From the archives: Post-Dispatch coverage of Leonard Taylor case
From the archives: Post-Dispatch coverage of Leonard Taylor case
Leonard Taylor of Jennings was sentenced to die for the 2004 shooting deaths of his girlfriend Angela Rowe, 28, her daughters Alexus Conley, 10, and AcQreya Conley, 6; and her son Tyrese Conley, 5.
Here is the Post-Dispatch coverage of the case from 2004 to 2023.
(14) updates to this series since
“Muslims don’t die. We live eternally in the hearts of our family and friends,†Leonard Taylor wrote in his final statement following a verse …
Attorneys for Leonard Taylor had filed a motion with the Supreme Court, asking that the execution be pushed back 90 to 120 days so experts cou…
"We are not filing a motion to vacate Leonard Taylor's sentence — the facts are not there to support a credible case of innocence," the prosec…
Siblings killed in Jennings in 2004
Photo from court files; via Kim Bell, ºüÀêÊÓƵ
Defense attorneys want the Missouri Supreme Court to postpone the execution date by 90 to 120 days.
Dr. Jane Turner said there is “significant scientific probability†that a full review of the autopsy records “would discredit Dr. Burch’s tria…
They want to trigger a state law that lets a prosecutor seek a hearing if the prosecutor has information a defendant could be innocent or wron…
Leonard Taylor was convicted of killing Angela Rowe, 28; and her children, Alexus Conley, 10, AcQreya Conley, 6, and Tyrese Conley, 5.
The prosecutor said after the sentencing that Taylor "earned his four death sentences."
The man who lived in plain sight for 19 months in north ºüÀêÊÓƵ County was cornered in the backseat of a friend's car in Kentucky.
A witness in a quadruple-murder trial told a jury she saw Leonard Taylor throw a revolver into a sewer.
Perry Taylor stated that he had been dragged out of his truck and beaten by police in Atlanta.
A man also living at the home on Park Lane in Jennings was wanted for questioning but has not been found, a Major Case Squad official said.
“Despite his self-serving claim of innocence, the facts of his guilt in this gruesome quadruple homicide remain," Parson wrote of Leonard Taylor.
Kim Bell
Breaking news reporter
Leonard Taylor is scheduled to die Tuesday.
Missouri on Tuesday executed Leonard Taylor, 58, who was convicted killing his girlfriend and her three children at their home in Jennings.
Lawyers for Leonard Taylor claim he was executed Tuesday before he had exhausted his final appeals in federal court. They said it has never before happened in Missouri, and are demanding an investigation.