Man found guilty of murdering 16-year-old sex worker for second time after teen’s blood was found in champagne-colored Hyundai with ‘Hustler’ sticker on rear bumper
Rodney Wayne Williams found guilty of murdering pregnant teen
Tiffany Taylor, 16, was pregnant when she disappeared from the Brisbane motel in 2015
Williams had agreed to meet the teen on a dating website and pay for sex
Court told he had driven 100 km with body in passenger seat before the body was dumped
He was also found guilty of murdering Tiffany after a 19-day trial in March 2020
Williams was convicted of murder in 1978 after stabbing his elderly neighbor
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Rodney Wayne Williams has been found guilty of murdering pregnant 16-year-old Tiffany Taylor for the second time in two years.
And Williams, 68, has killed before.
Tiffany was last seen leaving a motel south of Brisbane seven years ago after Williams arranged to meet her on a dating website and pay for sex.
Williams picked up Tiffany near the Waterford West motel in July 2015 and was accused of murdering her in a remote industrial area before disposing of her body in Fernvale, 100 km southwest of Logan.
Her body was never found.
Tiffany Taylor was 16 and pregnant when she was last seen leaving a motel south of Brisbane in 2015. Rodney Wayne Williams was found guilty of murdering her for a second time on Monday.
For the second time in two years, Rodney Williams (pictured) has been found guilty of the murder of Tiffany Taylor after he picked her up near the Waterford West motel in July 2015. He had made an appointment with her on a dating website and paid for sex
Williams was found guilty Monday afternoon after the jury deliberated for nearly five hours in the three-week trial.
He was also found guilty of Tiffany’s murder and sentenced to life in prison after a 19-day trial in March 2020.
But Williams won an appeal in June 2021 and was given a new trial.
Williams was also convicted of murder in 1978.
The court heard Williams created a false trail of communication with Tiffany (pictured) on the dating website after he killed her, with his last message saying: ‘Sorry I didn’t show up, decided I wasn’t going to pay for it’
Williams (pictured in August 2015) was found guilty Monday afternoon after the jury deliberated for nearly five hours into the three-week trial
He stabbed an elderly neighbor in the back during a robbery and was sentenced to life in prison, but was released on parole after 15 years behind bars.
During this month’s retrial, the court heard that Tiffany’s blood and DNA were found in Williams’ gold or champagne-colored Hyundai sedan.
The Crown would show images that he believes show Williams and Tiffany together in his Hyundai with a ‘Hustler’ sticker on the rear bumper.
Williams told police that Tiffany suffered a nosebleed when he picked her up.
He claimed he gave her a lift to Redbank Plains, but changed his story by saying he dropped her off at a truck stop on the Warrego Highway west of Brisbane and hadn’t seen her since.
Tiffany was reported missing by her sister on July 15, three days after meeting Williams at the south Brisbane motel. Her body was never found
He denied having sex with the teen and told police he told Tiffany he had no money, but she insisted on meeting him anyway because she found him interesting after reading his dating website profile.
Images on highway cameras and phone records on cell towers indicated her body was in his vehicle en route to Fernvale, Crown Prosecutor Caroline Marco said.
Ms Marco said images of toll booths showed Williams with a passenger in his Hyundai sedan, with a passenger seen in Heathwood entering the Ipswich motorway.
She said that while it wasn’t the clearest image, it indicated a person slumped in a reclining passenger seat — a person the prosecutor said could be a dead Tiffany.
“As daring as it may sound for a person to put a deceased person in the front seat of the car, remember that his journey was along a highway … … she was asleep,” Ms Marco told the jury.
Williams created a false trail of communication with Tiffany on the dating website after he killed her, the court heard, with his final message saying, “Sorry I didn’t show up, decided I wouldn’t pay for it.”
He was intercepted by officers at a Brisbane train station in August 2015 with a bag of clothing and sentimental items, a day before he was due to be questioned by police.