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Waco murder trial update: White supremacist found guilty of capital murder, sentenced to life in prison without parole
The jury has found a white supremacist guilty of capital murder in the stabbing death of a woman in April 2006.
The verdict means Robert Allen Byrd will be automatically sentenced to life in prison without a chance of parole.
Earlier this afternoon, Byrd took the stand and testified he did not kill Dana Leigh Taylor and said his relationship with her was like brother and sister.
Byrd’s ex-wife testified that he twice asked her not to testify at his trial.
Chelsey Parks, who was married to Byrd from June 2006 to April 2007, said he told her he killed Dana Leigh Taylor because she was an informant for the FBI.
Byrd said he slapped Taylor at his house, put her in a truck and they drove south.
Near Waco he took her took a field and slashed her throat, Parks said Byrd told her. When Taylor didn’t die right away he stomped on her face, she testified.
He also told her he went to Wal-Mart after the killing to buy new clothes.
Parks said Byrd also told her that Taylor was the wife of a high-ranking Aryan Circle member and her death might put Parks in danger. The rule was “a wife for a wife,” she recalled him saying.
He sent her to live with a friend, Aaron Jostmeyer, for her safety, she said.
While he was in jail, he wrote her letter and asked her not to testify at his trial, she said. A telephone recording from jail also shows him asking her not to testify.
Jostmeyer said Byrd would tell him only that “he did something.” Byrd told him watch the news, he testified, and the story was about a body being found.
A state pathologist testified that although the remains were badly decomposed, a cut on a vertebrae indicated a slash wound to the throat.
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By Terrie Ritchie
October 15, 2008 1:37 PM | Link to this
WHAT A COWARD. JUSTICE MUST BE SERVED. GOD BLESS THIS WORLD.
By delaina rivaldi
October 15, 2008 2:05 PM | Link to this
I have one question? Was the victim an FBI informant and if so wouldn’t Mr.Byrd get the death penalty?
By Crazypeople
October 15, 2008 2:37 PM | Link to this
ALL ARYAN CIRCLE MEMBERS ARE COWARDS!!!! I HOPE YOU ALL ARE READING THIS TOO BECAUSE YOU ALL WILL ONE DAY WILL PAY FOR YOUR IGNORANCE AND ALL YOUR CRIME YOU HAVE COMMITTED. YOU CAN’T HANDLE THE WORLD ON YOUR OWN SO YOU NEED OTHER STUPID PEOPLE TO HELP YOU OUT! CRIMINALS IS ALL YOU ARE!!!! YOU HAVE NO REGARD FOR YOUR OWN LIFE, MUCH LESS ANYONE ELSE’S! YOU ALL BELIEVE THE WORLD OWES YOU SOMETHING AND REALLY WE DON’T! JUDGEMENT DAY IS COMING SOON SO I HOPE YOU ALL ARE READY FOR WHAT’S IN STORE FOR YOU!
By T Tucker
October 15, 2008 3:40 PM | Link to this
What is Aryan Circle?
By Crazypeople
October 15, 2008 4:07 PM | Link to this
It is a white supremacist gang that began in the prison system. In other words you must have gone to prison to be in the gang and then they just continue out in the free-world. Basically all a bunch of criminals!
By delaina rivaldi
October 15, 2008 6:12 PM | Link to this
Well did anyone ever see the movie”Betrayed”? It will pretty much rest any case about these particular people and what they are about.
By Fred
October 15, 2008 8:19 PM | Link to this
Let the murderer live…..only in Slaughterhouse Waco.
By Rick
October 15, 2008 8:20 PM | Link to this
Hey, if OJ can get off…..so can Mr. Byrd. Oh wait, OJ is finally where he belongs.
Never mind.