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Leavenworth murder trial postponed

(KNZA)--The trial for a woman accused of murdering her estranged husband in Leavenworth has been pushed back.  

51-year-old Barbara Frantz, of  Kansas City, Kansas, had been scheduled to go on trial March 19th.  However, The Leavenworth Times reports a judge granted a request by her attorney during a hearing Friday for a continuance.  

The trial was rescheduled to begin June 25th.  Two weeks are to be set aside for the trial.

Frantz is charged in Leavenworth County District Court with first-degree murder.

She is accused of shooting her estranged husband, Gary, Jan. 27, 2017, in a Leavenworth parking lot.

Frantz remains in the Leavenworth County Jail.

 

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