GREAT BEND, Kan. (AP) A jury has been seated in the trial of a Kansas man accused of killing a 14-year-old cheerleader and burning her body at an asphalt plant following.
Opening statements are planned for Thursday afternoon in the trial of Adam Longoria, 38. The Great Bend man faces life in prison without parole if convicted of capital murder in the August 2010 death of Alicia DeBolt. He also is charged with vehicle burglary and theft.
To convict him of capital murder, prosecutors must also prove aggravating circumstances such as sodomy or attempted rape when Alicia was killed. The state is not seeking the death penalty.
Prosecutors say Longoria was obsessed with Alicia. She was killed the weekend before she was to start her freshman year of high school.
