MONTGOMERY COUNTY, Texas – Montgomery County law enforcement has made an arrest in a 40-year-old cold case murder.
Bobby Charles Taylor Sr. is in the Montgomery County Jail, charged with capital murder in the September 1986 killing of 16-year-old Deanna Ogg, officials said.
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The Montgomery County Sheriff’s Office, Texas Rangers, and FBI are expected to share more information on what led to his arrest and how he was taken into custody on Wednesday.
According to the sheriff’s office, the charges against Taylor come after investigators were able to use advanced DNA technology.
As of late Monday, charging documents for Taylor were not yet available through the Montgomery County District Attorney’s Office.
Ogg had attended the newly constructed New Caney High School, according to MCSO documents. She left her home around 5 p.m. on Sept. 27, 1986, to get transportation to a family gathering.
She was later seen at a convenience store on FM 1314, and by 7 p.m. that day, her body was found off a logging road in the 17000 block of Old Houston Road, about seven miles from where she was last seen.
She had been sexually assaulted, beaten, and stabbed to death and suffered from blunt trauma to the head, according to investigators.
A different man — Roy Criner — had previously been arrested and charged in Ogg’s case, according to The Innocence Project.
Criner initially got charged with murder about a month later, a charge that later got replaced with aggravated sexual assault, The Innocent Project reported. In 2000, he was exonerated by DNA evidence.