The trial for a woman accused in the brutal killing of an 18-year-old man from Moncton, New Brunswick, is to begin today.
Marissa Shephard is charged with first-degree murder and arson in the death of 18-year-old Baylee Wylie.
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She earlier waived her right to a preliminary hearing in his death in December 2015.
Wylie was found severely beaten while tied to a chair and stabbed up to 200 times in a burned apartment.
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Shephard was arrested on a Canada-wide warrant on a charge of first-degree murder.
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Nineteen-year-old Devin Morningstar was convicted of first-degree murder and arson in Wylie’s death and is serving a life sentence.
Nineteen-year-old Tyler Noel pleaded guilty to second-degree murder and arson last year and was sentenced to life in prison with no chance of parole for 16 years.
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