A mother in Georgia allegedly admitted to killing her two sons years apart by holding their nostrils closed, and she’s now in custody for their murders.
Dakota Taylor was arrested in November 2025 after authorities from the Georgia Bureau of Investigation (GBI) came to believe that she murdered her 8-month-old son, Caleb, earlier that year.
Taylor, 21, was already in custody at the time of the arrest in connection with the death of her 7-month-old son, Micah, who died four years earlier in 2021. After the murder charges were first pressed against her, police learned more information about her record as a juvenile and her previous experience with the Georgia Division of Family and Children Services (DFCS).
DFCS previously learned about her due to an incident involving her two daughters, whom she gave birth to when she was a teenager. Taylor was living in a group home in fall 2020 with her two daughters while she was pregnant with Micah. At the time, Taylor allegedly made threats on Twitter and in text messages against her daughters and said she wanted to kill them, according to WRDW.
She also allegedly held a knife to one of the girls’ throats in an attempt to stop the girls’ father from leaving her. DFCS eventually placed both girls in foster care and they were both later adopted once it was determined that Taylor was a danger to them.
WRDW reported that someone who worked on Taylor’s case said she exhibited a “lack of attachment” and was “unfit to parent her children.”
When Micah was 7 months old, Taylor ran away from the group home and later returned. Micah was found dead nine days later. After a group home employee found him slumped over and blue in a baby swing, they tried to help him but he was unresponsive.
Police then responded to the group home, where they noted that Taylor appeared “nonchalant” and unemotional despite her son’s death.
Four years later, Caleb died in January 2025 after Taylor brought him to a family member’s house. Police said that the family member reportedly claimed Caleb was covered by a blanket and “his hands were blue” when Taylor brought him over. After the family member noticed that Caleb was unresponsive, he was taken to the hospital and later died.
While in custody, an inmate reportedly told a GBI agent that Taylor allegedly admitted to killing Caleb before she brought him to the family member’s home, according to WRDW. The inmate went on to claim that Taylor knew Caleb was dead when she drove him to the house.
Investigators previously spoke to Micah’s father in October 2023, who reportedly told them that Taylor admitted to killing Micah, WRDW reported. “She told me she cut the inside of my son’s nose and held a COVID mask over his face until he wasn’t breathing anymore,” the father said in a recorded interview.
Taylor’s half-sister also shared a similar account, claiming that Taylor told her about Micah’s death and alleged that she pinched the baby’s nose closed and covered his face “until he turned different colors until he wasn’t moving anymore.”
Following the accounts, Taylor was charged with murder in two different counties for her alleged involvement in both of her sons’ deaths.
She attended a bond hearing in Jefferson County on Tuesday, March 10, and was granted a $150,000 cash bond and a $300,000 property bond. However, she was not granted bond in DeKalb County.
Taylor is next scheduled to appear in court on April 7 in DeKalb County.
It is not currently clear if Taylor has entered pleas for either of the murder charges or if she has retained legal representation. The Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office and DeKalb County Sheriff’s Office did not immediately respond to Us Weekly’s request for comment.
