Deadly Magnolia Arrested - Re Subject of Ann Rule's Prior Best-Selling Book
Chocolic
Deadly Magnolia2008-02-28
By Cindy Morley
Patricia Radcliff Taylor was arrested in Fayetteville Tuesday
They call her the 'Deadly Magnolia.'
Patricia Radcliff Taylor.
A southern belle who talked husband into killing his parents, served time
for attempted murder of his grandparents and after being paroled, tried to
kill an elderly Fulton County couple and went back to prison -- the 'Deadly
Magnolia.'
Many feared she would strike again when she left prison the second time.
No one may ever know.
Wednesday, the elderly Georgia woman who had twice been convicted of
attempted murder in arsenic poisoning cases, stood before a Fayette County
Magistrate on felony drug charges.
According to Lt. Jody Thomas of the Fayette County Drug Task Force, Taylor,
70, was arrested Tuesday and charged with doctor shopping for thousands of
pain pills over the past year.
"We believe she may have received over 3,700 pills in less than a year,"
said Thomas.
Magistrate Robert Ruppenthal set a bond of $22,500 for three felony couts of
unathorized distribution. He also set conditions that Taylor, of
Williamsburg Way in Fayetteville, cannot leave the state of Georgia except
for medical treatment and can only receive prescriptions from Dr. Jeffery
Sherman, according to court documents.
In the warrants, Fayette drug agents allege that on May 25, 2007, Taylor
withheld information from Dr. David Gryboski when she received a
prescription for 40 Loratab (hydrocodone) tablets.
Officials state that she failed to tell the doctor she had filled a
prescription for 50 Loratab pills four days prior from Dr. Phillip Ploska.
In count two, the warrant states that Taylor withheld information from Dr.
Jeffery Sherman on June 22, 2007, when he wrote a prescription for 20
Loratab pill -- not telling him that she had filled a preseciption for 50
Loratab pills four days prior on June 18 from Dr. Phillip Ploska.
In count 3, the warrant states that Taylor withheld information from Dr.
Sherman on or about Aug. 20, 2007 when she received a prescription for 111
Loratab tablets, telling him that her previous prescription had been stolen.
However, agents allege in the warrant that Taylor filled a prescription for
120 tablets five days prior from Dr. Gryboski.
Taylor's notorious past is the subject of a best-selling book "Everything
She Ever Wanted," by Ann Rule.
Rule called Taylor, "A heartless, supremely selfish sociopath whose evil hid
behind soft words and gentle manners, but who destroyed without mercy those
who loved her."
In the book, Rule tells how Taylor allegedly talked her husband, Tom
Allanson, into murdering his parents in 1974 in East Point.
Allanson went to prison for the crimes.
Later, Taylor moved in with Allanson's grandparents in?nearby Zebulon in
Pike County, and later got them to sign the house over to her, according to
the book.
The house later burned.
She was convicted of trying to poison Allanson's grandparents with arsenic
in 1976.
The book alleges that she later falisified documents certifying her as a
nurse and began providing in home-care for a couple who also became sick.
The elderly man died, according to officials, and his body was quickly
cremated.
The elderly woman became sick with the same symptoms, and a short time later
Taylor was convicted a second time of trying to poison the elderly Atlanta
couple in 1991.
Taylor was released from prison in 1999.
The cable channel A&E also ran a special on Taylor and dubbed her the
'Deadly Magnolia.'
Lt. Thomas said officials suspect Taylor was using the pain medication
herself. He said normally the quantity of pain pills would indicate the
suspect was selling narcotics, but that did not appear to be the case with
Taylor.
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I hadn't heard of this case before, at least I don't remember if I did. Off
to do some net searching on this, very interesting.
Note: misspellings and typos left intact on article. Don't they use
spellcheck for cripes sake?
Chocolic
Velouria
this case - just noticed it was on again over the weekend.
-V
bettyjod...@gmail.com
greg...@yahoo.ca
wrote:
>Just got through reading Anne Rules book and was looking to see what happened to Patricia Taylor. Thank you for your posting on this crazy lady, as I was curious to see if she'd been in trouble again.
than a year. Her bond was set at $22,500 for three felony counts of
unauthorized distribution.