The suspect in the brutal 2012 slaying of a young Wilmington woman found slashed to death and hidden in bushes off L Street appears finally headed for trial in 2018 in what appears to be a busy court year for high-profile South Bay and Harbor Area cases working toward justice.

Arrested in January 2013, Angel Guevarabello’s case for the Jan. 2, 2012 killing of 28-year-old Cristian “Cristy” Zugey Alvarez has been rescheduled for years, mainly because the transgender woman has suffered with medical issues. But finally, in the coming months, it appears ready to go, prosecutors said.

Other cases scheduled for trials or court proceedings in 2018 include a Harbor City man charged with killing a Los Angeles police officer, two men charged in the crash that killed a star South High School shortstop, and the man who allegedly beat a San Pedro teen unconscious in a San Pedro-area alley.

Here’s some of what’s on the court docket for 2018. All dates are such to change.

• Dashiell Porter — The Manhattan Beach man is charged with sending 14 messages over a year on Facebook to his El Camino College English professor, threatening to kill her unless she changed his failing grade. She discovered them in her inbox on Dec. 26, 2015. Prosecutors have offered Porter plea deals, but he rejected them and they have since been withdrawn. Next court date: Jan. 3, pretrial conference, Torrance courthouse.

• Mynor Varela — Varela is scheduled to be retried in Long Beach Superior Court on murder and gross vehicular manslaughter charges for a May 3, 2014, crash that killed Los Angeles police Officer Roberto Sanchez and seriously injured his partner, Richard Medina, at Anaheim Street near President Avenue in Harbor City. Jurors convicted Varela in April of assault with a deadly weapon and hit-and-run charges, but deadlocked on the more serious offenses. Prosecutors allege Varela intentionally smashed his Chevrolet Tahoe into Sanchez’s patrol car at 63 mph to stop the officers from following a friend who was driving “doughnut” maneuvers in the street. Next court date: Jan. 4, pretrial conference, Long Beach courthouse

• Roy Rodriguez — Rodriguez allegedly shot his girlfriend, Paige Nicole Chiarello, 20, in the back of her head as she held their 8-month-old son Aug, 12, 2015, at a house in the 2500 block of Graham Lane in Redondo Beach. Rodriguez told her grandfather he suspected Chiarello was cheating on him. Next court date: Jan. 4, pretrial conference, Torrance courthouse

• Cameron Terrell — The 18-year-old Palos Verdes High School student is charged with murder for driving the getaway car during a gang-related shooting that killed a 21-year-old man in South Los Angeles on Oct. 1. Freed when his parents paid $5 million bail, he returned to school, sparking outrage among other parents. Terrell’s parents pulled him from school. Next court date: Jan. 9, preliminary hearing, Los Angeles courthouse

• Randolph Garbutt — The former Lomita man is charged with murder for allegedly striking a developmentally disabled woman in the head with a hammer, wrapping her body in plastic and burying her in a makeshift grave beneath the floor of their apartment, where she remained a missing person for six years. Raven Joy Campbell, 31, was last seen June 4, 2009. Coroner’s investigators and sheriff’s detectives found her body July 15, 2015, under the floor of the apartment at the Harbor Hills housing project at Palos Verdes Drive North and Western Avenue. Next court date: Jan. 9, pretrial conference, Torrance courthouse

• Angel Guevarabello — The transgender woman is charged in Long Beach Superior Court with the Jan. 2, 2012, killing of 28-year-old Cristian “Cristy” Zugey Alvarez, whose body was discovered hidden in bushes and behind a wrought iron fence next to the train tracks on L Street near Hyatt Avenue in Wilmington. Her throat was slashed. Guevarabello’s medical problems have delayed the trial for years. Next court date: Jan. 10, pretrial, Long Beach courthouse

• Jose Fernandez — Charged and arrested in August, the former Centinela Valley School District superintendent faces 12 felony public corruption counts for allegedly costing the district an estimated $1.5 million to $3 million, manipulating the school board and its policies to dramatically increase his pay and benefits. Next court date: Jan. 11, preliminary hearing setting, Los Angeles courthouse.

