Staff report

YOUNGSTOWN — At the request of the defense, the Robert L. Moore murder trial was again postponed Monday in the 2009 disappearance and presumed murder of Glenna J. White, 16.

It is now set for April 22.

Glenna’s body was never found. She was visiting a home on Alden Avenue in Smith Township when she left late June 2, 2009, with Moore. She had told others in the home that Moore had touched her inappropriately or tried to rape her, prosecutors said. Moore’s girlfriend lived at the home.

Court officials said the postponement was because of the illness.

The postponement prior to this one was in November when jury selection came up short of having enough potential jurors to select a panel and the process had to be started over.

Moore, 53, of Alliance, was tried once before — in June 2022. The jury found Moore not guilty of aggravated murder but could not decide whether Moore was guilty of murder, so prosecutors decided to try him again.

There also have been numerous other postponements. Moore was indicted in December 2021 in Mahoning County Common Pleas Court.

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