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Jury selected in cold case homicide trial ; Dayton man being tried on charges of murder, rape and kidnapping of 20-year-old woman in 1996.

DAYTON -- Opening arguments in the murder trial of Lavone A. Hooper, identified through DNA evidence as a suspect in a decade- old homicide, are scheduled for this morning, June 24.

Jury selection, which began Monday before Judge Gregory Singer of Montgomery County Common Pleas Court, lasted well into the afternoon.

After that, the jury was taken to the former Hickorydale Elementary School, where 20-year-old Edith Moorehead's battered body was found Oct. 30, 1996.

Hooper, 29, of Dayton, is being tried on charges of murder, rape and kidnapping. He also faces charges in an Aug. 5, 2006, sexual assault, which will be tried before Singer after the murder trial.

Moorehead was reported missing ...

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