Overview
- Authorities, in a Wednesday press conference, named Bobby Charles Taylor Sr. as the suspect and said a DNA match carried what the sheriff called a one-in-octillion confidence level.
- Investigators used forensic genetic genealogy, paid for by Texas DPS’s Sexual Assault Kit Initiative and run by Bode Technology, to link preserved crime-scene DNA to Taylor.
- Taylor was found in Mexico, turned himself in to FBI agents there, and was extradited to Montgomery County to face a capital murder charge.
- Deanna Ogg, 16, left for a nearby convenience store in 1986 and was found that evening off Old Houston Road, and an earlier defendant, Roy Criner, was later cleared by DNA in 2000.
- If convicted, Taylor could face the death penalty or life in prison, and officials said the case is now moving into court with a defense attorney still to be appointed.