19-year-old man charged in death of OSU coed

COLUMBUS (AP) -- A 19-year-old man has been charged in the killing of a college student who was last seen at a bar three weeks before her skeletal remains were discovered near a reservoir.
Prosecutors unsealed secret indictments Friday charging Adam Saleh with the slaying of Ohio State University student Julie Popovich, 20, of suburban Reynoldsburg.
Popovich was last seen Aug. 11 at a bar near campus. Landscape workers discovered her remains in a field near a reservoir Sept. 1.
Police have not said how she was killed, but her mother, Peggy White, said Friday that the family was told she was strangled.
A Franklin County grand jury indicted Saleh on Dec. 30, but the charges were kept secret so they would not affect jurors in Saleh's trial on unrelated rape charges involving a Zanesville woman, Franklin County Prosecutor Ron O'Brien said. Saleh was acquitted Friday of three counts of rape.
The indictment charges Saleh with aggravated murder, kidnapping, attempted rape and tampering with evidence. He is expected to appear in court Monday.
"I don't know exactly what evidence they have against my client, but I can tell you he is innocent," Saleh's attorney, James Watson said. "We'll be able to prove his innocence in that case just as we proved he was innocent of the rape charge."