Opinion ID: 1936088
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Heading: Family Relations and Events Preceding Disappearance

Text: Shortly after their marriage in 1984, Edith and Taylor moved to the Magnolia Street home where Edith and her two daughters were living at the time of Mildred's disappearance. In the latter part of May 1987, Edith filed for a divorce from Taylor and within days, Taylor moved out of the Magnolia Street house and into a house on Columbus Street in the same neighborhood. Between the time he moved out and the time Mildred disappeared, there continued to be contact between Taylor and Edith, Mildred, and Melissa. On the Wednesday and Thursday before Mildred disappeared, Taylor had, at Edith's request, gone to the Magnolia Street home and repaired the brakes on Mildred's car. On the day of Mildred's disappearance, Taylor had, at about 3:00 p.m., gone to the beauty shop where Edith worked and insisted on talking with her. When she refused, he left angry. When he telephoned her about five minutes later, using profane language and insisting that she talk with him, she hung up on him. In June of 1987, Taylor talked with Stanley Evans, an employee of the laundromat which he used. Evans had worked at the laundromat since his release from Parchman and had seen Taylor in the business but had not known him by name and had engaged in no conversation with him until that date. Taylor told Evans that he had a good woman but they were going to get a divorce ... Taylor got madder and madder as he and Evans talked about women and told Evans that he had to find a way to get even with  that bitch, meaning his wife. Evans quoted Taylor as saying: [H]e said, I know, he said he said, She love them girls so much, he said, I can do something to one of them daughters. He said, I can do something to them daughters, and he said she loved them  she loved them so much that would be the ticket. He said, That will be it. After Mildred's body was found, Evans recounted this conversation to the police.