Dr. Insanity - Student Kills Her Teacher, Thinks She Can Get Away With It[With Video]
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froy of the mountains blue.
The froy at its summit.
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t'en've been a fraud.
Celebrate in a fashion responsible,
you have to have the age legal to consume
the alcohol.
Taylor, Officer Hendricks.
I mean, I don't know the car is stolen.
Okay, it's not stolen yet, okay?
But the owner was found deceased.
That's where we're at.
This is Taylor Alkins.
Just two hours ago, Taylor's teacher,
teacher, 72-year-old William Dubois, was discovered, brutally beaten, and deceased inside his home.
Hey, are they all the Saturday? Really?
What's interesting is that days later, Taylor would be found driving her now dead teacher's car.
Do you know why that's Bill's car? Because he's dead.
I don't know. I don't pay attention to him. But he's been beaten to him. He's been being too dead. And you're driving the car.
And you're driving the car.
I don't know that you ain't got something to do with it.
But what seemed like a straightforward case would turn out to be a complicated mess
of neighborhood drama, secret affairs, and deadly conflicts.
I was in bed and I heard a big place.
That's something wrong.
I called a place on the other side.
I've said if anybody did anything, it would be them.
Could be a burglary.
Could be somebody that he wronged and they're coming back for vengeance.
You're a rude, cold, heartless murderer.
This is not going to go away.
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 rest of your fucking life.
On July 11, 2019, officers in Fort Smith, Arkansas,
received a call from a neighbor requesting a welfare check
at the home of 72-year-old William Dubois, Jr.
The neighbor had grown increasingly worried
when he heard an unusual noise coming from William's home,
a few days earlier and had seen no sign of him since.
Officers were quickly dispatched to investigate further.
Hello.
How are you, ma'am?
This is Denton Stringer, the neighbor who called 911 to request a welfare check.
He would soon prove to be more involved in this case than just being a neighbor.
He's not answered?
He's not answered, but I was laying in my bed there than I.
Something falls, sound like a big...
Does he have a car?
Yeah, a car, but...
Where's his car?
His car's been gone for two, three days.
Well, maybe he's gone.
Okay.
He would told us.
Okay.
He would told us, ma'am.
Okay.
You know what position?
His bedroom is at?
Back that way, I'll say.
Okay.
I'll come back and talk to him just a second, okay?
The officer believes William might just have left.
That is, until she discovers a disturbing odor
coming from inside the house.
Why, 9th station?
Can we have an operator, meet me on three, please?
Due to the unusual situation,
Officer Hendricks calls for a backup officer
who arrived quickly and would be briefed on the discoveries.
I have one piece of mail.
He said two nights ago, he heard a really loud boom.
There's an odd smell when I opened the door.
No flies up here.
When I rounded the corner, you only get it every now and then.
Wait till you round the corner.
That's when I really...
Yeah, I'm getting it every night here.
I know that smell.
That odor could have been coming from the trash can,
but Officer Hendricks was convinced it was coming from inside the house.
The officers needed to get in.
However, a strange odor alone was not enough to obtain a search warrant.
So, Officer Hendricks decided to ask around the neighborhood.
She would soon discover that Denton Stringer had done some suspicious things since Williams' disappearance.
But before we get to that, situations like these can be especially traumatizing for those working the case,
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month of therapy. With that said, let's get back to the officers on the scene. Officer Hendricks
didn't waste any time and decided to head to the store directly across from William's house
to see if anyone had seen or heard anything. Yeah, it's hot, so. Okay, so the neighbor over there says
that that man sometimes comes over and talks with y'all. It's not somebody saw him or his car.
So she's a sin.
I've not seen it probably two days, but that's what he's saying.
I'm not for sure when the last time that I know it's been to two days that it has all down there.
Yeah, the next people next door, we've had some problems,
not necessarily, but they fight out there.
But Bill's always been really great to watch our place.
Okay.
The guy and the neighbor, there's some.
There's this.
He came over here to talk Bill's number on the 1-800 number,
and listen, I call the police on the other side,
because of the women out there fighting and everything screwed.
from the kids.
On his side?
Yes.
Okay.
So I've said if anybody did anything, it would be them.
I mean, that's easy.
And I'm like, you can be to say that.
But because it's just odd that they come over here and he's telling us to call
a deal like this.
