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Student Kills Her Teacher, Thinks She Can Get Away With It

February 09, 2025 / 46:09

This episode covers the murder of 72-year-old William Dubuis, the involvement of his neighbor Denton Stringer, and the arrest of Taylor Elkins, who was found driving Dubuis' car.

Officers discovered Dubuis' body after a welfare check initiated by a concerned neighbor. The investigation revealed that Dubuis had been brutally beaten, and the circumstances surrounding his death were suspicious, particularly involving his neighbor Denton Stringer.

Taylor Elkins, identified as Stringer's granddaughter, was found in possession of Dubuis' car shortly after his death. During police questioning, she provided inconsistent accounts of how she obtained the vehicle, leading to increased scrutiny.

As the investigation progressed, officers uncovered connections between Taylor and the murder, including a hair sample found on Dubuis' body that matched hers. Despite her attempts to deflect blame onto others, evidence pointed to her involvement in the crime.

Taylor was ultimately charged with first-degree murder and accepted a plea deal, resulting in a 40-year prison sentence.

TLDR

Taylor Elkins, found driving a dead man's car, is charged with the murder of her neighbor William Dubuis after a brutal attack.

Episode

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Taylor officer Hendricks okay it's not stolen yet okay but the owner was found deceased that's
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where we're at this is Taylor alkins Just 2 hours ago Taylor's teacher 72 yearold William dubuis was discovered
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brutally beaten and deceased inside his home hey are they Hom OR really what's interesting is that
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Days Later Taylor would be found driving her now dead teacher's car you know why
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that's Bill's car cuz he's dead I don't know I don't pay attention to him like he Ain nothing to me he's been Beat to
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Death In you're driving the car and I don't know that you ain't got something to do with it but what seemed like a
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straightforward case would turn out to be a complicated mess of neighborhood drama secret Affairs and deadly
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conflicts I was in bed and I heard a big that's they not I call the police on the
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other side I've said if anybody did anything it would be them could be a burglary could be somebody that he
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wronged and they're coming back for ventes you're a rude cold heartless murderer this is not going to go away
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this is not going to quit you're going to keep having your little nightmares that you have and I hope you do for the
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rest of your life on July 11th 2019 officers in Fort Smith Arkansas received a call from a
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neighbor requesting a welfare check at the home of 72-year-old William dubuis Jr the neighbor had grown increasingly
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worried when he heard an unusual noise coming from Williams home a few days earlier and had seen no sign of him
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since officers were quickly dispatched to investigate further hello how are you man good
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him this is Denton Stringer the neighbor who called 911 to request a welfare check he would soon prove to be more
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involved in this case than just being a neighbor he's not answered not anything but uh I was Ling in my bed the other
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night I heard something fall sound like does he have a car yeah I had a car but where's his car his car has been gone
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for two or three days well maybe he's gone okay he told us okay he he would told us man
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okay you know what position bedroom is at back at okay I'll come back and talk to you in just a second okay the officer
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believes William might just have left that is until she discovers a disturbing odor coming from inside the
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house why station can we have an operator meet me on three please due to the unusual situation officer Hendrick
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calls for a backup officer who arrived quickly and would be briefed on the discoveries I have one he smil he said
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two nights ago he heard a really loud boom there's a odd smell when I open the door no flies up here when I rounded the
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corner you only get it every now and then wait till you around the corner that's when I
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really yeah oh I'm getting it every yeah right here I know that smell that odor could
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have been coming from the trash can but officer hris was convinced it was coming
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from inside the house the officers needed to get in however a strange odor alone was not enough to obtain a search
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warrant so officer Hendrick decided to ask around the neighborhood and she would soon discover that Denton Stringer
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had done some suspicious things since William's disappearance but before we get to that situations like these can be
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month of therapy with that said let's get back to the officers on the scene officer Hendrick didn't waste any time
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and decided to head to the store directly across from William's house to see if anyone had seen or heard anything
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yeah it's hot so okay so the neighbor over there says that that that band sometimes comes over and talks with
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y'all he does time he saw him or hit his car she not seen it probably two days but
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what saying I'm not sure when the last time but I know there the next people next door
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we've had some problems not us necessarily but they F out there but Bill's always been really great to watch
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our place okay the guy the neighbor there's some there and he came over here to call Bill number like a 1800 number
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and listen I called the police on the other side because of women out there figh and everything scre from the kids
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so on his side yes so I've said if anybody did anything it would be them that's should say that but because it's
