Texas Rangers and partners have extradited a suspect from Mexico in the 1986 killing of a Montgomery County teenager.
Advanced forensic testing identified 60-year-old Bobby Charles Taylor Sr. as the man responsible for raping and murdering 16-year-old Deanna Ogg, authorities said. Taylor was arrested in Mexico City on an unrelated felony charge before his return to Texas.
On September 27, 1986, Ogg left her Porter home and walked toward a convenience store at FM 1314 and Sorters Road seeking a ride to a family gathering. Hours later, the New Caney High School student’s body turned up in the woods off Old Houston Road in Conroe, roughly seven miles away.
She had suffered sexual assault, beatings, and stab wounds.
Investigators arrested a man the following month. A court convicted him, but new DNA evidence later cleared him. The case stalled for years.
In March 2020, Texas Rangers selected Ogg’s case for the Sexual Assault Kit Initiative, or SAKI. The next year, officials sent the remaining evidence to BODE Technology for cutting-edge DNA analysis and genealogical work.
Results in 2024 pointed to Taylor. Probes confirmed he faced an unrelated felony warrant and had fled to Mexico. Texas Rangers worked with the Montgomery County Sheriff’s Office and the FBI to track him. Taylor surrendered to FBI agents in Mexico City on April 24, 2026, and arrived in Texas the following day. Prosecutors filed capital murder charges against him on May 4.
He awaits trial in Montgomery County Jail.
The arrest stemmed from efforts by the Texas Rangers, the Montgomery County Sheriff’s Office, the Montgomery County District Attorney’s Office, the FBI, the DPS Crime Laboratory Division, Bode Technology, and the Department of Justice Bureau of Justice Assistance, which funded SAKI, according to state officials.
The Texas Department of Public Safety Sexual Assault Kit Initiative receives funding from the Department of Justice’s Bureau of Justice Assistance. It supports U.S. agencies pursuing unsolved sexual assaults and related homicides to deliver justice for victims and families.
