Trial date set in slaying

Trial date set in slaying

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June 19, 2007 | Molly R. Okeon | Copyright

PASADENA - A judge set a Sept. 10 trial date for George Wood Pigman IV, the son of a prominent Caltech professor, who is accused in the slaying of his girlfriend in May 2005.

Pigman, 25, has pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity in the stabbing death of Japanese student Eimi Yamada, 21, in San Gabriel.

Yamada had come to the United States to study English at Poly Languages Institute in Pasadena. Her body was found in the bathroom of her rented house in the 8500 block of Palma Vista Street in an unincorporated area of San Gabriel on May 7, 2005.

She had suffered multiple stab wounds from barbecue tongs and blunt-force trauma injuries, police have said. …

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