The Texas Department of Criminal Justice has confirmed that convicted murderer Royce Edward Larkin, age 59, died in prison on August 25th. His manner of death was listed as natural causes.

Larkin was convicted and sentenced to life in prison for the 2019 stabbing murder of a Jasper teacher, 61-year-old Judy McKinney Arnold.

The crime occurred inside her new car, which she had just purchased, on the parking lot of the Rodeway Inn Motel on Highway 190 in Jasper.

The autopsy showed that Larkin stabbed her approximately 30 times.

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