New trial set in 14-year-old's beating death

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Published: July 13, 2012 3:02 p.m.

New trial set in 14-year-old’s beating death

Associated Press

WAUSEON, Ohio – A Tennessee man charged with the fatal beating of a girl in northwest Ohio in 1985 will go on trial again after his first trial ended in a hung jury.

A new trial is set for mid-September for 45-year-old Walter Zimbeck of Strawberry Plains, Tenn.

Zimbeck was 18 when the body of his 14-year-old former girlfriend, Lori Ann Hill, was found after a party near Toledo. Zimbeck was accused of the killing in 2009 after a detective looked into the cold case.

Jurors spent three days deliberating the case earlier this month before deciding they could not come up with a verdict.