HOULTON (AP) – A trial date has been set for a Houlton man charged with fatally beating and stabbing a woman in her motel room a year ago.

Daniel Boles, 31, is charged in the murder of Jacqueline Shorey, 57, at the Scottish Inn on Dec. 9, 2005. Boles, who has pleaded not guilty, has been held at the Aroostook County Jail since his arrest nine days after Shorey’s death.

Jury selection is scheduled for May 10 and 11 with the trial set to start May 14, according to an Aroostook County Superior Court clerk. Two weeks have been set aside for the proceedings.

The location for the trial has not been determined.

Shorey had previously lived in Aroostook County and had recently left for Louisiana.

According to an affidavit, Shorey’s son told investigators that his mother had returned to Maine from Louisiana with plans to sell their prescriptions for oxycodone and Percocet in an effort to raise $10,000 bail that he needed to get out of jail.

Boles told police that he had purchased drugs from Shorey on Dec. 4, but he denied killing her. He told investigators that he brought two other men on Dec. 9 to the motel who intended to rob her, and that they returned to his car with blood on their hands.

Boles told police that the other men told him that Shorey had resisted. He said he then went to her room and found her dead, the affidavit said. The other men implicated by Boles told police they were not involved. They have not been charged.

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