On January 18, 2024, Taylor Astle responded to a heartfelt facebook comment in support of Tim on Tim’s supporter page with a laugh emoji. The author of the comment asked Taylor Astle if it was inadvertent, not knowing that Taylor Astle was Tim’s primary accuser.

What followed over the next three hours was a revealing look into the sadistic mind of Taylor Astle, who chose to out herself as Tim’s accuser and attack his family and supporters, claiming to enjoy coming there to provoke them. Taylor made the most accusations against Tim, and had the most changing testimonies between trials, where one of her stories varied so wildly from the previous telling that an entire charge had to be dropped mid-trial. No one invited her to visit Tim’s supporter’s Facebook page on January 18, 2024, to react to his supporters’ comments or make her own comments. Taylor Astle chose that day to seek out interactions with Tim’s friends and family, as any member of the public looking to do so could do. Jasmine and Jennifer chose to come on the Facebook page the next day and made similar victorious and gloating comments. Since Taylor and Jasmine (Child 2 and Child 1 in any of our previous posts) spoke under their own identities and identified themselves as the accusers in this case, Tim and all of his supporters are absolved of any responsibility to protect the identities of the former child accusers and will name them in full from now on.

Tim had just lost his federal appeal in December of 2023, when the Supreme Court of the United States refused to take his appeal regarding the bailiff showing the convicting jury “extra” off the record videos that influenced their verdict. His supporters were grieving, and Taylor came to gloat that her lies had been protected by the state again, and that she would make the allegations against Tim again if given the chance. She explained that she enjoyed watching the pain of Tim’s supporters losing in court, and charged Tim’s supporters and me (his sister Katie) with trying to silence her from getting her side of the story out. I invited her and her family to talk as much as she wanted and suggested she answer some questions we had for her mom on this website. Although she labelled Tim with incendiary nouns and adjectives, Taylor didn’t make any allegations of specific sexual assaults or any details of “her story.” She began retelling her version of events of the day of the accusations, only this time she said that she and her sister Jasmine didn’t go to school that day, they only picked up their oldest sister Alexis from school as she was the only one who went to school. That’s a major problem for Taylor, as that new information is evidence that the guidance counselor was not talked to that morning by Jasmine, and all their testimonies that Jennifer picked them up from school at noon to have a crucial conversation in the prosecution’s narrative were fabricated. In a case where a major felony conviction was solely based on a story, to have the accuser later radically change the story is new evidence that ultimately proves Timothy Guilfoy’s actual 100% innocence of all charges the Astles made against him.

These are screenshots of the Jan 18, 2024 conversation, the remains of which (after Taylor deleted all her comments) are still posted here. If you can’t read the images here, click for a larger size.

I apologize for some of the choppiness, I tried to get all of the text but it doesn’t always show everything in order.

 

 

 

 

“Family over anything”

Like truth, Taylor?

In this exchange, Taylor claims a fifth version of what happened on the day that Jennifer Astle made the police report on Tim. It seems small, but it’s important.

The first story of the revelation of abuse from an Astle child to an adult was told on March 24, 2009, the day that Jennifer called Tim with the police scripting and recording for confessions–that Jasmine told a guidance counselor at school that someone had touched her, and the guidance counselor called Jen that day, March 24, 2009. When pressed for the guidance counselor to corroborate this story, there was no guidance counselor to corroborate this story. It is assumed that Jennifer was allowed to lie to Tim to get confessions on the phone call, so the guidance counselor story she fabricated was the one that would cause Tim the least suspicion that she was making up the charges to get out of him evicting her. It was known to police before the arrest that this story was made up and no school guidance counselor was ever involved in this case.

