Jurors hung in there for nearly nine days as they deliberated the facts in the case against Jermaine Richards, who was charged with killing and dismembering 20-year-old Alyssiah Marie Wiley, the Connecticut Post reported.
Wiley, a West Haven resident and sophomore at Eastern Connecticut State University in Willimantic, was last seen getting into Richards’ car on April 19, 2013. She reportedly broke off the rocky relationship with Richards, a private duty nurse, that day.
She never returned to campus, and her partial remains were found nearly a month later in a wooded area off Quarry Road in Trumbull, about 2 miles from Richards' Bridgeport home.
A 12-member jury was also deadlocked in the case last March.
According to the Connecticut Post story, state prosecutors said they would pursue another trial against Richard.
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