Women accused of murdering alleged ‘sugar daddy,’ using his severed — and still missing — thumb to make app purchases

Background: Apartment surveillance footage shows victim Fasil Teklemariam (green arrow) entering his Washington, D.C. apartment in 2024 with murder suspect Audrey Miller. Inset top left: Tiffany Taylor Gray. Inset top right: Audrey Miller. Bottom inset: Foot impressions on the floor in Teklemariam

Background: Apartment surveillance footage shows victim Fasil Teklemariam (green arrow) entering his Washington, D.C., apartment in 2024 with murder suspect Audrey Miller. Inset top left: Tiffany Taylor Gray. Inset top right: Audrey Miller. Bottom inset: Foot impressions on the floor in Teklemariam’s home appear after investigators apply Amido Black ink. All photos courtesy Metropolitan Police Department.

Police have arrested and now charged two women, Tiffany Taylor Gray and Audrey Miller, for the April murder of Fasil Teklemariam, a 53-year-old man from Washington, D.C., who was hit over the head, stabbed repeatedly and then had his thumb cut off and allegedly used by his killers to access his accounts and spend his money on Uber ride-shares, marijuana and alcohol.

Gray, 22, a resident of Prince George’s County, Maryland, was arrested on July 1 and charged with first-degree murder and armed felony murder. She is currently being detained in Maryland and is expected to be extradited to Washington, D.C., to face the charges.

Publicly available court records show Miller, 19, was arrested on June 21 for first-degree murder and armed felony murder as well. Though a preliminary hearing was scheduled for Miller on Tuesday, court records show it was vacated and rescheduled for July 30. She is being detained in Washington, D.C.

In an affidavit reviewed by Law&Crime, one witness who claimed to have overheard Gray describing involvement in Teklemariam’s murder said the victim was Gray’s “sugar daddy” but police have not been able to verify this claim.

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