William Taylor

"You will tell me where she is."

William Taylor was a delusional budding serial killer and abductor who appeared in Awake.

Background
William worked as a tow-truck driver and was the single parent of a girl named Tatiana. Three months prior to Awake, he was driving Tatiana home after a school dance recital when he started to fall asleep at the wheel, having just worked a double night shift. He stopped by at a rest stop off Interstate 10 between Phoenix and Tucson and fell asleep. Moments later, he was approached by a man with a skull tattoo on his hand, who claimed his taillight was out. The man then walked away, allowing William to fall back asleep. When he woke back up hours later, he found Tatiana missing. A massive search ensued, but it ended a week prior to Awake when the group, William included, found Tatiana's corpse near the rest stop. Feeling guilty about being asleep while Tatiana vanished, William pointed to the man with the skull tattoo as a suspect, but it was believed he may have imagined him in the midst of microsleep. The case went cold, and he underwent a severe psychotic break and believed Tatiana was still alive and being held captive. He subsequently went out on a personal mission to track down the man with the skull tattoo.

Modus Operandi
William targeted random low-risk men who he believed to be the man with the skull tattoo, all of whom he found at the rest stop where Tatiana disappeared. He would abduct them while they were traveling at night using Interstate 10, luring them in by posing as a hitchhiker or a stranded motorist in need of a car ride. After blitz-attacking them, William would take them to his scrap yard. There, he would force them to stay awake by torturing them through various methods, such as electrocuting them, stapling their eyes open, and forcing them to listen to loud music, all the while giving them only caffeinated drinks as nourishment. The torture was too severe for Stephen Jackson, and he died from cardiac arrest caused by the electrocution he received. He lessened the amount of time he held Lance Coleman captive, but amplified the severity of the torture. He then finished Lance off by shooting him in the head with a handgun stolen from Stephen.

Known Victims

 * Stephen Jackson
 * Lance Coleman
 * David Whitfield
 * Doctor Tara Lewis

Appearances

 * Season Eleven
 * Awake