Scott White, 28, was ordered held with bail set at $1 million.

Police said White killed Webb with an ax and hid the body in a crawlspace of the Seattle home they shared.

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White told police he rose from bed on the pretext of having a cigarette, but then grabbed an ax and bludgeoned Webb, prosecutors said.

White admitted to investigators that he had killed Webb, charging papers in King County Superior Court said.

The papers did not provide a specific motive, but said detectives developed evidence that White stole a car and money from Webb, and had pawned several electronic items from Webb's home.

Webb, 51, hosted a late night talk show for 10 years on Seattle's KIRO Radio station.

White and Webb had met in November and had lived together for a while, court documents said.

A property manager cleaning out Webb's rented Queen Anne-area found his decomposed body in late June beneath boxes and a tarpaulin in a basement crawl space. An autopsy indicated he died from multiple sharp-force injuries.

Webb was last seen April 13, and Webb's sister filed a missing-person report in mid-May. His family members and friends had continued to receive text messages from Webb's cell phone for a month after he disappeared, saying he was fine and going to leave town.

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