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NY Post
New York Post
6 Apr 2023


NextImg:Relative of tot found in alligator’s recalls horror of bloody discovery

A relative of Florida mom Pashun Jeffrey, stabbed over 100 times before her 2-year-old son was found dead inside an alligator’s jaws, has revealed how she found a trail of blood outside the family’s home — and that she “never, in a million years” would have expected the gruesome tragedy.

Theo Brickhouse-Sails told the station WFLA that she first became concerned for Jeffrey, her great-niece, when she could not get in touch with her last week.

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“The phone went to voicemail,” Brickhouse-Sails recalled. “And nobody answered. And just kept going to voicemail, and my gut told me something was wrong.”

On her lunch break, Brickhouse-Sails rushed to her great-niece’s home in St. Petersburg and knocked on her door, but there was no answer. Outside, she said she found a trail of blood leading from the front door to a parked car.

Police who were called to the scene last Thursday entered the 20-year-old mom’s apartment and found her in the bathroom with more than 100 stab wounds, in what investigators described as “a very violent crime scene.”

Theo Brickhouse-Sails gave her first interview since the murders of her great-niece, Pashun Jeffrey, and the woman’s 2-year-old son.
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Pashun Jeffrey and son Taylen Mosley

Jeffrey, 20, was stabbed to death more than 100 times inside her St. Petersburg, Florida, home last week, and her son, Taylen Mosley, was thrown into a lake.
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Jeffrey’s 2-year-old son, Taylen Mosley, was nowhere to be found, sparking a frantic search that came to a horrific conclusion the next day, when his body was spotted in the mouth of an alligator in a lake not far from his home.

“I would have never, in a million years, when this week started, ever thought that something like this would happen,” Brickhouse-Sails said.

Jeffrey’s boyfriend, and Taylen’s father, 21-year-old Thomas Mosley, has been charged with two counts of first-degree murder for the killings and ordered held without bond.

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According to an affidavit, a bloody fingerprint on a cleaning bottle and a bloody Gucci shoeprint inside Jeffrey’s apartment linked Mosley to the crime scene,

Thomas Mosley

Taylen’s father, 21-year-old Thomas Mosley, has been charged with two counts of first-degree murder.
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Investigators said that Mosley stabbed Jeffrey in the bathroom of her apartment last Wednesday evening, just hours after she threw a house party to celebrate his 21st birthday.

He then allegedly grabbed his young son, took him to the alligator-infested Lake Maggiore and either placed or threw the tot in the water, leading to his death.

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After the killings, Mosley headed to his mother’s nearby home, where he showed up with “severe lacerations” on his hands and arms, for which he later sought medical attention at a hospital.

The affidavit further stated that the suspect’s injuries were consisted with “slippage during a knife attack.”

etectives and police forensics look for clues at the Lincoln Shores Apartments Thursday, March 30, 2023 in St. Petersburg.

Jeffrey’s great-aunt rushed to her apartment last Thursday after being unable to reach her on the phone, and found a trail of blood leading outside.
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An unidentified Manatee County Sheriff holds a K-9 at the scene of a stabbing and kidnapping, March 30, 2023 in St. Petersburg, Fla.

A police bloodhound is seen sniffing for clues in the parking lot where blood was found after Jeffrey’s stabbing.
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Members of St. Petersburg Fire Rescue's dive team search a retention pond behind buildings #9 and #10 at the Lincoln.Shores Apts., 11601 4th Street North, on Friday, March 31, 2021.

On Friday, officials spotted missing Taylen Mosley’s body inside an alligator’s mouth in Lake Maggiore following an intense search.
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Following his arrest, Mosley has refused to talk to detectives, and no motive has been revealed.

Brickhouse-Sails, Jeffrey’s great-aunt, said that what keeps her up at night a week later is the thought of the victims’ suffering in their final moments.

“That’s my biggest worry, was that how they suffered,” she said. “And when I close my eyes at night, that’s all I see, was the suffering of both of them. And I pray to God that they didn’t suffer long.”

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Pashun Jeffrey

Jeffrey’s great-aunt said the young mom loved her son and wanted to make a better life for him.
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Taylen Mosley

Thomas allegedly placed or threw his toddler son into the alligator-infested lake.
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The grieving relative said she was supposed to host Taylen at her home Saturday. Instead, she will be planning the boy and his mom’s funerals.

“I want people to remember them as two kids who absolutely loved each other,” said Brickhouse-Sails. “Adjusting without them in life is going to be hard.”