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SALT LAKE CITY (AP) -- The federal court perjury trial for Timmy Brent Olsen -- the suspect in the disappearance of a Spanish Fork teenager 11 years ago -- will not start on Monday as scheduled, federal prosecutors said.
They notified U.S. District Judge Thomas Greene on Sunday that they had discovered a technical error in extensions granted to the grand jury.
Melodie Rydalch, spokeswoman for the U.S. attorney, said prosecutors will charge Olsen by complaint on Monday and seek a new indictment on Wednesday. They also will seek indictments in the perjury cases of David Rucker Leifson, 29, and Christopher Neal Jeppson, 29.
Olsen is charged with first-degree-felony murder in state court. He is accused of slaying Kiplyn Davis, 15, a sophomore at Spanish Fork High School who disappeared after her lunch break on May 2, 1995. She is presumed dead but her body has never been found.
Olsen, 28, a Spanish Fork mechanic, and four other men, most of them former classmates of Kiplyn, were indicted last year on charges that they lied to investigators or the grand jury during an investigation into the disappearance.
Garry Von Blackmore, 26, and Scott Brunson, 29, pleaded guilty and are to be sentenced in June.
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