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| Trial delayed in Martin case |
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3/6/2015
By Tom Marshall
Senior Advocate writer
The Lonnie Martin murder trial has been delayed until Sept. 14 to be sure tests have been completed on evidence in the case.
The trial was moved from May 4 when it was scheduled to get under way.
Attorneys involved in the case have agreed to have hairs collected from the alleged crime scene tested by the same lab. Results are expected back in four to six weeks.
Should further testing be required, however, it could be July before results are available, assistant commonwealth attorney Autumn Dmytrewycz told Montgomery County Circuit Judge William “Bill” Lane at a status hearing last Friday.
To accommodate that possibility, Lane moved the trial date. He still plans to told hold a status hearing May 22.
The hairs came from the scene where Kyla Kline’s remains were found on a farm on Prewitt-Grassy Lick Road in July 2013.
Martin, 41, of Stanton, is charged with her alleged murder.
Authorities allege that Martin picked up Kline at a Winchester restaurant and took her to the Montgomery County farm, where he killed her. He claimed he took Kline back to Winchester and had nothing to do with her death.
Detectives traced Kline’s last whereabouts to the farm from her cell phone.
Cadaver dogs found her body under a pile of brush and logs, authorities said. She had been stabbed several times.
Martin is also charged with murder in the death of his cousin, Joseph B. Martin, in 1995.
Authorities say Joseph B. Martin was pushed from a viaduct on Washington Street in Winchester in front of an oncoming train.
Winchester police reopened the case after Kline’s alleged murder and found enough evidence to charge Lonnie Martin.
Martin is to be tried for his cousin’s alleged murder in Clark County. He is currently lodged in the Montgomery County Regional Jail.
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