Warning: The following article contains graphic details involving murder and sexual assault.
The man accused of killing professional poker player Susie Zhao had a pretrial hearing last week and received a new trial date.
Jeffery Bernard Morris, 61, faces two counts of felony murder in Michigan’s Oakland County Circuit Court for the alleged killing of Zhao, whose badly burned and mutilated body was discovered in a state recreation area in July 2020.
As PokerNews reported last month, Morris’ trial was initially slated to begin in 2021 but underwent a series of delays caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, changes in counsel and a clerical error as the case was bound over to the Circuit Court.