A 35-year-old man from Indiana faces a potential life sentence after being convicted of fatally stabbing his wife 40 times. The violent act followed his dissatisfaction with her response to his Valentine’s Day gestures. He reportedly used a “big a— kitchen knife” and subsequently sent images of her body to her family and a man he suspected was involved with her romantically.

Taylor James Meyer was found guilty of murdering his 36-year-old wife, Deborah Meyer, on Valentine’s Day last year. The verdict was delivered by a Clark County jury, according to court records. The jury reached their decision just a few hours after closing arguments concluded on Thursday morning, bringing the six-day trial to a swift conclusion.

As previously reported by Law&Crime, officers from the Jeffersonville Police Department responded late on February 14 to the couple’s residence on the 6600 block of Westwood Drive. This was after receiving a distress call from someone concerned about Deborah Meyer’s safety.

The caller informed emergency services that they had received a call from Deborah’s phone, during which they could hear her pleading for help.

Upon arrival, first responders knocked repeatedly without receiving an answer. The caller, who had driven to the scene, engaged with the police just as he received a disturbing photo message from Deborah’s phone, showing her lifeless body. The police then forced entry into the home, where they encountered a hostile Taylor Meyer.

Officers said they had to use “control techniques” to take Meyer into custody. Also inside the home police located Deborah Meyer’s body and three young children under the age of 5. Deborah Meyer appeared to have been stabbed about 40 times, police wrote in a probable cause affidavit.

In an interview with detectives, Meyer allegedly confessed to killing his wife, explaining that their marriage had been strained since he saw a photo of her holding hands with another man in January 2025, referring to the other man as her “co-worker.”

Meyer said he tried to pull out all the stops for Valentine’s Day, telling police it was a “Bringing Paris to you” themed evening for which he had “his kids draw pictures of the Eiffel Tower as decorations.”

“It was the hardest I’ve ever tried,” he allegedly said during the interview. “She just didn’t give a s—.”

At some point after dinner, Meyer said he and his wife fought and she left the house “right when [her] boyfriend [got] off work.” He said he was “upset” about being home again with the kids.

“For the last two months I’ve been staying home with the kids every Saturday night while she goes and f—s whoever and lies to my face about it,” he said, per the affidavit.

He said she was gone for approximately 20 minutes before she returned home. While his wife was in the bathroom, Meyer tried to read her text messages on her “smart watch” and when she came back out, he demanded her cellphone. She refused and the two fought physically.

“He stated that during the argument she punched him in the face and he grabbed her and took the cellular phone and told her, ‘I’m stronger than you,’” the affidavit states. “Meyer told me during this initial interview at the hospital that it was ‘all wrestling and hitting, and I started choking her. She hit me with a water bottle and I hit her with a wine bottle and then I went and got the knife’”

According to Meyer, his wife kept asking him “What are you going to do, kill me? You’re going to hurt me and leave our kids with no parents?”

Meyer said he then pinned his wife to the ground and went through her phone, placing a call to her “boyfriend” and told him, “It’s your f—ing fault. You want to ruin my marriage and tear my family apart,” while his wife was screaming in the background.

Meyer went back to choking his wife and then allegedly hit her in the head several times with a wine bottle until she was unconscious. He claimed he wasn’t sure if she was dead but he went to the kitchen and grabbed a “big a— kitchen knife, a long one,” which he used to repeatedly stab her in the chest.

He then sent a photo of his wife’s body to her “boyfriend,” captioned “Your fault,” police said.

A medical examiner confirmed that Deborah Meyer had been stabbed about 40 times.

Meyer will remain in the Clark County Jail until his sentencing hearing, which is currently scheduled to take place on Feb. 20.