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ALBEMARLE(AP) — A 12-year-old boy's body was kept for three days in the home of a man charged with the death, according to court documents. Bobby Richard Taylor, 30, is charged with first-degree murder in the death of Billy Huddleston, whose body was found July 28 in a Union County cornfield. The new information was revealed in an affidavit for a search warrant to review bank records belonging to Taylor's relatives. It said that during the investigation, Taylor acknowledged he kept Bil ly’s body in his Stanly County house from July 25 to July 28. The search warrant is the first piece of information made public linking Taylor so directly to the crime. A judge had sealed other search warrants, issued before Taylor’s arrest. An autopsy report released in November did not reveal how Billy died. Investigators asked for the warrant to examine banking records to show dates and times that Taylor made withdrawals from his moth er’s account. The money was used in the same time frame to buy marijuana from a woman who lived about a mile from where Bil ly’s body was found, the affidavit said. The records could show Taylor was familiar with the area where Billy’s body was discovered, said State Bureau of Investigation agent Tony Underwood. Taylor's lawyer, Patrick Currie of Albemarle, said he hadn't seen the search warrant but that it wouldn't change Taylor's intention to plead innocent. District Attorney Kenneth Honeycutt intends to seek the death penalty but has declined to discuss details of the case. Authorities found Billy’s bicycle at Taylor's house after the boy was reported missing. Taylor told police Billy asked him if he could leave the bike there before the boy left in a car the night he disap peared.
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New Bern Sun Journal
New Bern, North Carolina, US
Sun, Feb 04, 2001
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