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just odd that they come over here and then he's telling us to call Bill like this check on
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[Music] this yeah that's what he said he said his daughter stole his phone 27 zero hey he was a teacher at my
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junior high so uh these people over here are saying that the guy next door uhhuh
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is like always has some type of drama going on they him and whoever are always fighting not him and Bill but him and
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someone else I mean worst case scenarios somebody's you know done something bad and took his car what the shop owner
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just revealed is very significant firstly William who is known around the neighborhood by bill hasn't been seen
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for the past 2 to three days which is highly unusual according to the shop owner secondly Williams neighbor Denton
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Stringer is known to have frequent drama at his house involving various women recently Denton had asked the shop owner
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to call William to check on him explaining that his daughter had stolen his phone if true this daughter might be
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the same woman Denton argues with often and if she took his phone there is a possibility she could also be linked to
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William's car missing finally the shop owner claims that if something bad happened to William it would be them
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suggesting that Denton and the daughter were likely involved all of this cast suspicion on
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both Denton and his daughter officers hope that whatever they find inside Williams house might reveal just how
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involved they were in his disappearance with all of this in her head officer Hendrick returns to
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Williams house where officers had managed to contact the landlord for an additional key nothing could have
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prepared them for the horrifying scene they would discover inside really what it is and there's no TV in the
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living room that's Miss as officers enter the house they find William's lifeless body in the
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bathroom it soon becomes clear that this was no natural passing is that splatter on the door
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frame what is that splatter on the door flame yeah spatter okay there's a do right
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there oh wow maybe his door was unlocked there's no phone either what the officers had discovered
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was nothing short of horrific but the attacker had left a lot of Clues meaning police could piece together a
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story for starters the body had a strong rotten smell indicating that William had
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likely been dead for over 24 hours throughout the house shelves and drawers had been left open with numerous
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valuables missing this initially LED investigators to believe was a robbery however this is where they discovered
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something very curious the front door had been locked from the outside and there were no signs of forced entry
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officers realized that a scenario like this couldn't be possible unless William's attacker somehow had a key to
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his house in other words whoever did this to William must have a closer connection to him than a random
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burglar this made the shop owners earlier comments even more interesting ing to police they had mentioned that if
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anything happened to William it would probably be Denton and his so-called daughter both of whom were close enough
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to William to have been given a spare key so with no better leads Denton quickly became the main focus of the
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investigation and police began to wonder if he was simply a concerned neighbor or
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if he knew far more about William's death than he was letting on his I didn't even notice his TV's missing too
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TV's missing no wallet no phone um no four century I think we need to talk to this
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guy he just got here oh I told Jeff um told Jeff what these people yeah I talked with them over there they said he
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comes over a lot and talks with them and they said if anything ever happened to him it would be because of somebody over
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his apartment he noticed there's some red fuzz all over the place I'm not sure he's L on the blanket with the fuzz I
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think came from but there's fuzz in like the kitchen all the doors in his bedroom are open
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Keys wallet phone stuff that normally would be laying out what kind of he just told me it was
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red it's a red Ford Focus we have the tag and everything and Courtney just sent out bolo did not release any
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information just said just stop this vehicle and notify our department to find answers the cops
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needed to locate that red Ford Focus which was now on the radar of the entire Fort Smith Police Department whoever had
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possession of William's vehicle could undoubtedly help solve this case but the officers had no idea where to start
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looking until William's son arrived at the scene providing them with a major breakthrough that's his
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son that's his [Applause] son out here please uh Black Box in the uh tracker yeah did you say where it
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went where the cars mom does that with her cars he says there is a but it's not at his
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mom's house but the car's not at the mom's house no according to the sun William
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had a GPS tracking device installed in his car and the car is actually owned by William's wife Susan who has access to a
