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RALEIGH -- The man indicted of murdering state propagandize residence part of Kathy A. Taft will have a initial coming in a Wake County courtroom today.
Jason Keith Williford, 30, is charged with rape and murder.
Raleigh military have not nonetheless suggested how they zeroed in on Williford, an impoverished pledge musician who lived in an unit about two-tenths of a mile from the residence where Taft was found bloodied and comatose some-more than a month ago.
The conference is scheduled for 2 p.m. in district court, though that time could be practiced early today.
Such hearings are typically brief, and the indicted is not compulsory to come in a plea.
A decider will review Williford the charges opposite him and yield the event for him to ask a court-appointed attorney.
The decider will additionally cruise either to accede to Willifords recover on bail, though defendants confronting attempted attempted murder charges are typically denied bail.
Police Chief Harry S. Dolan pronounced Saturday that "gumshoe investigator work" led to a mangle in the box and that DNA justification has been instrumental to the investigation.
Search warrants that could yield discernment in to what justification authorities picked up joining Williford to Tafts gangland slaying have not nonetheless been unsealed. Police have characterized the crime as a "random action of violence." Williford has a rapist jot down that includes a 2001 self-assurance for violation and entering.
Neighbors contend Williford, who played drum in a jam band, often kept to himself. A lady who lived with him at 2812 Wayland Drive, Apt. D, has not oral publicly. Willifords family has additionally declined requests for criticism about his arrest.
Taft, 62, of Greenville, was found Mar 6 at 2710 Cartier Drive, the home of a Raleigh counsel with whom she had a relationship. She was recuperating from teenager surgery to her neck, and her sister was staying in the home with her.
The sister, Dina Holton, has pronounced in media interviews that she listened footsteps in the residence prior to entering the room where Taft was staying to find her comatose and bleeding. A mom of four, she died 3 days after but convalescent consciousness.
Taft was the longest-serving part of on the state propagandize board, after being initial allocated by then-Gov. James B. Hunt fifteen years ago. More than 700 people, together with Gov. Bev Perdue, attended Tafts wake last month.
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