For the second time in two years, Rodney Wayne Williams has been discovered responsible of murdering pregnant 16-year-old Tiffany Taylor.
And Williams, 68, has killed earlier than.
Tiffany was final seen leaving a motel south of Brisbane seven years in the past after Williams organised to satisfy her on a relationship web site and pay for intercourse.
Williams picked up Tiffany close to the Waterford West motel in July 2015 and was accused of killing her at a distant industrial space earlier than disposing of her physique at Fernvale, 100km southwest of Logan.
Her physique has by no means been discovered.
Williams was discovered responsible this afternoon after the jury deliberated for nearly 5 hours within the three-week trial.
He had additionally been discovered responsible of Tiffany's homicide and sentenced to life in jail after a 19-day trial in March 2020.
However Williams received an attraction in June 2021 and was granted a retrial.
Williams had additionally been convicted for homicide in 1978.
He stabbed an aged neighbour within the again throughout a theft and was sentenced to life in jail however was launched on parole after 15 years behind bars.
At this month's retrial the courtroom heard Tiffany's blood and DNA have been present in Williams' Hyundai sedan.
Williams advised police Tiffany had suffered a nostril bleed when he picked her up.
He claimed that he had given her a raise to Redbank Plains however modified his story, saying he dropped her off at a truck cease on the Warrego Freeway west of Brisbane and had not seen her since.
He denied having intercourse with the teenager, telling police he advised Tiffany he did not have any cash however she insisted on assembly him anyway as a result of she thought he was attention-grabbing after studying his relationship web site profile.
Footage on motorway cameras and telephone monitoring particulars on cell towers indicated that she was in his car on the drive to Fernvale, crown prosecutor Caroline Marco stated.
Williams created a false path of communication with Tiffany on the relationship web site after killing her, the courtroom heard, together with his final message saying: "Sorry I did not flip up, determined I wasn't going to pay for it".
He was intercepted by officers at a Brisbane practice station with a bag of garments and mawkish gadgets in August 2015, a day earlier than he was to be interviewed by police.