Arrest Made in ‘Lovers Lane Murders,’ a 1990 Cold Case in Houston
The New York Times • • nation
Key Points:
- On August 22, 1990, Garland Atkinson and Cheryl Henry were last seen alive at a Houston bar before their bodies were found the next day with their throats cut, in what became known as the Lovers Lane Murders.
- The case went cold for nearly 36 years with no arrests, remaining unresolved in the Houston Police Department files.
- A recent breakthrough came when an old tip was reexamined, and DNA evidence pointed investigators toward a suspect who lived and worked near the crime scene in 1990 and had a history of arrests.
- The renewed investigation has brought new hope for justice in this decades-old double homicide.