• Jackie Jerome Rogers – The Lennox man told detectives he beat his girlfriend, San Pedro resident Lisa Marie Naegle, to death with a hammer and buried her body in his backyard. Naegle’s body was discovered Dec. 20, 2016, a couple days after she vanished. Naegle, a nurse at Kaiser Permanente Medical Center in Harbor City, told her husband she was out with her brother, but really she was with Rogers, one of her nursing students. Naegle has previously appeared on the reality show “Bridalplasty,” where she tried to win a wedding and plastic surgery. Next court date: Jan. 16, pretrial conference, Torrance court.

• Khalif Ferguson, Jasper Ferguson, David Allen — The three reputed gang members are charged with the March 5, 2014, shooting death of former Narbonne High School basketball standout, Shailo Leafa, outside a hookah lounge at Western Avenue and 259th Street in Harbor City. The trio allegedly killed Laifa and one of his two companions because the companions were affiliated with a rival gang from Carson. Laifa led the Gauchos to the 2011 L.A. City Division II title game. Next court date: Jan. 22, pretrial conference, Long Beach court.

• Tung Ming and Darryl Leander Hicks Jr. — The men face trial on gross vehicular manslaughter charges for killing 16-year-old star shortstop Jesse Esphorst Jr. of South High School in a March 7, 2017, crash on Crenshaw Boulevard at Crest Road. Court testimony revealed Ming was chasing Hicks north on Crenshaw after Hicks hit his car and drove away. After each crashed into a minivan driven by Esphorst’s father, Jesse Esphorst Sr., Hicks allegedly fled the scene. He was arrested days later. Next court date: Jan. 24, pretrial conference, Torrance courthouse.

• Kevon Takashi Ross – Ross is charged with killing Torrance resident Katie Marie Nolan, 27, during a sadistic sexual encounter he recorded on his cellphone. Nolan was found dead at a Gardena motel on Dec. 12, 2015, wrapped from her stomach to her head in cellophane and duct tape, including her mouth and nose. A suitcase filled with bondage toys, including whips, paddles, plastic wrap and sticks, was in the room. Court testimony revealed Ross recorded himself having sex with the unconscious woman, who appeared to die on camera. Videos led to two other women who were recorded being sexually assaulted while unconscious. Next court date: Jan. 26, pretrial conference, Inglewood courthouse.

• Jaymel Williams — The reputed gang member is charged with the March 30 beating of San Pedro High School student Evan Jimenez, who hovered near death in a coma for several days. Williams allegedly punched and kicked Evan when Evan walked through an alley in the 900 block of Second Street. He continues to recover from a brain injury. Next court date, Jan. 30, pre-hearing conference, Long Beach court.

• Thomas Snider — The former Torrance High School wrestling coach was sentenced in October 2016 to 69 years to life in prison for molesting 26 teenage members of his teams from 2013 to 2015, telling them to disrobe in front of him so he could check their genitalia for skin rashes prevalent in the sport. A lawsuit filed by 26 boys is set for trial in Los Angeles in May. One boy who sued separately already settled for a $1.75 million. A similar settlement could be reached before trial is set for May 14. Next court date: Feb. 21, Los Angeles civil courthouse.

• Bay Boys — Two lawsuits filed last year against the Bay Boys, an infamous group of territorial surfers in Palos Verdes Estates, are expected to play out in court in 2018. A federal lawsuit alleges the city has allowed generations of local surfers to harass outsiders — sometimes with violence — to keep them out of Lunada Bay, an isolated surf spot beneath multimillion-dollar homes. Next court date: Feb. 6, Los Angeles federal courthouse. Meanwhile, a state lawsuit by two nonlocal surfers aims to have the Bay Boys labeled a criminal street gang, banned from the beach with an injunction, and order the city and Bay Boys to pay up to millions of dollars in fines for allegedly blocking beach access and building an illegal stone patio that has since been demolished. Next court date: March 12.

Staff writer Megan Barnes contributed to this article.