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mobile app that could track his location the cops now know this tracking device is their only key to crack the case wide
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open and catch the killer so with this in mind officer would quickly redirect their attention
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to Susan's home but unfortunately they'd also have the difficult task of informing Susan that her husband passed
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away I need up now go go cage I got sit here talk to the officers hi Miss I'm officer Hendrick
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I'm sorry meeting you under these circumstances I know you know me I've seen you at nor side games I have been
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there now during you want to sit down for okay it might it might be better on your
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legs yeah just just experience with experien in every death investigation we do a complete investigation from top to
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bottom because we don't want to leave any stone unturned does that make sense okay I'm a retired nurse so okay well he
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and and we're not saying this is a homicide at this point okay no he had a heart conditioned strokes and he could
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have fell and hit his head but there's some blood there that we're concerned about does that make sense he probably
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fell okay he acting so strange Saturday here's our biggest issue he was acting strange Saturday okay here's our biggest
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have right now is the car is missing oh no yes where's your tracker do you have a tracker on that car okay
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her phone right here right here no that's Teresa's mine's in the Little Kitchen in the bathroom somebody get her
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phone if you can try to get me a location on that car that's going to help us it's going to be tremendous and
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it could be the fact left [Music] somewhere water station us me two Next Step recers Off Kelly Highway
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station it's parked at a house oh SN and it's through JB by Rider too the car is at J Who North is JP
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Rider what okay thanks to Susan the cops now know where the missing vehicle is without
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wasting any time officers quickly leave Susan's house and head towards the location of the car but they have no
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idea who has it or what kind of danger they could be facing when they find it after all this is the stolen car of a
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murdered man hello how you doing y'all live here I don't okay you live here no I just got
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the yard okay yes sir what's wrong they're looking out the wind we got people looking out the window so let's
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you got an ID on you yes ma'am I have an ID it's actually Channel okay go inside did I go let's go inside let's go
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get your wallet want to go too uh no no no you can go you can do whatever you got to do she make her go too oh hang
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tight we're going to be parked there for a second I think she should have to go too go whereever uh go inside with us I
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mean she can hang tight for me right here we're going to come we're going to all go over here let's all go over here
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what's going on I don't know let's go over here I mean what have we done something wrong
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yeah yeah something something's going on go over there and we'll explain it to you it seems there's someone in this
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house who wants to avoid the cops and these officers know they could be walking into an ambush so everybody
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behind that door is a person of interest okay so uh basically they came out the back they tried to go out the
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back uh they said they were going outside to smoke somebody just shut the front door on me
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so where Police Department hey come out with your hands up we know you're in here come out fori
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Police Department go ahead hold traffic hey hey come out come out it's okay it's okay just come out on the side
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of the house what have we done wrong who else is here it's an investigation investigation we're going to explain
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that we're going to explain that who else is in here come on what going on just walk out to that side of the house
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for me who else is in here is anybody else in here just walk out here right here to the right's going on here
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no Taylor Taylor go ahead step out no go ahead and forsi police this your last time to
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come out freely come out with your hands up keep your hands in the air where I can see
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them keep your hands in the air where I can see them good keep walking keep walking walk toward me R correct pick
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pick okay Randall go ahead step off that porch and to your right on the side of the house okay okay who else is back
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here how many be real with me I don't know who came out officers would go on to conduct a room byro sweep
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of the house and confirm it was empty before returning outside to face a different challenge a handful of
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detained suspects with potential ties to Williams missing car among the small group officers noted a mix of faces some
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nervous some indifferent but it wasn't immediately clear who knew what until the question of the red car came up all
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these subjects were inside the house um went asked any of them who's this red car they all pointed to Taylor
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elins the moment officer Shelby asked who owned the red Ford parked out front everyone pointed without hesitation at
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the same person Taylor Elkins the first woman who exited the house earlier when police barged inside having possession
