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On Valentine’s Day in Jeffersonville, Indiana, a husband called his wife's apparent lover during a heated argument between a married couple that ended in a fatal attack, according to police. Taylor Meyer, 34, told investigators he attacked Deborah Meyer, 36, after his Valentine’s Day plans didn’t go as he’d hoped. Get the full story on this episode of Law&Crime BodyCam.
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00:00It's Valentine's Day at a home in Jeffersonville, Indiana, where police respond, unaware that one couple's date night has taken
00:08a deadly turn.
00:19Jeffersonville Police Department.
00:21According to police, a caller reported hearing a heated argument between the married couple living at the home.
00:30I see specifically somebody's house.
00:35It looks like it's a husband or something because they have the same address.
00:38Police get no answer while initially trying to make contact with anyone at the home.
00:43But seconds later, officers notice a frantic driver speeding toward the scene.
00:49This person's coming in hot, dude. Is this family?
00:53He's probably the other night drive.
00:59Dude, that's family.
01:06Hello.
01:08Is she okay?
01:09Hey.
01:10I called, I called.
01:12We'll sit over here.
01:12Who are you, the her?
01:13Your boyfriend.
01:14You come here.
01:15Her boyfriend.
01:16Huh?
01:16Her boyfriend.
01:17You're her boyfriend?
01:18Yeah.
01:19Okay.
01:20Who lives here?
01:22Debra Meyer.
01:24And who else?
01:25Taylor Meyer.
01:26Okay.
01:28How old's your girlfriend?
01:3037.
01:3037.
01:31Okay.
01:32And she called you?
01:33And who's this?
01:34He called me from her phone.
01:35He called?
01:36I heard her screaming in the background.
01:37Okay.
01:38What was she saying?
01:40She was screaming help and he was, he said, I hope it was worth it and hung up.
01:44Okay.
01:44She was screaming bloody murder.
01:46Okay.
01:47Um, who is he to hurt?
01:50Yeah.
01:50Her husband.
01:52You heard that right.
01:53The man tells police he's the boyfriend of the married woman living at the home and says
01:58he was the one who called after overhearing her scream for help while on the phone.
02:02But listen, are you guys, so you guys are in a, in a relationship?
02:07Is the door going in yet?
02:08No, we can't.
02:09Nobody's answering the door to us.
02:13It wasn't intentional.
02:14I know it's fucked up.
02:15I know.
02:19She needs help.
02:21Okay.
02:22Can you give us any other kind of information what time this call happened and everything else?
02:31Maybe do a ping on her phone so we can verify that she's there.
02:36Okay.
02:36Let's walk down here.
02:37Who's this with you?
02:38Your buddy?
02:39Okay, let's go up here to the front of my car.
02:42So, you...
02:42I don't have a message from you.
02:44Hey.
02:44From who?
02:45Please go in.
02:47Please.
02:47Please.
02:48She needs help.
02:49Please.
02:50Please.
02:51I'm begging you.
02:52I'm begging you.
02:53Okay, hold on.
02:54Suddenly, the caller shows the officer an alarming message sent to him from Debra's phone.
02:59The police said, show Debra badly injured, followed by a message reading, your fault.
03:05Channel, can you start an OIC this way?
03:08Hey, guys.
03:08Guys, we got a picture from him.
03:11We need to lock this down.
03:13We got a picture from him of her on the ground all bloodied up.
03:17So, we need to lock this down.
03:22We're going to set a perimeter here.
03:26Call her as a picture of the female on the ground bloody.
03:32We're going to start a few more units this way.
03:34We've got no answer so far.
03:39All right.
03:402-4.
03:40I'm verifying.
03:41This picture was sent from her cell phone.
03:44It looks like she's down inside.
03:45We need to probably go ahead and get a RT going and go ahead and breach.
03:55While officers at the front door make their way inside to check on the woman, another notices movement by the
04:01garage.
04:02Garage door is opening.
04:03Garage door is opening.
04:07Jeffersonville Police Department.
04:12Garage door.
