The trial of Kevin Duck, who is accused of killing a Hot Springs Village police dispatcher, has been moved to June.
Duck is charged in the 2011 death of his girlfriend, Dawna Natzke. He was scheduled for trial Feb. 9, but the defense was granted more time to find an expert witness to analyze an FBI report showing the triangulation of cellphone calls.
On Tuesday, 18th Judicial Circuit Judge John Homer Wright set the pretrial hearing for June 1 and the trial for June 2 through June 5.
Natzke, 46, was last seen alive with Duck at a Dec. 21, 2011, Christmas party in Hot Springs Village.
Her burned car was found at 11 a.m. Dec. 22 by a U.S. Forest Service employee on Harley Lane, off Arkansas 298, outside Hot Springs Village. Triangulation records show that a call that originated six-tenths of a mile from where Natzke's car was found was made at 9:02 a.m. Dec. 22 from Duck's phone, authorities have said.
An autopsy performed after volunteer searchers found Natzke's body 10 days after her disappearance showed that she died from drowning and blunt-force trauma.
State Desk on 03/13/2015