A Woman accused of murdering her teenage daughter last year in Ozark County has a trial date cancelled. Rebecca Rudd appeared in Greene County Circuit Court in Springfield for a pre-trial conference and her trial date of August 27th was stricken from the court’s calendar. Another pretrial conference will be held August 24th and they will decide if they want a jury trial or a bench trial. The Trial could begin as early as November 26th in Greene County. Rudd and her husband Robert Peat Jr are charged with first-degree murder, abuse or neglect of a child resulting in death, second degree murder tampering with physical evidence in a felony investigation and abandonment of a corpse. The two are suspected of killing 16 year old Savannah Leckie in July of last year and burning her body to cover up the crime.
Peat will go to trial August 3rd in Cole County.