Sergeant John Elliott
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first heard Feb 2025
last heard Feb 2025
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We were trying to figure out how to notify the family we got a name. And this was before I even found where Andrea Taylor was. And their initial plan was to tell them we made some developments, we got a name, and we're still doing work. We felt comfortable, at least at that point, telling them we made progress. Well, me and Noelle from the lab were talking about how we're going to do this.
Kay out of the blue texts me or calls me. She says, oh, I'm in town from California. I was just wondering if you'd give me a call, if there's any updates. I tell Kay, I say, hey, why don't you just come to the station? I haven't seen you in a while, and I'll go over everything with you. And then we tell them everything that we've done.
Noelle tells them that we've identified a name for the process.
But we did tell them, though, it's very preliminary. We got a name, but we got to find a person.
Just because we got the CODIS hit, our procedure is that we have to get a confirmatory DNA sample. So then I had to find Andre Taylor to get a known DNA standard from him to confirm and make the match between the evidence and Andre Taylor.
I used the help of Secret Service and their database, our analysts, to try and come up with where he lived. We had some idea in Washington, D.C., where he lived. And one of my partners and I, we spent a couple of days going through Washington, D.C., trying to find where Andre Taylor was.
And we had no luck because everywhere we went, places either abandoned, one was a homeless shelter, or they had no idea what we were talking about. So we had no idea. I checked with the medical examiner's office in Maryland, D.C., Virginia, and there was no record of Andre Taylor being deceased.
Our thought process is, well, he's receiving some type of money from Social Security. Maybe it's being reported for tax purposes. We're going to contact the IRS, their criminal investigators, and they're going to tell us a bank. that Social Security uses to make automatic deposits. They didn't provide us any type of private information or privileged information.
However, it gave us enough information to obtain a subpoena for a particular bank, and then that gave us an address in Washington, D.C.
In that jurisdiction, we got a search warrant for his DNA. In March, we went to that nursing home, and we found him in room 219. It was March 14th. I remember I went and met with the D.C. detectives at their office. We drive there, and as soon as we walk into the front lobby, the detective I was working with said, hey, we're looking for Mr. Andre Taylor.
The person at the desk says, oh, yeah, he's in room 219. He's upstairs right now.
I go in. I introduce myself. I said, I'm here. I'm working on a cold case from Charles County. I spoke to him for about 20 minutes. I made some very non-confrontational questions. Asked him if he had anything to do with Charles County. He admitted living there. I showed him pictures of Vicky. I said, hey, does this woman look familiar to you?
Could have been a girlfriend of yours, anything like that. And he said, nope, never seen her before. I have no idea who she is. I was very specific. I said, is there any reason why your DNA would be found on her, around her, near her? He said, no. I gave him every explanation he possibly could to see if maybe there is an explanation. You know, is this an ex-girlfriend of yours?
Girl you hooked up with? And he denied knowing her or having any contact with her.
My whole goal with that initial confrontation and contact was to see, is he going to claim that he had any type of sexual contact with her that was consensual? Was Vicky an ex-girlfriend or a complete denial? And he made the complete denial. So he provided no information, said he didn't know her and never had sex with her.
I collected a swab and then we had to send that to the lab to get the confirmation completed.
He was in a nursing home. Because of his health, he was missing one leg. At least in my research, it didn't appear to me that he had a lot of resources where he was going to be a flight risk.
We briefed at the Chatham Center adjacent to the nursing home, go to the nursing home, and then we make the confrontation. He's in a wheelchair outside his room, and then we make the arrest.
My initial concern was getting him into the interview room and getting past Miranda. He'd been arrested 20 or 30 times over his life, two prior murder arrests. And now I'm coming in to talk to him about another murder. And I wanted to get past Miranda. So I was trying to initially build a rapport with him, but he was just staring off into space a little bit.
But I was able to create a little bit of conversation with him, read to Miranda, and we were able to get past that, and he agreed to speak to me.
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