She should check on this one.
Yeah, that's what he said.
He said his daughter stole his phone.
27-0.
Hey, he was a teacher at my junior high.
So these people over here,
are saying that the guy next door is like always has some type of drama going on.
Him and whoever are always fighting.
Not him and Bill, but him and someone else.
I mean, worst case scenarios, somebody's, you know, done something bad and took his car.
What the shop owner just revealed is very significant.
Firstly, William, who is known around the neighborhood by Bill, hasn't been seen for the past two to three days.
which is highly unusual, according to the shop owner.
Secondly, William's neighbor, Denton Stringer,
is known to have frequent drama at his house involving various women.
Recently, Denton had asked the shop owner to call William to check on him,
explaining that his daughter had stolen his phone.
If true, this daughter might be the same woman Denton argues with often.
And if she took his phone, there is a possibility she could also be linked to William's car missing.
Finally, the shop owner claims that if something bad happened to William, it would be them,
suggesting that Denton and the daughter were likely involved.
All of this casts suspicion on both Denton and his daughter.
Officers hope that whatever they find inside William's house might reveal just how involved they were in his disappearance.
With all of this in her head, Officer Hendricks returns to Williams' house,
where officers had managed to contact the landlord for an additional key.
Nothing could have prepared them for the horrifying scene they would discover inside.
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As officers enter the house, they find Williams' lifeless body in the bathroom.
It soon becomes clear that this was no natural passing.
Is that splatter on the door frame?
What?
Is that splatter on the doorline?
Yes, what?
Okay.
There's that right there.
Oh, wow.
Maybe his door was unlocked.
There's no phone either.
What the officers had discovered was nothing short of her wrong.
But the attacker had left a lot of clues, meaning police could piece together a story.
For starters, the body had a strong, rotten smell, indicating that William had likely been dead for over 24 hours.
Throughout the house, shelves and drawers had been left open, with numerous valuables missing.
This initially led investigators to believe it was a robbery.
However, this is where they discovered something very curious.
The front door had been locked from the outside, and there were no signs of forced entry.
Officers realized that a scenario like this couldn't be possible
unless William's attacker somehow had a key to his house.
In other words, whoever did this to William must have a closer connection to him than a random burglar.
This made the shop owner's earlier comments even more interesting to police.
They had mentioned that if anything happened to William, it would probably be dead.
Denton and his so-called daughter, both of whom were close enough to William to have been given a spare key.
So with no better leads, Denton quickly became the main focus of the investigation,
and police began to wonder if he was simply a concerned neighbor,
or if he knew far more about William's death than he was letting on.
I didn't even notice his TV's missing, too.
TV's missing, no wallet, no phone, no force entry.
I think we need to talk to this guy.
He just got here.
Oh, I told Jeff.
Told Jeff what these people.
Yeah, I talked with them over there.
They said he comes over a lot and talks with him.
And they said, if anything ever happened to him,
it would be because of somebody over his apartment.
You notice him.
There's some red fuzz all over the place.
I'm not sure what about them.
He's laying on the blanket that the fuzz I think came from.
But there's fuzz in, like, the kitchen.
There's fuzz on this couch right here.
all the doors in his bedroom are open keys wallet phone stuff that normally would be laying out
what kind of car did he just tell me it was red it's a red ford focus we have the tag and everything
and corin he just sent out oblo did not release any information just said just stop this vehicle
notify our department to find answers the cops needed to locate that red ford focus which was now
on the radar of the entire fort smith police department whoever had possession of william's vehicle
could undoubtedly help solve this case.
But the officers had no idea where to start looking
until William's son arrived at the scene,
providing them with a major breakthrough.
That's his son.
That's his son.
10-4.
Every unit out here, please.
Black box in the track.
Yeah.
Did he say where it went, where the cars are?
Mom does that with her cars.
He says there is a truck, but it's not at his mom's house.
Mom does it, but the car's not at the mom's house.
No.
According to the son, William 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 mobile app that could track his location.
The cops now know this tracking device is their only key
to crack the case wide open and catch the killer.
So with this in mind, officers would quickly run.
redirects their attention to Susan's home.
But unfortunately, they'd also have the difficult task of informing Susan that her husband passed away.
I can't.
You've got to sit here and talk to the officers.
Cubby.
