A suspected killer arrested in March for the 1990 “Lover’s Lane” Houston murders died in a Nebraska jail this week.
According to the Lancaster County Sheriff’s Office, authorities found 64-year-old Floyd William Parrott unresponsive at the Lancaster County jail Tuesday morning.
Correctional officers performed life-saving measures but were unable to revive him.
KHOU reports that the death is under investigation, although initial reports indicated that he appeared to have taken his own life.
Harris County District Attorney Sean Teare stated that Parrott had been waiting for extradition back to Texas when authorities found him unresponsive in his cell.
In August 1990, Parrott allegedly murdered Andy Atkinson, 21, and Cheryl Henry, 22. At the time of their deaths, they were out on a date, parked on a secluded Houston cul-de-sac, at 1300 Enclave Parkway. A security guard located their bodies during a routine patrol.
According to police, both victims died from sharp force injuries. Henry had been left in a nearby wooded area with neck injuries. She was sexually assaulted and hidden under wooden boards. Atkinson was found bound to a tree, nearly decapitated.
Authorities connected Parrott to the murders through DNA that linked him to a separate 2008 sexual assault case.
Houston PD and the FBI apprehended Parrott on March 25, in Lincoln .He was facing capital murder charges at the time of his death.
Parrott had previous run-ins with law enforcement. Throughout the 1990s, he was considered a “serial police impersonator,” according to the Houston Chronicle. He was also charged with carrying a weapon and sexual assault.
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Official autopsy results for Parrott’s death has not yet been released. According to the Houston Chronicle,
Meanwhile, investigators are trying to determine if Parrott played a part in a string of unsolved sexual assaults, along with a Louisiana cold case.
“Parrott murdered Andy and Cheryl, he violently assaulted others and spent decades thinking he got away with it,” Samantha Knecht, the chief prosecutor for the Harris County Cold Case Division, said in a statement.
“We now know he thought he escaped justice while hiding out in Nebraska.”
The Harris County District Attorney’s Office is currently investigating the Louisiana cold case.
“We believe that he is potentially linked to another murder in the 90’s,” Teare added, referring to the Louisiana case.
“There is no stone that we are going to not turn over simply because it’s the right thing to do, and I hope in the next few days to be able to announce that we have closed another cold case murder that we believe he was responsible for.”
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