Overview
- Harris County prosecutors confirmed Tuesday that Floyd William Parrott, 64, died while held by the Lancaster County jail in Nebraska, ending plans to return him to Houston for prosecution.
- KPRC, citing a Houston Police Department source, reported he killed himself in his cell, though Nebraska authorities confirmed only the death and withheld further details for now.
- Parrott was arrested by an FBI SWAT team in Lincoln on March 25 and was indicted last week on capital murder in the 1990 deaths of Cheryl Henry, 22, and Garland “Andy” Atkinson, 21.
- Investigators said DNA from a 1996 sexual assault case matched evidence from Henry’s autopsy, and a separate match tied Parrott to a June 1990 assault, which helped revive the decades-old case.
- Police continue to seek tips about other possible victims and encounters, noting Parrott’s history of posing as law enforcement and the loss of a trial record with his death.