Get away he's in the rest.
Hi, Ms. Susan.
I'm sorry meeting you under these circumstances.
I know you.
You know me?
I see you at Northside days.
I have been there.
Now, during, you want to sit down from that?
No, I'm fine.
Okay, alright.
It might be better on your legs.
Yeah.
I'm just, just experienced with, experiencing that.
And every death investigation, we do a complete investigation from top to bottom because we don't want to leave any stone unturned.
Does that make sense?
Yeah.
I'm a retired.
nurse. Okay. What? And we're not saying this is a homicide at this point, okay? No, he had a heart
condition. Right. And he could have fell and hit his head, but there's some blood there that
we're concerned about it. Does that make sense? He probably fell in. Okay. He was acting so
strange Saturday. Here's our biggest issue. He was acting strange Saturday? Okay. Here's our biggest
head right now is the car is missing. Oh no. Yes. Where's your tracker? Do you have a tracker on that
Yes.
Her phone right here, right here.
No, that's Teresa.
Mine's in the little kitchen.
Okay.
Somebody's going to get her phone.
If you can not to get me a location on that car, that's going to help.
It's going to be tremendous.
And it could be the fact that you'd like to somewhere and go to a little bit.
Florida Station, you can get you next up right here to my location.
Off Kelly Highway.
It's parked at a house.
And it's through J.B. Vi-Rider, too.
The car is that J-P?
Who's north?
It's through J-B-Y-Rider.
What?
Okay.
Thanks to Susan, the cops now know where the missing vehicle is.
Without wasting any time, officers quickly leave Susan's house and head towards the location of the car.
But they have no idea who has it or what comes.
of danger they could be facing when they find it. After all, this is the stolen car of a murdered man.
Hello.
How you doing?
Y'all live here?
I don't. I can live here.
Okay.
Yes, sir.
They're looking out the wind. We got people looking up the window, so let's...
You got an ID on you?
Yes, ma'am. I have an ID. I will know it's actually a lot of research.
Channel. Channel.
channel one okay let's go inside let's go inside let's go get your wallet uh no no no you can go
you can do whatever you got to oh hang tight we're going to be parked there for a second
go where whoever uh go inside with us i 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 what's going on i don't know let's go over here
You got something wrong?
Yeah, something's going on.
Go over there, and we'll explain it to you.
It seems there's someone in this house who wants to avoid the cops.
And these officers know they could be walking into an ambush,
so everybody behind that door is a person of interest.
Okay, so basically they came out the back.
They tried to go out the back.
They said they were going outside of smoke.
Somebody just shut the front door on me, so.
Okay.
Hey, come out with your hands up.
We know you're in here. Come out.
Boris Smith Police Department.
Go ahead, hold traffic.
Yeah, left for 33.
Hey, hey, come out.
Come out.
It's okay.
It's okay.
Just come out on the side of the house.
What are we doing wrong?
Who else is here?
We're going to explain that.
We're going to explain that.
Who else is in here?
Come on.
Just walk out to that side of the house for me.
Who else is in here?
Does anybody else in here?
Just walk out here, right here.
To the right. Thank you.
What's going on here?
No.
Taylor, Elkins.
That's just Taylor, okay.
Who else is in here?
Okay.
Go ahead and step out.
No, go ahead and sit down.
Forrest Moved Police is your last time to come out freely.
Come out with your hands up.
Keep your hands in the air where I can see them.
Keep your hands in the air where I can see them.
Good, keep walking.
Keep walking.
Walk toward me.
Randall Perkins, correct?
Pickets.
Pickets.
Okay, Randall, go ahead, step off.
that porch until you're right on the side of the house, okay?
Okay. Who else is back here?
Be real with me.
I don't know who are okay, no.
Officers would go on to conduct a room-by-room sweep of the house
and confirm it was empty before returning outside to face a different challenge,
a handful of detained suspects with potential ties to William's missing car.
Among the small group, officers noted a mix of faces,
some nervous, some indifferent,
but it wasn't immediately clear who knew what
until the question of the red car came up.
All these subjects were inside the house.
When asked any of them who's this red car,
they all pointed to Taylor Elkins.
The moment officer Shelby asked who owned the red Ford parked out front,
everyone pointed without hesitation at the same person,
Taylor Elkins.
