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Teenager's Alleged Killer on Trial

Trial starts for the alleged murder of a Mississippi teenager.

In 2014, 19-year-old Jessica Chambers was found on fire on a back road near Courtland, Mississippi. She was severely burned on 98 percent of her body and later passed away at a hospital.

Suspect Quinton Tellis is being tried for the murder of Chambers. If convicted, Tellis will have a life in prison sentence.

 In 2015, Tellis allegedly stabbed and killed a graduate student from the University of Louisiana at Monroe over 30 times because she refused to give him the PIN to her debit card.

The ULM grad student was identified as 34-year-old Meing-Chen Hsiao.