Please help us find our baby sister. Dana is known to have ties with the aryan nation and is presumed to need our help. Dana may have blonde hair now. Dana has a small scar on her right cheek and a scar on her left knee. Dana wears contact lenses. Dana also has a tatoo on the back of her neck.
AKA: Star; Dana Traylor; Sherry Eichberger; Dana Taylor Couch
Case Number: M0607004
Case Type: Endangered - Foul Play Possible
Last Seen in: Mesquite (Dallas County) Last Seen on: 4/16/2006
Height: 5' 7 "
Weight: 130 lbs.
Age Missing: 38
Eye Color: Blue
Hair Color: Brown
Date of Birth: 10/5/1967
Race: White Sex: Female
State Missing From: Texas
Country Missing From: USA
Ms. Taylor has an Aryan Circle and swastika tattoo on the back of her neck.
Dana may have BLONDE hair.
If you have information please contact:
Missing Persons
Clearinghouse
Texas Department of Public Safety
P O Box 4087
Austin, Texas 78773-0422
Phone: (512) 424-5074
Helpline: (800) 346-3243
UPDATE: 05/20/07
Read the following articles:
Body found north of WacoNew details released about body found in McLennan CountyWoman Identified After 8 MonthsDec 21, 2006 12:07 PM CST
by Jennifer Kent
ELM MOTT- A corpse found eight months ago near Elm Mott has been identified as 38 year-old Dana Leigh Taylor of Kemp, Texas.
In April, the badly decomposed body was found in the 6800 block of Old Dallas Road. Investigators with the McLennan County Sheriff's Office didn't know whose body it was until they got a tip linking the body to the missing Taylor.
D.N.A. tests were run and today, the body was positively identified.
Deputies are working with other law enforcement agencies and they say they have some possible murder suspects in mind.
Please contact the McLennan County Sheriff's Office with ANY information at 254-757-5169
Man indicted in possible white supremacist slayingWednesday, April 11, 2007
By Tommy Witherspoon
Tribune-Herald staff writer
An alleged member of a white supremacist gang from North Central Texas was indicted for capital murder today in the April 2006 stabbing death of another alleged Aryan Circle member.
A McLennan County grand jury indicted Robert Allen Byrd, 32, in the death of Dana Leigh Taylor, 39, of Kemp. Prosecutors Crawford Long and Melanie Walker said the McLennan County District Attorney’s Office has not determined if it will seek the death penalty in Byrd’s case.
Two women who were searching for wild onions in April 2006 found Kemp’s badly decomposed body in a heavily wooded area off the Old Dallas Highway between Elm Mott and Ross.
Investigators believe she was killed April 16, roughly 12 days before her body was found. Lt. Clay Perry, Brad Skaggs and Shawn Nixon, all of the McLennan County Sheriff’s Office, helped Long and Walker present the case against Byrd to the grand jury Wednesday.
Eight witnesses also testified in February as prosecutors began unraveling the yearlong investigation for the grand jury.
Perry, Long and Walker all declined to reveal a possible motive for the murder. However, Perry said Byrd and Taylor were affiliated with the Aryan Circle, a violent white supremacist gang that operates in and out of the Texas prison system.
Byrd, from the northern Johnson County town of Keene, has not been arrested in the McLennan County case but was notified Wednesday afternoon about his indictment. He remains in the Hood County Jail under bonds totaling $78,000 on unrelated charges of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon and assault on a public servant, officials at the Hood County sheriff’s office said. The victim in the Hood County aggravated assault case remains on life-support in a hospice, Perry said.
Byrd is charged in the indictment with kidnapping Taylor, driving her to the Elm Mott area and stabbing her to death. Taylor was reported missing by family members from the Mesquite area, officials said.
Her body was so badly damaged by animals and decomposition that it was not possible initially to determine her race or gender. To help identify the body, sheriff’s office investigators turned to a forensic facial reconstruction expert from the University of Texas at Arlington, who fashioned from clay what she thought Taylor looked like using only her skull, investigators said.
Taylor’s body also was identified through DNA tests, officials said.
If Byrd is convicted of capital murder and prosecutors elect not to seek the death penalty, he faces an automatic life prison term and would have to serve a minimum of 40 years in prison.
twitherspoon@wacotrib.com757-5737
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