A Tangled Web - Part 2 (Kevin James & George Taylor)
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What led to Kevin James' murder?
I'm Anastasia Nicolazzi, former New York City homicide prosecutor and host of Investigation Discovery's True Conviction.
And this is Anatomy of Murder. A quick reminder, this is a second episode in a two-part series. So if you haven't yet, go back and listen to part one.
In January of 1998, Kevin James was asleep in his bed when he was shot three times at close range. His execution-style murder left detectives in Moreno Valley, California, searching for clues of who could have wanted him dead.
There were no signs of robbery, but there was a witness, Kevin's 12-year-old son, who claimed that after hearing the gunshots, he saw a man fleeing the house and jumping into a distinctive vintage Buick, a car he knew to belong to a neighbor named George Taylor.
Our main thing was we loved our old cars. And Riviera just looked too nice.
Ever been up to his room?
up to his kid's room, never, ever.
When questioned by Detective Michelle Amicone, Taylor denied having anything to do with Kevin's murder. But inconsistencies in his alibi were raising all kinds of red flags.
He just went all over the place with where he was that night. I want to say it was like a three-hour interview, and nothing was consistent from the beginning to the end. He changed his story two, three times. I mean, nothing was consistent.
Taylor was the prime suspect in the murder of Kevin James, a mechanic, husband, and father of two. But while detectives hunted for the evidence to prove it, the case did take a dark and unexpected turn.
Deputies respond out to the very east end of Moreno Valley to a dead body that's found.
The victim had been shot once in the back of the head. A tattoo on his back helped identify the dead man as Kevin's suspected killer, George Taylor.
George is laying on his stomach. His hands are out, fully extended and above his head. I mean, it looks like he was dragged there and then, boom, left exactly how he had been dragged there and laid.
Despite the gunshot wound to the head, the surprising lack of blood at the scene supported the theory that Taylor was killed elsewhere and dumped in the desert.
And then here's the other interesting thing. So he's muddy. I mean, his clothes are muddy. His face is completely muddy. Everything's muddy. Except for his very white socks on his feet. They are white as can be. It's like, okay, someone took his shoes. Why? Why?
In Michelle's opinion, the two murders of Kevin James and George Taylor were clearly connected. A hunch supported by an autopsy that revealed that both men were killed by .40 caliber ammunition, possibly even fired by the same gun. You know, so Scott, here are the theories. It just, there's so many different ways that you could potentially link these up.
Yeah, I do like the fact that they were able to identify the weapon in both scenes, right? So my first question would probably be perhaps George Taylor did not work alone in the murder. Perhaps it was the person he was involved with who was his accomplice. Or one other way you can look at it is maybe somebody was taking revenge for the death of Kevin James.
And again, right, the caliber of the weapon is not dispositive, but it would be quite a coincidence that two men that knew each other, one being looked at as potentially responsible for the murder of the other, they're both killed by gunfire by the same caliber.
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