DAKOTA COUNTY, Neb. (KTIV) - The wife of the man accused of killing a Dakota Dunes woman in April 2023 was back in court Friday morning, the day after her husband’s trial date was set. Now, both trials are scheduled to happen at the same time.

Reyna Castellanos is facing two felony charges of accessory to murder plus two misdemeanor charges. She had her pre-trial hearing Friday morning in the Dakota County District Court in Nebraska.

Castellanos’ trial has been set for June 18, just two days after her husband’s trial is set to start in Union County, South Dakota.

Castellanos is accused of helping her husband, Alfredo Castellanos-Rosales after he allegedly murdered Jordan Beardshear in her Dakota Dunes apartment in April 2023.

The South Dakota attorney general’s office, the prosecutors bringing the case against Alfredo Castellanos-Rosales, said in court filings that Reyna Castellanos met her husband behind Tyson Foods, agreed to sell one of their homes and withdrew money to aid in his escape. Authorities say this happened on April 26, 2023, one day after Beardshear was allegedly killed by Alfredo Castellanos-Rosales.

According to the court filing, Reyna Castellanos also drove her husband to Jackson, Nebraska, before returning there a second time to bring him some food. Prosecutors wrote that Alfredo Castellanos-Rosales admitted to the murders in a phone call with his wife on three separate occasions before she provided him aide.

Alfredo Castellanos-Rosales eventually fled to Mexico but was returned to the U.S. by Mexican authorities and then extradited from Texas to Union County, South Dakota. He faces several felony charges, including murder in Union County, but local prosecutors filed a notice they would not seek the death penalty.

Alfredo Castellanos-Rosales had his trial date rescheduled on Thursday in Union County, South Dakota. Because of an emergency affecting his defense attorney, Castellanos-Rosales’s trial was delayed on the same day jury selection was set to begin back in March.

Castellanos-Rosales will now stand trial in South Dakota on June 16. Jury selection is now set to begin on June 12.

Castellanos-Rosales is charged with first-degree murder in Beardshear’s death. He was also charged with child endangerment and child abuse, but those charges were dropped earlier this year.

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