UPDATE: Lovers' Lane Murders
3/27/202637 min
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.
Already familiar with this case? You can skip to 32:23 to hear the latest update.
- If you had any contact with Floyd William Parrott or you think you might know something about this case or others he could have committed, please call the Harris County District Attorney’s Office at 713-274-5640 and mention "Lovers Lane".
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First 90 secondsAshley Flowers· Host0:00
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 gonna 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. [mysterious music] 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-cell dark ages. She lays on the horn and waits. Shane's gotta get to work herself, so she's, like, a little peeved when she has to go inside, more peeved when she realizes that Cheryl isn't