An Indiana man arrested last week for the murder of his wife choked her and stabbed her more than 40 times after she didn’t respond the way he thought she should to his Valentine’s Day plans.
Taylor Meyer, 34, also sent a photo of 35-year-old Deborah Meyer’s body to a man he believed she was seeing behind his back, Law&Crime reported, citing a probable cause affidavit.. He captioned the photo “Your fault.”
Meyer was arrested Friday night at his Jeffersonville home after police responded to a call about a domestic disturbance, as CrimeOnline reported. Officers were unable to get anyone to come to the door, but as they prepared to breach it, Meyer opened the garage door and stepped out, behaving “aggressively” toward the officers, forcing them to call for help from state police.
Once inside, the officers found Deborah Meyer’s body.
Police said they responded to the home after receiving a call from a man who said he’d gotten a call on Deborah Meyer’s phone and could hear her screaming in the background for help, the probable cause affidavit said. The call apparently came from a co-worker that Taylor Meyer believed was his wife’s boyfriend.
He drove to the home and, while speaking with officers on the scene, received the text showing Deborah Meyer’s body. Police breached the door and found the body and the couple’s three young children, all under the age of 5. They had not been physically harmed.
Meyer reportedly confessed during an interview with detectives, although he later entered a not guilty plea in court. Meyer told police he had seen a photo of his wife holding hands with the co-worker in January and it “strained” their marriage.
On Valentine’s Day, he said he went all out, setting up a “Bringing Paris to you” theme that included having the children “draw pictures of the Eiffel Tower as decorations.”
“It was the hardest I’ve ever tried,” he said during the interview. “She just didn’t give a s***.”
After dinner, the couple fought, and she left the hose “right when [her] boyfriend [got] off work.” He was upset that he was left alone with the kids, telling police that his wife goes out every Saturday night “and f**** whoever,” but she came back 20 minutes later.
While she was in the bathroom, Meyer said he tried to read her messages on her smart watch, then demanded her cell phone when she came out. Then they got into a physical fight.
“He stated that during the argument she punched him in the face and he grabbed her and took the cellular phone and told her, ‘I’m stronger than you,’” the affidavit states. “Meyer told me during this initial interview at the hospital that it was ‘all wrestling and hitting, and I started choking her. She hit me with a water bottle and I hit her with a wine bottle and then I went and got the knife.’”
He descxribed the knife as a “big ass kitchen knife, a long one.” Deborah Meyer asked him if he planned to kill her “and leave our kids with no parents,” and he pinned her to the ground while he went through her cell phone. He said he called the alleged boyfriend and told him “It’s your f****** fault. You want to ruin my marriage and tear my family apart” while his wife screamed in the background.
Then, he told police, he went back to choking her and hit her with a wine bottle until she was unconsious. He said he wasn’t sure she was dead, so he stabbed her repeated in the chest and then sent the photo to the “boyfriend.”
Meyer is being held without bond and is due back in court on March 18.
