Death sentence is recommended for Kyle Flack in murder of Olathe toddler and her mother

Kyle Trevor Flack should be sentenced to death for killing an Olathe woman and her 18-month-old daughter, a jury in Franklin County, Kan., decided Thursday.

Last week, the same jury found the 30-year-old Flack guilty of capital murder in the 2013 shotgun slayings of 21-year-old Kaylie Bailey and her daughter, Lana Bailey.

Jurors also found Flack guilty of first-degree murder in the killing of 31-year-old Steven White and second-degree murder in the death of Andrew Stout, 30.

Flack was also convicted on a charge of criminal possession of a firearm.

Thursday’s sentencing recommendation by the jury will be reviewed by District Judge Eric W. Godderz, who will formally pronounce a sentence May 18. The only alternative to death is a sentence of life in prison with no parole.

All four victims were shot to death at a farmhouse outside Ottawa, Kan., where White and Stout lived. Kaylie Bailey was Stout’s girlfriend.

Flack was an acquaintance of Stout who would sometimes stay at the farmhouse. He had previously spent time in prison for the attempted murder of another man in Franklin County in 2005.

The quadruple murder trial began March 7 in Franklin County District Court in Ottawa.

Prosecutors said White was killed first, about April 20, 2013. His body was buried under a tarp and piles of junk in an outbuilding near the farmhouse.

Stout was killed April 29 in a bedroom of the farmhouse. Kaylie Bailey and her daughter were killed May 1 in the same room, according to prosecution testimony.

The bodies of Kaylie Bailey and Stout were found under a large pile of clothes.

Lana’s body was later found in a suitcase floating in Tequa Creek in rural Osage County near the Franklin County line.

Diapers and paperwork containing her name and her mother’s name were found along the bank of the creek.

Her mother’s body was found nude from the waist down with her hands bound behind her back.

On May 3, Flack drove Bailey’s car to Emporia and stayed with friends.

Several days later, surveillance camera video showed him dropping off her car on the opposite side of town from where he was staying. Items belonging to Kaylie Bailey and her daughter were found in a trash container near the car.

After they arrested Flack in Emporia, police found black zip ties in his backpack like the ones used to bind Kaylie Bailey’s hands before she was killed.

This story was originally published March 31, 2016 at 10:55 AM with the headline "Death sentence is recommended for Kyle Flack in murder of Olathe toddler and her mother."