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Cheerleader Murder Trial Begins

BOSTON (WBZ) ― Opening statements will be presented Thursday in the trial of a man accused of strangling a young Milton woman and later setting her body on fire in Franklin Park.

Jury selection was completed Tuesday in Suffolk Superior Court for the murder trial of Rodrick Taylor. The 36-year-old Dorchester man is charged with killing 19-year-old Dominique Samuels in April 2006 after Samuels resisted his sexual advances.

Prosecutors said Taylor later removed Samuels' body from her rented room in Roxbury and brought it to a wooded area behind the Lemuel Shattuck Hospital, where he set fire to the remains.

The victim had been a former captain of the Milton High School cheerleading squad.

12 jurors and four alternates took a tour of the crime scenes Wednesday.

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