The first woman who exited the house earlier
when police barged inside.
Having possession of a man,
man's car who had just turned up dead is naturally going to raise suspicion. And surprisingly,
Taylor herself would go on to admit that indeed the car belongs to her.
Here's the deal. One of the females that we got out of here, when I said, well, who's this car
belonged to her? Everyone, one's that, one female. I said, that's your car? She said, yeah,
my car.
With this revelation, the focus was pinned directly on Taylor,
and it was time for her to explain how she ended up in the possession of a dead man's car.
Taylor, Officer Hendricks, obviously.
Did he redo your Miranda rides?
He did.
Like your rides, your rights, your rights been an attorney, everything like that.
Okay. Where'd you get the car?
I already told him.
You tell me.
Okay, yeah, that board was.
It's just, like, a friend.
His name's Sean Bell was my name.
White or black?
He's wife, but I don't even think he thought it was stolen.
No, I didn't say it was stolen.
No, I'm saying, like, I don't know.
Okay, I'm just asking about how he got it, though.
Okay.
I was saying, like, dude, wait.
You got your phone on you?
No, I don't got nothing.
Where's your phone out in there?
I don't got a phone.
Come on, everybody got a phone.
No.
She didn't have phone on a rest of her two weeks, too.
Thank you.
I really had done.
My daughter and shat in the worst thing.
She had used her girlfriend's phone at the time.
So you got it from Sean, the first entrance, off of Albert Pike, to 4201, Kincaid.
I don't know the address.
He's a crack here.
That's why I don't.
Okay.
Give him any money for it or anything?
No, he likes me like that.
What's his friend?
What's his name on Facebook?
I don't know.
I don't know.
I don't have a phone.
I don't get on my Facebook no more.
Okay. All right.
Despite Taylor's vague recollection of how she came in possession of William
car, officers managed to get a name from her. Sean, who is a friend of Taylor that she borrowed
the car from, or at least that's what she claims. If her story is not a complete fabrication,
then whoever Sean is could be the key to solving this case. However, it's at this time
that officers realized they didn't know nearly enough about Taylor, her background, her relationships,
and whether she might be tied to Denton Stringer, the neighbor who was already under suspicion.
So over the next few minutes, we will follow these officers in real time
as they connects the dots and discover critical information
in one of the best detective works we have ever covered.
Hey, I arrested her.
Like, two weeks ago?
Or Elkins.
Danielle Shon.
Is he a white guy?
Yeah.
I think that's a baby daddy to her or something like that.
Is she a baby daddy?
She's got two kids.
Okay.
Yes.
Hey, check them.
come here that's taylor's grandparents house that's that's what i said because the address
looked familiar and then when i heard she was coming out here it's like i know this chick hey are they
homeless that or i don't know so you beat to that really where's she at taylor she's in the back of show
this car hey you know that's her grandparents house right the south greenwood address is her
grandparents house hers yeah i swear to you she's bonded out to that address out of crofton county
She's got like 10 felonies pending.
I swear to you, is it?
The officer just made a crucial connection.
Taylor's last known address given to police during her previous arrest was her grandparents' house,
and the same duplex that William lived in.
Shut up.
Did you tell Shelby that?
I said, I think that's, yeah.
1,800 stop during the wood.
Hey, Sarge
Sarge, Sarge
Sarge
Sarge.
Give me just some.
Her address
is the neighbor's
Her address.
Huh?
Her address
is the neighbor's
Her uncle
or her grandpa
or her dad.
That's what I'm telling you.
That's her grandpa's house
and she's bonded out of there.
She's got like 10 people down there.
1800 South Grandwood is all
an ISIS about it.
I think we
emphasis.
She's bonded out there
because I arrested her two weeks ago
and then like
what we got
After her addresses.
The 1,800 South Greenwood.
She's been, she's got domestic assault, the guy that called it in.
Wow.
That's his is 1,800 because our guys is 1800.
The officers figured it out.
The two prime suspects were related.
Taylor was Denton's granddaughter, and likely the daughter, the woman in the shop, had found suspicious earlier.
But what these officers are about to discover next would put the spotlight solely on Taylor.
Malman has her on camera leaving on the 8th in the car, leaving the address.
Eighth, yeah.
About 3 days?
Yeah, about 3 days, yeah.
This is Monday night?
