Evidently the Police are going to go with the lie the victim was in a relationship with her murderer and that simply is not true!!
NWFL Daily News Article By TOM McLAUGHLIN

Posted at 5:20 PM
Updated at 5:20 PM
“I stabbed her to death. Almost decapitation,” Stephen Taylor boasted in a text message to his brother-in-law and sister.
Sandra “Sandy” Graves told Stephen Taylor she didn’t need his help.
That was enough to make him decide to kill her, according to a probable cause affidavit filed by the DeFuniak Springs Police Department.
Taylor readily confessed to Sunday’s murder of the 38-year-old Graves after he was arrested the next day. He has been charged with first-degree premeditated murder, burglary with assault and theft of a motor vehicle.
On Monday night, Taylor sent text messages to his brother-in-law and sister, telling them about the murder and letting them know where police could find him.
“Have a cop call me and I’ll meet them somewhere in dfs,” one text message said.
In some of the messages, Taylor described his crime in graphic detail, even evoking the name of demonized convicted serial killer “Charles Manson” to describe the “gruesome” appearance of the crime scene.
“I stabbed her to death. Almost decapitation,” he boasted, then closed his text with smiling memes.
Taylor told police that he and Graves had met while working at the Beef O’Brady’s restaurant on U.S. Highway 331 and had “been in a past relationship,” according to the affidavit filed by Det. Phil Austin.
“Taylor further stated he’d attempted to help (Graves) with a difficult customer and she’d told him she didn’t need his help,” Austin reported. “He stated the incident occurred a few weeks prior and he (had) been upset and contemplating the murder of (Graves) for the past couple of weeks.”

A 36-year-old resident of Santa Rosa Beach, Taylor told Austin that he broke into Graves’ home at about 1 p.m. Sunday “with the intent of killing her upon her return home.”
Three-and-a-half hours later, Graves arrived at her 10th Street home in DeFuniak Springs and Taylor “confronted her and made her get on her knees,” the report said. He stabbed her fatally in the neck when she tried to run away.
Graves had been dead for more than 24 hours when, while “in her car joy riding,” Taylor apparently decided to notify his relatives of what he’d done.
His rambling texts described where police could find Graves’ body. He told family members how long ago he had committed the crime and informed them that he had got the clothes he wore and the knife he used with him in the victim’s car.
“When you call the cops you might want to tell him to come deep like 10 of them because I don’t have any plans about fighting and they better have guns drawn,” one text says.
“Obviously you guys know that I’m mentally ill,” says another.
Taylor told his brother-in-law that he decided to contact his sister because she “would most definitely call the cops on me.”
“I’m truly am sorry (sic) for involving you but I know you guys do it,” his text message read.
The rambling ends with Taylor’s call for his brother-in-law to “tell mom too” about what he’d done, and to comfort his children.
“Make sure my kids know that I did love them and I’m sorry I wasn’t who they needed as a father and dad,” it said. “Goodbye man.”
Taylor’s sister did call the Police Department, which had officers enter Graves’ home and confirm the homicide.
DeFuniak Springs Police Sgt. Corey Webster and patrolman Chuwan Boros took Taylor into custody at just before 8 p.m. Monday. He was sitting inside a local Burger King and offered no resistance.
While DeFuniak Springs Police Department paperwork states that Taylor has been charged with first-degree premeditated murder, the State Attorney’s Office, which will prosecute the case, cannot formalize the charge without an indictment.
The case will go before a grand jury “in the next couple of weeks,” said Greg Anchors, chief assistant state attorney for the First Judicial Circuit State Attorney’s Office in Walton County.
Anchors said it’s too early to say whether the state will pursue the death penalty for Taylor.
Taylor is no stranger to law enforcement authorities and his past behavior indicates a penchant for violence.
He was sentenced in 2012 to serve just over a year in state prison for aggravated stalking and assaulting a public safety officer. That sentence was to be served concurrently with charges Taylor was facing in Walton County for written threats to kill or do bodily harm. He was given two years in prison for that in 2013.
Walton County court records also indicate Taylor had faced charges of battery and intimidating a witness and domestic violence.
