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Trial to begin for man accused of killing woman in Boston

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May 5, 2008

BOSTON—A man accused of strangling a young Milton woman and later setting her body on fire in Boston's Franklin Park is set to go on trial.

Jury selection is expected to begin Tuesday in Suffolk Superior Court for the murder trial of Rodrick Taylor. The 36-year-old Dorchester man allegedly killed 19-year-old Dominique Samuels in April 2006 after Samuels resisted his sexual advances.

Prosecutors said Taylor later removed Samuels' body from her rented room in Roxbury and brought it to a wooded area behind the Lemuel Shattuck Hospital, where he set fire to the remains.

The victim had been a former captain of the Milton High School cheerleading squad.

Jury selection had been expected to begin Monday, but was delayed a day because of a judges conference.

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