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of a man's car who had just turned up dead is natural going to raise suspicion and surprisingly Taylor herself would go
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on to admit that indeed the car belongs to her here's the deal one of the females that we got out of here uh when
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I said who's this car belong to right here every said that's your car she said yeah
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that's my car with this Revelation the focus was pinned directly on Taylor and it was
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time for her to explain how she ended up in the position session of a dead man's
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[Music] car Taylor Foster HRI obviously did he read you your Miranda Rights he did like
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your rights your right to an attorney everything like that okay where'd you get the car I
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already told him you tell me I okay that Boardwalk it's just like a friend that's
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it it's name is se but I his last name white or black he's white but I don't think he thought it was the no I didn't
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say it stolen no I'm saying like I don't know okay I'm just I really don't know how he got it though but I'm saying like
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I was like dude like you got your phone on you no I don't got nothing on where's
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your phone at in there I got a phone come on everybody got a phone should have a phone when arrest her
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thank you I really I don't my daughter sh her girlfriend's phone at a time so you got it from Sean the first entrance
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off of Albert Pike to to 4201 k k add he's a crackhead that's why okay you give him any money for it
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or no he likes me like that we're just friends what's his name on Facebook I don't know I don't know I
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don't have a phone I don't get on my Facebook no more all right despite Taylor's vague recollection of how she
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came in possession of Williams car officers managed to get a name from her Shawn who is a friend of Taylor that she
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borrowed the car from or at least that's what she claims if her story is not a complete fabrication then whoever Shawn
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is could be the key to solving this case however it's at this time that officers realized they didn't know
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nearly enough about Taylor her background her relationships and whether she might be tied to Denton Stringer the
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neighbor who is already Under Suspicion so over the next few minutes we will follow these officers in real time as
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they connect the dots and discover critical information in one of the best detective works we have ever
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covered hey I rest to her two weeks ago or Elkin uhuh do you know Sean is W gu yeah I think that's a baby daddy to her
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or something like that her baby daddy she's got two kids okay yes hey checko come
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here that's Taylor's grandparents house that's that's what I said cuz ADD look familiar and then when I heard she
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coming out here like I know this chick hey are they homicide or oh said Beat to Death really where's she at Taylor she's
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in the back of sh's car he you know that's her grandparents house right yes the South Greenwood address is her
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grandparents house who hers yeah I swear to you she's bonded out to that address out of Crawford
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County she's got like 10 felonies pending I swear to you is it the officer just made a crucial connection Taylor's
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last known Address given to police during her previous arrest was her grandparents house and the same d Lex
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that William lived in shut up did you tell Shelby I said I think that's yeah 1800 sou
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GRE hey sge Serge sge give me her address is the neighbor's address huh her address is the neighbor's 18
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Greenwood is her uncle or her Grandpa or her dad that's what I'm telling you that's her grandpa's house and she's
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bonded out there she's got like 10 Southwood is all in Isis about it I think we uh this is she's bonded out
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there cuz I rested her two weeks ago and then like a week after her address is 1800 South Greenwood she's been she got
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domestic assault the guy that called it in wow that's his is 18800 cuz our guys is
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18800 the officers figured it out the two prime suspects were related Taylor was Denton's granddaughter and likely
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the daughter the woman in the shop had found suspicious earlier but what these officers are about to discover next
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would put the spotlight solely on Taylor Balman has her on camera leaving on the
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eth in the car Le the address 8 yeah three days about three days yeah Monday night she lost the the decom P
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yeah it's about two days three days with this final piece of evidence it is safe
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to conclude that Taylor Elkins has a major role in William's death and detectives needed to get to the bottom
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of her involvement the other detained individuals were briefly questioned but no one had Direct ties to William or
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knew anything about the stolen vehicle so with no solid evidence against them they were released with the on scene
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investigation at its end the next move was obvious taking Taylor in for a formal
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interrogation a few hours later Taylor is placed inside an interrogation room and left by herself for the next 10
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minutes giving her enough time to come up with a plausible Alibi to go with what Taylor doesn't realize is that when
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the detective walks in he has information that will completely disprove every excuse she
