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— on a living room sofa and in a bedroom — there “was an explanation for that.” He declined to say what the explanation was.
Firefighters who were in the neighborhood on an unrelated call at 1:49 p.m. Thursday saw smoke rising from Baylor’s house and broke down a locked front door to get inside, the police chief said. Theyfound afire on a couch in the living room and another fire in the master bedroom where the bodies of Baylor and her daughter were found.
Baylor was found on the bed and the baby was found on the floor, Fluck said.
Neighbors said Friday they didn’t know Baylor or her family. “They kept to themselves,” said John Juarez, who said he has lived on Brewers Place for eight years. Baylor sometimes waved hello from her driveway, he said.
Baylor was a nurse, according to public records.
A relative and state agency officials had been concerned about her welfare in 2017, according to a history of calls at Baylor’s home provided by Taylor police. Her father asked police to check on her welfare on Jan. 15, 2017, and arriving officers found her “out of it,” the police records said. They said offi- cers requested paramedics check her out and she was taken to a hospital.
The Round Rock police asked Taylor officers to serve a Milam County sheriff ’s warrant on Baylor on March 25, 2017, forbond forfeiture on a charge of driving while intox- icated with a child under 15, the call history said. The records don’t say whether police served the warrant.
Child Protective Services also asked Taylor police to check on the welfare of Baylor and her son on May 12, 2017, the call history said. It said the state agency made the request because Baylor had given birth to a child on the day before and the baby was placed in intensive care. Baylor “tested positive for alcohol at time of delivery,” the call history said.
Texas Department of Family and Protective Services spokeswoman Lisa Block said Friday that by state law she could not discuss the CPS case history.