Trial may be Delayed Again in Decades-Old Slaying
By
Bree'Ann Hildreth
Story Created:
Jul 5, 2008 at 5:39 AM CDT
Story Updated:
Jul 5, 2008 at 5:39 AM CDT
NEWTON (AP) - The trial of a man accused of killing a woman more than 20 years ago faces another delay.
Gottlieb Baumann is charged with first-degree murder in the 1986 slaying of Karen Weber of Colfax. Her body was found on a gravel road near Prairie City.
Baumann's trial in Jasper County was initially scheduled for February, then was postponed to June and rescheduled again for August.
Prosecutors have submitted a motion requesting that the trial be pushed back again to Dec. 3. They cite the unavailability of a witness and a slate full of first-degree murder trials.
Another man charged in the case, Martin Duffy of Des Moines, was convicted of first-degree murder and sentenced to life in prison last year.
The investigation into Weber's death was reopened after a DNA sample that Duffy gave after a drunken driving conviction in 2005 matched a DNA sample at the crime scene.
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Sunday, Jul 6 at 9:53 PM anonymous wrote ...
Shouldn't this case take priority over all the other first degree murder trials that are slated???? This family deserves the justice they have been denied for 20 years!!!
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