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has hello how are you better could have been better M all right Taylor so you you know why
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you're down here right yeah yeah why are you down here supposedly the car is stolen I don't know um I had it in my
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well I didn't have it in my um C well I don't know how to say it it wasn't in my
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property I didn't I wasn't in the car or nothing like that but it was stolen and
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everybody pointed their fingers at me and I mean I admitted to driving it so yeah okay and where did you get it from
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this dude name is Sean Sean who I don't know his last name I really I don't know
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his last name I just I say hey to to him basically um he he's just a friend like
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he does drugs you know so I mean you know I don't know everybody last night You' been you've been arrested lately
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yeah when when's the last time you arrested uh last week that's when I got my kids him it was Miller and this other
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guy and when you when you bonded out uh I asked one okay what address did you use when you bought out it's
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Wier you sure or's my grandpa's who's your grandpa Denton Denton strer see that's I bonded out too oh okay yeah I'm
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B did he Bond you out no oh okay no you can afford it 18800 1800 what Greenwood Avenue okay what's last time prior to
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that you were over there two days ago and what were you doing over there then my grandpa I am B out I just chill over
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there just chill over there yeah in just a few minutes this detective was able to
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make Taylor confirm most of the evidence connecting her to the crime in her own words Taylor admitted that Denton
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Stringer is indeed her grandfather she had Williams car for a few days and most importantly she was at Denton's house
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the same period when William was killed but this detective was just getting started and he's about to make Taylor
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dig her own grave so what about the guy lives right next door to you know him yeah who's that his name is Bill Bill
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what I don't know oh I don't know I don't know people's last name yeah how was Bill oh I don't know was the last
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time you seen bill I don't know I don't know he works during the day so this car you've been riding
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around in who whose car is that I don't know you never seen that car before I've
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seen it where there where oh my where Taylor oh my God score where tlor there that's the
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score wow I think you kind of knew that no I didn't I really I didn't I think you did
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I didn't I think you did I I think I think you know Bill I know Bill yeah I told I
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you know him I don't know that one and what's the last time you seen him like I said like he comes in now I
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don't know I don't pay attention to him he ain't nothing to me really he ain't nothing to
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me you kind got all the fensive all a sudden me I'm just kind of Cu cuz you all up in my face now no you got all the
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pen before I ever SC you're in my face like this I want to make sure that we're understanding each other and we are okay
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I really I don't like like I don't know I I don't like pay attention I be doing my own thing all
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the time okay so why are you doing okay I'm just trying to figure out if you're being
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honest with me I am I actually Taylor is trapped she just implicated herself further by admitting
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that she knows William and to her surprise was driving his very car after this brilliant line of questioning
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the detective tells Taylor to sit tight and leaves the room during this time he would make a phone call to Taylor's
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grandfather Denton Stringer and Denton would tell him that Taylor was at his house a few days ago along with two
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white males with this information at hand the detective comes back to the interrogation room with one goal make
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Taylor confess to whatever she did inside William's home you take a nap tired oh you me both girl I'm old I I
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need my beauty sleep can't you tell legit tired so let let me ask you something um do you have a phone no you
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don't have a phone how come my daughter shattered it she she shattered it how you that phone huh how you been that
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phone told two two and okay Taylor you uh went to your dad's today were you there earlier this week like Monday or
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Tuesday let me rephrase that you were there earlier this week and you had two white males with you who was those two
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white guys that were with you cuz I've already talked I've already talked to your
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grandpa okay and right there Bes side your grandpa's at school yeah that school's got video and it shows you
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showing up with two white mailes I'm just kind of curious who are those two white males on
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[Music] you you don't so you don't believe that's Bill's car I mean if it is that's just
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amazing even when directly confronted with undeniable facts Taylor continues to play dumb even making a mockery of
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the entire situation so in order to make it clear to Taylor that this is a serious situation the detective would
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reveal the true reason she's in the interrogation room because she is a murder suspect do you know why that's
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Bill's Car why cuz he's dead they beat him to death and you're driving the car from a
