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Elkie Lee Taylor
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Summary: Taylor and Darryl Birdow broke into the Fort Worth
home of Otis Flake. The invaders tied the mentally ill, 65-year-old victim up
then strangled him with two wire coat hangers. They then stole a television and
some other household items. Eleven days earlier, 87 year old Ramon Carillo was
murdered in his home, seven blocks away from Flake's home. He had also been
strangled with a coat hanger. A friend of Flake's later testified that she came
to his home and saw Taylor and Birdow coming from the back side of the house.
Taylor had a white bag in his hand. Taylor was apprehended after a four-hour
chase from Fort Worth to Waco driving the cab of a stolen 18-wheel truck. At
one point, he tried to ram two police cars and run over two state troopers
standing on the side of the road. The chase ended when a trooper stood in front
of the truck and shot out its tires with a shotgun. Upon his arrest, Taylor
confessed to tying and stealing from both of the victims, but he said that
Birdow killed them. Taylor had been paroled only three months prior to the
murders after serving 9 months on a Burglary conviction. Accomplice Birdow was
sentenced in 1994 to life in prison.
Renee Harris Toliver, Flake's niece, said she and
other relatives would pray for Taylor. "But not
one of us will say he's not deserving of having his life taken,"
she said.
AUTHOR: Family members of Otis Flake who was murdered by Elkie Lee Taylor on 2
April 1993. He was executed by lethal injection in Texas on 6 November 2008.
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