For the first time since September, Anthony Barbour stood before a judge facing the charge of killing a 2 year old girl then throwing her body down a well.
A trial originally scheduled to start in a couple weeks has been pushed back to December 6 because more testing involving more evidence in the case still needs to be done.
Barren/Metcalfe Commonwealth Attorney John Gardner said there is ongoing forensic testing being done by the Kentucky State Police lab, and that testing is not complete.
Attorney Ken Garrett filed the motion for a speedy trial on behalf of Barbour, explaining the additional testing could shed more light on the death of 2 year old Laynee Wallace last May in Temple Hill.
The Commonwealth agreed to have the testing done right away. Garrett said the items in question were being tested for DNA and had been in the possession of Kentucky State Police for five months. Neither attorney would go into detail on what specific evidence was being tested at the state crime lab.
The defense attorney also said the media coverage along with the evidence, doesn’t mean Barbour can’t get a fair trial in Barren County nearly a year after he led the FBI and the Kentucky State Police on a week long manhunt that ended with Barbour being arrested, and the body of Laynee being found in the bottom of a well on his family’s property.
The next time Barbour is scheduled to be back in court again is July 11 for a pretrial conference, but that could change. In a case that’s been very quiet for months, it appears the pace is beginning to pick up.
Source: WBKO
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