GREENSBURG, Pa. — Four jurors have been selected and more must be chosen to try a man charged with instigating the torture killing of a mentally disabled western Pennsylvania woman in February 2010.
The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review reports jury selection was to continue Tuesday for 26-year-old Ricky Smyrnes, of Greensburg.
A Westmoreland County judge last year rejected Smyrnes' offer to plead guilty but mentally ill in the death of Jennifer Daugherty.
Authorities say Daugherty was forced to write a suicide note and drink a cocktail of human
Investigators say Smyrnes and five others tortured Daugherty for more than two days in a dingy Greensburg apartment before killing her and dumping her body. Another co-defendant has already been sentenced to death, and another to life in prison.