{"id":270928,"date":"2026-04-29T05:32:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-29T05:32:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/270928\/"},"modified":"2026-04-29T05:32:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T05:32:10","slug":"nebraska-man-accused-in-lovers-lane-murders-dies-in-prison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/270928\/","title":{"rendered":"Nebraska man accused in Lovers Lane murders dies in prison"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\tThe Lincoln man accused of killing a man and a woman in Houston in 1990 died in a Lancaster County prison, officials said.Floyd Parrott was found unresponsive in a cell on Tuesday morning at the Lancaster County Department of Corrections, authorities said.READ MORE: Lincoln man charged in 1990 Houston double murder after cold case breakthroughCorrectional staff performed life-saving measures on Parrott until paramedics arrived, officials said.The 64-year-old was arrested in March and faced capital murder charges in the deaths of 22-year-old Cheryl Henry and 21-year-old Garland Andrew Atkinson. According to the Houston Chronicle, a newspaper owned by the same company as KETV, Texas officials said investigators believe Parrott took his own life.He was awaiting extradition to the Harris County Jail. In a statement, the Harris County District Attorney&#8217;s Office said new survivors have come forward since Parrott&#8217;s arrest.Officials the survivors have been &#8220;bravely reliving the horrors he inflicted in painful detail. After decades since some of these crimes, we had hoped to answer their courage with action.&#8221;The Harris County District Attorney&#8217;s Office added they are in Louisiana currently working to close a cold case linked to Parrott.A cause of death has not been determined for Parrott. A grand jury will investigate his death, as is standard practice.Make sure you can always see the latest news, weather, sports and more from KETV NewsWatch 7 on Google search.NAVIGATE: Home | Weather | Local News | National | Sports | Newscasts on demand |\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\tLANCASTER COUNTY, Neb. \u2014 \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>The Lincoln man accused of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ketv.com\/article\/lovers-lane-texas-houston-cold-case-arrest\/70856215\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">killing a man and a woman in Houston in 1990<\/a> died in a Lancaster County prison, officials said.<\/p>\n<p>Floyd Parrott was found unresponsive in a cell on Tuesday morning at the Lancaster County Department of Corrections, authorities said.<\/p>\n<p>READ MORE: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ketv.com\/article\/lovers-lane-texas-houston-cold-case-arrest\/70856215\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Lincoln man charged in 1990 Houston double murder after cold case breakthrough<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Correctional staff performed life-saving measures on Parrott until paramedics arrived, officials said.<\/p>\n<p>The 64-year-old was arrested in March and faced capital murder charges in the deaths of 22-year-old Cheryl Henry and 21-year-old Garland Andrew Atkinson. <\/p>\n<p>According to the Houston Chronicle, a newspaper owned by the same company as KETV, Texas officials said investigators believe Parrott took his own life.<\/p>\n<p>He was awaiting extradition to the Harris County Jail. <\/p>\n<p>In a statement, the Harris County District Attorney&#8217;s Office said new survivors have come forward since Parrott&#8217;s arrest.<\/p>\n<p>Officials the survivors have been &#8220;bravely reliving the horrors he inflicted in painful detail. After decades since some of these crimes, we had hoped to answer their courage with action.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Harris County District Attorney&#8217;s Office added they are in Louisiana currently working to close a cold case linked to Parrott.<\/p>\n<p>A cause of death has not been determined for Parrott. A grand jury will investigate his death, as is standard practice.<\/p>\n<p>Make sure you can always see the latest news, weather, sports and more from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ketv.com\/article\/ketv-google-preferred-source\/69001001\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">KETV NewsWatch 7 on Google search<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>NAVIGATE: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ketv.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Home<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ketv.com\/weather\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Weather<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ketv.com\/local-news\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Local News<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ketv.com\/national-news\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">National<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ketv.com\/sports\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Sports<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ketv.com\/nowcast\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Newscasts on demand<\/a> |<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Lincoln man accused of killing a man and a woman in Houston in 1990 died in a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":270929,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[100846,100848,35376,100849,28058,100847,67434,631,67052,100841,100842,56,100845,58,57,100844,51972,100843,86380,46258,14551,74122,101,172,51865],"class_list":["post-270928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-22-year-old-cheryl-henry","tag-22-year-old-garland-andrew-atkinson","tag-authority","tag-capital-murder-charge","tag-cheryl-henry","tag-cold-case-breakthroughcorrectional-staff","tag-corrections","tag-death","tag-double-murder","tag-floyd-parrott","tag-garland-andrew-atkinson","tag-houston","tag-houston-double-murder","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news","tag-lancaster-county-prison","tag-lincoln","tag-lincoln-man","tag-lovers-lane","tag-measure","tag-murders","tag-paramedic","tag-suspect","tag-weather","tag-weather-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270928","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=270928"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270928\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/270929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=270928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=270928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=270928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}