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Updated: 5:42 PM- Detectives are seeking a paroled murderer as a "person of interest" in the death of a woman whose body was discovered this week in her Murray home.

Police found Ann Poulson, 68, dead under "very suspicious" conditions Tuesday afternoon in her home, near 5400 South and 820 East. Her car was missing. The door was locked, and there was no sign of a break-in, said Murray Detective Jeff Maglish.

He would not say what was suspicious about her death, or whether Poulson suffered obvious injuries.

Now police are looking for James William Tolbert, 41, whom state corrections officials named to their "Most Wanted" list after he absconded parole Saturday. He was released from prison in April, 2006 after serving about 17 years for strangling his wife, Janie Heller-Tolbert, in 1987.

Parole officers first could not find Tolbert after he was identified by an assault victim Saturday in Woods Cross, said Corrections spokesman Jack Ford.

Tolbert had been working with a landscape firm and living in Bountiful, Ford said.

Friends and neighbors pointed police toward a former inmate whom Ann Poulson, 68, befriended when she volunteered at Utah State Prison in Draper years ago. Poulson was trying to help the man get back on his feet after he was released, friends said.

One friend said Poulson once told her, "I feel like I have another son." Poulson also said the man recently asked to stay at her home, and she told him no, the friend recounted.

Poulson told the friend she last saw Talbot about two and a half weeks ago.

He is described as 5 feet 11 inches tall and weighs about 150 pounds.