Posted on 05/08/2026 6:50:53 PM PDT by Red Badger
A DECADES old cold case involving a teen girl who was found beaten and stabbed to death has come to an end thanks to a DNA link.
Bobby Charles Taylor Sr., 60, was arrested in connection to the brutal rape and murder of Deanna Ogg who died in 1986 at the age of 16.
Deanna Ogg was found dead in 1986, and now 40 years later authorities have arrested a man in connection with her murderCredit: Handout
Mugshot of Bobby Charles Taylor Sr., who was arrested for the 1986 murder of Deanna Ogg.
Bobby Charles Taylor Sr. was arrested and charged with capital murder where he could be subject to the death penaltyCredit: Montgomery County Sheriff's Office
Law enforcement officials were able to utilize modern forensic testing to identify the man who they believe is responsible for killing Ogg, who was last seen alive on September 27, 1986, in Montgomery County, Texas.
Ogg walked from her home to a convenience store and tried to catch a ride to a family gathering, but hours later her body was found in a heavily wooded area roughly seven miles from her last known location.
“She had been sexually assaulted, beaten and stabbed,” the Texas Department of Public Safety said.
A man was convicted in the case but later exonerated after DNA testing proved his innocence.
Evidence from Ogg’s case was kept in the FBI‘s DNA database for years before a match came through.
Officials were able to create a DNA profile of the suspect and later found a closely related family member which helped them learn his identity, Montgomery County Sheriff Wesley Doolittle said.
In 2024, DNA testing and genealogy research led investigators to Taylor, who officials learned was hiding in Mexico on an unrelated felony charge.
Several law enforcement agencies, including the FBI, began coordinating to apprehend Taylor who later turned himself in to federal special agents in Mexico City, Mexico, on April 24. He was extradited to Texas the next day.
Authorities learned that Taylor was a fugitive who was allegedly hiding in Mexico on an unrelated felony chargeCredit: Montgomery County Sheriff's Office
Ogg was last seen alive trying to catch a ride to a family gathering after going to a convenience storeCredit: Montgomery County Sheriff's Office Once Taylor was taken into custody, officials got a DNA sample from him that matched the one they had in the case, Doolittle said.
The sheriff said the level of confidence in the DNA was described as a “one in an octillion.”
“That is an insane number, three-times the amount of people there are in this world,” he said.
“So, it’d be unreasonable to think that it’s not him. We truly believe it is.”
The Montgomery County Sheriff’s Office said Taylor was “officially charged with the murder of Deanna Ogg, finally bringing a sense of justice to a case that has haunted the Porter community for nearly 40 years.”
Taylor was charged with capital murder and could be subject to the death penalty.
“This case has seen many chapters,” Doolittle said.
“But through persistence, through working together, we have identified the person responsible for her death.”
Montgomery County District Attorney Michael Holley said there is still a lot of work to be done, and stressed that Taylor is innocent until proven guilty.
“There’s a reason that there is no statute of limitations for murder. It doesn’t matter how many pages of the calendar have turned and we are trying to find accountability here,” Holley said.
“We have alleged that this man, Mr. Taylor, has killed Deanna and when he did, he took away everything she had and everything she would ever have.
“And he took away the experiences that you, the family, would have had with her: her graduation, her wedding, every holiday and every birthday.”
Doolittle read a statement on behalf of Ogg’s mother Patricia during a press conference, which remembered how the teen loved makeup and wearing her mother’s dresses and brother’s concert t-shirts before her life was cut short.
“Deanna wasn’t on this earth for a long time, she was here for a good time,” the statement read.
“As a family, we would like to extend our empathy and compassion to the family of Bobby Taylor, as we have had 40 years to grieve, and accept the Taylor family’s journey has just begun.”
“That is an insane number, three-times the amount of people there are in this world,” he said.
All right, he's not a mathematician. Caught the murderer anyway.
An octillion is an extremely large number representing one followed by 27 zeros (10^{27}) . The World population is 8.3 billion . 8.3 X (10^{9}) . A bit more than 3 times the world population./s
“Bobby Charles Taylor Sr.”
