更新时间： 2026年3月27日 / 美国东部时间上午10:27 / CBS新闻
休斯顿警方称，他们已破获这座得州城市”最令人不安且臭名昭著”的一桩悬案之一。
1990年8月23日，22岁的谢丽尔·亨利（Cheryl Henry）和她21岁的男友安迪·阿特金森（Andy Atkinson）被发现死于当时一处偏远区域——休斯顿所谓的”情人巷”。这起被称为”情人巷谋杀案”的案件近36年来一直未告破。
周三，警方逮捕了现年64岁的弗洛伊德·威廉·帕罗特（Floyd William Parrott），指控其与这对情侣的死亡有关。他面临死刑谋杀罪指控。
据警方称，这对情侣在案发前一天晚上在休斯顿的”巴尤妈妈”夜总会（Bayou Mama’s nightclub）外出后失踪。
一名保安在恩克莱夫公园道（Enclave Parkway）区域进行例行巡逻时，发现一辆白色本田思域轿车长时间停放未动。他走近车辆时，发现附近有一名失去意识的女子，警方称。
一名赶到现场的休斯顿警察搜查了死胡同街道附近的树林区域，发现一名衣衫不整的女子颈部受重伤。调查人员称，该女子遭性侵犯且喉咙被割。
哥伦比亚广播公司（CBS）附属台KHOU报道称，在她钱包中发现的身份证明确认了受害者身份为亨利。附近还发现了亨利家人告诉警方她前一晚所穿的蓝色连衣裙。
警方还在附近发现一名失去意识的男子，后被确认为阿特金森，他被绑在树上，颈部受重伤。KHOU援引宣誓书称，阿特金森的双手被绳子反绑在背后，另一根绳子缠绕在他身上、树上并勒住其颈部。
警方称，尽管调查一直在进行，包括收集潜在嫌疑人的DNA样本和数百条线索，但这起双重谋杀案数十年未获解决。
转机出现在2025年底，当时休斯顿警方收到一条线索，称帕罗特可能是这起谋杀案的嫌疑人。在跟进这条线索时，一名侦探查阅了1996年的一份单独性侵犯案件报告，当时帕罗特是嫌疑人。该案件中收集的DNA最近被上传至CODIS（全国综合DNA索引系统）。
KHOU援引宣誓书称，该系统比对发现，1996年案件中的男性DNA与亨利尸检时性侵检查中收集的样本匹配。本月早些时候，帕罗特被确认为亨利和阿特金森死亡案的嫌疑人。
周三，帕罗特在林肯市（内布拉斯加州）被捕。
哈里斯县地方检察官肖恩·蒂尔（Sean Teare）在一份声明中表示：”30多年来，休斯顿最令人不安的臭名昭著悬案之一一直困扰着亨利和阿特金森的家人以及我们整个社区。我们的检察官与休斯顿警察局和联邦调查局（FBI）密切合作，以不懈和顽强的决心推进调查。他们排查了数百条线索，遭遇无数死胡同和挫折，但从未放弃寻找谢丽尔和安迪的真相。”
帕罗特目前正等待引渡至哈里斯县监狱。
弗洛伊德·威廉·帕罗特 休斯顿市
Suspect in Houston “Lovers’ Lane” cold case murders arrested 36 years later
Updated on: March 27, 2026 / 10:27 AM EDT / CBS News
Houston police believe they have cracked one of the Texas city’s “most haunting and infamous” cold cases.
On Aug. 23, 1990, Cheryl Henry, 22, and her boyfriend Andy Atkinson, 21, were found dead in a then-remote area known in Houston as “Lovers’ Lane.” The case, known in Houston as the “Lovers’ Lane Murders,” remained unsolved for nearly 36 years.
On Wednesday, police arrested Floyd William Parrott, now 64, in connection with the couple’s deaths. He is facing capital murder charges.
According to police, the couple was last seen the day before their deaths after a night out at Bayou Mama’s nightclub in Houston.
A security guard conducting a routine patrol in the area of Enclave Parkway saw a white Honda Civic parked that did not move over a period of time. He approached the vehicle and found an unresponsive woman nearby, police said.
A Houston police officer who responded to the scene searched a wooded area near the dead-end street and found an unclothed woman with severe injuries to her neck. Investigators said the woman was sexually assaulted and her throat was cut.
The victim was later identified as Henry using the identification found in her purse, CBS affiliate KHOU reported. A blue dress that Henry’s family told police she wore the night before was found nearby.
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Police also located an unresponsive man, later identified as Atkinson, nearby, tied to a tree with severe injuries to his neck. According to an affidavit, Atkinson’s hands were tied behind his back with a rope. Another rope was wrapped around Atkinson, the tree and running across his neck, KHOU reported.
Despite an ongoing investigation that included collecting DNA samples of potential suspects and hundreds of leads, the double murder remained unresolved for decades, police said.
That changed when Houston police received a tip in late 2025 that named Parrott as a possible suspect in the killings. While following up on the tip, a detective reviewed a 1996 report of a separate sexual-assault case in which Parrot was the suspect. The DNA collected in that case was recently uploaded to CODIS, the national Combined DNA Index System.
The system flagged that male DNA from the 1996 case matched samples collected during a sexual assault exam done on Henry during her autopsy, KHOU reported, citing an affidavit. Earlier this month, Parrott was identified as a suspect the deaths of Henry and Atkinson.
On Wednesday, Parrott was arrested in Lincoln, Nebraska.
“One of Houston’s most haunting and infamous cold cases has weighed on the Henry and Atkinson families, as well as our community for more than three decades,” Harris County District Attorney Sean Teare said in a statement. “Our prosecutors, working with the HPD and FBI, have pursued this investigation with relentless and dogged determination. They have worked hundreds of leads, facing dead ends and plenty of frustration. But, they never gave up on Cheryl and Andy.”
Parrott is awaiting extradition to the Harris County jail.
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