A man accused of murdering a pregnant Logan teenager who disappeared more than seven years ago, has been found guilty for a second time.
Rodney Wayne Williams faced a retrial in the Supreme Court in Brisbane charged with the murder of Tiffany Taylor in 2015, having pleaded not guilty.
The 68-year-old had previously been convicted in 2020 by another jury, but it was later overturned on appeal and a retrial was ordered.
After a fresh trial, which ran for three weeks, the jury took less than a day to return a guilty verdict.
During the proceedings, the court heard Ms Taylor, 16, was last seen leaving a Waterford West motel where she had been staying, to meet with Williams.
The court heard the pair had organised to engage in paid sex after connecting with each other on a dating website.
Her body has never been found.
The prosecution alleged Williams killed Ms Taylor when they met up and he disposed of her body.
His defence team argued their client maintained the last time he saw Ms Taylor, she was alive.
The court heard evidence that toll point data from the day of Ms Taylor's disappearance, had captured Williams' car travelling in certain areas, where he had initially told police he had not been.
It also heard Ms Taylor's blood was found in his car, but Williams' later told police she had suffered a nosebleed while she was with him.
A video from 2015 of a police interview was also played to the court which showed Williams telling officers the pair did not have any sexual contact.
Williams said in the video he dropped her off in Redbank Plains but he changed his story after he was accused of lying, claiming instead that he dropped her at a truck stop on the Warrego Highway.
Officers also told William's in the video that GPS data placed him and Ms Taylor's mobile phones about 100 kilometres away in Fernvale, but he denied she was with him.
Previous murder revealed
It can be revealed that Williams had previously been convicted and sentenced to life in prison for another murder in Tasmania in 1978.
During a sentencing hearing on Monday, the court heard Williams stabbed his elderly neighbour when he was 23.
He offended again while on parole, including the indecent assault of a 14-year-old girl in 1994, the court heard.
Ms Taylor's mother, Leanne Dillon broke down in court while reading her victim impact statement.
"We have suffered at the hands of a complete stranger," she said.
Ms Dillon addressed Williams directly: asking him: "How could you do this to me as a mother?
"How could you take my child, my baby, she is not yours to take," she said.
"I have waited for seven years now, I don't want to wait another seven minutes without knowing where my daughter Tiffany is."
Chloe Taylor read her statement to the court and described her sister as "beautiful" and "smart beyond her years".
"We are each other's other half," she said.
"We love and miss her more than I can say."
She pleaded with Williams to tell her family where he disposed of Ms Taylor's body.
"Don't you go to sleep wanting to get that off your chest?" she asked.
"Please don't take this secret with you."
Outside court Ms Dillon said she was frustrated her family had to go through the court process again, but they got the outcome they were hoping for.
"It's good we got justice," she said.
'You should expect to die in jail'
Williams, who has been in custody since August 2015, was sentenced to life in jail.
When handing down the mandatory punishment, Justice Peter Applegarth said Williams "told a litany of lies" and had shown a "complete disregard for your fellow human beings".
"You should expect to die in jail because this is not the first time you have murdered someone," he said to Williams.
"You will be remembered as a brutal murderer."
Due to being convicted for the murder of two people, Williams will not be able to apply for parole until he has served at least 30 years.
