Police search e-mail accounts in school official's death
Raleigh police investigating are looking at two e-mail accounts used by the man accused in the death of a state school board member, according to a search warrant returned Tuesday.
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Kathy Taft died on March 9 from a fractured skull and extensive brain damage resulting from an attack.
Jason Keith Williford, 30, was arrested April 16 and charged with first-degree murder and first-degree forcible rape in the case. Investigators have said they do not believe the two knew each other.
Authorities obtained the search warrant May 19 for an ITT Technical Institute e-mail account and a Hotmail account registered to Williford.
Taft, 62, of Greenville, was recovering from plastic surgery at a friend's home on Cartier Drive in Raleigh when she was raped and beaten repeatedly on the head with a blunt object, according to an autopsy report. She died three days after her sister found her bloodied and unresponsive, police have said.
Williford, who was later also indicted on a first-degree burglary charge, is being held without bond at Central Prison in Raleigh.
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