Kinney sentenced to 40 years for Baxter murder

Russell James Kinney, 40, was sentenced to 40 years in prison for the 2023 murder of Jenny Baxter in a plea deal.

On Tuesday, March 14, 2023, Orange County Sheriff’s Office deputies were dispatched to 206 FM 1131, unit 95 in a trailer park just outside Pine Forest to check the welfare of Jenny Baxter, a wheelchair bound 45-year old female after a neighbor had called and said neither Baxter nor her …