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man who's been beat to death and I don't know that you ain't got something to do
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with it and you want to play tough girl with me and let me tell you this is not going to work out for you real
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good he's been beat to death oh you think I'm lying you think why the hell you think I'm here you know why I'm here
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do you know What My Title is huh homicide hey it's got real you talk about losing your girls if just loseing
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for a lifetime do you know what you're you're you're knee deep in this right now
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it's you better start coming clean with what you know I told you I'm I'm just letting you know here's here's where
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we're at Taylor I'm going to be honest with you this can go either really good for Taylor or this can go really bad for
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Taylor because I can promise you I'm really good at what I do if I can catch you and I lie and if you lie to me I
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will I will put you in prison for the rest of your little life just know that now that Taylor understands the severity
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of everything and is deeply emotional the detective will seize the moment to confront her by exploiting her
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vulnerable state in hopes that the emotional pressure will break her defenses and compel her to finally tell
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the truth I'm not threatening you promising you so if you give a damn about Bill if you didn't kill him if you
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didn't beat the hell out of that old man why would I do that you're driving a the
00:31:39
car I that was taken after they beat him you better come up with who had this damn car or who you took over there with
00:31:46
you that seen him and went back and targeted him I told you I told you I got everything listen to me here's here's
00:31:52
the truth you better start coming up with some full names because you know what who do you need to think of right
00:31:57
now who's the most important person in your life right now baby you you and your babies and youve better take care
00:32:03
of them I tell you you better think you better think hard cuz we I got all night hell I get paid by the hour I'll
00:32:13
stay here all weekend you're driving around a dead man's car I didn't know he was dead I wasn't there but you know the
00:32:20
people who probably killed him I told you I got the cour Shan who in the apartments that you pointed out yeah
00:32:28
the guy old man died in it had a heart attack and died in one last week and the other one's got an old woman that lives
00:32:34
in it I'm just I'm giving you an opportunity right now oh I'm telling you okay tell me I told you I'm telling you
00:32:45
like bro let me ask you this if you had to get Sean right now where would you go
00:32:50
get him at what apartment number it's it's a COR there four 5 6 7 it's either five or six now it seems
00:33:02
like Taylor has a story to prove her Alibi Taylor claims that William's car belongs to a man named Shawn who she
00:33:09
borrowed the car from Recently if what she's saying is true then Shawn could very well be the perpetrator of this
00:33:15
evil crime however Taylor would also proceed to point more accusations towards Shawn telling the detective that
00:33:22
he assaulted her ruined her life and took her kids away this means that Taylor was likely involved in a
00:33:28
relationship with Shawn for a good amount of time but what's strange about this entire story is that every time the
00:33:36
detective asks Taylor for personal information about this Shan guy she Dodges the questions and refuses to give
00:33:44
any information away so with Taylor seemingly uncooperative the detective would end this interview to get to the
00:33:51
bottom of her claims and figure out who Shawn really is and what they discovered
00:33:57
would put Taylor in an even worse situation been thinking about anything hurt have little
00:34:14
issue so this the guy you saying you get a car from M are you sure well I told you he's in
00:34:23
jail I know what told you's been in jail since June the 6th you think I'm making this up no so
00:34:36
if he's in jail had to give you the card was him you better rethink this Taylor that's looking like you killed
00:34:52
him no yeah I it wasn't me you think it's funny no I said it wasn't me well you better figure it out then cuz you
00:34:58
just lied didn't Shawn giving her the car was a completely fabricated story and the
00:35:06
detective just proved it so with this major lie exposed Taylor is taken away to sleep in jail while detectives work
00:35:15
on finding more incriminating evidence against her the next day Taylor is brought back
00:35:21
into the interrogation room in an orange jumpsuit this time the detective has prepared undeniable evidence to
00:35:28
thoroughly debunk her entire Alibi and make her [Music] confess you want to know what happened
00:35:42
to Bill I didn't know to see a picture of it you believe he's dead now yeah you still think this is all
00:35:59
joke you sleep last night you won't sleep this will haunt you there's only one way you're ever
00:36:08
going to get any relief where you're going to get any closure you're going to have to tell us
00:36:14
the truth of everything you know and you haven't done it yet and it's going to be
00:36:17
the hardest thing for you to do but it's the only way you're going to get any peace
00:36:22
ever at at a minimum but if you didn't do it you know who did are you scared of the person who's
00:36:30
involved in this I don't know who's involved in it you really do you get stuff out of
00:36:36
people by threatening them I'm notat I haven't got in your face I'm saying you I hav threatened you I'm
00:36:44
letting you know what's fixing to happen to you cuz you don't believe anything I'm
00:36:50
sorry you don't believe anything I don't believe Liars okay and you're a damn liar you
00:36:55
you out there getting a real killer you need to be helping us if you even cared about the old man that's been beat to
00:37:01
death and shot you need to be helping us you just shot you don't think he was shot was he you tell me you just showed
00:37:09
me the top you not see enough you want to see again to get a better look no I don't I want you to remember that
00:37:14
picture every night of your life of course you do every night alin's body language has shifted
00:37:21
from cocky and playful to scared and confused and just about everything else in between her behavior would change
00:37:27
change again after she's allowed to make a phone call to her mother where she'd stop pleading innocence and start
00:37:33
playing the victim she's now going to paint a picture of a man named Joseph Rogers better known as Joe that will
00:37:40
make him out to be the bad guy so we let you talk to your mom so now what I would
00:37:46
like to ask you for you to tell us the truth the true I mean I told you all the truth today but I didn't tell you all of
00:37:57