04:16Garage door.
04:18Put your hands up and walk out towards the sound of my voice.
04:20Do it now.
04:21Contact garage door.
04:22Empty-handed.
04:23You move anymore.
04:24You make any moves or you're going to get shot.
04:25You understand me?
04:26Walk back towards the sound of my voice.
04:29Walk back towards the sound of my voice.
04:31Stop.
04:33Police later identify the man seen here as 34-year-old Taylor Meyer, Deborah's husband,
04:39who is quickly stopped in his tracks when one officer deploys a taser.
04:43Tase him.
04:45Down now.
04:49Down the stairs.
04:51Down the stairs.
04:52Where are your kids?
04:53How many do you have?
04:54My son in the basement.
04:56My daughter.
04:57Information suspect saying.
04:59Son upstairs.
04:59Son in the basement.
05:01Son and daughter upstairs.
05:02Now, we join police inside the home, where Taylor said his wife and three young children reside.
05:08Jack, police, you need to make yourself down here now.
05:12Clear.
05:13Police Department.
05:15If you're in the house, come downstairs now.
05:18Police Department.
05:21Post.
05:22Post.
05:22Oh, we got one right here.
05:23We're right here.
05:24She's 10.
05:25She's 10-0.
05:25She's 10-0.
05:26Two and one.
05:27Police Department.
05:28Anybody inside the house, make yourself known.
05:30Do it now.
05:31You cleared this floor.
05:32No.
05:32No.
05:33Hold on.
05:33I got it right here.
05:34All right.
05:35Hold.
05:35One officer finds Deborah, described as a nurse and mother, dead from multiple apparent stab wounds.
05:42A medical examiner would later determine she had been stabbed around 40 times.
05:48Hold here, bro.
05:49If it's upstairs above the girls, to the right.
05:51We got a basement right here.
05:52We got it.
05:53We got it.
05:53We got it.
05:57Does not have urgent zero status.
06:01God damn it.
06:02Damn it.
06:03Hold.
06:04Give me one.
06:06Hold the door upstairs.
06:07Hold the basement.
06:07We got a knife.
06:10Okay.
06:11This room, let's lock this down.
06:12Police also find a kitchen knife on the bed near the victim.
06:16Other officers check on the kids, determining all three were uninjured, and work to find a
06:21safe place for them.
06:23Meanwhile, police outside have plenty of questions for Taylor.
06:26Where's your wife at?
06:28In the bedroom.
06:29Where's that?
06:31Up the garage step, to the right, first floor.
06:36Wife is upstairs above the garage, to the right.
06:41She's still alive or she dead.
06:42I don't know.
06:45He does not know her 10-0 status.
06:50How does she hurt?
06:52I just need no injuries.
06:53I don't even know what happened.
06:55I choked her.
06:56I hit her.
06:59Taylor admits to stabbing, choking, and hitting his wife.
07:03Next, he's read his Miranda rights before questioning continues.
07:06All right, so we just need to clarify some things.
07:08One, for the welfare of the kids.
07:09Two, with your wife.
07:11You would tell me about what happened, so we can kind of make sure everybody's okay in
07:14there.
07:14As far as your kids.
07:15The kids are fine.
07:16Do what?
07:17The kids are asleep and fine.
07:18Okay.
07:23Why'd you end up killing your wife?
07:26I've been a co-worker for the last two months.
07:27Did you just find out?
07:28No, I found out a month ago.
07:30There you go.
07:30Trying to make things right.
07:32It's hard to hear that.
07:33She doesn't give a f***.
07:34It's a f***er.
07:35Taylor later says he learned of his wife's alleged affair a month prior, when an acquaintance
07:40sent him pictures of her and her alleged lover holding hands at a casino.
07:45Most of them, I don't understand if people would do that.
07:49It's getting cheated on stuff.
07:50I'm not going to act like it's not.
07:51What ended up, what happened tonight, what ended up changing, what escalated the circumstances?
07:57Had a nice romantic night.
07:59Say it one more time.
