Death sentence ordered for Kyle Flack in murder of Olathe woman and toddler

A Franklin County, Kan., judge on Wednesday sentenced Kyle Trevor Flack to death for the 2013 killings of an Olathe woman and her 18-month-old daughter.

The jury that heard evidence in Flack’s trial earlier this year recommended that he be sentenced to death in the killings of 21-year-old Kaylie Bailey and her daughter Lana Bailey.

On Wednesday, District Judge Eric Godderz followed the jury’s recommendation. Godderz had the option of sentencing Flack to life in prison with no chance of parole.

Flack, 30, was found guilty of capital murder in the shotgun slayings of Bailey and her daughter inside a house near Ottawa, Kan. He was also convicted of first-degree murder in the killing of 31-year-old Steven White and second-degree murder in the death of Andrew Stout, 30.

The judge sentenced Flack to life in prison for killing White and 22 years and three months in prison for killing Stout. He was also sentenced to nine months for illegal possession of a firearm.

Both men were also killed with a shotgun at the house where the bodies of all three adult victims were found. Searchers soon spread out searching for the toddler.

They eventually found Lana’s body stuffed into a suitcase floating in Tequa Creek in rural Osage County near the Franklin County line.

Flack, who has been stoic in the courtroom, did not testify during the trial. A motive for the killings is not known.

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, who was Stout’s girlfriend, went to the house to visit him before she and her daughter were killed May 1 in the same room, according to trial testimony.

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

Flack later drove to Emporia, Kan., in Kaylie Bailey’s car and was staying there with friends when he was arrested, according to trial testimony.

This story was originally published May 18, 2016 at 6:00 AM with the headline "Death sentence ordered for Kyle Flack in murder of Olathe woman and toddler."