it tell us from the beginning what happened and exactly the truth the way it happened
00:38:01
okay I Joe came over that night and um he he asked me what he had in the house and I told him that he didn't have
00:38:12
he he's like you knock on the door I knocked on the door and then he went in I left that's when I went to McDonald's
00:38:18
and I came back he told he took care of it I didn't kill him though I didn't do nothing like that when he said he took
00:38:26
care of it told me that at the casino cuz I asked I kept asking what happened cuz I didn't want no cars in so
00:38:33
I'm scared you know I didn't want to go in there or nothing I didn't know what happened and I just I kept asking him
00:38:38
what happened what happened what happened he kept telling me that he took care of it that it's okay that he
00:38:45
finished it all there nothing would come about it and he just he just kept telling he's like to get rid of those TS
00:38:54
blah blah blah he's like I'm not touching them and that's what I had Peete P him like I
00:39:00
didn't know if I knew all that I would have took his car believe if I knew I knew he was dead dead like that where he
00:39:07
like I just Elkins has implicated Joe by claiming he'd taken care of William while he was robbing him of his
00:39:16
belongings she also claims he's behind the whole thing and she was too terrified to stop him if this wasn't the
00:39:23
third story she'd came up with the detectives may have believed her but what else doesn't realize is that the
00:39:29
detectives have potential evidence that will place her at the scene of the crime
00:39:33
and prove she's been lying all along t one thing that is concerning is the fact that bill does
00:39:42
have hair in his hand okay and we had a detective down there daring has a toing who states that the hair is the same
00:39:54
color as yours and Joe doesn't have any hair so where would that come from I didn't see
00:40:05
him that's that's why I a hairle put yeah a hairle cuz I did you ever see Bill after
00:40:24
McDonald's if that lock of hair they found on William body belongs to Elkins then her stories will mean nothing as
00:40:31
the physical evidence will do the talking for her but right now that's not the only
00:40:38
thing she has to worry about as detectives have even more evidence that proves her whole story has been a lie
00:40:45
from the very beginning and it's all thanks to the GPS tracker William's wife installed in his car that GPS tracker
00:40:54
would also help detectives to map everywhere she had been from the very moment she stepped in the car and then
00:41:00
used the CCTV to determine who was inside the vehicle I know you don't have me I'm sorry you got a job to do I hope
00:41:07
you understand that let me show you another picture who's that what is that that
00:41:14
well there he is in the car with you in Bill's Car that's Joe is Joe the one who
00:41:19
killed him Joe was with you when you left the house when youall went to the casino did Joe kill him
00:41:27
here's your here's your opportunity we got the evidence there's a tracker on the car we
00:41:34
take it straight from when you left there you go to cavana Hol you go to the casino so you need to get this get real
00:41:41
real for you real quick so you need to think about this cuz we're fixing to take this to
00:41:45
the prosecutor to get a warrant for you for murder so you better start thinking if you want to take the wrap or you want
00:41:50
to be honest because we're we're running out of time no you ain't no you ain't I
00:41:55
just showed you I'm watch I've not hit nothing I didn't say you watch I didn't say you watch but I said you know but
00:42:02
here's the thing okay so and tell me right now that you're protecting him you'll be charged as an ACC how I'm
00:42:08
protecting him you know what happened so people just come up and tell me all talk
00:42:12
now that people murder somebody no this is your last this is your laugh I'll be back to that murder warrant okay come
00:42:18
back with Taylor's arrogance with the entire situation has seemed to finally have
00:42:25
caught up to her and her exem stubbornness has left the detectives with no choice other than to resort to
00:42:32
other methods of incriminating suspects such as DNA samples hair samples and last but not least the
00:42:40
polygraph the polygraph test was done off camera however the polygraph examiner would have some harsh words for
00:42:47
Taylor after the test had concluded test your not good showing you were showing deception deception means
00:43:00
that you're trying to deceive you're not being truthful oh yeah I brought this in
00:43:06
here to show you you see that question that says R5 M and that big spike on it that's where you were telling us a
00:43:20
lie you were lying to me when I asked you in the test were you present when he was attacked not when he was kill him
00:43:28
but attack maybe I kill when I ask you did you kill him your reading is stronger than that oh my
00:43:37
God just cuz you're just you know right now I'm not a I well I really don't give
00:43:44
a if you're in the boot or not of course you don't all right rude person I'm not a rude person yes you are you're
00:43:51
a rude cold heartless murderer that's what you are oh look at you you have no defense for yourself I'm not done cuz
00:43:59
you killed the old man no I didn't I know what I'm capable of I'm not yeah you're capable of that you're right in
00:44:05
the middle of all of it and why you don't think you think you're so tough I told you ain't told us nothing you make
00:44:11
up everything to point the finger at everybody else but I don't you do 100% I don't this is not going to go away this
00:44:19
is not going to quit you're going to keep having your little nightmares that you have and I hope you do for the rest
00:44:24
of your life Taylor would never for confessed during the rest of the interrogation continuing to point
00:44:31
fingers blame others sometimes being completely imaginary people and playing the victim William DUIs Jr had suffered
00:44:39
from 27 impact injuries and met a terrifying end the day of his death the hair sample found in William's
00:44:49
hand was eventually match to the hair of Taylor adding one final cherry on top to
00:44:55
help convict her Detective ultimately believed Elkins was responsible although she didn't confess to the cops she
00:45:02
allegedly made a confession during her incarceration she also told another inmate that she went to William's house
00:45:08
to borrow some money and had become angry when he didn't have any so out of both frustration and pure evil she
00:45:15
grabbed a hammer and beat the life out of William without any remorse Taylor's grandfather Denton
00:45:23
Stringer was initially investigated as a potential son suspect however with no solid evidence connecting him to
00:45:30
Williams murder or Taylor's involvement authorities ruled him out as for Joseph Rogers and Shawn they were both cleared
00:45:37
of any involvement in William's death the two had nothing to do with the crime whatsoever and were simply scapegoats
00:45:44
for Taylor to point fingers at as for Taylor she was charged with first-degree murder on October 9th 2019 and in
00:45:53
January 2020 she accepted a plea deal that met she'd avoid a life sentence instead she was sentenced to over 40
00:46:02
years in prison her first chance at parole will come in 2059

