Jeff, who was in the military and had since remarried, told investigators that he was out of town when his ex-wife disappeared, and his alibi checked out.
"Taylor was 110 percent absolutely bothered by the fact that she didn't have custody of her son," Waller recalled. Authorities, however, focused on the fact that Jeff and Taylor were allegedly in the midst of a contentious custody battle. He claimed that he hadn't heard from his ex-wife since Sept. 9, when she sent him a text message. Even more shockingly, she said that on the day of their meeting, Taylor had picked up the money, put it in a duffel bag, and had taken it with her.Īuthorities reached out to Taylor's ex-husband, who lived in North Carolina, to try to get to the bottom of what was going on. She also, however, revealed new information: Weeks earlier, Taylor had taken $34,000 out of a joint account that she shared with her ex-husband and had given it to Ashley to keep safe during the divorce proceedings. Speaking with the authorities, Ashley recalled that Taylor still seemed stressed at the end of their meeting and that she had gotten into an Uber to go get a drink. They wasted no time speaking with Waller, and when her story checked out, they reached out to Ashley, who was the last person among Taylor's friends to see her before she vanished. After a week passed with no sign of Taylor, Waller filed a missing person’s report, and authorities began an investigation. He then issued a startling warning, telling Waller that Taylor may get angry with her for involving the police in her business and that she should be careful.ĭisturbed, Waller continued to search for her girlfriend and began calling hospitals in the area. Jeff told Waller that their son had also been trying to reach out to Taylor, but he had not gotten any response. Waller then went to the police, who suggested that she reach out to Taylor's ex-husband, Jeff Wright, to investigate further on her own. Taylor's loved ones were also concerned because it was out of character for her to just disappear, especially without first contacting her young son.
Waller knew that Taylor, as a private investigator, had the means and skills to disappear, and she grew worried. She contacted Ashley, who said that Taylor had been stressed and crying throughout the day and needed time to herself. Things got even more strange when Taylor seemingly bailed on dinner plans with her girlfriend, telling Waller via text that she needed a few days to clear her head. "That was the last time that I ever saw Taylor," Waller told “ Buried in the Backyard,” airing Thursdays at 8/7c on Oxygen.Īs the day progressed, Waller lost contact with Taylor when she stopped responding to her text messages. That day, Taylor went out with a friend, Ashley McArthur, in the hopes of relieving some of the stress, but it was a decision that proved to change not only her life, but also the lives of everyone around her. The two had just moved in together and everything was going well, despite the stressful divorce proceedings that Taylor was going through with her ex-husband.
On Sept. 8, 2017, Taylor Wright, a 33-year-old recently-divorced private investigator, was enjoying life with her girlfriend, Casandra Waller.
The fate of a private investigator who went missing in Pensacola, Florida in 2017 proved to an entire community that sometimes, you can’t always trust your friends.
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