Damilola Taylor was my neighbour and friend. We called him Danny. We lived in a close-knit community where everyone knew each other. Danny’s death affected all of us. Within months the estate was demolished. ibid.
TAYLOR, GREG [Miscarriages of Justice: Taylor Greg]: North Caroline Center on Actual Innocence online - The Staircase TV -
On September 26, 1991, Greg Taylor got his Nissan Pathfinder stuck in mud approximately 100 yards from a cul-de-sac where a young woman named Jacquetta Thomas was found brutally murdered early the next morning. In April 1993, despite the lack of any evidence linking Greg to the victim, Greg was convicted of her murder and sentenced to life in prison. The prosecution’s case rested almost exclusively on the testimony of two career criminals which was given in exchange for favorable treatment, a ‘false-alert’ on Greg’s SUV by a bloodhound, and the assertion that a spot of the victim’s blood was found in one of the wheel wells of Greg’s SUV.
After investigating the case for two years and believing in Greg’s innocence, the Center referred the case to the North Carolina Innocence Inquiry Commission, so it could use its statutory authority to search for additional evidence of innocence. In September 2009, the case was presented to an eight-member panel of commissioners that unanimously found there was sufficient evidence to merit a judicial review of Greg’s case.
The Center’s Executive Director, along with attorneys Joe Cheshire and Mike Klinkosum, represented Greg before a three-judge panel in February 2010. Throughout the hearing, the defense thoroughly discredited every piece of evidence used to convict Greg. New evidence presented included the lab analyst’s bench notes from 1992 testing which had confirmed at the time of trial that the substance found on Greg’s truck was not human blood. Those bench notes were not given to Greg’s original defense attorney and, had they not been discovered by his postconviction counsel, Greg would likely have died in prison.
On February 17, 2010, the three-judge panel exonerated Greg, finding he had proven his innocence by clear and convincing evidence after wrongful incarceration for almost 17 years. Greg was the first person exonerated through the Innocence Inquiry Commission process and his case, along with the other successful cases of the Innocence Inquiry Commission process, has inspired other states to consider forming similar Commissions. North Carolina Center on Actual Innocence online article
Duance Deaver and the Greg Taylor Case: Judge Calin E Murphy rules Gregory F Taylor has proved by clear and convincing evidence that Gregory F Taylor is innocent of the charge of first-degree murder of Jacquetta Thomas on September 26 1991. The Staircase e9, Canal+ 2013, court decision
Deaver admits to have misrepresented blood tests in the [Taylor] case. ibid. news
TAYLOR, JACIE murder: viz Miscarriages of Justice: Dewey, Robert
TAYLOR, JOHN: Killer in the Woods TV - BBC online - In the Footsteps of a Killer TV -
This is the story of one man’s obsessive desire to control and even kill women. Throughout his life John Taylor found himself repeatedly drawn to woods where he would watch and wait for his next victim. But John Taylor’s crime went undetected for more than a decade until he kidnapped and killed sixteen-year-old Leanne Tiernan. Killer in the Woods, Channel 5
A parcel delivery worker has been told to expect to spend the rest of his life in jail for the murder of Leeds teenager Leanne Tiernan.
John Taylor, 46, from Cockshott Drive in the Bramley area of the city, was given two life sentences at Leeds Crown Court after admitting the 16-year-old's kidnap and murder.
Mr Justice Astill said to Taylor: ‘You are a dangerous sexual sadist.’ BBC online article 8th July 2002
Burley Park Station, Leeds, January 14th 1996: An horrific discovery [Deborah Wood]: it was a burning body … the horrific desecration of a young woman. In the Footsteps of Killers s2e3: Deborah Wood, Channel 4 2023
16-year-old schoolgirl Leanne Tiernan … her body was definitely kept in cold storage, and when her body was found it was wrapped in plastic, wrapped in bedding, in exactly the same way as Debbie … This man: John Taylor … Taylor will have murdered more women, and not just Leanne Tiernan. ibid.
Yvonne Fitt: body found in 1992 in a remote wooded area. ibid.
Donna Healey: her body was found in 1991 on a building site in Leeds. ibid.
