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Deborah Taylor

Case from Kansas City, KS dated Dec 11, 1987

Victim Details

Deborah Taylor

Female

Kansas City

KS

1987-12-11

27

Deborah

Taylor

07/01/2026

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Deborah Taylor, 27, female, left home for the last time on December 11, 1987. That day, she was found in a vacant field in Kansas City, strangled to death. Public burial records list her as Deborah Diane Taylor, born October 19, 1960, and laid to rest at Quindaro Cemetery, a spare, grass-lined plot that now carries the weight of a life abbreviated.

For years the case gathered dust while the city moved on, but the evidence didn’t. Samples preserved from the scene—minute traces left on ...
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  • Obituary for Deborah Taylor | Crandell Funeral Home

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