Edward Lagrone

In the following years, Lagrone continued to declare his innocence and had seven additional paternity tests conducted, all of which concluded that he was the father of Shakeisha Lloyd's unborn fetus. All of his appeals were rejected, and he was eventually executed via lethal injection at the Huntsville Unit on February 11, 2004.

Beginning sometime in 1990, Lagrone started sexually assaulting one of Lloyd's daughters, 9-year-old Shakeisha. Like previous victims, he threatened to kill her if she told anyone, due to which she initially remained silent. However, the abuse was eventually discovered after she began complaining, "Something keeps moving inside me," and was brought for examination at the John Peter Smith Hospital, where doctors made the shocking discovery that she was 17 weeks pregnant. Upon learning this, Shakeisha revealed that Lagrone had repeatedly been raping her for the past year, whereupon all family members cut off contact with him and filed a complaint for sexual assault. To avoid prosecution, Lagrone attempted to bribe Pamela to drop the charges in exchange for $1,500, but she categorically refused. Despite this, police were unable to detain him at the time due to working on a backlog of unrelated crimes.

At the time, Lagrone was also proposed as a suspect in the double murder of 39-year-old Clifton Demerson and 40-year-old Mary Demerson Daniel, who was shot to death at their apartment in Fort Worth on December 29, 1990. This stemmed from the fact that he had previously dated Daniel's daughter and some allegations that he had abused a family member, but as there was insufficient evidence, he was never charged with this crime.

During the trial, two sisters of Lagrone's sisters testified against him, claiming that he had sexually assaulted them at gunpoint at the campus of Sunrise Elementary School in 1986. Neither reported the crime because Lagrone had threatened to burn their house down. Due to the abundant evidence presented against him, Lagrone was found guilty on all charges and sentenced to death.

Nevertheless, he waived his right to a jury trial and was subsequently convicted for the murder, for which he was given a 20-year prison sentence. Lagrone served only seven years and was released in 1984, but struggled with finding a job due to his criminal record. He eventually managed to find a job as a factory worker, and the year following his release, he became acquainted with a woman named Pamela Lloyd. They soon started a romantic relationship, with Lagrone frequently staying over at her apartment, where Lloyd lived with her children and several relatives. His new relationship did not cause Lagrone to cease his criminal behavior, however, as he would begin sexually assaulting teenage girls whenever the opportunity arose. Fearing that their attacker would kill them if they told anyone, the victims did not contact the authorities about the assaults. His only notable arrests in the following years were two arrests for possession of crack cocaine, in October 1990 and February 1991, respectively.

Edward Lewis Lagrone (March 3, 1957 – February 11, 2004) was an American serial killer and rapist. He was convicted of fatally shooting three members of the Lloyd family in Fort Worth, Texas in May 1991, including a 10-year-old girl he had impregnated, approximately seven years after being released from prison for a previous murder. Lagrone was subsequently convicted, sentenced to death and executed for the latter crimes in 2004.

Edward Lewis Lagrone was born on March 3, 1957, in Fort Worth, Texas, one of several children born in a large family. He grew up in a housing project in the southeastern part of the city and studied up until the 10th grade, when he dropped out of school. On October 3, 1976, he got into an argument with an acquaintance, Michael Anthony Jones, outside the Lucky Lady Lounge, whereupon the two got into a fight. Eventually, Lagrone pulled out a .38 caliber revolver and shot Jones in the head before proceeding to fire the remaining shots into his body. He was arrested and charged with the murder shortly afterwards, but claimed that he was innocent.