Trial begins with video confession in Burleson death penalty case

NORTH TEXAS — The first day of Jerry Elders' capital murder trial featured a video of his confession to investigators that he had shot a police officer, kidnapped and later shot a woman, and that his friends had nothing to do with it. Elders faces the death penalty for the April 14, 2021, murder of Robin Waddell in Johnson County, in connection with a chain of events that morning across Burleson, Joshua and eventually up into Cooke County. The Burleson Police officer who was shot and survived, Joshua Lott, is...