Former undertaker may be retried for aggravated murder

A federal appeals court says that a former undertaker twice convicted of killing his wife may be retried.

Poland native Robert Girts, 56, who worked at a funeral home in Parma, was convicted in 1993 of aggravated murder in the 1992 death of his third wife, Diane, and was sentenced to life in prison.

Prosecutors said he gave her a fatal dose of potassium cyanide.

Read more in Thursday’s Vindicator and Vindy.com