Overview
- The arrest, which authorities announced Monday, charges 65-year-old Bobby Charles Taylor Sr. with capital murder and places him in the Montgomery County Jail.
- Investigators say advances in DNA testing led to Taylor after the 1986 crime in which 16-year-old Deanna Ogg was sexually assaulted, beaten, stabbed, and found off Old Houston Road about seven miles from a convenience store where she was last seen.
- The Montgomery County Sheriff’s Office, Texas Rangers, and FBI plan a Wednesday news conference to explain the forensic work and how Taylor was taken into custody.
- Officials said Ogg’s case sat on the county’s cold-case list for decades after a prior suspect, Roy Criner, was convicted in 1990 and later cleared by DNA in 2000.
- ABC13 reports online records show Taylor has past convictions for burglary, DWI, and assault, and a relative said the arrest offers the family some peace as Ogg’s 82-year-old mother prepares to attend the briefing.