08:00Had a nice romantic night.
08:04She wasn't appreciative of it, and we had a little argument.
08:08She left.
08:09They left the house?
08:10Yeah, just left the house for about 20 minutes.
08:13Of course, her boyfriend gets off at 11.15, right around the time she leaves, so that didn't
08:18make me happy.
08:19Yeah, it's understandable.
08:21I was back.
08:21I was drinking, and I asked to see her phone so I could find out the truth, and she didn't.
08:28Then she didn't like that and punched me in the face.
08:30Where's she's in the face?
08:31She just punched me in the face.
08:33Why is it hurt at all from it?
08:35I mean, she's a woman.
08:36I'm fine.
08:38I didn't like that.
08:41So you didn't like that, so what happened after she was in the face?
08:44I mean, should I quit confessing everything, or what?
08:47So y'all start stalk arguing for a little bit?
08:51Is that where you said she hit you, then y'all confess everything?
08:54Yeah, I can see her phone so I can find out the truth myself.
08:56Of course, she deleted everything.
08:57I go through her phone, trying to find it all.
08:59She didn't like that.
09:00She punched me, you know?
09:02There's a process.
09:05Do what I did again, sir?
09:05I did what I did.
09:07You did what you did.
09:08Earlier, you were telling me to stab her with the type of knife you stab her with?
09:11I'm not trying to, like, hit you while you're down or anything like that.
09:14I know.
09:16Again, so I'm going to ask again.
09:18I'm not trying to be a jerk.
09:19I know, but you're not the friend of the attempted murderer or murderer or whatever I am right now.
09:26Well, that's why they ran in.
09:28They're going to try to get her medical attention.
09:31They used to stone women to death for cheating on their husbands, and now they just throw away marriages like
09:36it's fucking nothing.
09:37Due to a stuck taser probe, Taylor is transported to a hospital, where we'll catch up with him shortly.
09:43Meanwhile, one investigator breaks the news to their 911 caller.
09:48Did she go to the hospital?
09:49I'm sorry?
09:50Is she okay?
09:51Okay, I'll be honest with you.
09:53She's passed away.
09:54She's deceased.
10:01Yeah, the kids are fine.
10:03Everybody else in the house looks fine.
10:05And he's in custody, okay?
10:07Oh, my God.
10:13I'm already about 34.
10:16I'm good.
10:17Take your time.
10:17Yeah, 34.
10:21You want a leg?
10:22You got the probe somewhere in your shoulder, in my back somewhere.
10:26I don't know if you're going to get married.
10:28Oh, there you go.
10:29Four years.
10:31Four years, three beautiful kids, big house, great life.
10:37What's your idea?
10:38School for a co-worker.
10:41It ain't like it's something that's never happened before, a cheating wife.
10:45Husband goes crazy.
10:47I tried, I tried, we had a, I don't know, went balls to the wall for Valentine's Day, but
10:52she just didn't go f***.
10:53What'd you get her?
10:54F***.
10:56I mean, I had me and the kids draw this, draw the Eiffel Tower on a poster board and made
11:04them like our family restaurant and bought her a dress to change into and she came out
11:10to the waiting room and had like this next shift's restaurant.
11:14Oh, that's cool.
11:15And then, like, had the fireplace and the TV and my kids drawing on the Eiffel Tower like
11:23we'll bring Paris to you because we can't go on vacations and that kind of thing.
11:27And, of course, I bought us both in new outfits and flowers and as far as I've ever tried.
11:35Just didn't give a f***.
11:41So then I went to bed and she just said she left because I told her I didn't feel like
11:47she appreciated any of it and then she then said she didn't want to argue so she drove off
11:53and then we got in an argument in the garage.
11:55I said, oh, you're going to drive off right when your boyfriend gets off work?
11:59That's f***ing convenient.
12:02So then she was gone about 20 minutes.
12:07And I just yelled at her because I said, well, I'll just stay here with the kids like always
12:11because the last two months is what I've been doing while she throws off every Saturday night
12:16and goes, f***s whoever, does whatever, lies in my face about it.
