<p>A Superior Court judge on Wednesday delayed ruling on whether to deny bond to three Fort Benning soldiers linked to the stabbing death of a fellow soldier from Missouri.</p><p>Staff members at the district attorneys office in Muscogee County said a hearing was held in the case, but that the judge did not hand down a ruling on a DAs request to revoke bond for the three soldiers.</p><p>No date has been set for the ruling, they said.</p><p>Jacob Burgoyne, Mario Naverrete and Douglas Woodcoff had all been charged with murder in the stabbing death of Spc. Richard T. Davis, 24, of St. Charles, Mo.</p><p>But the men, all age 24, were granted $25,000 bond after Columbus Recorders Court Judge Michael Cielinski reduced the murder charges Monday to concealing the death of another.</p><p>The district attorneys office claims that police were correct in charging the soldiers with murder and wants to keep them behind bars. Defense attorneys said Cielinski was correct to grant bond.</p><p>The soldiers remained at the Muscogee County Jail Tuesday night. Another suspect, Alberto Martinez, 24, was awaiting extradition from California.</p><p>The skeletal remains of Davis, who had been missing since July 14, were recovered Friday afternoon after Fort Benning investigators received a tip to search a wooded area.</p><p>Lanny and Remedios Davis worried about their son as he fought toward Baghdad with the Armys 3rd Infantry Division this year.</p><p>They could not imagine he would die just a day after he returned to Fort Benning, Ga., in July _ apparently slain by comrades.</p><p>He survived Iraq, and then he goes out to party with people he probably trusted, said Lanny Davis, also of St. Charles. The very next day, he came up missing.</p><p>That was July 14, and Richard Davis was listed as AWOL for months after that. But Lanny Davis, a former military police officer, knew something was wrong.</p><p>On Friday, investigators acting on a tip from an informer found the body of Richard Davis in woods near Fort Benning. He had been stabbed multiple times, according to an autopsy. Authorities believe his body was later set on fire, then moved and covered with debris.</p><p>Lanny Davis said the Army initially didnt want to investigate, insisting his son went AWOL.</p><p>Davis pestered Army investigators and sought help from Rep. Kenny Hulshof, R-Columbia. But there was no break until the informer came forward.</p><p>I told them, Theres somebody in that unit that knows something, Davis said. My son didnt just disappear.</p><p>Richard Davis was born in Nuremberg, Germany, where his father was stationed. He grew up as an Army brat, Davis said, moving from base to base as his fathers assignments changed. They landed in St. Charles County when Richard Davis was about 10.</p><p>He joined the Army as soon as he turned 18.</p><p>I told him, Dont you even try to follow in my footsteps, because of course I was afraid for him, Davis said.</p><p>But there was no dissuading the younger Davis, who served in Bosnia and Kuwait and then re-enlisted after a short time back in St. Charles. The last time his parents saw him was in November, when he headed back to the Middle East and eventually to Iraq.</p>
