Jonathan Nobles was executed by the State of Texas for a double murder
According to court documents Jonathan Nobles would break into a home where he would stab three people with two of them dying from their injuries: Mitzi Johnson-Nalley, 21, and Kelly Farquhar, 24.
Jonathan Nobles would be arrested, convicted and sentenced to death
Jonathan Nobles would be executed by lethal injection on October 7 1998
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Jonathan Nobles Case
Appellant Nobles broke into a house in Austin, Texas where Mitzi Nalley and her roommate Kelly Farquar were living. Nobles brutally stabbed Nalley and Farquar to death and severely injured Nalley’s boyfriend, Ron Ross. Ross survived the attack, despite receiving nineteen stab wounds and losing an eye.
After the murders, Nobles went home and called his friend Marlly O’Brien, asking her to come over and help him.1 She found Nobles in the bathroom with his arm, which had been badly cut, wrapped in a towel. There was blood all over the bathroom. Nobles then changed clothes, cleaned the bathroom, and put everything with blood on it into a trash bag which he placed in the trunk of O’Brien’s car. O’Brien dropped Nobles off at a friend’s house, where Nobles shaved his beard and had his arm taped up. O’Brien later picked Nobles up and let him borrow her car while she went to work. Nobles lied to O’Brien and his other friends about what had happened, saying he had been involved in a fight.
Based on physical evidence from the murder scene 2 and on information obtained from O’Brien and others, Nobles was arrested. Nobles confessed to the murders and then led police to where he had hidden the trash bag, containing the murder weapon and the blood-soaked clothes he had worn during the killings.
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