12:22And then when she came back from driving, then we went to the bedroom and I would try to grab
12:32her phone.
12:36I went to grab her smartwatch, which is what I f***ing bought her for Christmas
12:40and she just uses that to hide shit too.
12:43So I tried to grab her phone and she got all f***ing defensive and my property
12:49you're not f***ing touching me, you're not going through it.
12:51And I was like, well, I deserve the truth.
12:53And this is the only way I'm going to get it.
12:57Like I said, and then she punched me in the face when she was scribbling,
13:01trying to grab her phone and I grabbed her bag.
13:05Told her I'm stronger than her.
13:08Taylor now explains that he had planned a special Valentine's Day for his wife
13:13that he says went unappreciated, leading to a fight over her phone and alleged infidelity.
13:18But investigators continued digging for more answers.
13:21Did you have a knife or scissors or?
13:24It was a saw.
13:25A saw?
13:26No, it was just all wrestling and hitting and started choking her.
13:35And she hit me with a water bottle and I grabbed a wine bottle and hit her.
13:41And then I got the knife.
13:44What was the knife at?
13:49In the kitchen.
13:51Did she say anything or are you guys still just kind of going on arguing?
13:55While we were fighting?
13:59I mean, yeah, she was just saying, what are you going to do?
14:02Kill me?
14:03What are you going to do?
14:03Hurt me?
14:04You're going to leave our kids with no parents?
14:08She's yelling for her kids.
14:09She's yelling for the cops.
14:12So I helped her?
14:13I guess, because she probably assumed I would stop if our son came upstairs or something.
14:20And I just told her I'd gone too far.
14:22There's no going back.
14:23So when I crossed the line, there's no just going back.
14:30Where's the, um, what did she say when she saw you had the knife?
14:35Nothing.
14:36She was already unconscious.
14:38Oh, you choked her out?
14:39I guess.
14:43Where's the first place you think you stabbed her?
14:46The only places I stabbed her was all over her chest.
14:50Did you put her in, like, a rear naked chokehold?
14:55At one point.
14:56Were you putting your hands on her or your arm around her?
14:59We initially got in a fight and then she punched me in the face.
15:03I put my hands on her neck, onto the bed like that.
15:08And then we got on the floor and I was sitting on, she was on her belly and I was
15:14sitting on her back while I was going through her phone.
15:19And that's when I called my boyfriend.
15:22Oh, you called a voice call or?
15:24Called him from her phone, yeah.
15:26What, what did you say?
15:27It was stupid shit, it was just like, it's your fault, you want to ruin my marriage and tear my
15:33family apart, it's your fault.
15:36And that's when he called the cops.
15:39How'd you get his number?
15:41Was it one that you're familiar with?
15:43What's it saved under?
15:44My best friend.
15:46My best friend.
15:46He was covering it.
15:50Did you send any kind of pictures or anything to boyfriend?
15:56Yeah.
15:57What was that?
15:58It was a picture of her on the floor and I just said your fault.
16:03And so, you know, obviously I'm going down.
16:07I hope he's traumatized over it because fuck him.
16:10He wanted to ruin my marriage and help he's ruin us over it too.
16:15Give a f***ing woman everything, all the kids she wants, beautiful house, which is still f***ing wrecked her heart.
16:23Taylor also admits to calling and texting Deborah's alleged boyfriend during the attack.
16:29Next, the 34-year-old is medically cleared and taken to the police station, where the interview resumes.
16:36So, you run the Valentine's thing by her.
16:41She says it's...
16:43Yeah, sounds nice.
16:45What, did she seem receptive to it?
16:47I mean, was she having a good time or...
16:51My wife?
16:52Yeah.
16:53Yeah.
16:54I don't know.
16:55She's got the resting bitch face where it's just...
16:59Every time she looks at you, it's just like heartless.
17:02She cried when I gave her the card I got her and she thought it was sweet.
17:07You make like a...
17:09It was a good time, I thought.