Yeah, the decomp path.
Yeah, it's about 2 days, 3 days.
With this final piece of evidence, it is safe to conclude that Taylor Elkins has a major role in William's death,
and detectives needed to get to the bottom of her involvement.
The other detained individuals were briefly questioned,
but no one had direct ties to William or knew anything about the stolen vehicle,
so with no solid evidence against them, they were released.
With the on-scene investigation at its end, the next move was obvious,
taking Taylor in for a formal interrogation.
A few hours later, Taylor is placed inside an interrogation room
and left by herself for the next 10 minutes,
giving her enough time to come up with a plausible alibi to go with.
What Taylor doesn't realize is that when the detective walks in,
he has information that will completely disprove every excuse she has.
Hello, how are you?
Good been better.
All right, Taylor, so you know why you're down here, right?
Yeah, yeah.
Why are you down here?
So probably the car stolen. I don't know. Um, I had it in my, well, I didn't have it in my, um,
cause, well, I don't know how to say it. It wasn't in my property. I didn't, I wasn't in the
bar or nothing like that, but it was stolen and everybody pointed their fingers at me. And I mean,
I admit it to driving it, so yeah. Okay. And where did you get it from?
Just do you know Sean. Sean, who? I don't know his last name. I really, I don't know
my name. I was, I say hate to him, basically. I look.
He's a friend, like he does drugs, you know, so I mean, you don't, I don't know, everyone's, last night.
You've been arrested lately?
Yeah.
What's the last time you arrested?
Last week.
That's how I got my kid thinking.
Okay.
It was Miller and this other guy.
And when you bonded out?
Uh, I finished one.
Okay, what address do you use when you bond out?
It's winter.
Sure.
Or was my grandpa's.
Who's your grandpa?
Didn't.
Did you have bought it out, too?
Oh, okay.
Yeah, I'm buying it.
Did he bond you out?
No.
Oh, okay.
No.
Where's his address?
He got 40, 1800.
1800, what?
Greenwood.
Avenue.
Okay, which last time prior to that you were over there?
Two days ago.
And what were you doing over there?
My grandpa.
I didn't bond it out of it.
I just chill over there.
Just chill over there?
Yeah.
In just a few minutes, this detective was able to make Taylor confirm most of the evidence
connecting her to the crime.
In her own word,
In words, Taylor admitted that Denton Stringer is indeed her grandfather.
She had William's car for a few days, and most importantly, she was at Denton's house the same period when William was killed.
But this detective was just getting started, and he's about to make Taylor dig her own grave.
So what about the guy that was that next door to him? You know him?
Yeah.
Who's that?
He named Bill.
Bill what?
I don't know.
Oh.
I don't know people like me.
Oh.
Yeah.
How was Bill?
Oh.
I don't know.
What's that time you've seen Bill?
I don't know.
I don't know.
I don't know.
He works in that.
So this car you've been riding around in.
Whose car is that?
I don't know.
You never seen that car before?
I've seen it.
Where?
There.
Where?
Oh my.
Where, Taylor?
Oh, my God.
Where's his car?
Where's Taylor?
There.
There, that's his car.
Oh, fuck.
Damn.
Wow.
I think you kind of knew that.
No, I didn't.
I really got in.
Thank you did.
I didn't.
I think you did.
I think you know Bill.
I know Bill, yeah.
I don't know Bill, yeah.
I don't know him.
And when it's last time you see him?
Like he said.
Like he comes in now.
I don't know. I don't pay attention to him.
He didn't even do me.
Really?
Yeah, you ain't nothing to do me.
You haven't got all the fence of all of a sudden on me.
I'm just kind of curious.
Because you all over my face now.
No, you got all the fence before I ever still.
No, like you're in my face.
I want to make sure that we're understanding each other.
And we are.
Okay.
I really, I don't like, I don't know.
I don't like pay attention.
I may do the own thing all the time.
Okay.
Okay, I'm just trying to figure out if you're being honest with me.
Taylor is trapped.
She just implicated herself further by admitting that she knows William,
and, to her surprise, was driving his very car.
After this brilliant line of questioning,
the detective tells Taylor to sit tight and leaves the room.
During this time, he would make a phone call to Taylor's grandfather, Denton Stringer,
and Denton would tell him that Taylor was at his house a few days ago, along with two white males.