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This episode stands out for the following:

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    Most intense
  • 80
    Most shocking
  • 80
    Best performance
  • 80
    Most unpredictable

Episode Highlights

  • Murder Mystery Unfolds
    72-year-old William Dubuis is found deceased, leading to a complex investigation.
    “Just 2 hours ago Taylor's teacher was discovered brutally beaten and deceased.”
    @ 00m 15s
    February 09, 2025
  • Suspicious Circumstances
    Taylor is found driving her deceased teacher's car, raising questions about her involvement.
    “Days later, Taylor would be found driving her now dead teacher's car.”
    @ 00m 30s
    February 09, 2025
  • The Disturbing Discovery
    Officers find William's body in a horrific scene, indicating foul play.
    “Nothing could have prepared them for the horrifying scene they would discover.”
    @ 07m 43s
    February 09, 2025
  • Key to the Case
    William's son reveals a GPS tracker in the car, crucial for solving the case.
    “William had a GPS tracking device installed in his car.”
    @ 11m 41s
    February 09, 2025
  • Connections Revealed
    Officers uncover Taylor's ties to the deceased and her questionable past.
    “Taylor's last known address was her grandparents' house, linked to the investigation.”
    @ 21m 21s
    February 09, 2025
  • Taylor's Interrogation Begins
    Taylor is left alone in the interrogation room, giving her time to think.
    “What Taylor doesn't realize is that the detective has information that will disprove every excuse she has.”
    @ 23m 45s
    February 09, 2025
  • The Detective's Confrontation
    The detective reveals that Taylor is a murder suspect, escalating the tension.
    “You know why I'm here? Homicide!”
    @ 30m 29s
    February 09, 2025
  • The Hair Evidence
    Detectives discover hair matching Taylor's on the victim, linking her to the crime.
    “The hair found in William's hand was eventually matched to Taylor.”
    @ 44m 49s
    February 09, 2025
  • Taylor's Confession
    Taylor allegedly confessed to killing William out of frustration and pure evil.
    “She grabbed a hammer and beat the life out of William without any remorse.”
    @ 45m 15s
    February 09, 2025
  • Plea Deal Accepted
    Taylor accepted a plea deal, avoiding a life sentence but receiving 40 years in prison.
    “Taylor accepted a plea deal to avoid a life sentence.”
    @ 45m 53s
    February 09, 2025

Episode Quotes

  • You're a rude cold heartless murderer.
    Student Kills Her Teacher, Thinks She Can Get Away With It
  • What is that splatter on the door frame?
    Student Kills Her Teacher, Thinks She Can Get Away With It
  • I don't know how he got it though.
    Student Kills Her Teacher, Thinks She Can Get Away With It
  • You're driving a dead man's car!
    Student Kills Her Teacher, Thinks She Can Get Away With It
  • This can go either really good for Taylor or really bad for Taylor.
    Student Kills Her Teacher, Thinks She Can Get Away With It
  • You're a rude cold heartless murderer!
    Student Kills Her Teacher, Thinks She Can Get Away With It

Key Moments

  • Murder Discovery00:15
  • Suspicious Car00:30
  • Horrific Scene07:43
  • GPS Tracker11:41
  • Evidence Revealed23:06
  • Final Evidence44:49
  • Confession45:02
  • Plea Deal45:53

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