Murder jury may be deadlocked
After deliberating for 5 1/2 days, a Santa Ana jury indicated Wednesday it was deadlocked on the charge against a woman who is on trial for the 1969 murder of her toddler in Huntington Beach, and requested testimony of key witnesses be reread before jurors make their final decision.
The seven-woman, five-man jury will continue to deliberate in the trial of Donna Prentice, 61, who left Huntington Beach in 1969 with her boyfriend after her daughter disappeared. Prentice is accused of helping to kill the girl.
Prosecutors say Prentice’s role in the crime was to bury the body in a canyon in south Orange County.
-- My-Thuan Tran
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