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Mesquite Man Sentenced to Life for Brutal Murder of Wife

IrvingWeekly Staff

| Published

December 2, 2025

Defendant: Jody Fox

Prosecutors secured a life sentence against 56-year-old Jody Wayne Fox for the brutal 2024 killing of his wife, 46-year-old Amy Moss, in Mesquite. A Dallas County jury found Fox guilty of murder on November 17, 2025, and returned the maximum sentence after just ten minutes of deliberation.

According to trial evidence, the attack happened on June 24, 2024, inside a home in the 500 block of Sesame Drive. Investigators testified that Fox struck Moss in the face repeatedly with an A.1. steak sauce bottle before stabbing her more than 200 times. The violence unfolded in front of Moss’s five-year-old daughter.

Fox claimed he acted in self-defense, a argument the jury rejected.

The case was prosecuted by Lead Prosecutor Rachel Champion and Second Chair Caitlin Paver, with investigative support from DA Investigator La’Unice Jackson and victim support from DA Victim Advocate Erika Ransom. The Mesquite Police Department led the criminal investigation.

Fox was formally sentenced to life in prison.

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