Bridgeport Judge Declares Mistrial In Case Of Slain College Student

BRIDGEPORT, Conn. -- After a jury was deadlocked for days over a verdict, a Bridgeport judge was forced to declare a second mistrial in a gruesome 2013 murder of a college student, according to the Connecticut Post.

Alyssiah Marie Wiley, a sophomore at Eastern Connecticut State University, was 20 when she was slain. A deadlocked jury has once again forced a mistrial in the 2013 case against Wiley's ex-boyfriend, Jermaine Richards.
Photo Credit: *Connecticut State Police*

Carol Reif

03/31/2016 5:50 p.m.

Jurors hung in there for nearly nine days as they deliberated the facts in the case against Jermaine Richards, who was charged with killing and dismembering 20-year-old Alyssiah Marie Wiley, the Connecticut Post reported.

Wiley, a West Haven resident and sophomore at Eastern Connecticut State University in Willimantic, was last seen getting into Richards’ car on April 19, 2013. She reportedly broke off the rocky relationship with Richards, a private duty nurse, that day.

She never returned to campus, and her partial remains were found nearly a month later in a wooded area off Quarry Road in Trumbull, about 2 miles from Richards' Bridgeport home.

A 12-member jury was also deadlocked in the case last March.

According to the Connecticut Post story, state prosecutors said they would pursue another trial against Richard.

Click here to read the Connecticut Post story.

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