With this information at hand, the detective comes back to the interrogation room with one goal.
Make Taylor confess to whatever she did inside William's home.
You take that?
Hi.
You and me both, girl.
I'm old.
I need my beauty sleep, can't you tell?
Legit tired.
So let me ask you something.
Um,
do you have a phone?
No.
You don't have a phone.
How come?
I was on her Saturday.
She did what?
She did what?
Oh, how do you have that phone?
Huh?
How long have you been with that phone?
Okay.
Tegar, you, uh, you went to your dad's today.
Were you there earlier this week back Monday or Tuesday?
Let me rephrase that. You were there earlier this week and you had two white males with you.
Who was those two white guys that were with you?
I don't know.
Because I've already talked to your grandpa.
Okay?
And right there by the side, your grandpa is at school?
Yeah.
That school's got video and it shows you showing up with two white males.
I'm just kind of curious.
Who are those two white males on them?
Oh, man.
I don't even remember two white males.
You know?
So, you don't believe that's Bill's car?
I mean, if it is, that's fucking amazing.
Even when directly confronted with undeniable facts, Taylor continues to play dumb,
even making a mockery of the entire situation.
So, in order to make it clear to Taylor that this is a serious situation,
the detective would reveal the true reason she's in the interrogation room,
because she is a murder suspect.
Do you know why that's Bill's car?
What?
Because he's dead.
They beat him to death.
And you're driving the car from a man who's been beat to death.
I don't know that you ain't got something to do 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 good.
He's been beat to dead.
No.
You think of mine?
Why the hell you think I'm here?
Do you know why I'm here?
Do you know what my title is?
Homicide.
Hey, it's got real.
You talk about losing your girls?
You're losing for a lifetime.
What are you doing a thing, though?
You know what?
You're knee-deep in this shit right now.
I'm not really good at real.
You better start coming clean with you what you know.
I'm just letting you know.
Here's where 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 Taylor
because I can promise you I'm really good at what I do.
If I can catch you in a lie, and if you lie to me, I will.
I will put you in prison for the rest of your little life.
Just know that.
Now that Taylor understands the severity of everything and is deeply emotional,
the detective will seize the moment to confront her
by exploiting her vulnerable state in hopes that the emotional pressure will break her defenses
and compel her to finally tell the truth.
I'm not threatening you.
I'm not going to be a day.
I have a promise in you.
So if you give a damn,
about field.
I guess
if you didn't kill him
if you didn't beat the hell out of that old man
you're driving a car
that was taken after they beat him
you better come up with who had this damn car
or who you took over there with you
that seen him and went back and targeted him.
I told you.
Listen to me.
Here's the truth.
You better start coming up with some full names
because you know what?
Who do you need to think of right now?
Who's the most important person
in your life right now?
You and your babies
You better take care of them
I tell you
You better think
You better think hard
Because I got it all night
Hell I get paid by the hour
I'll 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 people
Who probably killed him
He told you I got the car
Shot who
In the apartment that you pointed out
Yeah
The guy, old man
died and had an heart attack and died in one last week and the other one's got an old woman that
lives in it. I'm just, I'm giving you an opportunity right now. I mean, I'm telling you. Okay,
tell me. I told you. I'm telling you. Like, bro. Let me ask me this. If you had to get Sean right
now, where did you go get him back? One apartment number. One apartment number. In the corner,
If there's 4, 5, 6, 7, it's either 5 or 6.
Now it seems like Taylor has a story to prove her alibi.
Taylor claims that William's car belongs to a man named Sean,
who she borrowed the car from recently.
If what she's saying is true,
then Sean could very well be the perpetrator of this evil crime.
However, Taylor would also proceed to point more accusations towards Sean,
telling the detective that he assaulted her, ruined her life, and took her kids away.
This means that Taylor was likely involved in a relationship with Sean for a good amount of time.
But what's strange about this entire story is that
every time the detective asks Taylor for personal information about this Sean guy,
she dodges the questions and refuses to give any information away.
So, with Taylor seemingly uncooperative,
the detective would end this interview to get to the bottom of her claims
and figure out who Sean really is.
And what they discovered would put Taylor in an even worse situation.
You've been thinking about anything?
I don't know, it's like I can talk about it.
I have a little issue.
