Dead Indian doc146;s wife faces trial

The trial is expected to last a month, with jury selection beginning Monday before US District Judge David D Dowd Jr. Dr Moonda was shot on May 13, 2005, when the couple pulled off the Ohio Turnpike south of Cleveland. Her lover, Damian Bradford, 25, pleaded guilty in July to interstate stalking and a gun charge and says that Moonda hired him to kill her husband and promised to split any inheritance with him.

An affidavit implies that she had a financial motive to see her husband dead: she signed a prenuptial agreement before they wed in 1990 that limited her to only 250,000 in a divorce, but the doctor8217;s will promised his wife millions plus 676,000 in insurance policies and their home.

Bradford will be the key witness for the prosecution. He will serve a 17-and-a-half-year prison sentence in exchange for cooperating with authorities.