17:11Did you put like a message in it or just...
17:17The card basically said that...
17:21I know this life we've created has been because of you and I put in there and I was like,
17:30I'm sorry you had to do all this work by yourself.
17:33You'll never have to do it by yourself again because I've been helping better.
17:40And then I played some songs that...
17:44I played our wedding song on the speaker and we slow danced in the living room.
17:50And then we'd go to bed and she seemed like she was over it, just looking at the bed and
17:55she seemed very distant.
17:57And then I asked her what was wrong, thought I did it all right.
18:02And she just said, well, I don't know, shouldn't have took this long for you to do this.
18:08So she kind of just downplayed it because of the past, but I don't do it every year, I guess.
18:18Said she was looking at her Facebook memories and we never did anything like this before.
18:23And I told her that it was going to be our last Valentine's Day, that I wanted it to be
18:28nice.
18:29And I mean that by her leaving me, not by what happened.
18:34Had she filed for divorce?
18:36Talked about it?
18:37Talked about it.
18:37I mean, she's cheating on me actively, cheating on me.
18:40If anybody would be filing...
18:43I just can't do it.
18:44Couldn't do it.
18:46Now I have no self-respect to defend myself.
18:49Just let her walk all over me.
18:51That, hey, I just seemed like I didn't give a f***.
18:55And I'm just like, did I do something wrong?
18:57Well, that, what's the deal?
18:58And then she said that about it.
19:01We never did anything like this before.
19:02Why now?
19:04Because I'm seeing another man.
19:06She said that?
19:07Yeah.
19:08What did you say to that?
19:11That's when I got up and left.
19:13And I was like, how are you going?
19:14I was like, I'm not in a very fall asleep mood right now.
19:17I was going to go get in our hot tub with some wine.
19:21And then I see her leaving at the garage.
19:23And that's when we had our garage argument.
19:26Where in the way are you going?
19:27Can't leave.
19:28Our kids.
19:31I can't get in the hot tub with three kids in the house.
19:34Uncigurized.
19:37And she's like, I'm just going to drive around.
19:39Like, f*** you are.
19:40Their boyfriend gets off working 15 minutes.
19:45So you're pretty put off that your efforts with the Valentine's Day thing are not immune to see.
19:53I mean, not even that naive.
19:55It's just the last month and a half.
19:56Ever since I found out about her cheating, I completely changed my tone and way I was about our life
20:03to be a better man, better husband, better father.
20:06Did she give you any indication that the relationship was going to be, that you guys were going to work
20:11on it?
20:12She agreed to marriage counseling.
20:14Okay.
20:14That was the extent of it.
20:16She still talked to him.
20:17She still hid stuff, lied, snuck out.
20:20Taylor now says the pair had planned to undergo marriage counseling and claims he had made changes to try and
20:26save the relationship that he says was upended by Devers' co-worker, who is no stranger to him.
20:31Had you ever talked to him?
20:33Oh, yeah.
20:34He was right.
20:34Like after January?
20:37No, no.
20:38I messaged him on Facebook.
20:40Did he ever answer?
20:42No.
20:42He used to proceed.
20:44I wasn't, I wasn't, nothing, nothing too crazy.
20:47I said, I sent a picture I received of him holding my wife's hand.
20:50I sent that to him and I said, I have some questions.
20:53He never responded.
20:55A few days later, I said, that's my wife.
20:59And until she isn't, he didn't respect that.
21:02He didn't respect that.
21:03That kept going on.
21:05So they kept talking after that?
21:08Oh, yeah.
21:10Had you seen those communications or just assumed that?
21:14I mean, she's told me.
21:15She told me she'd continue talking to him.
21:19And now they're talking to talk how they really like each other.
21:23And she was waiting on her W-2s to get a divorce from me.
21:27So the main spark tonight was whatever you just called.
21:32I want to see your phone.
21:33Yeah.
21:34Like, I want to find out to what extent I'm being cheated on.
21:38And she came in from her drive and went to our room, went to the bathroom.
