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The body of a missing Salem man was recovered Monday evening after allegedly being killed by his friend. Nineteen-year-old Davidlee Alan Kane Stansbury had been missing since early Friday morning, and 20-year-old Jacoby Auston Goehler is in the Fulton County Detention Center on a count of first-degree murder.
According to Fulton County Sheriff Al Roork, the Salem Police Department received a missing person’s report Friday saying Stansbury left his residence around 4 that morning with a close friend and had not been heard from all day by the family. Sheriff Roork says he received information that Goehler had killed Stansbury. A Fulton County deputy and a Salem officer located Goehler at his residence and took him into custody, and he refused to talk when authorities attempted to interview him.
An arrest warrant was prepared by a Fulton County investigator early Saturday morning. District Judge Larry Kissee later signed the Warrant and set Goehler’s bond at $500,000 cash-only.
Fulton County deputies located Stansbury’s body late Monday afternoon in a wooded area, nearly a half mile west of Republican Road in northern Fulton County. Sheriff Roork says it appeared Stansbury had been shot. His body has been sent to the Arkansas State Crime Laboratory in Little Rock for an autopsy.
Sheriff Roork says his office and the Salem Police Department were assisted in the search for Stansbury by Baxter County Sheriff John Montgomery along with Benny Magness and the sheriff’s helicopter, the Arkansas State Police special agents and members of the public.
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