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February 25, 2008
Son Charged with Father’s Dismemberment Murder
LOS ANGELES – A Crenshaw area man was charged today with murdering his father, then dismembering the corpse and dumping the remains before setting them on fire.
Deputy District Attorney Alan Jackson of the Major Crimes Division filed case No. BA336520 against Wayne “Trea” Taylor III, 37 (dob 3-31-1979), as a felony complaint for arrest warrant. Taylor already is in custody on an unrelated sale of marijuana case. He is expected to be arraigned tomorrow in Los Angeles Superior Court Division 30 after first appearing in Department 130 on the marijuana matter.
Jackson said the defendant is charged with murdering his 65-year-old father, Wayne Taylor Jr., on Nov. 22. The body was dismembered, dumped and burned in a building in a fenced-off, isolated strip mall in the Crenshaw area.
A missing person’s report was filed with Los Angeles police, who had already opened an investigation when the victim’s severed head, hands and feet were recovered by firefighters on Dec. 19. The remains, found in a building on Santa Rosalia Drive in the Crenshaw area, had been burned.
Los Angeles police detectives developed subsequent information that led them to the son as a suspect, Jackson said.
Meanwhile, the defendant was in custody on the marijuana case. He had been due in court for a bail motion tomorrow. Bail in that case is $1 million.
In the new case, Wayne Taylor III is charged with one count of murder, one count of arson, one count of assault by means likely to produce great bodily injury with infliction of great bodily injury, and one count of first degree residential robbery.
The assault and robbery charges stem from the defendant allegedly beating his father and take several thousand dollars and a computer on Sept. 30.
Bail on the latest case was recommended at $1.115 million. If convicted, Taylor faces life in prison with the possibility of parole.
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