21:43I go into our room and I get her smartwatch.
21:47And I was like, I'm just going to go through it.
21:48And I'm going to find out the truth myself.
21:50And then she came out of the bathroom.
21:53What are you looking for?
21:54I was like, I want to see your phone.
21:56I want to know what's really going on because you won't tell me or lie to my face.
22:01And that's when I grabbed her phone.
22:06So then I, like I said, we wrestled a bit.
22:09And then once I was on top of her, she was on her belly.
22:13I started going through it, finding all these sexy pictures that I didn't receive.
22:19Somebody received.
22:21Did you ever see that she was sending any?
22:23Well, no, of course.
22:24They delete all their text messages, cover their tracks.
22:28But no, we had a good relationship.
22:31How did this work?
22:35Where did you go after?
22:37So you choked her to, like, consciousness?
22:40I mean, I feel like it was a split second.
22:42She kind of blacked out from that.
22:43Then I let go.
22:46And she started talking again.
22:49And she got, of course, she was mad that I did that to her.
22:52And, of course, I was like, I don't know what the fuck's going on.
22:56I'm going to cross the line.
22:58Now I need to know.
22:59Now I need to know what's in the problem.
23:02You need to know the truth.
23:04But then we ended up on the floor.
23:06I had the phone in my hand.
23:08And she was on her belly.
23:10And I was just sitting on her back.
23:12I'm a heavy guy.
23:13I'm bigger than her.
23:14I'm heavier.
23:15And I was probably just subduing her while I went through her phone.
23:20Oh, so you did go through her phone?
23:22Yeah.
23:22What is she saying, man?
23:26Just how crazy I would be, really.
23:30I'm not going to find nothing.
23:31And I was asking about the pictures.
23:34And one of the sexy pictures that I never received.
23:37She said, you just took them.
23:39And I bullsh**t.
23:41So then I called.
23:43And told him it was your fault.
23:45Your c*****g fault.
23:47And she was screaming.
23:50Oh, she was still alive then?
23:52Yeah.
23:53I was just on her back.
23:54I didn't do nothing.
23:56So you called the boyfriend while you were sitting on her?
23:59Yeah.
24:00And that's when she was screaming in the phone.
24:03And I was being stupid and telling him it's all his fault.
24:07So after you called this boyfriend.
24:11Yeah.
24:14She's.
24:15You said she was screaming for help by that point?
24:18Yeah.
24:19Saying get off me and stuff and help and stuff like that.
24:23She's struggling?
24:25She's struggling.
24:27She's speaking?
24:28No.
24:29Fighting me.
24:30I don't know.
24:30She was feeling scrappered.
24:35Yeah.
24:37How long did you take?
24:39Do you think you killed her by choking her?
24:42I think so.
24:44I don't know.
24:46Moments later, Taylor reveals that Deborah's alleged boyfriend wasn't the only person he contacted after the brutal attack.
24:52Do you text anybody or call anybody after that or?
24:57Yeah.
24:57I told you I texted her friends.
24:59Okay.
25:00She had a group.
25:00She had a family.
25:02You text them too?
25:03Yeah.
25:04I said I killed Debbie.
25:05She's a cheating lying bitch or something.
25:09What's going through your head when that happens?
25:12I mean, it's just over.
25:14Like I said, I'm not going back.
25:17I've made a mistake and followed through with it, I guess.
25:23Did you want to make sure she was dead?
25:28Was I kind of dead?
25:30I don't know.
25:30I guess.
25:33Because at least, at least I'm going down.
25:39At least she can be f***ing after the summer.
25:44Then it all be for f***ing up in one neck.
25:48I can't be sitting where I'm going to be sitting for a long time while she's out doing what she
25:52wants.
25:56Pretty clean cut case.
26:00Taylor was charged with murder in connection to his wife's stabbing death.
26:20Court records show he pleaded not guilty to the charge
26:23and was later found guilty by a jury after just a two-hour deliberation.
26:27Taylor was sentenced to 65 years behind bars.
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