A third person has been arrested in connection with a cold case murder that police say they cracked last April with the arrest of the victim’s former wife. Now, the woman’s current husband is also accused in connection with the man’s death 24 years ago.
Frisco Police, working with the Waxahachie Police Department, arrested 50-year-old Jason Honrud on a murder warrant on Wednesday morning. Jason Honrud is married to Lisa Honrud, who was arrested in April in connection with the 2002 murder of her former husband, Frank Weiss.
Investigators said Weiss’s body was discovered near Lake Lewisville, wrapped in black bags, tied with rope and weighed down with 50-pound sandbags duct-taped to his legs. The Tarrant County Medical Examiner later determined he had also been shot twice in the chest with a .38 caliber gun.
The renewed cold case investigation began earlier this year, when a team of six detectives with the Frisco Police Department’s Crimes Against Persons Unit reopened the case and began re-interviewing witnesses.
According to investigators, Weiss was killed less than a week after his then-wife moved out of their Plano home and signed an annulment that he filed alleging infidelity. Weiss was last seen having dinner with Honrud at Uncle Julio’s two days before his body was found.
At the time, Honrud told investigators Weiss had taken a last-minute trip to Cancun, a claim detectives said was deceptive. Detectives added that the condition of the body suggested an effort to conceal the crime.
Investigators did not say what role they believe Jason Honrud played in Weiss’s death or reveal any other information about the investigation.
Jason Honrud is the third arrest in the case. In May, Keith Hart was arrested in connection with Weiss’s death just two weeks after Lisa Honrud’s arrest.
It’s not immediately clear if any of the suspects in the case have obtained attorneys to speak on their behalf.