Taylor had amassed an impressive résumé of credits, including Elle, Italian Glamour, YM, Cosmopolitan, and Vogue.

[1] On July 2, 1995, Niki Taylor found Krissy lying unconscious on the floor of their family's home in Florida.

After attempts to revive Taylor by her family and authorities failed, she was rushed to Memorial Hospital West and pronounced dead at 5:39 a.m.[2] She was 17 years old.

Taylor was known to have had allergies that congested her upper respiratory system and she used Primatene, an over-the-counter epinephrine inhaler, to combat shortness of breath.

Those experts concluded that the more likely cause of her death was a rare cardiac disease called arrhythmogenic right ventricular dysplasia (ARVD).