Man sentenced to death for quadruple killing on Kansas farm
OTTAWA, Kan. -- A 30-year-old man man has been sentenced to death for fatally shooting three adults and an 18-month-old girl on an eastern Kansas farm in 2013, reports CBS affiliate KCTV.
Kyle Flack was convicted in March of capital murder in the deaths of 21-year-old Kaylie Bailey and her 18-month-old daughter, Lana. Flack also was convicted in the deaths of Bailey's boyfriend, 31-year-old Andrew Stout, and his roommate, 31-year-old Steven White, who lived in a rural farmhouse where Flack sometimes stayed in Ottawa, about 50 miles southwest of Kansas City.
Prosecutors said it's unclear what led to the shootings, which detectives believe happened on separate days in the spring of 2013. Investigators said Flack told detectives that two drug dealers may have been involved, but detectives determined those people didn't exist. Authorities also say he indicated Stout killed White during a dispute over rent, but that the interview ended after Flack asked for an attorney.
Prosecutors presented two weeks of testimony during the trial. The defense called no witnesses.
Investigators believe White was killed around April 20, 2013, and his body was later found under a tarp in an outbuilding near the farmhouse. Stout, 30, apparently was shot on April 29, and his body was found in his bedroom under a pile of clothes.
Bailey's partially-clothed body was found in a bedroom, with her hands bound behind her back. Authorities believe she and her daughter were killed on May 1.
The adults' bodies were found about a week later and search crews found the child's body in a suitcase floating in the Tequa Creek the next week.
Kansas hasn't executed anyone since it reinstated capital punishment in 1994.