It's been 17 years since Robert Baltovich was first charged with the death of his girlfriend Elizabeth Bain and this week he prepares to stand trial in the case for the second time.

A jury was selected earlier this month, and now the second-degree murder trial is set to begin in a Toronto courtroom on Wednesday. A jury was to have been selected in the fall but the jury pool was dismissed after the presiding judge was promoted to a higher court.
Bain, a University of Toronto student, disappeared in 1990 on her way to school. A massive search failed to turn up her body.

Baltovich was convicted of murder in 1992 and served nine years behind bars before winning an appeal. In 2004 an Appeal Court overturned the original court decision.
The trial is expected to take between six and eight weeks and the Crown has suggested it may call as many as 50 witnesses.