— The stabbing death of an 80-year-old Norman man last week is eerily similar to three murders committed by Billy Dean Battenfield in the late 1970s.

Battenfield, 58, is being held on a murder complaint in the death of Clair Owen Pollard, whose body was found Nov. 21 by family members inside his south Norman duplex.

Brandon Reed, 19, also was arrested on murder complaints.

Reed and Pollard knew each other for about two years, a friend of Pollard's said.