Too bad he bred.
“...the level of confidence in the DNA was described as a “one in an octillion.”
“That is an insane number, three-times the amount of people there are in this world.”
Ehh, a bit more than that.
One octillion = 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000
Deglove the m’fer...head to toe.
I might be tempted to vote “not guilty”
The sheriff is just lying out his ass, like he did when the previous innocent man was man was convicted in the case but later exonerated.
Random Match Probability (RMP)
This is the most common way results are presented at trial.
“What is the chance that a random, unrelated person would have this exact same DNA profile?”
High-Quality Profiles: For a full, 20-marker profile, the RMP is often one in a quadrillion or even higher—far more than the number of people on Earth.
40-Year-Old Samples: Because old DNA is usually degraded, you might only get a partial profile. This raises the RMP to perhaps as low 1 in 100,000.
While still strong, it means other people in a large city could technically match by sheer coincidence.
“A man was convicted in the case but later exonerated after DNA testing proved his innocence.”
I wonder how long that guy was stuck in prison for the crime Bobby committed?
That poor baby girl… At least her family will have some peace now, If they’re still around
DNA testing in criminal trials didn’t become commonplace until the late 90’s. He could have spent 20 years on death row..............
I thought genetic genealogy is done through hundreds of thousands of markers, compared to CODIS which uses dozens of markers.
Good points. I should not have said flatly that Taylor is the murderer.
maybe it is, maybe someone is lying. The first time they claimed there was a 40% chance, when really it could have been anyone.
now they claim it is an unreasonably high probability it is this guy. I am tempted to believe it is the Sheriff who killed her, and contaminated the sample.
Originally Maurita Howarth, a forensic serologist with the Texas Department of Public Safety, testified that she had analyzed blood, semen, and hair samples taken from the victim’s body, Mr. Criner, and the truck. None of the hair found on Deanna’s body belonged to Mr. Criner, and none of the hair found in the truck belonged to Deanna.
Ms. Howarth further testified that serology testing on the semen from the vaginal and rectal swabs contained a blood type group that Deanna and Mr. Criner both had. Based on this, the analyst said that the sample could have belonged to Mr. Criner or any of the 40% of men who shared the blood type.
This testimony was incorrect, however, because the victim’s blood group markers could have been “masking” the perpetrator’s. In fact, 100% of the male population could have been included.
I have never been to Texas, but I have talked to enough people there about the corrupt legal system that I have my doubts about a lot of it.
I used to watch Springer sometimes and every time the girl said I am 200% sure or 1000% sure or anything over 100% they were always without fail wrong.
“I might be tempted to vote “not guilty””
Before hearing the facts?
You would not make it on the jury.
Juror dismissed and replaced by an alternate juror during the OJ Simpson trial had sat through three days of carefully worded testimony on dna and how Simpson’s dna at the crime scene could not have matched anyone else except a partial match of one in trillions around the world.
The juror to press: “That stuff didn’t show me nothin’. There’s lots of people walkin’ around with the same blood type.”
“I might be tempted to vote “not guilty”
The RMP is not the primary determinate in the accuracy og the match.
Lawyer: Your honor this is a rush to judgment. I need more time to study factors related to this. How about another 40 years?
Note: When that Tyler Robinson cretin’s lawyer asked for a delay to examine evidence it reminded me the cliche of “the right to a speedy trial” is nonsense....the accused try every trick to delay a trial. And the death row convicts use every trick to stay there and do appeals for years and years.
You have a right to a speedy trial, but it is usually given up....................
“This raises the RMP to perhaps as low 1 in 100,000.
While still strong, it means other people in a large city could technically match by sheer coincidence.”
But most in that city were not near the scene at the time.
If he was in Montgomery County that year the odds that another person in that county at that time had a DNA match would be close to zero.
Maybe he meant to say “the exponent is three times the exponent of the world’s population”. Yeah, that’s it.
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