Taylor and his wife told police that when they returned from a tour in Europe they discovered that a friend had stolen the equipment, including two Ibanez basses that belonged to late Slipknot bassist Paul Gray, who died of a drug overdose in 2010.

The paper reports that the police report states that a friend told Taylor's wife that she believed the suspect had been stealing musical equipment from the couple's West Des Moines home and storage units and another friend indentified some of Taylor's equipment at the guitar store.