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PARKERSBURG - Opening arguments get underway this morning at 9 am. for the man charged in the 2014 murder of Cindy Ball.
Opening arguments are scheduled before Wood County Circuit Judge JD Beane in the case of Gregory Alan Casto, 56, of Walker who is being held in the North Central Regional Jail following his arrest in Oct. 2025 after a grand jury indicted him on charges of first-degree murder and concealment of a deceased human body.
The arrest happened nearly 11 years to the day after Ball was last seen leaving the Overtime Sports Bar in Parkersburg. Her body was found two days later, on Oct. 24, 2014, off Sugar Camp Road in Wirt County. She’d been shot in the back of the head, police said.
Casto has pleaded not guilty to the charges.
Jury selection occurred all day Monday with the trial expected to get underway today.