The Texas Rangers are investigating an inmate death at the Lamar County Jail.
At 11:15 p.m. April 23, a 40-year-old male inmate in the jail took his life by hanging in an isolation cell, Sheriff Scott Cass said. The inmate was not from the area, the sheriff said.
The Lamar County Sheriffâs Office will not release the inmateâs name out of respect for the family, Cass said.
âOur thoughts and prayers are with the family,â Cass said.
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The Lamar County Sheriff s Office has charged James Henry Elrod III with two counts of murder for the April 26 deaths of a 38-year-old woman and a 53-year-old man in northwestern Lamar County.
The deceased are identified as Ronald Edward Hostetler Jr., 53, from Paris and Cassie Mullens Head, 38, from Wright City, Oklahoma. Our thoughts and prayers go out to both families in their tragic loss, Sheriff Scott Cass said.
Deputies were dispatched to a deceased person call on April 26 in northwest Lamar County, where two bodies were discovered, Cass said. Detectives learned a vehicle was missing from the residence belonging to the family of the deceased man. Detectives also learned that James Elrod III and Carylon Lynell Elrod were living at the home, and they were missing.
The Lamar County Sheriff’s Office on Thursday announced that James Elrod III and Carolyn Elrod had been captured. Details of the arrest have not been released.
The Lamar County Sheriff s Office has charged James Henry Elrod III with two counts of murder for the April 26 deaths of a 38-year-old woman and a 53-year-old man in northwestern Lamar County.
The deceased are identified as Ronald Edward Hostetler Jr., 53, from Paris and Cassie Mullens Head, 38, from Wright City, Oklahoma. Our thoughts and prayers go out to both families in their tragic loss, Sheriff Scott Cass said.
Deputies were dispatched to a deceased person call on April 26 in northwest Lamar County, where two bodies were discovered, Cass said. Detectives learned a vehicle was missing from the residence belonging to the family of the deceased man. Detectives also learned that James Elrod III and Carylon Lynell Elrod were living at the home, and they were missing.
A man and a woman are dead, and Lamar County Sheriffâs Office deputies and Texas Rangers are looking for two persons of interest as part of a homicide investigation opened Monday.
James Elrod III and Carolyn Elrod are named as the persons of interest. Both have outstanding warrants for unauthorized use of a motor vehicle and are wanted for questioning in the homicide case, Sheriff Scott Cass said in a news release.
James Henry Elrod III is described as a 44-year-old, 5-foot-6 white man weighing 150 pounds. He has brown hair and hazel eyes. Carolyn Lynell Elrod is described as a 39-year-old, 5-foot-4 white woman weighing 146 pounds. She has brown hair and brown eyes.