The second story, Jasmine and Taylor’s story on the stand in court in July 2011, was that they were in the front yard waiting for the school bus on March 18, 2009 when Jen their mom came out and asked them if they had told Brian Schiff (their step-grandfather) that Tim touched them. They said yes, they cried, and then the bus came, at which point Jen put the girls on the bus, crying, and they went to school. Then their mom came at noon and took them out of school and they went home and called the police. Jennifer testified in July that she learned about the abuse allegations of Jasmine’s about Tim from Brian who had first called on March 15th but not told her until mid-morning on the 18th, and then she collected her kids and called 911. Jasmine had told Brian about the abuse at a McDonald’s on the weekend of March 14-15 when she was visiting him. Both Jasmine and Jennifer testified to that visit happening.

Problem was, Brian’s testimony was that he had started calling Jennifer on March 8, ten days before the 911 call to ask if Jasmine had told her anything important, because she had told him that Tim touched her prior to March 8 and Brian thought it “not his place” to tell Jennifer, but allow and encourage Jasmine to tell Jennifer. On March 18, 2009 he figured he had waited long enough and called Jennifer mid-morning after the girls had left for school to tell her that Tim had touched Jasmine. Brian insisted that he had called Jennifer for ten days straight, calling each day to check with Jasmine if she had told Jennifer yet. He recalled Jasmine’s visit being weeks prior to the 911 call, not the weekend before. Brian was caught in several other inconsistencies and falsehoods during the July trial and the prosecution did not call him for the October trial, although he attended.

The third story was told in October 2011, when all of a sudden we have the same July testimony from the girls and Jen, just not with Brian mentioned at all. Brian was physically present at court in October 2011, still on the witness list, and ready to take the stand, but he was not called to testify in the October trial because he couldn’t keep the family lie straight. The girls both testified in October 2011 like in July 2011 that on March 18, 2009, they told their mom about Tim abusing them in the morning before the bus came, they all cried, and then the girls went to school on the bus.

Jen’s October story on the stand in court diverges into a fourth version. She had not been asked the question in the July hung trial what her recollection was of the tearful pre-school bus conversation both girls testified they had with Jennifer about Tim. In October she was asked if the girls had told her anything before going to school that day. Jennifer testified that on March 18, 2009, the girls waited for and got on the bus to school in the morning like any other day and it was uneventful. Jennifer said they didn’t talk about Tim before school. It was only mid-morning when she received a phone call from “someone” reporting vague abuse allegations to her the kids had made, the prosecution was very careful to not ask from whom. Jen testified that she picked the girls up at noon and asked them then if Tim touched them and they said yes. Then they went home to call the police.

The girls say the conversation happened in the morning before the bus, and the mom said it happened at noon.

Then they went home to call the police. Brian was a material witness, an important one in July, and then he wasn’t in October, because he was a transparent liar. This disclosure story should be exactly the same every time told. Prosecutors knew that this story the Astles and Brian Schiff presented to the July jury was not true and they didn’t put it up for the October jury. But they did not correct a false piece of evidence used to absolve Jennifer of fabricating a third party report among the other false allegations.

The convicting jury was left to believe the third/fourth story that “someone” called Jennifer Astle in the morning to tell her that her daughter had reported abuse. The convicting jury heard, during the controlled phone call evidence that the police scripted to get confessions from an unwitting Tim, Jennifer tell Tim that a school guidance counselor called her and told her one of the girls reported abuse. That is the only explanation given of who called Jennifer mid-morning on March 18, 2009 in the trial that convicted Tim. It is still never explained why the children both report a discussion about Tim touching them with their mom before school the morning the guidance counselor/”someone” called Jennifer mid-morning to inform her of the need to talk to her daughters. The prosecutors knew at the time of the convicting October 2011 trial when the jury was hearing this explanation that the guidance counselor story was not based in any fact. They knew that Jen had first claimed that Brian Schiff called her mid-morning, but that story fell apart in July, so prosecutors hoped that the false guidance counselor story filled the gap for the jury of how Jennifer wasn’t motivated by money but a third party report of possible abuse, knowing that third party didn’t exist. They knew Jen was lying under oath and in the police reports, that the girls were lying under oath, that Brian had lied under oath, that no guidance counselor existed, and that whether the girls went to school that day is a crucial piece of their case.

