03.12.2021 - By Molly & Cody
On August 3, 2013, Alexis Tiara Murphy, leaves her home in the early evening hours to run errands, but is never seen again, except for on surveillance footage at a local gas station. It is a brief encounter at this gas station that changes everything for Alexis and it is the discovery of that footage that leads the trajectory of the investigation. Less than a year after Alexis' disappearance, a 48 year old man named Randy Taylor is charged with her abduction and murder and given 2 life sentences. With the hard work of her family, the Nelson County Sheriff's Office and the Prosecutor's Office, Alexis' perpetrator is brought to justice and ultimately, in a recent discovery made in December of 2020, Alexis Murphy's family is able to give this young woman the proper resting place she deserves.