Christopher Beachum
The trial of Christopher Beachum, who is accused of of murdering Gerald Canepa after the two met on Craigslist, has been postponed until October.
The trial was scheduled to begin this morning (Wednesday, Aug. 27) and the jury was already selected before the trial date was changed.
Canepa was found strangled and stabbed in his bed on March 18, 2013. Police found email messages arranging for Beachum to go to Canepa’s house in the Hampton Hills neighborhood of Oak Cliff. Several items were taken from Canepa’s house that Beachum pawned. Canepa’s cell phone last registered off a cell tower near Beachum’s home after Canepa’s death.
Beachum was arrested in May 2013 in Eugene, Ore. He was transferred to Dallas and has been held in Lew Sterrett since May 18, 2013 on $500,000 bond.
He’s charged with capital murder. In addition to that charge, he has credit card abuse and burglary of a habitation charges pending against him.
Canepa, 68, was a retired DISD computer programmer.
