HAZLETON -- The trial of a man accused of killing his ex-girlfriend and stashing her body in an attic in Hazleton is set to begin Tuesday morning.
Police believe Oscar Lozano-Garcia strangled Maria Brea, a 32-year-old mother of two, in December of 2012. He then hid her body in her attic along East Diamond Avenue.
Garcia fled to Mexico, but authorities found him in 2014 and brought him back to Luzerne County.
The trial will be a bench trial, meaning it will be before a judge rather than a jury.
