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Edward Lee Busby Jr. (Source: Texas Department of Corrections Death Row Information) <\/p>\n
TARRANT COUNTY, Texas<\/strong> – An execution date has been set for a man convicted of robbing and suffocating a retired TCU professor, according to the Tarrant County District Attorney’s office. Edward Lee Busby Jr., 53, is scheduled to be executed on Thursday, May 14, 2026.<\/p>\n Retired TCU professor murdered <\/p>\n The backstory:<\/p>\n Busby was convicted in 2005 of killing Laura Lee Crane, 77, after abducting her from a Fort Worth grocery store parking lot in January 2004. Investigators believe she was a random target and that robbery was the motive.<\/p>\n During the trial in 2005, prosecutors said Busby and his companion used Crane’s credit cards and a blank check to rob her of more than $775 before driving Crane’s car to Oklahoma with her in the trunk.\u00a0<\/p>\n Crane’s body was found Feb. 3 at the bottom of an embankment off Interstate 35 near Davis, Okla. Crane’s mouth was covered with duct tape, and she died from asphyxiation, according to an autopsy report.<\/p>\n Authorities were led to the body after Busby confessed, Fort Worth police have said.<\/p>\n Busby’s companion, Kathleen “Kitty” Latimer, was sentenced to life in prison in Feb. 2006. She is now 61 years old and is currently serving her sentence in a Texas prison. She could be eligible for parole in 2034.\u00a0<\/p>\n Laura Lee Crane <\/p>\n Laura Lee Crane was director emeritus of Starpoint School, TCU. According to her obituary, she graduated from Paschal High School, received a bachelor of fine arts degree from Sweet Briar College, and a master of arts from Texas Christian University.\u00a0<\/p>\n “Her entire career was devoted to children with learning disabilities and special needs. She authored a nationally recognized reading program for LD students. She served on the founding faculty of Starpoint School, and for over 20 years as its director. She was formerly a member of the Assembly Fort Worth Woman’s Club and the Fort Worth Junior League.”<\/p>\n The Source:<\/b> Information in this article is from the Tarrant County District Attorney’s Office and previous coverage.<\/p>\n Tarrant County<\/a>Crime and Public Safety<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"article Edward Lee Busby Jr. (Source: Texas Department of Corrections Death Row Information) TARRANT COUNTY, Texas – An…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":450380,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5138],"tags":[5229,6082,7371,7372,50,7375,358,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-450379","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fort-worth","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-crime-publicsafety","10":"tag-fort-worth","11":"tag-fortworth","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-tarrant-county","14":"tag-texas","15":"tag-tx","16":"tag-united-states","17":"tag-united-states-of-america","18":"tag-unitedstates","19":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","20":"tag-us","21":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450379","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=450379"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450379\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/450380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=450379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=450379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=450379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}