Richard Jones was executed by the State of Texas for the murder of Tammy Livingston
According to court documents Richard Jones would jump into the vehicle of Tammy Livingston and forced her to drive to a remote location where she was stabbed repeatedly and set on fire
Richard Jones would be arrested, convicted and sentenced to death
Richard Jones would be executed by lethal injection on August 22 2000
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Richard Jones was executed on August 22 2000
Richard Jones Case
Texas Attorney General John Cornyn offers the following information on Richard Wayne Jones who is scheduled to be executed after 6 p.m. on Tuesday, August 22nd. Richard Wayne Jones was convicted and sentenced to death for the February 1986 murder of Tammy Livingston in Hurst, Texas. Livingston was stabbed to death 17 times and then the area around her body was set on fire.
Jones followed Livingston as she was leaving a Michael’s store at about 7:30 p.m. As Livingston was backing out of a parking space, Jones ran to the back of her car, opened her car door and then forced himself into the driver’s seat. Later that evening, between 9:20 and 9:45, a Fort Worth resident heard screams coming from a vacant property. At about 11:20 that same evening, the Fort Worth Fire Department responded to a grass fire in the same area where someone had heard screams. It was there that firefighters discovered the charred remains of Tammy Livingston. Authorities determined that Livingston had been stabbed 17 times in the face and neck.
The night after Livingston’s murder, Jones bought a pair of boots with a credit card in the name of Tammy Livingston. Later that night, Jones and a woman tried to buy groceries at a Fort Worth Safeway with a check from the account of Tammy and Russell Livingston. The woman with Jones, Yelena Comalander, was arrested for trying to pass someone else’s check. The next morning, Livingston’s car was recovered from a parking lot in Fort Worth. Jones’ left thumb print was found on the inside of the front window of the driver’s side of the car. Police also found several of Livingston’s belongings including her engagement ring and her inscribed wedding band, at an apartment that Yelena Comalander took them to. Police arrested Jones a short time later.
The morning after Jones was arrested, an eyewitness to Livingston’s kidnapping from the Michael’s parking lot picked Jones out of a police line-up. Physical evidence also linked Jones to Livingston’s murder. Jones also signed a written statement, admitting to the kidnapping and murder of Tammy Livingston. Jones had been out of prison for less than five months when he committed this murder.
EVIDENCE
Jones signed a written statement admitting to kidnapping and murdering Tammy Livingston. Jones’ thumb print was found inside the front window of Tammy Livingston’s car. An eyewitness who saw Jones kidnap Livingston from the Michael’s parking lot picked Jones out of a police line-up. A pair of jeans and a shirt Jones was wearing the night of Livingston’s murder were found to have blood on them that was the same blood type as Livingston’s. Jones bought a pair of boots with a credit card in the name of Tammy Livingston, the night after Livingston was murdered. Jones and another woman, Yelena Comalander, tried to buy groceries with a check that was traced to the account of Tammy and Russell Livingston.
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