So this is the guy you saying you got a car from?
Mm-hmm.
Are you sure?
Well, I was talking to he's in jail.
I don't know.
Hope so he's been to jail just June 6th.
I don't know.
You think I'm making this up?
No.
So if he's in jail, I had to give you a car.
It was him.
I had to be sure.
You better rethink this, Taylor.
That's looking like you killed him.
No, yeah.
You think it's funny?
You think it's funny?
No, if that wasn't me.
But you better figure it out then, because you just lied.
Sean, giving her the car, was a completely fabricated story,
and the detective just proved it.
So, with this major lie exposed,
Taylor is taken away to sleep in jail
while detectives work on finding more incriminating evidence against her.
The next day, Taylor is brought back into the interrogation room
in an orange jumpsuit.
This time, the detective has prepared
undeniable evidence
to thoroughly debunk her entire alibi
and make her confess.
Ed?
She did.
You don't know what happened to Bill?
Yeah.
You don't know what happened to Bill?
You believe he's dead now?
Yeah.
You still think this is all joke?
No.
You sleep?
Not any.
You won't sleep.
That's what haunt you.
There's only one way you're ever going to get any relief,
or you're going to get any closure,
and you're going to have to tell us the truth of everything you know,
and you haven't done it yet.
And this will be the hardest thing for you to do.
But it's the only way you're going to get any peace ever.
At a minimum, but if you didn't do it, you know who did?
Are you scared of the person who's involved in this?
I don't know what you're involved in it.
You don't really do you get stuff about people by threatening them.
I'm not threatening.
Girl, I haven't got in your face.
I'm saying like you.
I haven't threatened you.
I'll make you know what's fixing to happen to you.
Hmm.
If you don't believe anything.
I'm sorry?
You don't believe anything?
Liars, okay, and you're a damn liar.
You need to be out there getting a real killer.
Well, you need to be helping us.
If you even cared about the old man that's been beat to 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 me the top.
You're not seeing up, you don't see again and get a better look.
I want you to remember that picture every night of your life.
What you do?
Every night.
Elkins' body language has shifted from cocky and playful to scared and confused.
And just about everything else in between, her behavior would change again after she's allowed to make a phone call to her mother,
where she'd stop pleading innocence and start playing the victim.
She's now going to paint a picture of a man named Joseph Rogers, better known as Joe, that will make him out to be the bad guy.
So we let you talk to your mom.
So now I would like to ask you,
for you to tell us the truth.
The truth, I mean, I told you all the truth today, but I just didn't tell you all of it.
Tell them again what happened and exactly the truth the way it happened, okay?
I said.
Joe came over that time and, um, he asked me what he had in the house and I found him that he didn't have shit.
He's like, when you knock on the door and knock on the door and then he went in.
I left.
That's when I went to McDonald's.
And I came back, he told me he took care of it.
I didn't kill him, though.
I didn't do nothing like that.
When he said he took care of it.
You know me that at the casino?
Because I asked, I kept asking what happened.
Because I didn't want to work in there, so 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 can ask, you know, what happened, what happened, what happened?
He kept telling me that he took care of it,
that it's okay, that he finished him all of all,
and nothing to come about.
about it. And he just kept telling me, he's like, you'd get rid of some TVs, blah, blah, blah.
He's like, I'm not touching him. And that's what I had peep on him. Like, I didn't know if I knew
all that, I wouldn't have took his car, believe me. If I knew he was dead, dead like that,
it's worse than, like, I just.
Elkins has implicated Joe by claiming he'd taken care of William while he was robbing him of his
belongings. She also claims he's behind the whole thing and she was too terrified to stop him.
If this wasn't the third story she came up with, the detectives may have believed her.
But what Elkins doesn't realize is that the detectives have potential evidence that will place
her at the scene of the crime and prove she's been lying all along.
One thing that is concerning is the fact that Bill does have hair in his hand.
okay
and we had a detective down there
Darren has Autossey
who
states that the hair
is the same color as yours
and
Joe doesn't have any hair
so where would that come from?
Because I didn't see my heart
I didn't see my hair simple
you want to put an eyes ball in
yeah
I'll give a hair simple because I didn't
Did you ever see Bill after McDonald's?
If that lock of hair they found on William's body belongs to Elkins,
then her stories will mean nothing,
as the physical evidence will do the talking for her.
