Widow Stabs Her Late Husband’s Father To Death And Explains Why On Social Media

Friends of Amanda Taylor were shocked to the core when they read her graphic Instagram post in April 2015. They knew Amanda, 24, had been going through a tough time since the tragic death of her estranged husband Rex, but her chilling words were truly disturbing.

“Everything I did was for the right reasons. I stabbed my father-in-law to death because he destroyed my husband…” she wrote “I wasn’t the perfect wife but this was one last good thing I could do.”

According to Mirror UK, her husband, Rex, had been battling with addictions and depression. Amanda blamed Rex’s dad Charles for introducing his son to prescription drugs when he was just 15. As Rex’s addictions got worse, Amanda told him she didn’t want drugs around her children and the pair separated in April 2014. Rex moved back in with his dad – by the August he was dead. He’d hanged himself on his son’s seventh birthday.

Amanda was devastated,the suicide pushed her over the edge and she decided Charles, her father-in-law, was to blame for Rex’s suicide.

Three days after, Amanda went to Charles’ home with her friend. She stabbed her former father-in-law to death as he sat on the sofa. She made sure it happened at exactly 3.27pm to symbolise the birthday she’d shared with Rex – 3/27.

After the killing, Amanda posted a status on Instagram under her username brunette_bomber alongside a picture of a news report alerting members of the public that she was on the run.

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She wrote, “I stabbed my father-in-law to death because he destroyed my husband…”

She even phoned a reporter and gave an interview comparing the thrill of stabbing to the first time she rode a rollercoaster. She also updated her Facebook status, saying, ‘I proudly did this for Rex. I love my children but Charlie killed my husband”

She was eventually arrested and at the trial in November 2015, the jury heard that Amanda had stabbed Charles 31 times with a knife and had aimed for his face and chest. The medical reporter said 11 of the 31 knife wounds could have killed him on their own.

Even as she was sentenced to life imprisonment, Amanda remained emotionless.