ENNIS MURDER SUSPECT STILL NOT RETURNED TO ELLIS COUNTY

WAXHACHIE – The Ellis County Sheriff’s Department spokesperson said late last week, Trenton James Adams has still not been returned to Ellis County.

In a short statement, the spokesperson said once the 28-year-old Ellis County resident has been arraigned and has been cleared by Harris County, he will be transported to the Ellis County Jail in Waxahachie, where he will be booked for the murder of 29-year-old Waxahachie resident Jordan Von Hoffman. 

Adams was already wanted on a parole violation with no bond for that charge, and when the story was first released the recommended bond of $1-million was the amount given for the murder warrant. 

Von Hoffman was found dead last month in Ennis. 

The Ellis County Sheriff’s Department did not release the cause of death – only that it was homicide.

While Adams was still in Harris County, the Ellis County Sheriff’s Department did make a second arrest on April 28.

The ECSO Criminal Investigations Division arrested 25-year-old Lauren Danielle Dovers of Waxahachie in the murder investigation of Von Hoffman. 

Dovers was taken into custody on charges of tampering/fabricating physical evidence with intent to impair a human corpse, which is a  2nd Degree Felony. 

She was booked into the Ellis County Jail and given a $200,000 bond. Later, Dovers did bond out.

It was on March 24 that Ellis County Sheriff’s Deputies were dispatched to the 6900 block of Ensign Road in Ennis for a suspicious activity report. 

The reporting party believed there was a human body on the property. 

ECSO Criminal Investigations and Ellis County Crime Scene responded to the location with assistance from the Department of Public Safety – Texas Rangers.

The Ellis County Justice of Peace pronounced the body as deceased, the body was transported to the Dallas Medical Examiner’s Office and an autopsy ordered. 

The following day, Von Hoffman’s body was identified.

Sergeant Joe Fitzgerald, Ellis County Sheriff’s Public Information Officer and Criminal Investigations Division Sergeant, said at that time, “We haven’t stopped working on this case, and we are leaving no stone unturned.”

He also reminded that the department can’t release additional information since it is an ongoing investigation.