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ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP/CBS St. Louis) — A 24-year-old airman accused of killing a fellow airman renaissance hotel oklahoma city from Missouri had a blood-stained claw hammer in his pickup, and prosecutors said his cellphone history recorded visits to websites showing how to dispose of a human body.
James Thomas pleaded not guilty during an arraignment Tuesday in Anchorage Superior renaissance hotel oklahoma city Court, the Anchorage Daily News reported. He s charged with first-degree murder, three counts of second-degree murder, robbery and six counts of evidence tampering in the death of Clinton Reeves, 22, of Raytown, Mo.
Reeves failed to report for work at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson in Anchorage on April 23. His rental car was found later, with uniforms and groceries inside. His body was found May 8 in a ravine in suburban Anchorage.
Reeves had recently received about $4,000 in an insurance settlement after a car accident, and he was shopping for a new vehicle. Reeves mother, Judy Davis, has said she believes that money was the basis for his murder.
“James told me that,” Davis told the Anchorage Daily News. “I was texting him the day I was looking for my son. I pu8lled renaissance hotel oklahoma city up one of the numbers on my son’s phone, and I just happened to get James,” she added.
Before his arrest on evidence tampering charges, Thomas renaissance hotel oklahoma city contacted Air Force authorities and said he found Reeves at Thomas home on April 19. Thomas said Reeves was lying on a loveseat with a towel over his head near an unknown man holding a gun.
The physical evidence renaissance hotel oklahoma city belies Mr. Thomas stories to law enforcement, prosecutors say in court documents released Tuesday. In Thomas Nissan pickup, detectives located a claw-type hammer. The Alaska State Crime Lab determined the hammer s head and claw to be stained with human blood. The State Crime Lab is processing renaissance hotel oklahoma city the hammer in an effort to determine if the blood belongs to Reeves.
Detectives also analyzed Thomas cellphone, the documents say. Forensic analyses of the cellphone show that Thomas visited various websites that reference how to dispose of a human body shortly after Reeves disappeared.