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Trial To Start In Burned Cheerleader Slay Case
Milton High Grad's Body Found Dumped In Park
POSTED: 6:27 am EDT May 5,
2008
UPDATED: 7:23 am EDT May 5,
2008
BOSTON -- Jury selection is scheduled to begin today in the trial of a man accused of strangling a former Milton High cheerleader. Prosecutors allege that Rodrick Taylor killed Dominique Samuels, 19, in April of 2006, because she spurned his sexual advances. Samuels was a 2004 graduate of Milton High and captain of the cheerleading squad.She and had been taking liberal arts courses at Quincy College, working at Old Navy and living in a rooming house on Woodbine Street for several months before she died.
The victim's body was later set on fire with the aid of an accelerant and dumped in a wooded area of Franklin Park.
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