Laverta Bynes News Today

The eight men and four women of the jury grappled with the choices given in the cold-case murder trial of a 63-year-old Florida dental hygienist: guilty or not guilty of second-degree murder in the 1982 beating and strangulation death of a 25-year-old Delta Air Lines reservations clerk whose body was found in Nuuanu.

A 63-year-old Florida dental hygienist took the witness stand Thursday in his own defense at trial in the September 1982 murder of a visiting 25-year-old Delta Air Lines reservations clerk who was beaten and strangled to death, her body dumped off the side of Nuuanu Pali Road nearly 41 years ago.