OTTAWA — District Judge Thomas Sachse ruled today there is enough evidence to try Kyle Flack for the murders of four people last year near Richter. However, Sachse dismissed one charge of attempted rape against flack. Thursday morning during the preliminary hearing for Flack, foresenic pathologist Eric Mitchell testified bout autopsies he performed on all four victims of the multiple murder. Kailie Bailey, her baby daughter Lana-Leigh Bailey, Andrew Stout and Steven White died of shotgun wounds.
The three adults were found at stout’s home, Mitchell said. The baby was found stuffed in a suitcase under a bridge along the Franklin-Osage County. Prosecution witnesses said Lana was killed in the same room as her mother at the house before she was taken from the Richter crime scene. Johnson county crime lab DNA expert Bethany Stone testified about DNA evidence she found at the murder scene. After examining tissue from under Kailie Bailey’s fingernails, Stone said that she couldn’t rule out that the DNA belonged to Flack or Stout. Johnson County crime lab technician Kevin Westland testified that spent shotgun shells that had been cycled through a shotgun recovered at the Emporia transfer station and landfill matched shotgun shells found at the Richter murder scene. Prosecution witnesses also said Flack’s DNA was found on the shotgun. Flack was arrested in Emporia after the shootings.
Wednesday, March 12, 1 p.m.; updated, Thursday, March 13, 2014, 10:22 a.m.