But right now, that's not the only thing she has to worry about,
as detectives have even more evidence that proves her.
Her whole story has been a lie from the very beginning,
and it's all thanks to the GPS tracker, William's wife, installed in his car.
That GPS tracker would also help detectives to map everywhere she had been
from the very moment she stepped in the car,
and then used the CCTV to determine who was inside the vehicle.
I know you don't have me. I'm sorry. He's got a job to do. I hope you understand that.
I'll show you another picture.
What's that?
Who is that at?
Well, there he's in a car with you.
And Bill's car.
That's Joe.
Is Joe one killed him?
Joe was with you when you left the house.
And when y'all went to the casino.
Did Joe kill him?
Here's your opportunity.
We got the evidence.
There's a tracker on the car.
We take it straight from when you left there.
You go to Cavanaugh.
You go to the casino.
So you need to get this.
It's real real for you.
quick so you need to think about this because we're fixing to take this to the
prosecutor to get a warrant for you for murder so you better start thinking if you
want to take the rap or you want to be honest because we're we're running out
time no you ain't okay I just showed you I've not I've not yet nothing I didn't
say you watched right I didn't say you watched but I said you know but here's
the thing okay so people are you supposed to come up and tell me right now that
you're protecting him you'll be charged as I protecting him you know what
happened so people just come up and tell me
All talking out of that, people murder somebody.
No.
This is your last year life.
I'll be back to that murder warrant.
Okay.
Come back with it.
Taylor's arrogance with the entire situation
has seemed to finally have caught up to her,
and her extreme stubbornness has left the detectives with no choice
other than to resort to other methods of incriminating suspects,
such as DNA samples, hair samples,
and last but not least, the polygraph.
The polygraph test was done off camera.
However, the polygraph examiner would have some harsh words for Taylor after the test had concluded.
Get there.
Oh, Jesus.
Test your girls are not good.
You were showing deception.
Deception means that you're trying to deceive.
You're not being truthful.
I am.
I brought this in here to show you.
You see that question that says R5?
And then a big spike on it?
No.
That's where you were telling us a lie.
You were lying to me when I asked you in the test.
Were you present when he was attacked?
Not when he was killed.
When I asked you, did you kill him?
Your reading is stronger than that.
Oh, my father.
Oh, my God.
I can't leave.
Because you're just, you know, when I return now, I'm not in the day.
Well, I really don't give a shit if you're in the mood or not.
Of course you don't.
All right?
I'm a rude person.
I'm not a rude person.
Yes, you are.
You're a rude, cold, heartless murderer.
That's what you are.
No, I'm not.
Look at you.
You have no defense for yourself.
I'm locked up.
Because you killed the old man.
No, I don't.
I know what I'm capable of.
Yeah, you're capable of that.
You're right in the middle of all of it.
And why you don't think you're so tough?
I told you all that.
You ain't told us nothing.
You make up everything to point your finger and everybody else.
I don't.
You do, 100%.
This is not going to go away.
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 rest of your fucking life.
Taylor would never formally confess during the rest of the interrogation,
continuing to point fingers, blame others,
sometimes being completely imaginary people,
and playing the victim.
William Dubois Jr. had suffered from 27 impact injuries
and met a terrifying end the day of his death.
The hair sample found in William's hand
was eventually matched to the hair of Taylor's,
adding one final cherry on top to help convict her.
Detectives ultimately believed Elkins was responsible.
Although she didn't confess to the cops,
she allegedly made a confession during her incarceration.
She also told another inmate that she went to William's house to borrow some money and had become angry when he didn't have any.
So out of both frustration and pure evil, she grabbed a hammer and beat the life out of William without any remorse.
Taylor's grandfather, Denton Stringer, was initially investigated as a potential suspect.
However, with no solid evidence connecting him to William's murder or Taylor's involvement, authorities ruled him out.
As for Joseph Rogers and Sean, they were both cleared of any involvement in William's death.
The two had nothing to do with the crime whatsoever, and were simply scapegoats for Taylor to point fingers at.
As for Taylor, she was charged with first-degree murder on October 9, 2019, and in January 2020,
she accepted a plea deal that meant she'd avoid a life sentence.
Instead, she was sentenced to over 40 years in prison.
Her first chance at parole will come in
2009.