The necklace [retrieved from Taylor] that the police put into the public domain is the same as the necklace worn by his sister [Deborah]. ibid.
Both of them [Deborah Wood and John Taylor] are regulars in the bar [Big Lil’s]
TAYLOR, VON LESTER & EDWARD DELI: True Crime Recaps 2022 -
16-year-old Tricia [Tiede] and 20-year-old Linae were sisters, Kay and Rolf were their parents, and their grandmother Beth Potts was with them … Two ex-cons broke in: Von Lester Taylor and Edward Deli … They saw the family leave and made themselves at home in the cabin … The men attacked … They set the house on fire before they left … The killers led police on a high-speed chase … The girls were rescued and Rolf too escaped with his life. True Crime Recaps: Four Chilling Cases of Camping Gone Wrong! Youtube 9.39, 2022
TENNISWOOD, EDWARD: Murdered at Fight Sight TV -
On 30th January India was meant to show up for a shift at the pub where she works and she doesn’t … They report her missing to police. Murdered at First Sight s1e10: India Chipchase, Kerry Daynes, Sky Crime 2022
The male that we saw [CCTV] approaching India was white, probably around 50, quite stocky, not terribly tall but with a balding head and carrying a rucksack. ibid. rozzer
A police officer looked at the CCTV image and recognised the person there as Edward Tenniswood. ibid.
THATCHER, COLIN: Crime Stories TV -
January 21st 1983: In Regina, Saskatchewan, police attend a crime scene near the home of the provincial government; behind the tape-line a well known citizen lies dead in a pool of blood. Before long a politician named Colin Thatcher is a suspect in a widening web of intrigue and deception. Crime Stories s1e10: The Conservative Killer, 2006
Thatcher Charged With Killing Ex-Wife. ibid. newspaper headline
Thatcher is sentenced to life in prison with no chance of parole for 25 years. ibid.
THEESFELD, BRANDON: True Crime Recaps 2023 -
2019: She thought she was pregnant; he wasn’t ready to be a father. The next morning police found her body full of bullet holes. True Crime Recaps: Killer Boyfriend Exposed: The Shocking Love Story of Ally Kostial, Youtube 13.15, 2023
Her boyfriend: a rich kid from Texas who thought daddy’s money would keep him out of trouble: Brandon Theesfeld. ibid.
THERIAULT, ROCH [viz also Cults]: Roch Theriault - Ross Laver - This Day in History online -
Prepare. His power and anger will destroy everything. Roch Theriault
Roch in that period of time managed to convince his followers that he was some kind of latter-day Moses. And he began to preach to his followers and present himself as some kind of an Old Testament prophet which gave him enormous power over the people gathered around him. Ross Laver, co-author Savage Messiah
His father was a very very militant conservative Catholic belonging to a sect called The White Berets. And partly as a result of that Roch grew up hating the Catholic Church. He became attracted to the Seventh Day Adventist Church ... He was recruited by the church in part because he proved to be an absolutely brilliant sales-person. ibid.
Roch Theriault fatally wounds Solange Boislard in Ontario, Canada. Theriault, the leader of the most bizarre and violent cult in Canadian history, often physically abused his followers. Obsessed with anatomy and medicine, Theriault performed crude intestinal surgery on Boislard by slicing open her abdomen and ripping out a piece of intestine with his bare hands. He then ordered another follower to stitch up the wound with a needle and thread. When she died the next day in agonizing pain, he sawed off the top of her head, and then sexually assaulted her. Before burying the woman, he removed a rib, which he wore around his neck.
Theriault was arrested and charged with murder the following year after another cult member, whose arm had been hacked off by Theriault with a meat cleaver, told hospital authorities what had happened. At his trial in 1993, even more horrific tales came to light. The cult leader had burned women with a welding torch, put vice-grips on their nipples, and cut their fingers off with a wire cutter. The alcoholic and delusional Theriault apparently thought he was driving the devil out of them.
Theriault also demanded sex from all of the women members in an attempt to increase the number of cult members through children. After a new member of the cult, an escapee from a mental hospital, beat a child at the compound, Theriault performed ‘surgery’ on the child. When the child then died, Theriault castrated the man as punishment. After authorities learned about some of the activities at the ranch, they removed all of the children.