Here is most of the transcript from the press conference this morning ( 2/14/2020). Minus last question asking how the family is doing right now. There may be a few errors in spelling. Hopefully I managed to correct and find most.
Evan Antley and coroner Margaret Fisher are speaking.
"Good morning
My name is Evan Antley the sergeant and public information officer with a Cayce Department of Public Safety. I'd like to welcome you here and thank you for your patience . In the beginning we promised you daily case updates and that's what we're here to do today. Before we get into this too far I won't ever want to continue to pray for Faye Swetlik. This has been a horrible situation for our community and department. I want to thank you for your patience with us as a department. Yesterday was a tough day possibly the toughest in some of our law enforcement careers.
Some of you have requested 911 audio from the initial report. I'm happy to say that we have that for you. This morning . They have been redacting personal information over the last few hours. I will have that out for you in a few short minutes after this press conference.
Yesterday you saw investigators and agents with SLED and the Federal Bureau of Investigation following city of Cayce Municipal sanitation trucks through the neighborhood of Churchill Heights emptying trash cans and looking to see what came out before it was entered into the truck.
As part of that search a critical item of evidence related to our investigation of bringing Faye Swetlik home. Based on that discovery, we narrowed down a area that we felt as an investigative team that we needed to go back to and look for more evidence. Director Byron Snellgrove and other leaders area planning another methodical a another search of the area even though we've been there multiple times . We were going back . During the early planning stages of that search, director Byron Snellgrove located the body of Faye Marie Swetlik.
What we can tell you is this investigation in based on the information on the preliminary information that we received from the coroner's office had not been in that location for a very long time at all. A short time later after locating Faye Marie Swetlik, we located a deceased male at 602 Picadilly Square and what I'ld like to do now is to let Lexington County coroner Margaret Fisher step up to make ID on that person.
Margaret Fisher: Hey everybody I want to say thank you okay so diligently and thank you for your patience and allow in my office and all the other law enforcement agencies to to handle business and to get me information we need and you guys have been so patient with waiting on all the news releasesy so we really do appreciate that.
I'm here to identify the male that was found at the scene. I'll spell his name is going to be a Caucasian male . He is 30 years old. His first name is Coty. Middle name is Scott. Last name is Taylor. He did reside at 602 Picadilly Square and as you know the autospy for him will probably be on Saturday as well and we won't know any information on the cause of death until after the autopsy is completed and then at that time will I'm sure we'll do another news release and give you that information but it's going to be Saturday probably by Saturday afternoon we'll know more about about him okay. Thank you.
Evan Antley: I've got more to give you so there's a lot of questions out there what I can tell you is this the male body that was just identified as Coty Taylor and our investigation does link these two together that he was a neighbor he was not a relative. He was not a friend. He was merely a neighbor who lived in Churchill Heights. At this time I want to assure you our community and all of our parents out there that there is no no reason to believe that there is not an active threat in the Churchill Heights community or the city of Cayce as a whole.
We have no suspects at this time.
We have made no arrests.
And We are not seeking any Persons of Interest as of this time.
Lastly i want to say this, again this has been a tragic for our community for our Department for everyone who has been following the story of Faye Marie Swetlik. We want to thank the community for their tips. Without them we may not be where we are. We want to thank that neighborhood we went in there and turned their lives upside down we made them leave for work we searched their homes and we invaded their privacy.
But we did it for a reason and we had a goal
This is not the outcome we wanted, but this is where we are and our work continues to bring Justice for Faye Marie Swetlik, I do have time for questions. There are some things about this investigation and I'm not going to be able to tell you about. But i do have time for questions and we can take those now.
Yes sir in the back
Question: Did you say where they were both found? IF they were both found in his residence and if so where?
Antley: I can answer that for you, so her body, Faye Marie Swetlik was located in a wooded area between her residence and the NAPA Auto Parts where we did our briefings earlier in the week.
The body of Coty Taylor was located at his residence, but I'm not going to get into specifics but it was it was at his residence .
Question: ..............are you able to detail the piece of evidence found behind the trash can
Yes ma'am, so I just I want to clarify we do still have an open investigation that right now what we are looking at is just what i gave you, but because we don't have any suspects now, we want to make sure there's not anyone else involved in The Disappearance of Faye Marie Swetlik so I can tell you it was a critical piece of evidence and what i can confirm it is it was a critical piece of evidence that would have been listed on the missing persons flyer
Next question
Question: do you believe that Coty killed Faye?
Answer: I can't comment on an ongoing investigation again, but what i will tell you is that they (Coty and Swetlik) are linked
Question: Where was the evidence found?
A: yes in a trashcan belonging to 602 Picadilly Square which is the residence of Coty Taylor in the back.
Question :
How close is his house to her house?
A: a hundred 250 ft so all in that area there is Londonderry Square 100 to 150 ft has two lanes of right next to each other
Question : Did Coty Taylor have a criminal record or was he known to ........
A: He has no criminal history and he was not known to law enforcement
Question: ...........was his death a homicide and do you have a date of birth for him
Coroner: I'm not going to stand up here and speculate on his cause of death at this time we're going to wait to cooperate with her friends of pathologist before we say anything about that I do have a date of birth for him it is 3/19/1989 they will know more about his cause of death tomorrow.
Question: Have you searched Mr. Taylor's home before law enforcement found him?
A: We had talked to Mr Taylor. We had been inside his home.
Question: Was the body of Faye buried or was it......
A: I am not gonna comment on the condition of her body. It would be insensitive at this time
Question: .......asking about DNA
"They are linked, I cannot give you the specifics on how"
A: We want more information about Coty Taylor starting at 3:44 Monday afternoon up until the time that we announced that we have found his body.