A trial date may be in sight for the man who is charged with murdering 17-year-old Jessica Scholl this past May.

Jarod Lane is charged with first-degree murder and first-degree arson in Scholl’s death.

Lane is the former boyfriend of the slain Lindbergh High School junior.

On March 11 a continuance was requested by the attorneys for suspect Lane and granted. Lane was arraigned in June 2012 and a spokesperson for the King County Prosecutor’s Office said a delay in a trial date is not unusual for cases like this.

“(It’s) not unusual for those case settings to get continued several times,” said Dan Donohoe, press secretary for the prosecutor’s office.

There have been several continuances since Lane’s June arraignment. The May 8 case-setting hearing is the next opportunity for a trial date to be set. Although, Donohoe has received feedback from Don Raz, the senior deputy prosecutor on the case, that Raz is unclear if a trial date will actually be set on May 8, Donohoe said.

On the morning of May 25, 2012, prosecutor’s allege Lane, 19 at the time, murdered Scholl in her family home in Renton by injuring her head and neck multiple times and then he set fire to a couch in the residence. Emergency crews responded to a fire at the home and discovered Scholl’s body.

Lane went on the run after and was arrested 2,000 miles away in Oklahoma City on May 28. He is being held at the King County Jail in Seatlle.