Arrest warrant reveals new details leading to disappearance of McKinney woman

What you need to know

  • Kayla Kelly, 33, reported missing on January 11 after her family and colleagues said they had not heard from her for several days.
  • Kelly has been dating a man named Kevin Brown since last summer, and her friends say she planned to confront him after learning he was married and that his real name was Ocastor Ferguson.
  • Ferguson is accused of kidnapping Kelly. Detectives say he confessed to the relationship and that his phone records show he was near her home, where her car was abandoned and burned on Jan. 10.

Detectives in Collin County have been quiet about their investigation into Kayla Kelly’s disappearance, but documents obtained by NBC 5 shed some light on what may have happened in the days before she was reported missing.

According to the January 14 arrest warrant affidavit, on January 11, the Collin County Sheriff’s Office learned that Kayla Kelly, 33, had been missing for several days and had no contact with her aunt or colleagues.

During an interview about her disappearance, investigators learned that Kelly planned to confront her boyfriend “Kevin” after learning that this was not his real name and that he was married. When Kelly told her friends that she intended to blackmail him, they told the police that they didn’t want to talk about her dating a married man and didn’t find out anything else about him.

Investigators said she was added to the nationwide missing persons database on January 11, and the following day, the Frisco Police Department notified them that Kelly’s car had been found burned and abandoned on the county’s rural road.

At the center of Kelly’s disappearance is a man she dated for six months, Oscator Ferguson, whom she knew as Kevin Brown, a name he later admitted to be fake.

Detectives from the sheriff’s department examined the car, but said it turned up no clues to Kelly’s whereabouts.

They then went to Kelly’s duplex on Jett Drive in McKinney and made sure she wasn’t home. At her home, investigators said they found Kelly’s dog, who had been without food or water for several days. Family members told investigators that her dog was like a family member and she would never leave her unattended for an extended period of time.

Detectives examining Kelly’s phone records learned that she was talking to a 32-year-old man named Ocastor Chavon Ferguson. He and his wife recently reported the theft of their 2004 Lexus, which was later found near Kelly’s duplex. The arrest document states that gloves, duct tape and a blanket were found inside.

Detectives also learned that Kelly’s phone was last used on January 10 at 6:59 p.m., near Dallas, where Ferguson’s employer is located. NTTA records showed Kelly’s car driving north on the Dallas North Tollway earlier in the day, near Frisco’s Eldorado Boulevard, at 1:56 p.m.

On January 13, investigators said they visited Ferguson at work and that during interrogation he admitted to knowing Kelly and said he last saw her on January 10, when she gave him a ride to work around noon. He said that she was supposed to bring him lunch around 6:00 pm, but she never showed up. He said Kelly had his Lexus because he kept it from his wife.

During the interview, Ferguson allowed the detectives to look at his phone and showed them the correspondence between him and Kelly, including one threat to tell his wife if he didn’t answer her. He admitted to investigators that they met online and started dating in the summer of 2022, and that she knew him as “Kevin” because she didn’t want him to know his real identity. He said that she had never been to his house, and they always met at her place, in hotels or other places.

Detectives said they analyzed Ferguson’s phone records, which showed he was at work on Jan. 10 and then at his home in Grande Prairie. He then apparently left home and drove down Dallas’ northern toll road to Kelly’s duplex and then to the location of her burned-out car before returning home to Grande Prairie.

Officials investigating Kelly’s disappearance spoke again to Ferguson, who denied being where the burnt car was found and said he had no idea what happened to the car, although he admitted he was driving during that time period. and said Kelly was in the back seat. He told investigators that he did not know her current location or condition.

Investigators then visited Ferguson’s home in Grande Prairie and spoke to his wife, who said she received a message on January 4 from an unknown person who said they needed to tell her something. She said she had never contacted the man, but thought it was a woman, based on the language used in the message. The woman told investigators that her phone was broken and she could not provide them with a number.

Detectives arrested Ferguson on January 14 and charged him with kidnapping, a felony in the third degree. He is currently being held at the Collin County Jail on bail totaling over $1 million. It is not clear whether he received a lawyer.

Search One Rescue Team, a local nonprofit that helps law enforcement with lost and missing cases, said they were called in twice on Friday and Monday to help with the search.

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