YOUNGSTOWN — Another attempt to try Robert L. Moore, 54, on a murder charge in the 2009 disappearance and presumed murder of 16-year-old Glenna J. White took place Monday. White disappeared from a home in Smith Township and has never been located.

A jury was seated in Judge Maureen Sweeney’s courtroom in Mahoning County Common Pleas Court Monday, and opening statements will begin this morning, followed by witness testimony. Many attempts have been made to try Moore, but numerous incidents and illnesses have caused the case to be halted and another new trial date set.

Glenna disappeared from a home on Alden Avenue in Smith Township near Alliance. She was visiting the home, where Moore and his girlfriend lived. Glenna left the home June 2, 2009, with Moore and has not been seen since, prosecutors have said. She told others in the home that Moore had touched her inappropriately, prosecutors said.

The case is being heard in Mahoning County because Alden Avenue is in Mahoning County, but White’s home was in Alliance in Stark County.

The locations involved in the case are in or around Alliance, which is in or close to several county, township and city boundaries.

Detective Ed Kennedy of the Portage County Sheriff’s Office brought the investigation of Glenna’s disappearance to Mahoning County prosecutors in 2020 after he got a tip about the case and conducted an investigation.