One week ago, a jury in Johnson County sentenced Jerry Don Elders to death for murdering a rural Johnson County woman. The victim's son talked to KRLD's L.P. Phillips.
Phillip Waddell was close to his mother Robin. Then Jerry Don Elders burst into their lives.
What happened was Elders shot and thought he murdered a Burleson cop. He was on the run and crossed paths with Robin Waddell. He carjacked her.....and forced her to drive. She drove to the Joshua Police Department.
That's when Elders murdered her. Phillip lived right behind his mother and could not figure out what was going on.
Waddell praises the jury for sending Elders to death row. He says Elders was the last face his mother saw before she died. And he intends to be the last face Elders will look at when he is executed.
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