Overview
- Dakota Nicole Taylor, 21, was arrested Nov. 20 and charged with two counts each of malice murder, felony murder and first-degree cruelty to children in the deaths of her sons Micah (2021) and Caleb (2025).
- The Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office asked the GBI to assist on Jan. 8 after 8-month-old Caleb was found unresponsive at a Matthews home and later died at a hospital.
- A grand jury arrest warrant alleges Taylor obstructed 7-month-old Micah’s airways in 2021 and suffocated Caleb in 2025 by depriving him of oxygen.
- Police body-camera accounts from the 2021 scene, cited in the warrant, describe Taylor’s demeanor as “nonchalant.”
- Taylor is being held at the Jefferson County jail without bond after previously being in McDuffie County custody on related matters, with a court appearance reported for Feb. 11.