On January 18, 2024, Taylor claimed that the two girls never went to school in the morning after telling their mom. In a facebook post about the day the allegations were made, Taylor Astle claims “We didn’t go to school.” Their older sister had already left for school. They went to take the older sister out at noon. This handful of words makes this their fifth version of what happened the day they called the police on Tim, and this story was first told January 18, 2024. We are subpoenaing them to explain what really happened that morning, why they keep needing to adjust their testimonies about it, and will subpoena the detective and prosecutor that knew they were presenting a false story to the jury about a guidance counselor report that never happened.

This, a story not regarding the abuse, but regarding the revelation of abuse, should have been one easy narrative where everyone was aligned. It changes every time it’s told, even today. In one version there’s three people in the conversation, in another there’s four. What they all agreed on until January 18, 2024 was that the two younger children went to school on the bus in the morning at the regular time and went home to call the police after they were pulled out of school at noon. Did the guidance counselor exist? Why would that lie need to be told?

Taylor’s Facebook statements on January 18th, 2024 were posted by Taylor Ruth Astle herself, they were the opposite of her 2011 testimony that convicted Tim, and they were voluntary.

More importantly, what kind of person is this, that does this? That expresses their victimhood like this? I can speak as someone who HAS been sexually assaulted–there is NO WAY a real victim would be willfully seeking out their rapist’s family to publicly keep associating with them. No real victim would proactively reopen their own wounds for “getting a rise” out of their rapist’s family. This is someone who is now an adult and rears a child. Coming on Tim’s supporter page to gloat and taunt and throw long-debunked accusations from 2009, like that child pornography was found on Tim’s laptop. If that were true, Tim would be in federal prison, and he most certainly is not. The accusations are still vague, “proof is in the paper”–yeah, it’s all your words on paper devoid of convicting details. Calling him a monster is easy for Taylor Astle; retelling any details of sexual acts committed against her without major logistical and physical problems–that’s something she can’t do. The truth doesn’t matter to Taylor Astle, and she knows it doesn’t matter, she can lie and lie and she thinks she’s good at it. The hit of Machiavellian cruelty is just dark triad, 100%. The boldness is due to Taylor’s experience to this point of saying whatever was needed about Tim to have him take the heat for her mom’s theft and all their lies, changing whatever details of her story on her whim, and having her lies unfailingly covered up or explained away by the detective, the prosecutors, and the appellate courts. Taylor has not seen negative consequences yet for zealously playing her mom’s con game on the justice system.

It will be interesting to see if she will make good on her promise to testify until the day she dies. Oh sweetie, we are so ready for that. All that big talk, let’s see if you’re so strong when none of your Davidson County court friends work there anymore and are instead being investigated themselves for what they did in this case to support and defend your growing web of lies. Something tells me that all that big talking you did on January 18, 2024 made the Tennessee people big mad at you. You ruined it.

Taylor Astle, and all the Astles, and anyone who knows or knew the Astles, you’re all welcome to come to Tim’s facebook page at www.facebook.com/FreeTimGuilfoy and make any comment or claim you like. Say anything you want. Astles, show our supporters what pieces of trash you actually are, and how loosely you regard the truth. Friends and/or associates of the Astles, some of you want to talk too. And some of you have. Some of you have told us things you know about the Astles that we appreciate.

Keep talking.

~Katie Beyers

Read about the rushed and faulty investigation of Timothy Patrick Guilfoy by an incompetent police department

Tim had alibis for the alleged dates of abuse, the prosecution suborned second trial perjury to hide that from the convicting jury

How could this happen? Easily, when detectives and prosecutors prioritize arrests and convictions over truth.

Tim himself explains the whole story of how Jennifer set him up to exploit his friendship and financial situation for her own gain, later avoiding her coming negative consequences with one quick phone call to 911.

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Contact DA Glenn Funk to ask him to release Timothy Guilfoy and charge Jennifer Astle with making false police reports and aggravated perjury.