Thursday, March 17, 2011

Probable Cause Affidavit

Here are some photographs I took of the documents I obtained from the Pawnee County Court Clerk's Office. Sorry they aren't PDF and more legible. I don't have a scanner right now.




Page 1 showing certification




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Page 1 text:
On 02/17/2011 your affiant was contacted by one Elexis Hennigh who stated that she had been receiving threatening messages on Facebook from one Travis Levi Taylor. Your affiant has verified that Travis Taylor is a current resident of Pawnee County, Oklahoma living within the Cimmaron Acres Housing Edition. Hennigh further stated that she knew vaguely of Taylor from high school but was not a close friend. Hennigh stated that around November of 2010 she began receiving messages from Taylor asking her on dates. Hennigh stated that after not responding to several messaged she felt bad and decided to respond and possibly give Taylor a chance to take her to dinner. Hennigh further stated that on the date she was supposed to meet Taylor for dinner she has family show up unexpectedly and was unable to meet with Taylor. Hennigh stated that after this she began receiving messages from Taylor that started giving her red flags and that she was no longer going to consider meeting with Taylor. Hennigh stated that on February 15th, 2011 at approximately 2303 hours Hennigh received a threatening message that reads as follows: (To read the threatening message see the last message in the Facebook Death Threat blog post.)

Page 2 is omitted simply because it contains the rest of the threatening message



Page 3 with certification




Page 3 close up on text "Taylor stated that he planned on killing Elexis Hennigh."




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Here is the text from Page 3:

"Hennigh stated after this message she felt that her life was in danger and she needed to seek the assistance of law enforcement. When I asked Hennigh how she knew this was Taylor sending her these messages she stated that she had spoken with him on the phone and provided me with the phone of 405-385-2239 which she stated is the number she spoke with Taylor on and received the text messages from Hennigh Further stated that the last text message she received from this number was on February 16th at approximately 0530 hours. Based on my training, experience and the opinion of other Investigators I believe that Hennigh is and possibly could be in imminent danger based on the threats and comments made by Taylor.

On 02/17/2011 at approximately 1600 hours your affiant along with other members of the Pawnee County Sheriffs Office and the District 10 Drug Task Force served a Valid Pawnee County Search Warrant signed by the honorable Judge Henry at the residence of one Travis Levi Taylor described and located above. During the course of this search we seized 4 home computer towers, one laptop, one black and red jump drive, numerous created compact disks and a blue bag containing a silver jump drive with the name Lexie written on it and two CD;s which Taylor had referred to in his letter to Hennigh. Also discovered during the course of this search was a red and black smoking pipe that had the odor of marijuana was discovered in the center bedroom of the residence hidden in a file folder. During the execution of aforesaid search warrant an interview of Taylor was conducted. During the course of this interview Taylor stated that he had planned on killing Elexis Hennigh and that he planned on carrying out this act on 02/18/2011. Taylor stated that he had a weapon that he had planned on using for this act but he would not tell us where it was or what it was until we returned to the residence with a more detailed search warrant. Taylor further stated that he had gotten the idea to cut up the body of Hennigh and eat her from reading books and internet articles about Jeffery Dahmer (a well known serial killer) and other mass murderer articles and books.

During the course of serving the second search warrant we discovered 3 old hand saws, 1 tree limb saw, and 5 household kitchen knives that could possibly be used for the type of dismemberment discussed by Taylor."




Page 4 Probable Cause Found

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