The identity of a badly decomposed body found in a garbage tote last week was confirmed as Taquila Jackson by dental records on Monday, nearly three weeks after her disappearance.
A complicated portrait of her alleged killer, meanwhile, has emerged in the days since the grisly discovery — the suspect served only a fraction of a lengthy prison term in a neighboring state before moving to central Illinois, where he earned recognition for turning his life around and eventually offered Jackson a place to stay.
An autopsy performed Friday revealed the 43-year-old woman, who last spoke with family Oct. 7 and officially became a missing person case Oct. 19, died from head injuries, but dental records could not be secured that day to corroborate the body’s identity, said Peoria County Coroner Johnna Ingersoll. The records were obtained Monday, leading to the official determination of Jackson’s fate.
The identity of the body found Thursday evening in the trash receptacle behind an abandoned home in the 1500 block of South Easton Avenue was all but a foregone conclusion, with her alleged killer arrested about 12 hours afterward.
Bobby L. Archie, Jr., 51, was charged with murder over the weekend and ordered held on $1.5 million bond. He remained in custody Monday at the Peoria County Jail.
Archie rented a room to Jackson at his home in the 1300 block of South Easton Avenue for the last few months, according to authorities and the victim’s family. Officers found evidence in the house suggesting Jackson was killed there, police have said.
A third resident of the home where Archie rented the room to Jackson, 49-year-old Tony P. Butler, was arrested at the same time as Archie on a charge of concealing a homicidal death, but Butler was released from custody Saturday without any formal criminal charges.
Archie moved to Peoria following his parole from the Missouri Department of Corrections in 2013 — after serving only 21 years of a 75-year sentence for robbery, assault and armed violence. He had been sentenced to a total of 102 years for an attack in Springfield, Mo., in December 1991, but a judge ordered some of the terms to be served concurrently.
While in Peoria, Archie participated in an adult literacy program through Common Place and worked to obtain a driver’s license. He passed the test in February, according to documentation of Archie’s progress over 16 months in the literacy program detailed by Common Place in its May newsletter.
The write-up on Archie in that issue heralded his recognition as a Spotlight on Achievement Award recipient from the Illinois State Library — one of 10 awards for adult learners presented that month in Springfield.
“He sets goals and works very hard to achieve them,” the newsletter said of Archie. “In spite of all the challenges Bobby has had to overcome, he greets everyone with a smile and continues to make strides every day!”Source: http://www.pjstar.com/article/20151026/NEWS/151029481
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