so that probably gave them enough to do a warrant to get a direct
comparison from him and they've stated with confidence that he now is a match to the evidence
from the lover's lane case and Floyd Parrot has now been charged with capital murder for the 1990
deaths of Cheryl Henry and Andy Ackinson in Houston, Texas Houston PD and the FBI took Parrot
into custody in Nebraska this week but at a press conference investigators said Parrot spent
most of his life around Houston and they feel sure that he has more victims in the area maybe
many more authorities released pictures of Parrot from around 1990 when Cheryl and Andy were killed
and this photo of the fake cop car that they say Parrot was driving at the time and now they're
asking for the public's help we're going to be posting those on social so please if you're in
the Houston area go take a look and if you had any contact with Floyd William Parrot over all these
years or you think you might have known something about this case or other cases at any crime that
he may have committed please call the Harris County District Attorney's Office at 713-274-5640
and mention lover's lane you can ask for ADA Samantha Connect and leave your name and contact info
we're going to be following this case so if you want more updates as they come in follow us on
social or in the Crime Junkie fan club our thoughts are with Cheryl and Andy's families who have
waited so long for answers you can find all the source material for this episode on our website
crimejunkiepodcast.com you can also follow us on Instagram at crimejunkiepodcast we'll be back next
week with another episode
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