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Posted: 2016-07-12 06:48:00

Tiffany Taylor’s body has never been found.

AFTER her alleged murderer had been charged, Tiffany Taylor’s sister and mother spoke about how important it was to have her body returned to them.

A year on and they’re still waiting.

On this day 12 months ago Tiffany, 16, allegedly climbed into a Hyundai Excel sedan with Rodney Wayne Williams and was never seen again.

Police claim Williams, then 60, was much older and had allegedly met Tiffany, from Logan, south of Brisbane, online and she agreed to meet him for sex, for which he offered her $500.

A little more than a month later Williams was charged with her murder without her body having been found.

From the start there were confronting details about Tiffany’s life. She had been in a relationship with a man for four years when she was killed. But at 41 years old, he too was much older than her and they would have begun their relationship when she was 12.

Tiffany Taylor was 20 weeks pregnant when she disappeared.

Tiffany Taylor was 20 weeks pregnant when she disappeared.Source:Supplied

Tiffany Taylor’s family want her body back so they can have closure.

Tiffany Taylor’s family want her body back so they can have closure.Source:Supplied

He insisted the relationship wasn’t sexual until after her 16th birthday. They were living together in a run down motel and she was 20 weeks pregnant.

On a Facebook page set up to help find Tiffany, her older sister Chloe Taylor said today was “the worst day of my life”.

“Today my baby sister, my blood my ‘other half’ has been ‘missing’ for a year,” she said.

Ms Taylor was clinging to hope Tiffany was still alive.

“How does the world know she’s ‘dead’. The police say they have enough ‘evidence’ but no one knows what the evidence is.”

She said talk about a search for Tiffany’s body was “heartless and inconsiderate”.

“I find it disgusting her being referred to as a body as I seriously have no closure or proof ... To come to the conclusion she is dead.”

Chloe Taylor and Leanne Dillon, sister and mother to Tiffany Taylor, talk to the media. Picture: Jono Searle

Chloe Taylor and Leanne Dillon, sister and mother to Tiffany Taylor, talk to the media. Picture: Jono SearleSource:News Corp Australia

She was unhappy with the coverage of her sister as “a prostitute” as well as the scrutiny her family had endured.

“Now she’s gone I have everyone up my arse telling me what I should have done, could have done, and how we should have raised her.”

She suggested the family had asked for help from social services when Tiffany began seeing her much older boyfriend.

She also took aim at the public who appeare disinterested.

“We [the family] feel not much is being done considering other children go missing and there is a lot more is done regarding public services banners.”

She pointed to the Tialeigh Palmer case which was back in the news this week as an example of a similar case that has attracted more publicity.

Detective Acting Inspector Mick Thiesfield told The Courier Mailpolice had kept looking for Tiffany after Williams was charged with her murder.

Rodney Williams, the man accused of murdering Tiffany Taylor.

Rodney Williams, the man accused of murdering Tiffany Taylor.Source:Supplied

Police and SES co-ordinating a land search in the Brisbane Valley area after 16-year-old Tiffany Taylor vanished. Picture: Tara Croser

Police and SES co-ordinating a land search in the Brisbane Valley area after 16-year-old Tiffany Taylor vanished. Picture: Tara CroserSource:News Corp Australia

“As important as it is for the police, it’s probably more important for the family with respect to any person out there who may know any information in relation to where the body may be,” he said. “It would be very important to them that the body be recovered.”

Police allege Williams picked Tiffany up from the motel and drove 15km to Logistics Place at Larapinta about 20km south of Brisbane CBD, where they stayed from about midday to 12.45pm. After that, police allege they have tracked the car’s movements through traffic cameras and mobile phone signals.

They further allege traces of Tiffany’s blood was found throughout his car.

Williams will next be in court on August 24.

andrew.koubaridis@news.com.au

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