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Eric Bechler, charged with murdering his wife on a boat off the coast of Newport Beach in 1997, is scheduled to stand trial Nov. 13, Orange County Superior Court officials said.
Bechler’s trial was scheduled to begin Monday but was continued because his attorney, John Barnett, is occupied with another case in Riverside.
Barnett also said last week that he had received new information from the prosecution and was still reviewing it.
Bechler, 33, is suspected of killing his 38-year-old wife, Pegye, and throwing her body overboard when they were celebrating their fifth anniversary on a boating trip in July 1997.
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