Cheryl Henry & Andy Atkinson: The Houston Lover’s Lane Murders Part 1

Gone Cold - Texas True Crime

Vincent Strange

True Crime

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🗓️ 5 December 2021

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

When 22-year-old Cheryl Henry and 21-year-old Andy Atkinson met in August of 1990, it was almost as if fate made it so. Both of them had just moved back to Houston, Texas earlier that summer. And both seemingly fell hard for the other the moment they were introduced. But fate turned cruel when only weeks later something terrible, something beyond reason and comprehension happened to the couple cutting not only their romance short, but also their lives. The senseless and brutal act against Cheryl and Andy remains one of Texas’s most infamous and mysterious murder cases and is among many other unsolved Lover’s Lane slayings.

If you have any information about the Lover’s Lane murders of Cheryl Henry and Andy Atkinson, please contact Houston area crime stoppers at 713-222-8477.

Special thanks to Erica from Southern Fried True Crime for lending us her inimitable voice this episode. Check out Southern Fried True Crime wherever you listen to podcasts or at southernfriedtruecrime.com

Also be sure to look for the podcast Mind Over Murder from Kristin Dilley and Bill Thomas, which you can also find on your preferred podcatcher or at mindovermurderpodcast.com

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The Wilmington Morning Star, The Fayetteville Observer, The Houston Chronicle, KHOU 11, The Insight Network, The Transparency Project, The New York Times, The Charlotte News, EndTheBackLog.org, The October 2010 Citizens Against Homicide newsletter, and the book Survivors: The Forgotten Victims of Murder and Suspicious Deaths by Dennis Griffin were used as sources for this series.

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0:00.0	A few things before we start this episode of Gone Cold.
0:05.7	First, we'd like to thank Erica Kelly from the podcast Southern Fried True Crime for
0:11.4	lending us her voice this episode.
0:14.6	If you haven't listened to Southern Fried True Crime, we strongly suggest you check it
0:19.0	out.
0:20.0	Erica does great work.
0:22.5	We'd also like to suggest y'all check out the amazing podcast Mind Over Murder brought
0:27.8	to you by Kristen Dilly in Bill Thomas, who was a consulting producer on Oxygen's
0:33.6	series The Lover's Lane Murders and Brother of Kathy Thomas, one of the victims of the
0:39.2	series of crimes known as the Colonial Parkway Murders.
0:43.9	Here's a trailer for Mind Over Murder, announcing Mind Over Murder, a new True Crime podcast.
0:53.9	You're listening to the Mind Over Murder podcast.
0:57.5	My name is Bill Thomas.
0:58.8	I'm a writer, consulting producer, and now a podcaster.
1:02.0	I am now trying to use my experience as the brother of a murder victim to help other
1:06.7	victims of violent crime.
1:08.2	I'm working on a book on the unsolved Colonial Parkway Murders and I'm the co-administrator
1:12.8	of the Colonial Parkway Murders Facebook group together with Kristen Dilly.
1:16.4	My name is Kristen Dilly.
1:17.6	I'm a writer, a researcher, a teacher, and a victim's advocate, as well as the social media
1:22.9	manager and co-administrator for the Colonial Parkway Murders Facebook page with my partner
1:27.8	in crime, Bill Thomas.
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