A jury trial for the man suspected of killing Kyle Police Department Victim Services Coordinator Samantha Dean and her unborn child in 2015 has now been reset for 2019.
A Bastrop County judge last week approved a continuance filed by attorneys for former Austin Police officer VonTrey Clark, who has been charged with capital murder in Dean’s death, according to multiple reports.
The 30-page continuance, which was filed Oct. 31 to give the defense more time to prepare for the case, now pushes Clark’s trial to February 5, 2019. Approval of the continuance marks the third time Clark’s trial has been pushed back in the last few months. A trial had been originally set for February 6, 2018, and was then reset to March 19, 2018.
According to an Austin American-Statesman report, the state could be seeking the death penalty as punishment in the case.
to a charge of capital murder in connection with Dean’s death. According to warrants, Clark allegedly offered to pay two hit men $5,000 to murder Dean and her unborn child, Madeline.
Dean was found dead Feb. 4, 2015 in a vacant shopping center in Bastrop. Dean was eight months pregnant at the time of her death.
Clark was suspected in the investigation surrounding Dean’s death, and was fired by Austin Police after he fled to Indonesia in July 2015.
Indonesian authorities detained Clark on a “visa related issue” and he was later extradited back to the U.S.
