Thursday, April 25, 2024 | St. Lawrence County, NY
MASSENA -- The Massena man accused of murdering a woman in 2014 and hiding her remains will go on trial Tuesday morning. Jury selection for the trial will start at 9:15 a.m. Tuesday. Hebert was …
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MASSENA -- The Massena man accused of murdering a woman in 2014 and hiding her remains will go on trial Tuesday morning.
Jury selection for the trial will start at 9:15 a.m. Tuesday.
Hebert was arraigned in June 2018 in St. Lawrence County Court on an indictment charging him with Yekel’s murder.
He pleaded not guilty and was remanded to the St. Lawrence County Correctional Facility, Canton.
In a prepared statement released at the time of Hebert’s arrest, St. Lawrence County District Attorney Gary Pasqua said Hebert is alleged "to have intentionally caused the death of then 25 year old Lacey Leigh Yekel, on or about June 7, 2014."
On Aug. 29, 2014, a body that police described at the time as “partially wrapped” was found across from the NYSARC bottle return, off state Route 420. It turned out to be Yekel.
State police say they made the forensic identification based on dental and DNA comparisons. Hebert's arrest comes on the heels of a nearly four-year investigation.
In his statement from June, Pasqua expressed gratitude to New York State Police Bureau of Criminal Investigation and their Violent Crimes Investigation Team and Forensic Identification Unit "for making it possible to proceed here, years after the murder is alleged to have occurred."
