Thelma Anne Taylor (December 12, 1933 - August 6, 1949) was a 15-year-old American girl who was kidnapped, beaten, and stabbed to death in the St. Johns neighborhood of Portland, Oregon. Her kidnapping and murder became a cause célèbre in Portland. Morris Leland, the man who killed her, was executed in 1953. The murder occurred on land which later became part of Cathedral Park.