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Murder for hire case jury trial set for July 11

</element><element id="paragraph-1" type="body"><![CDATA[Murder-for-hire suspect Roger Dale Young of Eldorado waived his preliminary hearing Tuesday morning.

The move came eight days after his wife Linda Young&#39;s death by suicide whom he is charged with attempting to have murdered. Prosecutors say he attempted to hire an undercover police officer to arrange for his wife&#39;s death.

Law enforcement officers arrested Young on Saturday, March 31. His wife attempted suicide a week later on April 6 and lived 10 days before dying April 16 at Deaconess Hospital in Evansville, Ind.

With his preliminary hearing waived, the judge set Young&#39;s jury trial for 9 a.m. July 11. A pre-trial hearing is set for 9 a.m. June 26.

If convicted this summer of the Class X felony of solicitation of murder Young faces 20 to 40 years in prison.

For now Young remains in the Saline County Detention Center on a $100,000 cash bond.