Adrianne Jessica Jones was a 16-year-old sophomore from Mansfield, Texas, described as athletic, a gifted runner, an honor student and someone who wanted to attend Texas A&M to become a behavioral analyst. On the night of December 3, 1995, she left her house after speaking to someone on the phone; her brother last saw her leaving around 2 a.m. The next morning a farmer found her body on a rural road. She had suffered blunt force trauma to the head and two gunshot wounds, one in the left cheek and one in the forehead.

The investigation later turned on confessions reported in August 1996 by two Naval Academy cadets, who said their friend Diane Zamora had confessed that she and her boyfriend, David Graham, had killed Adrianne. Prosecutors said David had earlier given Adrianne a ride home after a cross-country meet in November 1995 and that an encounter between David and Adrianne had enraged Diane. Both Diane Zamora and David Graham were arrested and convicted of capital murder; David Graham received a 60-year sentence and Diane Zamora a life term without parole.

Adrianne’s death devastated the Mansfield community.