Michigan State Police crime lab technicians were called in to process the scene and remove the bodies from shallow graves just outside a bedroom window. “If there were no tips, it’s hard telling how long it would have gone before we discovered the remains,” he said. “Once we got on the scene and started digging, it didn’t take an hour to come across the first body,” Germond said. Taylor’s estranged wife then went to police with a story about him once telling her he murdered and buried four people in Michigan.Īfter getting the telephone call from Texas, Germond said trusty workers from the jail were quickly driven to Taylor’s former Loch Erin home to dig for bodies that might be buried there. Taylor was arrested in Houston a day earlier for a sexual assault.

Taylor’s Loch Erin connection came to light after authorities in Houston, Texas, contacted the Lenawee County Sheriff’s Department on May 22, 1975. “That was a huge case,” said retired Lenawee County Sheriff Richard Germond. He was convicted of murdering two women in the state of Washington and sentenced to life in prison. Taylor became a suspect in as many as 20 unsolved murders across the country. A search for additional bodies at the house on Kingsley Drive was followed by television news cameras for several days. The bodies of two Toledo women were unearthed in the backyard of a secluded house where Gary Addison Taylor lived for a year. A gruesome discovery 40 years ago today at Loch Erin began the unraveling of a serial killer’s crimes in Michigan, Washington and Texas.

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