The Indiana State Police announced they made an additional arrest in the 2012 slaying of Lowell Badger.
Sullivan Superior Court Judge Hugh Hunt issued a warrant for the arrest of 39-year-old Richard D. Taft Tuesday. He is charged with murder and two counts of burglary resulting in bodily injury, a Class A felony.
Taft is currently incarcerated in the Indiana State Prison in Michigan City because of other charges.
The crime is listed as Class A instead of a Level 1 felony because the crime happened before Indiana transitioned to a number system on July 1, 2014.
Richard Taft Probable Cause Affidavit
Badger, an 85-year-old retired farmer, was found fatally shot on Dec. 8, 2012, following a burglary at his rural Sullivan County home about 30 miles south of Terre Haute.
In April, 38-year-old William R. Grimes was indicted as the first suspect in the case. A grand jury indicted Grimes on charges of murder, burglary and conspiracy to commit burglary. Grimes was previously serving a 2023 40-year sentence at the Wabash Valley Correctional Facility.
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