The trial began Jan. 5 for 50-year-old David Roy Eidson, the man arrested in connection with the death of former Sedona resident David Ian Wile.
The three-week trial is expected to conclude Wednesday, Jan. 25, according to Maricopa County Superior Court records.
Wile was last seen at his home in Glendale on the morning of Aug. 14, 2010. After Wile failed to arrive at a ballroom dance competition in Tempe, Wile’s family in Sedona filed a missing person’s report with the Glendale Police Department.
Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office deputies found Wile’s body Aug. 24, 2010, in a trailer towed by a truck reportedly driven by Eidson, reportedly Wile’s former roommate. Deputies were responding to a call of a foul smell reportedly coming from the trailer.
After he was pulled over, Eidson was reportedly very evasive and did not give the deputies many details, according to William FitzGerald, public information officer with the Maricopa County Attorney’s Office.
Deputies found Wile’s body wrapped in a garment inside the trailer. Eidson was booked on one count of abandoning or concealing a dead body, a Class III felony, and held on a $20,000 cash bond.
According to the Maricopa County Medical Examiner’s Forensic Science Center, Wile’s cause of death is a homicide, caused by multiple stab wounds to the neck and chest with perforation of the right external jugular vein, the heart and right lung.
A grand jury indicted Eidson on second-degree murder charges Sept. 2, 2010, and his bond was raised to $300,000.
Eidson’s attorneys are arguing that he acted in self-defense.
