(Sherwood, OR) -- Jury selection is starting over again in the murder trial against a Sherwood man accused of killing his wife over three decades ago. KATU-2 reports the case against 68-year-old Robert Atrops is being reset and an entirely new jury is being selected after a key witness in the case died. Jury selection in the case initially got underway last week. Atrops is charged with second-degree murder for allegedly strangling his wife Deborah Atrops to death in 1988. Police arrested him last year after Washington County Sheriff's detectives working with the District Attorney's office reopened the case. Working with a grant from the Prosecuting Cold Cases Using DNA program they developed evidence against Atrops.