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Tellis faces life in prison and has pleaded not guilty to the charge of first degree murder.
The trial opens Tuesday morning in Batesville as jurors will be selected on Monday in Pike County, along the southern border with Louisiana.
Prosecutors are expected to call more than 40 witnesses and the trial could last as long as two weeks.
Jessica Chambers was found by firefighters outside her burning car on a back road in Panola County's Courtland community on the evening of Dec. 6, 2014. She
She died hours later at the Regional Medical Center at Memphis after having been burned over 98 percent of her body.
John Champion, District Attorney of Panola County, said that he believed this was a "personal crime" because Tellis and Chambers knew each other. It was not related to drug or gang activity, although 17 suspected gang bangers were arrested as a result of the investigation.
The prosecutor has not yet revealed to the media what Chambers told firefighters when they found her.
Tellis has prior convictions for burglary and fleeing police. He was released from prison October 2014, just two months before the Chambers murder. He also faces another murder indictment in Louisiana where he's accused in the torture death of Meing-Chen Hsiao, a 34-year-old Taiwanese graduate student who was attending the University of Louisiana at Monroe.
The indictment alleges that Tellis likely stabbed Hsiao over 30 times in her face and body to get her to reveal her debit card PIN before killing her on July 29, 2015. He was extradited to Mississippi from Louisiana in June after pleading guilty to fraudulent use of Hsaio's debit card.
I guess she fell into the knife.
Rev. Al Sharpton is expected to condemn the killing of an innocent white woman and Taiwanese woman by a black man if he is found guilty, but don't hold your breath.
Black Lives Matter was unavailable for comment.
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