{"id":8492,"date":"2023-02-06T15:07:28","date_gmt":"2023-02-06T23:07:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.crimeandconsequences.blog\/?p=8492"},"modified":"2023-02-08T08:57:44","modified_gmt":"2023-02-08T16:57:44","slug":"missouri-quadruple-murderer-facing-execution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crimeandconsequences.blog\/?p=8492","title":{"rendered":"Missouri Quadruple Murderer Facing Execution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The state of Missouri is set to execute Leonard Taylor for the November 2004 murders of his girlfriend Angela Rowe and her three children.\u00a0 Jim Salter of the Associated Press <a href=\"https:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/civil-rights-groups-seek-halt-171051687.html\">reports<\/a> that Governor Mike Parson today declined to halt Taylor&#8217;s execution which is scheduled for tomorrow, February 7.\u00a0 Taylor, a habitual felon with priors for dealing cocaine, fraud and forcible rape, continues to claim that he is innocent although he admitted the murders to his brother, who shared this with his girlfriend.\u00a0 The brother has since recanted that testimony.\u00a0 The victims were believed to have been murdered on November 22 or 23.\u00a0 Their bodies were discovered on December 3, after Rowe had not shown up for work nor her children for school.\u00a0 The mother was shot several times.\u00a0 The 10 year old boy and 6-year-old girl were shot twice in the head.\u00a0 The 5-year-old boy was shot once in the head.\u00a0 On November 26, Taylor flew to California under an assumed name to visit his wife.\u00a0 He was arrested three weeks later in Madisonville, Kentucky at the home of another girlfriend.\u00a0\u00a0 The facts are described in a 2009 Missouri Supreme Court <a href=\"https:\/\/caselaw.findlaw.com\/mo-supreme-court\/1505108.html\">decision<\/a> on direct appeal.\u00a0 UPDATE:\u00a0 Taylor was executed without incident at 6:16 PM.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The evidence of Taylor&#8217;s guilt was substantial.\u00a0 In addition to the confession to his brother, a witness saw him throw pistol down a sewer line the day he left town.\u00a0 DNA evidence on his sunglasses matched the blood of the dead mother.\u00a0 His conviction and death sentence have been upheld by three state courts, the federal district court and eighth Circuit Court of Appeals.\u00a0 Lawyers for Taylor, the NAACP and over a dozen civil rights groups now claim that the medical examiner&#8217;s time-of-death estimate was wrong and that Taylor had already left town when his girlfriend and her children were murdered.\u00a0 So far nobody is buying this.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The state of Missouri is set to execute Leonard Taylor for the November 2004 murders of his girlfriend Angela Rowe and her three children.\u00a0 Jim Salter of the Associated Press reports that Governor Mike Parson today declined to halt Taylor&#8217;s execution which is scheduled for tomorrow, February 7.\u00a0 Taylor, a habitual felon with priors for dealing cocaine, fraud and forcible rape, continues to claim that he is innocent although he admitted the murders to his brother, who shared this with his girlfriend.\u00a0 The brother has since recanted that testimony.\u00a0 The victims were believed to have been murdered on November 22 or 23.\u00a0 Their bodies were discovered on December 3, after Rowe had not shown up for work nor her children for school.\u00a0 The mother was shot several times.\u00a0 The 10 year old boy and 6-year-old girl were shot twice in the head.\u00a0 The 5-year-old boy was shot once in the head.\u00a0 On November 26, Taylor flew to California under an assumed name to visit his wife.\u00a0 He was arrested three weeks later in Madisonville, Kentucky at the home of another girlfriend.\u00a0\u00a0 The facts are described in a 2009 Missouri Supreme Court decision on direct appeal.\u00a0 UPDATE:\u00a0 Taylor was executed without incident at 6:16 PM.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Missouri Quadruple Murderer Facing Execution - Crime &amp; 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