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FILE - These undated family photos provided by the Zion, Ill., Police department show Krystal Tobias, 9, and Laura Hobbs, 8. Prosecutors seeking the death penalty against an ex-Marine began making their case to a federal jury Monday, saying he killed a fellow service member as part of a series of violent attacks against young women. Jorge Torrez, 25, is charged with premeditated murder in U.S. District Court in Alexandria, and could face the death penalty if convicted in the July 2009 death of Amanda Snell. DNA also linked Torrez to the 2005 killings of Hobbs and Tobias in Illinois, Torrez's home state. Laura's father, Jerry Hobbs, was originally charged in that case and spent five years in custody until the DNA evidence pointed to Torrez. Hobbs said he was coerced into a false confession. Illinois prosecutors are still waiting to put Torrez on trial. (AP Photo/Family photo via the Zion Police Department)
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Oscar Pistorius reacts as he listens to evidence by a pathologist in court in Pretoria, South Africa, Monday, April 7, 2014. Pistorius is charged with murder for the shooting death of his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp, on Valentines Day 2013. (AP Photo/Themba Hadebe, Pool)
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Oscar Pistorius, left, arrives at court in Pretoria, South Africa, Monday, April 7, 2014. The defense in the Pistorius murder trial has opened its case, calling a pathologist as its first witness. Prof. Jan Botha was testifying Monday following four weeks of prosecution-led testimony and a week's adjournment after one of the judge's aides fell ill. Pistorius is charged with murder for the shooting death of his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp, on Valentines Day 2013. (AP Photo)
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FILE - In this March 28, 2014 file photo, former St. Clair County Judge Mike Cook walks from the federal courthouse in East St. Louis, Ill., after being sentenced to two years in federal prison on heroin and weapons charges. The disgraced Illinois judge was at the center of a courthouse drug scandal that included a fellow jurist's cocaine death. A filing April 1, 2014 by U.S. District Judge Joe Billy McDade shows Cook must surrender by May 28 to whatever lockup the Federal Bureau of Prisons slots for him, with recommendations that Cook be considered for placement in prisons in Estill, S.C., Pensacola, Fla., or Montgomery, Ala. (AP Photo/Belleville News-Democrat, Tim Vizer, File)
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Attorney Paula Baker, right, looks down as her client, Robert Allen Hall hides his face from the media prior to his sentencing on Monday, April 7, 2014 in Muskegon, Mich. Hall, who pleaded no contest to first-degree murder in the beating and stabbing death of his cellmate at a prison in western Michigan has been sentenced to life in prison without parole. Hall was sharing a cell in October with 50-year-old Donald Winnie at Brooks Correctional Facility in Muskegon when Winnie was beaten with a chunk of asphalt and stabbed with a piece of metal. (AP Photo/The Muskegon Chronicle, Ken Stevens)
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Robert Allen Hall hides his face from the media prior to his sentencing before Chief Judge William C. Marietti on Monday, April 7, 2014 in Muskegon, Mich. Hall, who pleaded no contest to first-degree murder in the beating and stabbing death of his cellmate at a prison in western Michigan has been sentenced to life in prison without parole. Hall was sharing a cell in October with 50-year-old Donald Winnie at Brooks Correctional Facility in Muskegon when Winnie was beaten with a chunk of asphalt and stabbed with a piece of metal. (AP Photo/The Muskegon Chronicle, Ken Stevens)
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Robert Allen Hall hides his face from the media prior to his sentencing on Monday, April 7, 2014 in Muskegon, Mich. Hall, who pleaded no contest to first-degree murder in the beating and stabbing death of his cellmate at a prison in western Michigan has been sentenced to life in prison without parole. Hall was sharing a cell in October with 50-year-old Donald Winnie at Brooks Correctional Facility in Muskegon when Winnie was beaten with a chunk of asphalt and stabbed with a piece of metal. (AP Photo/The Muskegon Chronicle, Ken Stevens)
