CRAIG, Colo.—Jury selection is under way in the trial of a 72-year-old Craig man accused of killing his wife and burying her in a gold mine.
Terry Hankins is charged with first-degree murder and abuse of a corpse in the June 2007 death of 34-year-old Cynthia Hankins.
The process of selecting a jury from a pool of about 130 people entered its second day Tuesday. Hankins’ trial had been delayed while prosecutors appealed a judge’s ruling throwing out confessions Hankins made to police the day they discovered Cynthia Hankins’ body. The Colorado Supreme Court in February restored those confessions.
Hankins’ trial was delayed again in June when prosecutors discovered a previously unknown 1964 felony conviction he had for using dynamite to blow up a gas station.
