TUNKHANNOCK
The trial for a Wyoming County man charged with killing a 24-year-old woman and dumping her body in the Susquehanna River in Falls Twp. has been delayed two months.
Phillip Donald Walters, 32, of Mill City, is accused of killing his live-in girlfriend, Haley Lorenzen, in December. The body was recovered July 20, some 22 miles downstream.
In a pretrial hearing Thursday to limit evidence and testimony at trial, Walters’ attorney, Timothy Michaels, argued before Wyoming County President Judge Russell Shurtleff that he had only recently accessed records he believed he should have been given a long time ago. He also believed he had been denied access to a witness who had been granted immunity from prosecutors.
Shurtleff delayed the trial until Jan. 21.
— ROBERT L. BAKER