AURORA | A man accused of killing his wife in 1996 — and later killing his 2-year-old son in 2005 — is set to go on trial Thursday in his wife’s slaying.
Michael Jim Medina, 42, is already serving a 48 year sentence for killing his son. If an Arapahoe County jury convicts him of killing his wife, he could face life in prison without the possibility of parole.
Jury selection in the case started Monday and opening arguments are scheduled for Thursday morning. The trial is slated to last three weeks.
An Arapahoe County grand jury indicted Medina in 2012 on charges he killed Kimmy Greene-Medina in October 1996. He is already serving a prison sentence for the 2005 killing of his 2-year-old son, Degan, in Rio Blanco County.
Investigators never found Greene’s body after she was last seen Oct. 29, 1996, and after the indictment declined to say what changed in the case and led to Medina’s indictment. Documents in the case have been sealed.
Sources said an Arapahoe County grand jury took up Greene’s disappearance in 2007, but the case was slow to develop after that. Then, last year, the grand jury handed down its indictment, charging Medina with first-degree murder after deliberation. State records list the date of the murder as Oct. 29, 1996, the day Greene was last seen at her Aurora apartment.