I spent most of my day today watching this hearing on-line. Very interesting. No physical evidence ties my buddy (Greg) to the scene. The blood on his bumper (which was a large part of the original prosecutions case) could not even be determined to be human blood. I missed the last part of the day's testimony and apparently that was the real shocker - someone else has apparently confessed to the murder!
Inmate confessed to woman's murder
By Sarah Ovaska, Staff writer
RALEIGH - RALEIGH -- A state prison inmate has confessed to killing the woman that Gregory Taylor was given a life sentence for murdering, a conviction that sent the Cary man to prison for the past 16 years, staff of the N.C. Innocence Inquiry Commission revealed late Thursday.
The other inmate, Craig H. Taylor, 40, who isn't related, has been imprisoned at Lumberton Correctional Institution for the past six years on a habitual felon conviction, according to state prison records. He is also a convicted drug dealer who was living in Raleigh at the time of victim Jacquetta Thomas' death, a commission staff investigator said.
During an interview with commission investigators, Craig Taylor burst into tears, asking them what would happen if he confessed to Thomas' murder.
Gregory Taylor, 47, has steadily maintained his innocence while serving the life sentence for Thomas' murder.
The revelation came near the end of the first of a two-day hearing by an eight-person panel of the commission, meeting to consider Taylor's claim that someone else stabbed and beat Thomas to death in Raleigh in the early morning hours of Sept. 26, 1991.
