Man Stabs Spouse 40 Occasions on Valentine’s Day, Sends Ugly Physique Photograph to Her ‘Boyfriend’ and Household: Police

In response to data reviewed by Legislation&Crime, Taylor, 34, was arrested in Indiana final week for allegedly killing his spouse after being dissatisfied together with her response to his Valentine’s Day plans, stabbing her 40 instances with a “huge ass kitchen knife” and sending a photograph of her physique to a person with whom he believed she was having an affair.

Taylor was taken into custody on Friday and charged together with his spouse’s homicide.

In response to a possible trigger affidavit obtained by the outlet, officers with the Jeffersonville Police Division have been despatched to the Meyers’ house within the late hours of February 14, after responding to a name from somebody who believed Deborah was at risk.

The caller instructed the emergency dispatcher he’d obtained a name from Deborah’s cellphone and will hear her yelling out for assist.

As soon as they arrived on the scene, first responders knocked a number of instances however obtained no response.

The caller additionally drove to the Meyer house and spoke to police, which is when he obtained a photograph message from Deborah’s cellphone exhibiting her physique on the ground. Police then breached the door, the place they have been met with Taylor, who they described as “aggressive.”

Additionally inside the house, police situated Deborah’s physique and the couple’s three younger kids below the age of 5. Per WAVE 3, the kids have been asleep on the time of the homicide. Deborah appeared to have been stabbed about 40 instances, police mentioned.

In an interview with detectives, Taylor allegedly confessed to killing his spouse. He defined that their marriage had been strained since January, after he claims he noticed a photograph of her holding arms with one other man who he known as her “co-worker.”

Taylor mentioned he tried to drag out all of the stops for Valentine’s Day, telling police it was a “Bringing Paris to you”-themed night for which he had “his children draw footage of the Eiffel Tower as decorations.”

“It was the toughest I’ve ever tried,” he allegedly mentioned in the course of the interview. “She simply did not give a s–t.”

Sooner or later after dinner, Taylor mentioned he and his spouse fought and she or he left the home “proper when [her] boyfriend [got] off work.” He mentioned he was “upset” about being house once more with the children.

Taylor allegedly mentioned she was gone for roughly 20 minutes earlier than she returned house. Whereas his spouse was within the toilet, he then purportedly tried to learn her textual content messages on her sensible watch, earlier than demanding to see her cellphone.

After she refused at hand her cellphone over, a bodily confrontation between the pair allegedly ensued.

“He said that in the course of the argument she punched him within the face and he grabbed her and took the cellular telephone and instructed her, ‘I am stronger than you,'” the affidavit states. “Meyer instructed me throughout this preliminary interview on the hospital that it was ‘all wrestling and hitting, and I began choking her. She hit me with a water bottle and I hit her with a wine bottle after which I went and obtained the knife.'”

In response to Taylor, his spouse stored asking him, “What are you going to do, kill me? You are going to harm me and depart our youngsters with no dad and mom?”

Taylor mentioned he then pinned his spouse to the bottom and went by her cellphone, earlier than putting a name to the person he believed to be her “boyfriend,” who he reportedly instructed, “It is your f–king fault. You wish to damage my marriage and tear my household aside,” as he spouse screamed within the background.

Per the affidavit, the particular person on the opposite finish is the one who first known as police.

Taylor then allegedly proceed to choke his spouse and hit her within the head a number of instances with a wine bottle till she grew to become unconscious.

Not sure if she was useless, Taylor allegedly mentioned he then went to the kitchen and grabbed a “huge ass kitchen knife, a protracted one,” and repeatedly stabbed his spouse within the chest. Taylor then despatched a photograph of Deborah’s physique to the opposite man, writing, “Your fault.” Pre WDRB, he additionally despatched the photograph to a household group textual content.

A health worker decided Deborah had been stabbed about 40 instances.

Taylor is at the moment being held within the Clark County Detention Heart with out bond. He has pleaded not responsible to the homicide cost and is at the moment scheduled to look in court docket on March 18.