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Praise for The Accidental Truth

Facing the truth can be painfulbut Lauri Taylors story proves that not knowing is often worse. This is a moving, deeply felt tale.

Dr. Daniel Amen

New York Times best-selling author of Change Your Brain, Change Your Life and The Daniel Plan

Lauri Taylors dogged pursuit of what caused her mothers mysterious death in Mexicos hinterland has produced a remarkable manuscript about her long search for the truth despite encountering a maze of roadblocks on both sides of the American border. Taylor displays the skills of the best investigative reporters as she painstakingly searches for answers in dealing with the numerous frustrations that cops typically encounter in a cold case investigation, particularly one on foreign soil.

The Accidental Truth: What My Mothers Murder Investigation Taught Me About Life, displays all the raw emotion that besets a family when a loved one is lost to violence. It is a well-articulated and told, well-written story the reader wont soon forget.

Pete Noyes

Investigative Journalist, Peabody Award winner, 12-time Emmy winner, and author of the New York Times Best-Selling Legacy of Doubt, Did the Mafia Kill JFK, and The Real LA Confidential.

A captivating and compelling story of perseverance, redemption and the undying love between daughter and mother.

Amy Bourret

Author of Mothers and Other Liars

Many people fantasize about catching a thief, trapping a murderer in a web of lies, or solving a big criminal case. The fact of the matter is that most people dont have the patience, skills, or temperament to even begin to attempt such a massive task, and the professionals usually dont have the desire, time, or clearance to allow a private citizen into an investigation in any real way. However, the murder case of Lauri Taylors mother was one of the very few exceptions to the rule. Lauris story of how we worked together to solve this murder case is riveting and real. I dare you to stop turning the pages!

Candice DeLong

Author of Special Agent: My Life on the Front Lines as a Woman in the FBI

THE ACCIDENTAL TRUTH

This is a true story. All the characters and situations in it are real. I chose to change some names and identifying details of private citizens and people in law enforcement in order to protect their identity. All dialogue has been recreated from transcripts, emails or notes, or is my best recollection of events that occurred.

Copyright 2015 by Clap Along & Company, LLC

All rights reserved. Published in the United States of America. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, graphic, electronic, or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, taping or by any information storage or retrieval system, without the permission in writing from the publisher.

This edition published by SelectBooks, Inc.

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First Edition

ISBN 978-1-59079-269-8

eISBN 978-1-59079-274-2

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Taylor, Lauri.

The accidental truth : what my mothers murder investigation taught me about life : a memoir / by Lauri Taylor. First edition.

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Summary: An Orange County housewife tells the story of her four-year investigation to solve the case of her mothers violent death in Mexico that law enforcement officials declared unsolvable. Her discovery of the truth, with the help of a famous female FBI profiler, forces her to redefine her relationship with her mother and her own sense of self Provided by publisher.

ISBN 978-1-59079-269-8 (paperback : alkaline paper)

1. MurderInvestigationMexico. 2. MothersCrimes againstMexico. 3. Cold cases (Criminal investigation)Mexico. 4. Taylor, LauriTravelMexico. 5. Mothers and daughtersUnited States. 6. Self-actualization (Psychology) 7. Taylor, LauriFriends and associates. 8. DeLong, Candice. 9. Criminal profilersUnited States. 10. United States. Federal Bureau of InvestigationOfficials and employees.

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Frontispiece: desertic beach in Baja, California: image source iStock photo Hoatzinexp

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For Clark and Katy

You are My Inspiration and My Love for You is Eternal

Contents

Foreword

W hen I was first contacted by Lauri Taylor about investigating her mothers unsolved murder, I remember being skeptical (an occupational hazard in law enforcement). FBI profilers have a well-developed sense of skepticism about the tales we are told and those who tell them. We question everything and everyone. It is, after all, part of how we go about solving mysteries.

My first impression was that Lauri was in way over her head. A murder in Mexico meant that she was dealing with not one government crime-solving agency, but two. Lauri was not in any way qualified to do this work. She told me she had been in sports marketing, and that she was now an Orange County housewifeoccupations in which people do not generally develop the skills needed to solve an international criminal case. But then I remembered, Well, I used to be a nurse, for Petes sake, and Lauri is nothing if not persuasive.

Laypeople fantasize about catching a thief or trapping a murderer in a web of lies. From books like Sherlock Holmes, board games like Clue, and TV shows like CSI, its easy to think of crime solving like a puzzle or a game of wits. But real-life crime solving isnt like that at all. It takes interminable patience, impeccable organization, a sharp memory, a relentless desire to find the truth, and an unwillingness to take no for an answer. Most people simply dont have these skills, and besides, most criminal investigators dont have the desire, time, or clearance to allow a private citizen into an investigation in any real way. Doing so could slow down the process, lead them astray, or put them in dangereither actual physical danger or legal danger.

Lauri Taylor is the only exception to this rule that I ever encountered. She slowly proved to me and my fellow law-enforcement professionals in San Diego, California, and Mexico exactly how serious she was, exactly how respectful of the law and the investigative process she was, and exactly how determined she was to solve her mothers murder. Lauri swayed me, and in the end, I agreed to work with her. Being a retired FBI agent allowed me to make my own rules, and this case seemed worthy.

Somewhere in the midst of the investigation, I remember telling Lauri that she would have made a great FBI agentshe definitely has the chops. In the end we were lucky enough to solve the murder, but it came with a disturbing and painful price. Solving the mystery of a loved ones murder can be a mixed blessing. The truth may not be what you hoped to find, or what you imagined it might be.

During our years of working together, Lauri and I also became friends. But when she told me that she was writing this story, I wasagainskeptical. I thought that she might write something akin to a personal journal, a private account of what transpired, a few key memories. I eventually forgot about her plan until she came to me with a finished manuscript and asked me to give it a read.

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